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From Page 611 porting members. THERE ARE other co-ops besides 221 Pickens operating in Columbia and they co-operate with one another, Hardee said. "It's really beautiful that people are realizing a need to co-operate. Co-ops do not compete. It would be good to have a co-op in every neighborhood, all working together on common projects," she said. "We're not concerned about serving the entire community," Hardee said. "Right now we only want to have a neighborhood concept. We don't want the co-op to get too large. When things start . ON A LEVI'S DEI AND A GREAT SELECTION OF ALL LEVI'S JEANS! No frills. No gimmicks. Levi's 100% cotton dcnim jeans Cut to just the bell you want. Pre shrunk so you know exactly how they'll fit. Built rugged, with the fit and style Levi's is famous for. A good honest pair of jeans. Levi's Denim Bells. LEVI'S JACKETS TOO!! gettng so we can't know each other, we'll limit the membership and help potential new members start another co-operation in another neighborhood." "One of the criticisms we get is that we don't appeal to all types of people," Hardee said. In the spring of 1970, Hardee was involved in the anti-war student protest at USC which saw the occupation of the Administration Building and Russell House. "I left Columbia because the pressure really got heavy," she said. "It was a completely revolutionary idea to leave school and find a different life style, but I just had to leave USC." MASTERCHARGE BANKAMEICARD FRE PARKING SJNCIPAL LOT CDRNR OF ASSEMBLY & WASHINGTON SSEMILY I QIM BELLS! 44A 164 AFTER SPENDING some time working with the Freedom School for Indians in the Four Holes Swamp Community in South Carolina, Hardee headed north for something different. In New York she did Volunteer work in a nursing home for a short while and then moved to a farm co-operative in western New York where she helped harvest crops. From there Hardee traveled across the Country to the Southwest to work in a health foods restaurant in Boulder, Colorado. Then she got involved in the Food Conspiracy, a movement in Tuscon, Arizona fighting the mammoth food in dustry, which she claims is more interested in profits than health. Finally she came back to Columbia last summer to discover that some of her friends had gotten together to form a co-operative restaurant. "There were four people really into the restaurant idea," Hardee said. "It kind of started as sort of a divine providence of people already in community service." Investigation of the co-op's beginnings reveal that some providence could have been in fluen tial, because the original four had intended to buy a sailboat and not a restaurant. Today the restaurant is still in the names of the original four persons but plans are in the works to change that. Hardee said that present members are working on a new charter in which all members THE ON' HAY MAURICE BUFFETEE and pIG... PA Barbecue (orner Ii West Columbia S1601 Carleston Higl The cooler keeps vegetables, yog fresh for co-op patrons. will have an equal share. "We hope to at least bring in enough money to support our educational programs," she said. OBSERVATION SHOWS that educational opportunities are in abundance at the co-op. We have plans to develop some alternate power sources to help lower our utility costs, Hardee said. "We want to build a solar energy hot water heater on the roof. But it's going to take lots of steel and copper pipes and mirrors to make it work," she said. "We also intend to assist Free University at USC in having a course on alternative power sources." WHAT KINDS of people go to the P IG FHER 1Ea scoi SA iwanv ife -style uirt, kefir, cheese, nuts and fruits co-op? We asked that question to one of the members of the co-op and she replied, "Mostly people interested in organic and natural foods, alternate lifestyles, and change. But, we also get some who are just plain curious." Many of the members have considered moving to the country to satisfy their urge to get back to nature but not very seriously. "We are not escapists," Hardee said. "We like to stay in the mainsu-eam of things. We don't ever want to just drop out of society. "That's like giving up," Hardee said. "Society can change and we're going to provide as many alternatives as we c- for that change." OIs