Reflections on legendary 1970s co-oper, Ed Menard
I recently discovered that Ed Menard passed away in February 2023. I wrote some reflections about him here: https://sites.google.com/view/ucla-coopreunion/home/reflections-on-ed-menard
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UCHA Alumni—what advice would you give to our new graduates?
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Paula P.
Jun 14
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Echoing Doug B.: Stay in touch with your friends—even if it’s just an occasional email a few times a year. And, find work that you truly enjoy—it might not be your first job, or even your second, but keep searching. And most importantly, make space for joy, especially with the people you love.
L.A., the 70's and hearing aids?
As Paula mentioned in her first post in this forum, for some of us it has been a surprisingly long time since our co-op days. She and I both came to the co-op in the summer of 1971.
Today I was thinking of the photos and the memories and decided that I should have some appropriate music. And what is more 70's L.A. than The Doors and songs like L.A.Woman. It was easy to pull out my phone and queue up those songs on a music app. Then I realized that the frequency range wasn't very good because I was listening on my Bluetooth-enabled hearing aids. That's blasphemy! You can't listen to The Doors on your hearing aids. I switched to headphones.
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Paula P.
Jun 11
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We are planning to have a soundtrack from the '70s at the reunion. Hoping there is somebody who knows how to put something like that together. There is a sound system at the Alumni Center.
Stories of "bump night"
Having served on the Membership Committee my most vivid recollections of disillusionment involved newcomers who were assigned a room, possibly during a busy move-in period, and not given sufficient warning about "bump night" and the possibility that they could be moved shortly after the quarter began.
Some friends who had a room in C-wing of Robinson - a room known for non-stop parties and epic drug use - found that S-12 in Essene would be open for the next quarter and moved over. They didn't need to fear bump night because they had lots of seniority. However, three young ladies who were newcomers were moved into their old room,which was a complete shambles, and spent the better part of a week cleaning, disinfecting, redecorating and generally making the place livable. Then they found out about bump night.
Their plea to Mem Con to be allowed to stay in the room…
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how could i forget ed menard? thinking i was a wrestler i decided to have a go at ed, who outweighed me by fifty pounds. it was over in ten seconds with me pinned to the floor. then there was the hitchhiking. left school two consecutive spring quaters to go from the coop to chicago and back and from the coop to washington dc and back. that delayed my graduation a bit. lucky i got back and lucky i graduated. that was ed menard stuff. and my last memory of ed. heckling a speaker at ackerman union. ed was a real contrarian and it rubbed off on me. like a big brother. mike jordan...