Washington University Cooperative

This Sunday's weekly Cervantes Co-op House Pot Luck has a special theme, as it often does. 7:30 6036 Pershing Avenue, St Louis, Missouri, 63112-1310

Community Lecturer and WashU Co-op Co-Founder (Syndicate of Initiative) Jerome Bauer writes:

"In Spring 2005 Washington University's Student Worker Alliance was turned down by the WashU Coop as a venue for their victory party, out of fear of retaliation from Quadrangle Housing and the University. In the interest of harmony, I offered them my apartment, and we had a pot luck dinner there, and a few days later a barbecue in my backyard, attended by students from the Coop, the SWA, my "Miracles, Marvels, and Magic" class, and others, including a few faculty. I had invited the entire Faculty Fellows and Faculty Associates list, and all the Deans, Vice Chancellors, and Chancellor. Most politely declined, but some asked to be kept on our email list.

Let's have a Reunion Pot Luck Party! I have my own house now, a place for harmony, pluralistic dialogue, and good food. Though not owned by WashU, it is part of the WashU Coop by a special clause in the Residential Members Agreement and long established custom. All are welcome to our V-I-C-T-O-R-Y party, including the leadership of Quadrangle Housing and Washington University in St Louis.

Please support Lecturer's Policy Reform, for the sake of which I joined the 2005 SWA Living Wage Sit-In as a special guest participant-observer. I was asked to speak as a faculty supporter. I asked if I could come as a worker, and I did so.

Solidarity Forever!

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This event doubles as a Social Thought Reading Group Reunion. Do you remember reading Karl Marx, Karl Mannheim, Friedrich Nietzsche, Leon Trotksy, and Leo Strauss (among others) in the WashU Coop's Red Room, before we knocked out the walls and turned it into the Circle Room? Do you remember meeting in the Coop garden when the construction work began, then moving across the street to my new house? Then this pot luck is for you!

Don't Ask Permission. It's YOUR education!"