THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 1, 1985 11
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A lan Adelman, left, Abe Skorski and Bennett Frank check the old Hillel
House at Ten Mile and Church in Oak Park.
hang out, hold meetings and
seminars, have parties and do
homework. It was a place to go.
"In effect," he said, "it was a
suburban model of the Hillel cen-
ter on campus. Unfortunately it
never turned out the way it could
have."
For many, the idea of a subur-
ban hangout specifically for
Jewish college students isn't
dead.
"The whole idea of a Hillel
house is fantastic," according to
Kresch. "It's important that
Jewish students have a place of
their own to go with other Jewish
students. For it to work, though,
> people would have to participate.
They would have to participate in
the upkeep and the activities at
the house."
"We have full-time class
schedules, part-time jobs and a
great deal of homework," Adel-
man added. "So it's often difficult
getting ahold of your friends. It
seems that socially, things tend to
be very loosely defined. Having a
house would help the situation."
"What you have to realize,
though," adds Michael Silvers-
tein, 21, a political science major
and currently president of the
Hillel student board, "is that the
thing wasn't cost effective. That's
why we got rid of it in the first
place. The upkeep was poor and a
person was supposed to live there
and make sure things were kept
properly. Well, that fell through
as well."
Non-student Jerry Corlin,
president of the Advisory Board
when the house was vacated, says,
"Obviously you have to keep an
eye out for cost. You have to
analyze the situation and decide
where or if the money could be
better spent. Needs and finances
always change.
"If the need, the personnel and
appropriate place present them-
selves, I'm sure we would do it
again."
Jonathan Jaffa, current Advi-
sory Board president, agrees with
Corlin. " We can handle the rent —
that's no problem. The other place
was a matter of dollars and cents
on extensive repairs which simply
weren't worth it. Were a proper
facility available, we would do it
again."
Silverstein, however, isn't quite
as optimistic. "Unfortunately," he
said, "what the Board wants and
what the students want are often
two different things. I'm not sure
they woudd look favorably on the
idea of a Hillel house — at least
not right now."
According to Rabbi Finkelman,
a new Hillel house "is something
to think about. But if we were to
do it again, there would have to be
numerous changes. For starters,
the center of college-age Jews has
shifted since we had the house in
Oak Park. If we were to do it
again, the house would probably
have to be more centrally located
for the Jewish student popula-
tion."
"But," cautions Renee Reich,
21, an accounting major, "we
couldn't move it too far out —
West Bloomfield for instance.
(That might) lose the participa-
tion of the Oak Park people."
There is some speculation about
a possible joint venture between
Hillel and Alpha Epsilon Pi,
Wayne State's only current
Jewish fraternity, sharing the re-
sponsibility of a house. However,
Silverstein, who also heads AEP-
i"it's not even a possibility, de-
spite the fact that a number of
Hillel members also belong to the
fraternity.
"There are too many conflicts of
interest. First of all, who would
get to live there? Secondly, there
are simply philosophical dif-
ferences. Sure, both are Jewish,
but AEPi is not as religious as
Hillel is."
The fraternity's national office
would also be a stumbling block,
according to Silverstein. "I doubt
they would approve of a chapter
sharing a house with another
organization, regardless of dual
memberships," he said.
Like Silverstein, Bennett
Frank, 23, a former Hillel trea-
surer, has doubts regarding an-
other house.
"These people don't have the
proper time needed to make the
venture successful. When they
are not in school taking notes or
going to class, they're either at
work or at the library."
The consensus, however, seems
to be in favor of a house. "After
all," says Adelman, "we may be a
commuter school, but we're still
college students."
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