2A - Thursday, December 6, 2007
MONDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
TUESDAY:
Arbor Anecdotes
WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY:
Explained Before You Were Here
FRIDAY:
The Extremist
HOLIDAY PREPARATIONS
The birth of the co-op movement
In 1930, the Michigan Socialist
Club was founded to find a way to
help students with their struggles to
meet their basic needs, like regular
meals and reliable housing.
Several students are credited
with coming up with the idea of a
house - a co-operative - run by its
residents with the intention of pro-
viding an affordable place to live
for students. The concept was later
introduced at colleges around the
country and grew into the co-opera-
tive movement.
The club rented a house on East
Ann Street and opened The Michi-
gan Socialist House, the firststudent-
housing co-operative in the nation,
on Aug. 20, 1932.
Its first 18 members were all male
graduate students who probably
would not have been able to return to
the University without the co-op.
The co-op was dubbed "The Two-
Dollar House" for its weekly charge,
which along with four to five hours
of housework, entitled residents
to room and board. The co-op also
offered a barber, canning and laun-
dry services.
The house was managed through
a series of meetings in which each
member had equal vote.
Soon after the Michigan Socialist
House opened, the first women's co-
op was opened inthe fallof1937down
the block from the men's house.
The University regulates co-ops.
Initially, University involvement was
restricted because of qualms over
alcohol and various incidents with
social conduct.
One of the earlier clashes between
co-op and administration was over
the University rule that unmarried
men live in houses under housemoth-
ers, older women who helped with
domestic chores andsupervised their
behavior.
The Socialist Club avoided house-
John Copley, a scenic artist, poaints the windowt ofD
Vinci's salon on Main Street with a holiday greeting yes-
terday afternoon.
CRIME NOTES
Counterfeit $20 Lab chemicals
bills used in spilled
cafeteria WHERE: Medical Science
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Dreidel world Novice poet
record attempt poetry slam
nothers and bristled under the
Jniversity's demands, but Ruth
Buchanan, a librarian on campus,
volunteered to be the house's land-
ady to skirt the policy.
As the co-op movement expand-
d, the University gradually passed
sore requirements for co-ops that
ncluded closing hours for women's
ouses and an advisory board to
ielp regulate operations. Students,
iowever, insisted on keeping con-
rol over member selection and
finances.
In 1947 the house on East Ann
treet was sold, so the recently
enamed Michigan Cooperative
louse relocated to the current
ouse on North State Street.
Today the Inter-cooperative
-ouncil consists of 18 group houses
nd one apartment house. At capac-
ty, about 580 University students
:all the co-ops home.
ELAINE LAFAY
A Massachusetts long-
shoreman admitted in court
yesterday to fraudulently
putting his 4-year-old son on
the payroll as a heavy equip-
ment operator, The Boston
Globe reported. Brendan Lee
was sentenced to two years
probation and four weeks of
home confinement.
A Japanese court ruled
that a Toyota employee
who collapsed on the
plant floor in 2002 died of
overwork, Reuters reported.
The man, who was 30 years old,
logged more than 100 hours of
overtime the month prior to
his death. The car company
was ordered to pay his widow
compensation.
GodTube.com, a Chris-
tian adaptation of You-
Tube.com, has registered
about 4 million unique hits in
October.
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WHERE: University Hospital
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WHAT: Two possibly counter-
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and Nov. 29, the Department
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police have turned over the
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WHAT: On thethird night
of Chanukah, an attempt to
break the Guinness World
Record for most dreidels
spun at one time
WHO: Hillel
WHEN: Today at 7 p.m.
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to Burton Memorial Tower
Free film
screening
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1997 film "Nappy" chroni-
cling black women's percep-
tion of natural hairstyles
over the course of the Civil
Rights movement
WHO: University Unions
Arts and Programs and the
National Council of Negro
Women
WHEN: Today from 6 to 7:30
p.m.
WHERE: Wolverine Rooms
A, B and C, Michigan Union
WHAT: A showcase of new
and experienced slam poets.
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an open mic session.
WHO: U-Club Poetry Slam
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