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E-PrinceAlex Gertner ’10 lives in a vegetarian co-op and cooks regularly for himself and the other members, yet just the other week, he resorted to searching online to figure out how to prepare broccoli, finally settling on a recipe that ...(back to the article)
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I swear if hear from another meat head about his/her need to eat/cook meat...
You'll do what?
Have a drum circle about it?
Love that the guy in the picture has long hair and is clearly a hippie, LOL
Just to clarify, housing historically asks all 2D residents to sign a specific contract stating that the kitchen is not an Independent kitchen and is intended for use by the co-op. Use of the kitchen is generally extended to residents who are not members as a courtesy, but both members and non-members are expected to follow the kitchen guidelines (including no meat in the kitchen), and co-op members cook dinner from 4:30 to 6:30 each night and during these peak hours there might not be space for additional cooks.
However, housing forgot to include this in the housing contract last year. Housing communicated with the co-op via email within a week prior to room draw last spring and confirmed that the same contract as the year before would be in use for residents of 2D, but it was still somehow forgotten. This created an unfair situation for residents who had been incorrectly informed that 2D could be used as an independent kitchen.
I am sympathetic toward people who eat meat and planned to use the kitchen as their primary cooking and eating place and did not realize it was not an Independent kitchen due to housing's oversight. This oversight is not only unfair to the co-op, but it is indeed unfair to such residents, also.
a MUCH better article, about both 2D and brown co-op
http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2009/03/04/page...
Yes, I used a microwave to cook broccoli and I am not ashamed! Maybe a little ashamed! Also, I am puzzled by the focus on the article on the no-meat-cooking rule in the co-op. Half of the co-op members are not vegetarian. Until recently, I wasn't (and I am still teetering). The no-meat-cooking rule has always been in place and it seems to have become an issue for one person because he was not properly informed about 2D before deciding to live here. Where else on campus can vegetarians who have a moral or physical aversion to meat go and not be confronted by it?
Wow, Ponton sounds like quite a dick. Have some respect for the people around you.
"Where else on campus can vegetarians who have a moral or physical aversion to meat go and not be confronted by it?"
Since when does meat CONFRONT people?
What are these sensitive souls to do once they leave Princeton? Is there a meat-free country somewhere? What will happen when you pass a hotdog stand in New York? Visit Europe and see meat hanging in open stalls, often with its head, tail, or feathers intact? Work in an office where colleagues store their roast beef sandwiches in the break-room fridge?
This is embarassing. Grow up!
Anybody who actually knows David Ponton know that he is one of the more awesome ppl in the c/o 2009, so I don't understand why he would subject himself to the hippies in 2-D. He is using his own utensils and they are still being assholes about it? Wow.
Coops have no right to discriminate against particular dietary orientations.
Ok, that last comment is going a bit far. I'm pretty sure the Co-op is meant for vegetarian/vegan lifestyle. The housing people just forgot to let Ponton know this year. Given this fact, everyone should just chill out and realize it was a misunderstanding. Hippies don't have to get their hemp in a bunch and neither do crazies like 'Dietary Orientation'.
So, seriously...about that drum circle