Co-Ops: a Part of the 60'S in the 80'S
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The UCSD Guardian University of California, San Diego/Volume 45, Number 13/ Tuesday, February 16, 198.2 Co-ops: A part of the 60's in the 80's Fifteen years ago, it was not "I think that it's a struggle to come uncommon for a colle~e student to from an environment where you're drop out of "the system' and look for trained to behave in a certain manner, an alternative lifestyle. and then to come into this alternative Sometimes young people found economic tructure and to actually be satisfaction, but more often they responsible for your action and be found themsleves part of ill·fated re pon ible to a group," offers Ahuva, communes and collectives which a core mem ber. lasted no longer than the early 1970's. Adds ott, another core member, And often these yo ung people ended "One of the bigge t problems \\e've up joining "the system" again. had here is the struggle again t RIll whM became of those vounll liberahsm. '1 hate the System the wa\ people who - f:ven though the fads of it IS so I'm going to go lIita the Che and the 1960' had faded - till prefered to do \\ hate\er I feel like doing." shu n 'capitali sm', competition , "..\ lot of u haw Il reallv well here shallow mindednes , a nd in a word, at t he linker it\, better 'than most all those thing. that wer associated people In the· world' c()mment~ with established society? ~'cott. "What \\ e're trYIng to achle\-c cultural forum for progres 'Ive politics One answer: they JOIned a co Bu t. offers Patrice, a ~tead\ C. he here i~ the ultimate compared to what and avant-garde art. operative worker, "The main thing IS thai most ~()me people are trving to do lU. t b) "It's a regular ambiente The idealism and naIvete associated people who come here to \\.ork, get to eatIng one good meal a da~ . () there': (atmosphere),like thev sav in with thp co-ooeratives of thp 19110's is think of it a. their friends' place. Jt\ a tendency to ior U" to take ad\ 1ntal.!e panish," . ays Mark, a co:op mc'mber not lacking at the Che Cafe, a like a commuOItv." of what \\e ha\e here, and JU. t .... It back vegetarian restaurant co-operative on who i also a T.A. in the lIterature department. and say 'don't rock the "hIp' You can the UCSlJ campus. Instead , "*'''' .... ee that when cri. es come up in the In fact, most co-op mem rs, lIke ~o m eth ing ha been added: a sense of Che or in different co·op". Let'" ju~t Mark, accredit thi. atmosphere for An Integral part of the Che's the orartiral and an abilitv to survive. not sa~ anything. Let's just let the Che's uccess. The Che Cafe, formed almo t two atmosphere is a political consCIOUs someone steal ,~5,OOO and not . a: years ago, i more than urviving "I think it (a co-operative) creates ness. anythIng .. fi nancially, it is thriving, according to just as the name implies - a co "W 're filling a political niche ju t co-operative members. operative atmosphere where people a an animal fill ' an ecological niche," But thi doe not mean that the And this financial solvency has don't feel like they're always under say Je se. "Without the Che there workers of the Che aren t optlmLtic. allowed Che members to achieve their the control of someone else. The would be a vacuum in left·oriented When Juan, a core member wa ' two goals: to serve vegetarian health people that work here are generally politIC on campu ." a ked about the Che, he replied, "It' food, and most of all, to establIsh a really involved with the Che and Most of the Che' politics are not not Nirvahna - yet." believe in what we're doing. I think only left in orientation but also anti we've got a lot of good energy here. imperialistic in nature. 1ndicitive of The people who work here all thi i the fact that the cafe wa contribute to that energy and make it named after Che Guevara, a Cuban grow," says Jessie, who book keeps for revolutionary who died combatting the Che. foreign intervention in South "While were not dirty, we throw America. things out in an uncontrived way," " At the time (of the Che' s ays Mark. "'Okay, we'll put this out jnception), there wa an individual here and we'll hand paint a sign that collective member who had ju t s ays sugar, instead of buying a sign .' learned about Che Guevara and felt It's easier to go that route and people that the work he had been doing here like it. It s hows that the people behind embodied the struggle that Che was counter are working for you . taking on in Latin America. Like most co-operatives, the Che doesn't offer to make its member rich. It i this co-operative atmosphere *** that Che members s tronllly feel keep Even though the Che worker are members going. After all, working in a proud ot their cafe, they admIt that restauran t IS never ea y work_ certain problems do ari e. At one point last year, core Mo t Che member feel that UC 0 members, tho e workers with the t ud e nt often come from mo t experience, were only earning background which don't prepare 50¢ an hour, according to Jes e them to work in a co:operative. Saxon's 'Committee C' visits UCSD, reports back. Page 6. UCSD professor's new novel reviewed. Page 11. Triton Baseballers make hottest debut ever. Page 13. Tuesday, February 16,1982 The lJCSD Guardian 2 The UCSD Guardian Tuesday. February 16. ] 982 ______ The UCSD Guardian Oliphant California finds ==-Hu==b:..:.2ig~ --------- money for schools continue d from page 2 clirector Nancy Torres not eo.;, San Francisco Fund, bv "Our support is stronger than contrast, k{'cps control over c,'cr. W arc convinced this 1'0 Opinion lllonCVltcollectsandfunnelsit the wave of the future - to school sites where ideas for private funding to bolster the small, effective teaching plans 'ichools, to keep them up to Unsrgned edilorials representlhe oPilliolls uf Ihe edilorial board of The originate. These usually are 'ilandards families expecl." UCSD Guardiall. The edilorial board is co mPo I'd uI !'eter Mortense ll , under $I,UOO each and range f'il?"" intere,st in t~e Idea I.., Randy Hill, and Paul Farwell. All olh er articles ill this seelio ll arc sulely widelv: music workshops, gaining In California ..,chool tire opinion of the writer, alld do not II ecessa rily represell//he views of The science clubs, improvement of districts of far more modcst UCSD Guardian, ils edilorial board, its advertisers, ur thc Rel[clIls a/lire rcading ski ll s, a solar means such as Modesto, ---<TO_. A U" il'ersily of Cali/orn ia. greenhouse, spelling bees, ~art Inez. and. MendOCIno. Th e UCSD Gllardiall I' II COllral[eS lellers to lire edilor alld a1'1 ie/rs/or The paperback library, ca lli - Culver CIty raised $lOO,OOO Bullom Lille (o IUI1III . /fyoll 1I'01lid like 10 Sllbllli/ all artit'/r IJ/'Ir/ll'l', pleasr graph}" good health instruc- last y~ar. I>pe yo ur work UII a 72·spOfC lille (t"iplr-spare belu'cl'lI lillt's ) IJlld s(,lId 10 the tion, etc. Planning goes "It IS sheer nonsense to reI} Opillioll l Edilorial Edilur, the {'CSD Guardiall. 8 -016. All submissiolls carefullY hand-in-hand with totally on tax funds for m 1151 be siglled by thr au th or, alld mu sl illt'/ude Ih e a ut hoy ._, phulle II II mhl'l'_ decision- bv school administra- clem ntary and high sch(xlI The Guardioll regrl'/s Ihlll il Cf/Jl/IOI relum (/IIY submi_,.<iolls. tors, - support," said Dr. Michael ~ -.... --- In smaller districts, the Kirst, tanford llniversity Glen and Shearer ... "'4 ,'1 , rescue of essential classroom professor of education and .,j,\ ;),,~ \.I.{i: - ... AP -N~ usm To 'BUlL";) I.~M"NS NJ>\ ,,,": ::r.:~. :.?,;. .-~S teaching seems more impor- former president of Califor tant. Donations keep 'iome nia's State Board of classes operating. Glendale, Education. Pacific News Service for instance, fumed OHr "We ha ve long been Commercial Rock sch(xlI reductions for three accustomed to public Mu ic cntlCS la t month good words of young years, untIl reducing junior universities such as the mourned what may have been America's most trusted faces. high by on full clas'i period a l'niversitv of California one of the worst years in the Meanwhile, fans get more New funding for schools day spurred action_ Parents s ttIng up development funds history of rock 'n' roll. concerts, a well as a lovely By MARY ELLEN LEARY unacceptably , just when rlassroom teacher in 1978 'ietupaprivategiftplanand to supplement itl, tax collected enough to restore th resources. I recommend that What made 198] so bad? full-color poster of the Pacific Nc\.\ s Sen,icc parent concern and a new with an assignment in "career There is a strong consensus performing group, paid, for The Reagan administra· educational thru ·t put priority education," which gave her sixth period to their junior ever v school district establish that no ingle album de.