THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

10 Friday, March 1, 1985

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For those who choose to attend a
school away from home, college
weekends have become a tradi-
tion of sorts. Students retreat to
their dorms, fraternity houses,
sorority houses or apartments to
study, relax and socialize -.
But what do students do and
where do they go when they live at
home and commute to school?
Most Jewish students who
attend classes at Wayne State
University travel to the school's
inner-city campus, go to classes,
go home or to jobs in the suburbs
and leave the institution behind
for the weekend. For all they
know, workmen may tear WSU
down every Friday afternoon and
put it back up early Monday
morning.
During their free time on cam-
pus, they have the B'nai B'rith
Hillel Foundation in the Student
Center Building. There, they can
meet other Jewish students and
get together with friends for study
sessions in the library, meetings
in the conference or socializing in
the lounge.
"When you have to put up with
classes and professors all day
long," says Alan Adelman, 20, a
public relations and advertising
student, "it's nice to know you
have a place like this to go and
relax with your friends."
But what happens at 2:30 p.m.
each Friday, when the Hillel
lounge closes for the weekend?
Other than the local library, or a
friend's house, where do Jewish
students from Wayne State go and
be with other Jewish college stu-
dents living in the Detroit area?
For the past two school years,
since the doors were closed at
Hillel House in Oak Park, many
in the WSU Jewish community
would answer those questions
with cries of "not much" and
"nothing."
Throughout its checkered five-
year history, the suburban Hillel
House served as a weelend
gathering spot for Wayne State
students and other college-aged
Jews. The modest, brick structure
on the corner of Ten Mile and
Church hosted dozens of on-site
cultural and social events and
served as an easy-to-find rendezv-
ous for groups of Jewish students
headed for a hayride, concert or a
summer-time trip to Cedar
Pointe.
Ruth (Indenbaum) Hurvitz, 28,
was one of the "originals" who al-
ways managed/to make time for
the house./ Hurvitz, who
graduated fr6m Wayne State in
1979, was vice president of the
student board the first year Hillel
moved to Oak Park.
"It was wonderful," she says.
"We had onegs, lectures, parties,
study sessions and lots of other
functions. It was always open and
it was a great place to meet. One
time, we had a party that got such
good publicity that there were 150
people packed into that little
house partying until early morn-
ing."
She realizes, however, that it
worked because people made it
work. "It had its great times. I
guess I loved it because it was
active. But it's not as though we
had kids pounding on the doors to
get in. Attendance in those days
was good, though. But it was a

great experience for us. I think it's
very, very important for college
kids to have a place like that to go.
The declining popularity of
Hillel House, coupled with rising
maintenance and energy costs,
were prime factors in the Hillel
Advisory Board's decision to
abandon the suburban location in
1983.
The main problem boiled down
to a lack of participation, accord-
ing to Eddie Kresch, a 20-year-old
accounting major at WSU.
"People would stop by if there was
a program or something special
going on," he said. "No one just
came by to hang around and spend
time with their friends. When it's
as expensive as it is to keep up a
house," Kresch said, "you really
need people participating in it to
make it work."

WS U's Hillel
Foundation strives to
maintain its social
identity despite
losing its suburban
digs.

According to WSU Hillel Direc-
tor Rabbi Louis Finkelman, the
drop-off in participation was a
sign of the times. "The Jewish col-
lege student at Wayne has
changed in the time I've been
here," the rabbi said. "Today's
(Jewish) student is taking a fuller
course load, spending more time
studying, often has a part-time job
and is putting more emphasis on
life after college. Put it all to-
gether and you can see what hap-
pened. They simply had less and
less time to devote to it."
The closing of the Oak Park
house did not spell an end to
Hillel-sponsored, weekend activi-
ties. A check of the winter calen-
dar of events indicates that the
student group has adapted to its
new situation nicely. And while
the suburban meeting place will
be missed, it should be remem-
bered that Hillel House wasn't the
first facility outgrown by the
WSU Jewish student population.
The WSU Hillel chapter had a
house of its own on Second Ave-
nue on campus for many years.
That house serviced the Jewish
student population at Wayne
State until 1969 when the Gros-
berg Religious Center opened in
the newly-built Student Center
Building.
Rabbi Howard Addison, Hillel
director in 1976 and 1977, came
up with the idea to establish an
off-campus center where WSU
students could meet without hav-
ing to make the trip to campus.
So like the Detroit Jewish
community before them, the B'nai
B'rith Hillel Foundation moved to
a house in the suburbs, while still
maintaining its on-campus
presence.
"It was kind of like a
community-wide operation,"
Rabbi Finkelman said of Hillel
House. "It didn't only serve the
Jewish students of Wayne, but it
also served the college kids from
Oakland (University) and other
area schools. It was a place to

