Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, February 17, ' 1191 I PaeEgtTH IHGN AL hrsaFbuayW,9T Dem s vie in 1st 11 (Continued from Page 1) stead," she said. i and South Quad studelit dormi- and Latta will fight to run for I Olukalns hopes to keep busi- tories and large student-dwel- a seat vacated by Democrat Liz ness downtown instead of watch-I ling apartment areas, and is al- Keough. ing it flee to Briarwood and so populated by permanent resi-i OLUKALNS, who says she is other suburban shopping cen- dents of the Model Cities area. "running as myself, and I hap-' ters. About one-third of its residents pen to be a Democrat," is dis-' "If you don't keep business are black.- enchanted with the way the par-' downtown, you're going to wipe Kenneth Latta, her opponent, ty has operated in the city. ' out sihaller businesses," she ex- works in the University's Office "The thing that's inherently plained. of Academic Planning and feels wrong with the Democratic OLUKALNS also favors im- that many of the city's past Part" h cometd--is ; provement of the Dial-A-Ride problems have been administra- ard residents and businesses in the downtown area. "The tax is inconsiderate both financially and emotionally," said Olukalns, who added that the scheme might force people living near the downtown area to move out. "It's hard to say whether we even need the parking places," Olukalns concluded. Latta also nnH~ref ihira hF nartl rary, , enorsed the idea perp erai that there are a lot of 'people system and changes in the way tive. - parking but said "parking is no grouped together as Democrats, the city deals with rental hous- ' "The City Administrator right solution to the problem." but there's such abroad spec- ing. now can snow the council," said trum of opinion within the par- I "There should be more build- Latta. "The council structure is OLUKALNS also would like ty." ing inspectors and stiffer fines in need of revision, and the the city to cooperate with the Olukalns favors renovation of for repeat offenders," she said. (city) charter is so arcane ... University on some projects. the downtown area, possibly "Right now landlords who have as it is now, the budget has "The University should form through a "peripheral parking" (building) code violations save to be voted on only four weeks some kind of advisory group, system, where cars would be them up like parking tickets." after a person is elected to coun-Imaybe to go to council," she parked on the edge' of the city Ann Arbor's pie-shaped First cil." suggested. and shoppers shuttled downtown Ward, which extends from State LATTA WANTS to help bring Neither candidate bears a i on line buses. St. and Packard St. on one side more federal money in to help grudge against the other, but "I WOULD LOVE to see .a to the city's northernmost with local projects, and says likewise neither would withdraw four-block area downtown with boundary on the other, contains such money sources have been i from the race. Former Michi- streets closed, pavement rip- a mix of constituents. - " neglected in the past because gan Student Assembly (MSA) ped up and grass planted in- THE WARD includes West the Democrats were "too busy President Calvin Luker, Olu- fighting skirmishes with the Re- kalns' campaign manager, said publicans on council to keep Latta had "an academic out- POETRY READING them from putting all the mon-look He never has contact with ey into sewers." [fpeople." WITH To remedy the housing crunch, Latta indicated he thinks Ilatta prefers tax breaks to de- Olukalns' previous activity in MYSTERY POETS velopers combined with new the Third Ward makes her some- housing in which 20 per cent of thing of an outsider in the First 17 7 30the unis would be low-income. Ward. Thurs. Feb. - : p.m. He called past building efforts ALTHOUGH the Human Rights in the city "sheer money-mak- Party failed to land a candidate Gu Id House ing projects." on council in the last election, 802 MONROE Latta is black, as is present William Wilcox has hopes that (corner of Oakland) REFRESHMENTS jFirst Ward Republican council- he can recapture a seat for the man Wendell Allen. "A lot of radical/socialist party in April. peoplewere ambivalent. about He is running unopposed in a second candidate from the Tuesday's primary. first ward who was black," he I Wilcox favors a conservation said, but added that he thought program in the water depart- his experience in the ward made mentan "urban homesteading" Th Pblc s ;