December 02, 1962 (vol. 73, iss. 64) • Page Image 4
…4r, mlrigatt PaxN Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT…
… University campus today: cooperative housing. The coops are in a unique position at an institution such as Michigan. Here the student body is anxiously pressing for long-withheld civil and personal freedoms…
…. The Office of Student Affairs is lamely trying to keep a semblance of peace with the stu- dents .through testy evasiveness, thereby not displeasing the all-important alumni and legis- lative factions…
…. At this time the cooperative housing units stand in stark, but silent tran- scendence testifying to the worth of student responsibility and privilege. Cooperative living is not for children. When…
… responsibility of sharing the work required to a student contracts to join ICC, he accepts the maintain his house and the responsibility of participating in what is probably closer to a "town hail" democracy than…
… anything that exists today in the United States. ESSENTIALLY, this means that the student has an opportunity to act upon his en- vironment, to shape it to a large extent. The majority of the decisions…
… concerning his resi- dence are made by himself and his fellow coopers within a small, independently-oriented democratic structure. The student is thus free from the most en- cumbersome clamps of "the system…
… leading to true self-freedom and maturity. The cooperative situation presupposes that a student is a responsible human being, or cap- able of becoming one, providing that he is given favorable opportunities…
… scholarship alone, but extensive to the total of their experience. THIS CREDO underlying student c operative residences has startling ramific tions for the University campus. The undergraduate coops are likely…
… direction to its finest efforts. Consideration of the sorts of behavior elicited by dormitory living in contrast to the coopera- tive situation poses some interesting ideas. The student is part of a huge…



