University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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working TOGETHER by Sarah Johnson ' students tired of living with stackable furniture, mini refrig- t rators without any food in them, the strict no candles, toasters, or coffeemaker policy and an essence of dorm-food bedroom aroma, moving out of the dorms sounded like a good idea. Many of these students trudged eagerly down the streets of Ann Arbor, knocked on strange doors and quickly signed leases sometimes with little regard to the cost of rent. Other students balked at the cost of housing that was often upwards of $450 month. Still other students felt there was more to living than just getting a house. These students wanted a community. I looked intoco-ops because people worktogetherthere, said junior philosophy student Cathy Borregard. I like the way the house members depend on each other and everyone is required to do work in order to stay in the house. Plus decisions are made democratically between everybody. We decide how the house will run and what we eat and who can have pets. Baker was a member of the Michigan House. Located on North State Street, Mich. House was the oldest co-op in the Inter Cooperative Council (ICC). The ICC, or the student houses called co-ops, first started in 1 932 by students trying to afford college during the Depression. Co- operative houses were houses owned, not rented, by members of the co-op, so costs were lower because they were not paid to a landlord. Charges at Mich. House, for example, ranged from $350 to $370 per month. The University had one apartment house and eighteen group houses and the average house held about 30 people. Mich. House and its purple sister house, Minnie ' s House (named for Minnie Wallace who owned the house until 1 970 but sold it when she fell in love with a nudist taxi driver named Bill Bixby) together pro- vided room for 43 students. In Minnie ' s House and Mich House students were required to put four hours of work into the houses each week. They cooked, cleaned, maintained the property, and elected officers who democratically governed the co-op. When asked about the differences between the different co- ops on campus, Michigan House President said, North Campus attracts a large graduate student population, and a sizable inter- national student population. Central Campus is a large, diverse crowd that is mostly undergraduate students. What brings us together is our dedication to creating the best living atmosphere possible. Donning an apron, a student pre- pares a delicious meal in her co-op ' s kitchen. Students living in co-ops often had to take time out of thier busy schedules to do chores each week, such as cooking dinner for the whole house, phola hy Lauren fnm.r Housing | 251

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I I o y d 4th Hinsdale - Front Row: Eyad Abu-lsa, Alyssa Schefman, Faye Ng, Lisa Layfer, Sara Machowskv, Fernando Fromera, Andrew Lucius Row 2: Tae-Kyung Kim, Kathryn Tisch, Shi no Jomoto, Leah Weiss, Jaclyn Moscoe, .lared Becker, Adam Nadelson, Matthew Wasserman, Laura Kulick. Michael Wilensky, Todd Hcyden, Andrew Gallerstein Back Row: Sahand Rahnama- Moghadam, Carrie Rheingans, .lacqulyn House, Liza Lax, Elizabeth Salett, David Lapedis, Lynsey Hossman, Shantcll Parker, Dora Sperling, Jamie Ehrlich, Jeffrey Perlman. photo by Caeian Jordan 5th Angell - Front Row: Emily Ciarrisi, Lauren Konchel, Rachel Barr, Lauren Holder Row 2: Kayla Janssen, Rebekah Oakes, Ethan Goodman, Jayesh Thawani, Anthony Lambos, Emily Myers Row 3: Kevin Brady, Rebecca Labastida, Lisa Wright, Jeremy Berkowitz, Verdi Ergun, Tamara Trachtenhcrg, Erica Hirsh, Chelsea Ditz Back Row; Pavan Bhargava, Stephen Lund, Bradley Sugar, Kevin Rosenberg, photo by Caeian Jordan 5th Palmer - Front Row: Deepak Melwani, Adam Harbour, Kurt Yue, Emily O ' Donnell, Dana Greene, Estelle Berguig, Rachel Coleman, Manju Karki, Cortney Closey, Lauren Rothman Row 2: Charllene Shinn, Bethany Socie, Jillian Stein, Shoshana Hurand, Susan Rosen, Maria Perdido, Richard Siegel, Michelle Sweet, Kerry Fox, Adam Emerson Back Row: Woojung Park, Justin Launer, Matthew Jacobs, Stephen Gutierrez, Lindsay Pudavick, Richard Kerwin, Erin Rotenberg, Edward Padron, Timothy Owen, Adam Miller, Nathaniel Damren. photo bv Caeian Jordan 6lh Hinsdale - Front Row: Jessica Ketten, Emily Furgang, Erin Springer, Julie Horowitz, Daniela Biederman, Heather Cohen, Dana Ruder, Gariel Nahoum Row 2: Kathryn Youra, Nicole Falkauff, Amy Friedman, Allison Zeid, Diana Dinh, Julia Suarez, Nicole Avenia, David Weintrop Back Row: Justin Moses, John Huffstetler, Yang-Heng Lim, Jason Phillips, Andrew Skor, Robert Hunt, Michael Murav, Eric Goodman, Jonathan Clark, Steven Weinreb, Bernard Liu, Erik Kissel, Julio Rodriguez, Meghan Jarpe. photo by Caeian Jordan 5th Klein 2 - Front Row: Jennifer Williams, Mollie Zipkin, Danielle Williams Row 2: Rebecca Mark, James Richardson, Sara Alloy, Stephanie Fitzwater Row 3: Lane Karchawer, Michael Roth, Jason Ma Back Row: David Low, Tait Chamberlain, Ramanathan Manivasagan. photo bv Kjthr -n Torres 4th Angell - Front How: Lisa Lu, Rachel Hornsldn, Joanna Kliger, Jodi Chastei-n Row 2: Franklin Branch, Ryan Levine, Ira Utay, Erin Dronen, Casey Bourke, Matthew Dunne, Joshua Cooper Back Row: John Van Cleave, Henry Dougherty, Michael Lusardi, Joshua Goldman, Joshua Alper, Ari Tran, Jesse Tevelow, Daniel Webber, photo by Caeian Jordan 250 | Co-Ops

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- time .looks like to do LAUNDRY by Cortney Dueweke I ojjtiose living in the residence halls, washing clothes was a chore that was equally annoying to both laundry veterans and those who had never before touched a washing machine. I lived on the third floor and the laundry room was in the basement, said former Bursley resident Kate Queram,an English and communications sophomore. The elevator was really ghetto, and took like 16 minutes to get down two floors, so you had to take the stairs. My laundry bag had a huge hole in it so I would inevitably end up spilling clothes everywhere in the stairwell and dropping detergent and all that stuff. Queram was amused when she encountered students doing laundry for the first time. The funniest thing was how you would see all these boys with written instructions from their moms, like step by step on how to do laundry, she said. During his first year, sophomore ISA student Joseph Michalsen never did his own laundry; instead, he had it washed by a service. Every Monday at 8, the guy came to the dorm to pick up my bag full of laundry, he said. All of it would come back folded neatly on Wednesday nights at 8. My parents signed me up for it because I had never done my laundry before, and they didn ' t want me to worry about it. Without the assistance of the service as an East Quad resident his second year, the biggest problem is not having to actually do it, said Michalsen. Rather, the biggest problems are the machines not taking Entree Plus on even days of odd weeks and odd days of even weeks, and also how multiple machines are usually broken. Senior economics and communications majorTory DeLeeuw found it difficult to snag a dryer when she lived in the residence halls, so she did her laundry at 7 a.m. on weekdays. Pick a time when people won ' t be there, she advised. Also, hang dry anything you don ' t want to shrink. Queram had some advice of her own. This is a big laundry secret, but you don ' t have to separate your clothes into whites and colors, she suggested. You just wash everything in cold, and it saves money. Gathering his clothes, Psy- chology and Pre-Dental sophomore Brent Key utilizes the laundry facilities in his residence hall. Doing laundry was a tedious and annoying part of University life for new Students, photo by Kale Maher 252 | Laundry