e're making progress

percent comes from
state aid.
"We've been fine cus-
todians of the taxpay-
ers' resources," said
George Keith, president
of the Orchard Ridge
campus. "From 1984 on,
we've been in a coping
situation, trying to be
efficient without having
to go to the taxpayers.
As a college, we've been
growing but our re-
sources are shrinking.
We've raised tuition
responsibly but we rec-
ognize we are a corn-
munity college and
cannot charge Univer-
for supporting the college. With
sity of Michigan tuition."
The Jewish Student Associa- the temple's help, OCC is plan-
tion/Hillel at OCC does not re- ning to offer credit and non-cred-
ceive funding from the college. it Judaica courses.
On the same day the OCC mill-
But if the millage fails, the posi-
tion of campus student group co- age is decided, voters in the West
ordinator, who works closely with Bloomfield School District will be
asked to renew 5.16 mills levied
Hillel, will be eliminated.
"It (OCC) is right in our midst," on homestead property and 18
Rabbi Schwartz said. "OCC has mills levied on non-homestead
been a wonderful provider for the property.
The West Bloomfield School
community. Look at the classes
District
said if the 10-year-old
offered for seniors as an example.
Those classes are a lifeline for millage is not renewed, per pupil
spending would drop from $7,358
them."
The rabbi has another reason to $5,698. ❑

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n Oak Park Public Safe-
ty officer believes a series
of purse-snatching inci-
dents targeting senior cit-
izens have ended with the
capture of three young men in
Warren.
Two of the incidents, in early
February, involved residents of
Teitel and Prentis Federation
Apartments. One incident oc-
curred on the Jewish Communi-
ty Campus outside the buildings
and a second, the next day, was
on 10 Mile Road.
A third incident occurred near
Northgate Apartments near
Greenfield and Lincoln.
Sgt. Bruce Smith of Oak Park
Public Safety said a series of
purse snatchings seems to have
ended after Warren police ar-
rested three men in their early
20s. The men clubbed a 68-year-
old Warren man with a baseball
bat and stole his wallet. The man
was not seriously injured.
After capturing the men, po-
lice found in the suspects' car
identification taken in a fourth
Oak Park incident. The men
have also been linked to a Harp-
er Woods purse snatching.
Sgt. Smith said only one per-
son was injured during the Oak
Park cases. An elderly woman

suffered a cut on her head when
she fell as her purse was being
grabbed.
Victims in the Oak Park inci-
dents were unable to identify
their attackers in a police lineup
last week. In most cases, the vic-
tims were approached from be-
hind and did not see the face of
their attacker.
Marsha Goldsmith, executive
director of Jewish Federation
Apartments (JFA), said she was
relieved that suspects have been
caught. But, she said, the agency
is talking about increasing secu-
rity efforts.
"These were isolated incidents
— the first in our 28 years," she
said. "Fortunately, nobody was
hurt and all the keys and identi-
fication were recovered."
Ms. Goldsmith said JFA's
house committee was going to
discuss security at its March
meeting. One proposal, she said,
is to hire a security guard for
evening hours. Both February in-
cidents occurred during the day.
JFA regularly has personal-
security seminars with its resi-
dents, Mrs. Goldsmith said. After
the purse snatchings, residents
were required to have office staff
monitor visitors entering the
building. ❑