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<big>If you'''re a new member or plan to move into Escher Cooperative Housesoon, see the ''', named after artist [[M. C. Escher]], is one of the [[Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of MichiganNew Member Information|ICCNEW MEMBER INFORMATION]]'s 19 [[student housing cooperative]]s. It is located at 1500 '' page!!!<br>''Failure to 1520 Gilbert Court meet uphold your responsibilities as a member could result in [[Ann Arbor|Ann Arbor, Michigan]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.icc.coop/prospective/houses/escher.php |title=North Campus (Eschera) fine(s) Cooperative house |publisher=Inter-Cooperative Council |accessdate=23 September 2014}}.'' </refbr>

'''NEWS:'''* Relevant move-in news will be posted here shortly.* A new '''Escher events Google Calendar''' has been created. It can be subscribed to only by those currently on the House mailing list. To subscribe to it, the email address that you have on the house list must either be a GMail address or a non-GMail address with an associated Google account. (Yes, you can make a Google account with a non-GMail email address!)** [https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid== History ==OTJwdDllZTN2bGVocTc0cTg4NGRncDE4cDBAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ Link]

==Quick access= HUD loan ={| class="wikitable" style="width: 30%; height: 7em;"During the 1950s, the [! [University of Michigan]] responded to post-war growth by developing North Campus, ensuring future demand for nearby student housing.<ref>{{Cite web|url=httphttps://umhistorydocs.dcgoogle.umich.educom/document/u/mort2/north_campusd/North%20Campuse/|title=The University of Michigan Millennium Project|website=The North Campus|access-date=20162PACX-081vT0akvlkJpPjP4AMVDf_mDThfivN_R4v6B4aPZVZq2QAApJY-30}}<bwbRGde6gGcWEZhbcKtCXgwbcGtZXi/ref> The ICC persuaded the University to set aside three acres of a hilltop off Broadway for a "cooperative village." When the pub Escher Constitution]! [[Recession of 1958#Governmental Actions|government made low-interest loans available in 1958]], the ICC began planning in earnesthttps://drive. Due to University hesitation to co-sign, however, the project was delayed until Congress removed the co-signature requirement in 1964google.<ref namecom/drive/u/2/folders/0BzfIIXgFbHwNVFpaNXVqR3V5SFU?resourcekey=":0">{{Cite web|url=http-FvCxLoxuoeSkSd6Rk8M29w Escher Standing Rules (Incomplete)]! [https://wwwdocs.iccgoogle.coopcom/prospectivedocument/housesd/escher1aqH7VDvwtfjFJ2epVMWzB3gpHMyYrHAxTlox8mWS1JM/eschermore.php|title=Inter-Cooperative Council|websiteedit?usp=sharing Member's Guide to Work at Escher Cooperative House|access-date=2016-08-30}}<]! [https://ref> The ICC finally procured a $1docs.google.24 million, 50com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSci_-year low-interest loan from [[United States Department of Housing and Urban Development|HUDYhuF2KmxWQFthj2q0a4e2OzfqE1O2VvKyUJbUxLmfVjw/viewform Missing Shift/Shift Swap Form]] for its North Campus project in 1968. This was the first-ever HUD loan to a non-profit student-owned housing program, marking a high point of student organizing at the campus which had already helped birth the 1960s student movement through the ! [[Students for a Democratic Society]]. According to Luther Buchele, the shaggy ICC delegation that traveled to Chicago to accept the loan underscored this unprecedented level of student activityhttps:<ref name=":0" /><blockquote>One middle aged woman in the HUD office noted the long hair on John Atchaz, John Gourlay, Rex Chisholm, and Smokey Geyer/docs. She said haughtily to me "This must be a delegation of visitorsgoogle." "Would you like to loan a group like this a million dollarscom/forms/u/2/d/e/1FAIpQLSfB-HW38ydNSNMaD_84L0EXOAahsmmsXSMedSvderASJ3-hLA/viewform?" I asked. She answered, "I certainly would notusp=send_form Maintenance RFA]!" I then informed her that HUD had indeed made such a loan and she looked sour[https://forms.<gle/blockquote>RNsust4ryjuc7WMu6 Tech RFA]! [[Imagehttps:georgia o'keeffe cooperative//bit.JPG|thumb|250px|right|Escher Cooperative ly/escher-covid-policy HouseCOVID Policy]]Tampold & Wells, an architectural firm which had designed co-ops at several Canadian universities, laid out a complex consisting of eighteen interconnected "houses" arranged around the crest of the hill the ICC had reserved. Although a fall 1970 opening had been scheduled, the building was not ready in time for the start of classes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http! [https://wwwdocs.iccgoogle.coopcom/storyforms/historyd/history2.php|title=History e/1FAIpQLScTI3t_2ribCeryV2RoByhyfcKwASba8GZ4P- Part 2LFcJoo_Vv9oQ/viewform Officer Accountability Form]|website=www.icc.coop|access-date=2016-08-30}}</ref> Prospective residents slept on the floor at the adjacent fraternity house (now the Stearns Building) until the building was finished.

=== Nine houses ===Despite the initial plans, it does not appear that the North Campus building ever functioned as eighteen separate co-ops. Instead, the planned eighteen were consolidated into nine “houses” making up the “North Campus Division” of the ICC. Each house had 24 With roughly 165 members and its own treasurer, although co-op meals were shared in the two basement dining halls. The names of the houses reflected the social, political, and literary interests of members at we are the time: Sinclair was named for then-imprisoned Ann Arbor poet and activist largest [[John Sinclair Inter-Cooperative Council (poetICC)|John Sinclair]], Russell cooperative house. Escher Cooperative House is specifically known for pacifist philosopher [[Bertrand Russell]]its diverse population of local student, Zapata for Mexican revolutionary [[Emiliano Zapata]]international students & visitors, and Bag End for the home of [[Bilbo Baggins]] non-students. It has a unique living situation with 9 suites arranged in a U-shaped building. Each suite has 16-20 co-opers, along with its own lounge and kitchen. You can learn more about co-ops [[Jhttps://www. Rnasco. R. Tolkien|Tolkien]coop/what-is-a-coop here], and check out Escher's history [[Shire (Middle-earth)History|Shirehere]].

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 80%; height: 38em;"! Navigating Escher! Leadership! Membership Forms! House Labor! House Policies! House Resources! House Culture|- | style= Three houses "vertical-align: top;" |* [[New Member Information]]* [[Suites]]* [[Supply Locations]]* [[:Category:Spaces|Rooms (with map)]]* [[COVID-19]]| style="vertical-align: top;" |* [[Current Leadership|Contact Info]]* [[Officers]]* [[Suite Managers]]* [[House Council]]* [[Judiciary Committee]]| style="vertical-align: top;" |* [https://docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/e/1FAIpQLSfB-HW38ydNSNMaD_84L0EXOAahsmmsXSMedSvderASJ3-hLA/viewform?usp=send_form Maintenance RFA]By the early 1980s, the North Campus co-op system showed signs of strain* [https://docs. To address rising vacancies and turnover, the board voted in 1984 to make the building's large rooms optional singles, instead of assuming that each would have two studentsgoogle. Despite this policy, the building effectively shut down for lack of members in 1985. Consultant Jim Jones, who had worked with other large houses at the com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeadGygL4eYuLNZI6kayMGLlFcpBWDeWqhP-qNz1ex-ZwklMg/viewform Tech RFA]* [[University of Texas InterMove-Cooperative CouncilOut]]|Interstyle="vertical-Cooperative Council of Austinalign: top;" |* [[Work]]* [[Work Holiday]]* [[Work Schedule]], attributed the problems to the limited time of the co-op population, which consisted almost entirely of graduate students* [https://docs. Jones also considered the administration of nine separate houses to be inefficientgoogle.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSci_-YhuF2KmxWQFthj2q0a4e2OzfqE1O2VvKyUJbUxLmfVjw/viewform Missing Shift/Shift Swap Form]* [[Fines]]* [[Kitchen Training Resources|Kitchen Shift Info]]

With the | style="vertical-align: top;" |* [https://policy.icc.coop/index.php/ICC_Policy_Wiki ICC Board, Jones oversaw the 1985 rebirth of North Campus as two housesPolicies]* [https: Renaissance and O'Keeffe//drive. Each was organized around one of the two basement kitchens, similarly to the Austin College Houses modelgoogle. Consolidating the nine cocom/drive/u/2/folders/0BzfIIXgFbHwNVFpaNXVqR3V5SFU?resourcekey=0-ops into two may have saved the North Campus project from the unfortunate fate that befell other large student co-ops like Berkeley's FvCxLoxuoeSkSd6Rk8M29w Escher Standing Rules (Incomplete)]* [[House Meetings]]* [[Proposals]]* [[Pet Policy]]* [[Guest Policy]]* [[Referral]]* [[Barrington Hall (Berkeley, California)|Barrington HallRelease Requests]]), although cultural factors may have also played a significant role* [https://bit.ly/escher-covid-policy COVID Policy]

The Board considered consolidating the building into a single co| style="vertical-op, but decided against it. Jones, noting that the North Campus building align: top;" |* [[House Proposal Tracker|Proposal Tracker]]* [[Safe Torrenting Guide]]* [[Charges and old "North Campus Division" had been artificially "defined out of existence" as a cohesive whole, in 1987 proposed a new "third body" to represent the shared interests of all North Campus co-op residents on the board of the ICC. This entity became Eviction]]* [[Parking]]* [[Mail]]* [[Food]]* [[Guff]]* [[Saved Meals]]* [[Interim]]* [[House Budget]]* [[Escher House.Discord Server]]* [[Study Room Printer]]

| style=== One house ==="vertical-align: top;" |Over the 1990s, and into the 2000s, Renaissance and O'Keeffe had distinct cultures. For a time, Renaissance meals were vegetarian while O' Keefe meals were not. Residents joked about the "* [[Tofu CurtainHistory]]" dividing the building just as the [* [Iron Curtain]] had divided Europe.<ref name="Campeau, 2010">{{cite news|last1=Campeau|first1=Lisa|title=Remembering the Tofu Curtain|url=httphttps://wwwdocs.iccgoogle.coopcom/document/u/2/storyd/alumnie/cooperator2PACX-1vT0akvlkJpPjP4AMVDf_mDThfivN_R4v6B4aPZVZq2QAApJY-bwbRGde6gGcWEZhbcKtCXgwbcGtZXi/AlumCooperator2010Final.pdf|accessdate=2 March 2017|work=pub Escher Constitution]* [[Social Events]]* [[The Alumni CooperatorMound]]|publisher=Inter-Cooperative Council|date=2010–2011|page=19}}</ref> The increasingly expensive Ann Arbor rental market prompted a gradual increase in the number of undergraduate and international students at co-ops. The old problem of inefficient administration reared its head once more, as two separate teams of officers coped with peak occupancy.

In April 2014, Renaissance and [[File:Georgia O'Keeffe merged into Escher House via ratification of a new constitution. This document implemented changes based on lessons learned from a number of co-ops over many years. A single officer team replaced the previous two, a House Council was created for officer oversight, and a Judiciary Committee was introduced for hearing specific member appeals. Thanks to a policy exception granted by the ICC, Escher was granted three board members, ensuring North Campus residents' representation on the board was unchangedKeefe Cooperative.jpg|thumb]]

== Residence ==Here are a few especially important pages:In keeping with the geographical placement of ''Escher'' house* As mentioned above, residents are primarily students from the schools of art & design, architecture and urban planning, engineering, and music, theatre, and dance.<ref>[http://icc.coop/houses/northcampus/northcampustop18.php#housediff Top 18 Questions for People Thinking of Living on North Campus (Renaissance House and O'Keeffe House)[New Member Information]]</ref> A large population of O'Keeffe consists of graduate students in the aforementioned schools as well as in other disciplines, although there are also long-time residents that have lived there for over two decades.<ref>Via correspondence with long-time members J.B. and G.E.</ref> However, a substantial portion of house members are undergraduate students. The house itself tends to be quieter than the other cooperatives on the University of Michigan's Central Campus, due to the older average age of members. The property is surrounded by acres of verdant property; wildlife such as white-tail deer, groundhogs, fox squirrels, skunks among others call the grounds home.<ref>Interviews with current Escher Cooperative House members</ref> There page is a large recreational room where residents often watch movies, sing karaoke, play pool, have parties and play ping pong among other activities. There is an outdoor smoking area where members congregate in the non-winter months on weekends great starting place to go together to parties - mainly in other coops. There is also a bonfire area in the center area of the building where parties are held learn about member responsibilities and other coop members often comeexpectations. == Suites ==The house is composed of nine suites named after historical figures or literary works: * Learn about what our [[Trantorofficers]] do.* Know the [[Mir]], ''[[Walden TwoWork|Walden IIIwork]]'', [expectations by reading the [John Sinclair (poet)|John Sinclair]], [[Bag End]], [[Emiliano Zapata]], [[Valhalla]], [[Bertrand Russell]], [[Karma]], and [[Falstaff]] <ref>[httphttps://wwwdocs.iccgoogle.coopcom/prospectivedocument/housesd/escher1aqH7VDvwtfjFJ2epVMWzB3gpHMyYrHAxTlox8mWS1JM/documents/Constitution_escher.pdf edit?usp=sharing Member's Guide to Work at Escher House Constitution]</ref>and find out your work hours [[Work Schedule|here]]!Each suite houses approximately fifteen to twenty members, although the number may be lower during the spring * Report maintenance and summer months when many of the University's operations slow significantly.<ref>Membership Committee decree for House Priority Status</ref> Members' rooms are either 'large singles' meant for a single occupant, large singles converted into a double room, or small singles.<ref>tech issues through these forms: [httphttps://iccdocs.coopgoogle.com/forms/u/2/housesd/northcampuse/tour.php Quick Tour of North Campus]<1FAIpQLSfB-HW38ydNSNMaD_84L0EXOAahsmmsXSMedSvderASJ3-hLA/ref> Along with residents' rooms, each suite comprises a small kitchen and a lounge with television. Cats are allowed in 2 of the houses. viewform?usp== Food ==Escher employs its own private chef, with several members assisting her, to prepare dinner send_form Maintenance RFA] and provide lunch materials for members. GUFF (General Unspecified Free Food) food <ref>[httphttps://wwwdocs.abbreviationsgoogle.com/b1.aspx?KEY=229360 Abbreviations.com GUFF definition]<forms/d/ref> is available in the central kitchen twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Vegan, vegetarian and omnivorous options are available at all meals and those with food allergies are accommodated<ref>Interview with member J.A.<e/ref> At the end of 2015, the members voted for meat1FAIpQLSeadGygL4eYuLNZI6kayMGLlFcpBWDeWqhP-qNz1ex-free Fridays.ZwklMg/viewform Tech RFA] == Cost of living ==Money paid in exchange for living in the house * [[Kitchen Training Resources]] are known as ''charges'' rather than rent, since members own shares in the Inter-Cooperative Council (and therefore a minute portion of their house) which then distributes money useful throughout the 18 cooperatives.<ref>[http://icc.coop/join/costs/ ICC Costs]</ref> Charges vary based upon such factors as gas, food, electricity and water prices, but typically run from $500–$800 per room based on size of the room as well as the contract period signed for. There is a GUFF pile in the laundry room where members place unused clothing and other items semester to be freely taken by other members. Charges are keep us all inclusive. == Work ==In addition to ''charges'' each member is required to contribute time to the house. Work generally consists of cleaning or cooking tasks healthy and is broken into 3 different units. Work for the house includes cooking, cleaning the basement or the kitchen, taking care of the grounds, and holding officer positions this is expected to take three hours each week. Suite chores include vacuuming common areas, cleaning the suite kitchens, or serving as suite manager or on the house council (a group of suite elected people chosen to oversee house officers), and is expected to take around 30 minutes each week. The third division of labor is to clean hall bathrooms which is split between the members living in the 4 or 5 rooms bordering the bathroom. == References =={{Reflist}} {{coord|42.2956|pest-83free.7251|type:landmark_region:US-MI|display=title}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Escher Cooperative House}}* Contribute to [[:Category:University of Michigan campusStubs|Stubs]]pages or [[Category:Cooperatives at the University of Michigansuites|suite]]pages.<br><small>To be added in the future:<br>“Emergency Plan”<br>“Member Conflict & Conflict Resolution”<br>“Staff Contact Info”<br>“Transportation”</small>