Graduation 1997
Love, life and friends are found in co-od
When my University ex
perience began with
disco dancing, I knew
the next few years would be
unique, bizarre and unforget
table.
There I was in a room full of 20
people I had known for a week
who were dancing to Saturday
Night Fever with all the rhythm
and moves of John Travolta him
self. And the beauty of it was, no
one had planned this party. It was
the first insta-disco party I’d ever
been to.
But we were not strangers; each
one of us lived in the Lorax, a stu
dent cooperative house on Alder
Street, in the fall of 1994.1 had
transferred to the U of O after a
year at Western Washington Uni
versity to be a journalism major at
a school where people didn’t
laugh when you mumbled your
major under your breath. Instead,
people asked, “Have you written
that 100 page paper yet?”
I entered both the Lorax and
the journalism school somewhat
blindly. The Lorax, a castle in its
majesty with a walkway of sun
flowers leading to the entrance,
was more aesthetically appealing
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than any mold
ridden apart
ments within a
two-mile ra
dius. Sorority
living was out
of the ques
tion, and I had
done my time
in a dorm room
twice as big as
the cubbyholes
were. /viia uie Lorax Doastea its
strict vegetarian cuisine, making
it all the more appealing.
So on a sunny day in Septem
ber, 25 other students and I
moved into the Lorax. And poof!
We were a community. One
morning I found myself standing
next to a guy in his boxers in the
community bathroom, as we
shared the community tooth
paste. Later that day someone re
peatedly opened the door while I
was using the community phone
room. The community showers,
complete with community sham
poo, were just as awkward at first,
too. Don’t worry, there are sepa
rate stalls with doors — the tricky
part is that critical moment when
you have to slip your towel off
and step into the shower. Only
once did I go to take a shower in
the wee hours of the morning and
forget to knock. Luckily, I was
more embarrassed than my
housemate.
There were also community
food bins, soap, toilet paper and
food, not necessarily in that or
der. It was cheap to live in the Lo
rax; housing, utilities, food and
other community items were all
covered in one lump sum. Unfor
tunately, sometimes fellow co
opers didn’t distinguish between
what were community items.
One day I went to hop on my
bike, and it was missing because
someone had decided that bikes
were all for community use. After
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