Members are involved in intramural sports, campus activities and a variety of social functions. The women of Shoemaker also pride themselves on academic success. Twin Pines Twin Pines Cooperative was founded in 1954 and is located a few minutes from campus on Waldron. Twin Pines has a capacity of 28 members and each room is occupied by by two women. Each room has its own phone line and Twin Pines is a non-smoking house.
Members have two hours of kitchen duties and an hour of house duties a week.
House members are involved in activities such as Grand Prix, football, formal dances, sisterhood parties, functions with men's cooperative houses and fraternities and powder puff football. Members of twin Pines are encouraged to not only be involved in activities in the cooperative system, but also on campus. Devonshire Devonshire Cooperative is the newest member of the cooperative system. It is an affiliate member of PCHA and was founded this year to be a cooperative for women engineers. The founding members of Devonshire saw the need for women engineers to be in an environment in which thy could encourage each other and help with academics.