[Alumni-chat] What will the BOT do?

[lwollin]

When I worked in DC in 1959, I lived in a place called The Friendly Coop, on 
Vermont Avenue across from a mosque. There were a few other Antiochians 
there as well. I don't remember how I got there, but I'll bet it was an 
arrangement made through the college. I don't remember ever just being flung 
into a city alone with no contacts from the school.  And when I worked in 
NY, it was the halcyon day of folk music in Washington Square and almost 
every student on coop jobs in or near the city showed up in the Park on 
Saturdays or Sundays. Even when I worked in DC, I used to ride to NY on the 
bus or with other coops and meet other students in the Park.

Just saying.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liza (eadler2001 at yahoo.com)" <alumni-chat_forum at antiochians.org>
To: <alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Alumni-chat] What will the BOT do?


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>>Earlier posts on this subject have described co-ops as just being thrown 
>>into a new city to find their way alone.  I don't recollect that -- I seem 
>>to recall meetings of co-ops destined for the same city as a way to form 
>>contacts and support groups.  I seem to recall a lot of support prior to 
>>leaving campus.
> I only had one co-op experience in which I learned before leaving campus 
> about an apartment that was available to be passed along, which I shared 
> with one of the other students who worked at the same job. That was also 
> the only time I met another student destined for the same city prior to 
> leaving campus.
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>>Actually, I agree with you quite strongly, and thought I had expressed a 
>>similar view at some point, although it may have been in a private 
>>communication with someone.  I believe that much of the restoration of the 
>>College should be an "organic" process, not an exercise in 
>>Robert-Moses-style urban renewal ("let's bulldoze those nineteenth century 
>>monstrosities and build another Davis!").  I think such a process could be 
>>cheaper and better and educational to boot.
> I think you and I are in very close agreement on this issue. My "socially 
> disruptive" and your "invigorating" experiences seem to have led us to 
> much the same place.  I saw your earlier post and was therefore very 
> surprised that you seemed to be disagreeing with much the same notion 
> expressed slightly differently. I think our apparent disagreement probably 
> has more to do with the medium of communication than anything else. (It 
> was Rowan, incidentally, who brought the term "idiotic" into the 
> conversation--by saying "not an idiotic idea"--I didn't call them 
> idiotic.)
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> Cheers.
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