01 Page 2-Sunday, February 1, 1981-The Michigan Daily Co-op housing offers unique mix of personalities, lifestyles (Continued from Page 1) years we can take care of all the students who come in." According to Buchele there are ap- proximately 600 spaces for residents. Of these, about half are open for new residents each year. Co-ops are one of the few places that have openings for winter term, one reason they are so popular with tran- sfer students. The North Campus Co-ops have a higher vacancy rate and turnover than those on central and the athletic cam- puses. Michigan House's Schwartz at- tributes this to the location, size, and construction of the buildings on North Campus. He says the modern building style of the large complex "lends a dorm-like appearance so the environ- ment is not as homey." Students choose co-ops for a variety of reasons. Doug McMahon, a three- week member of the ICC and new student at the University, said the dor- ms are "too wild." Engineering student Hope Piuck, a Michigan House resident, said she wan- ted to leave the dorm also, but she felt that apartment living was too isolated. "The co-ops are more intimate," she said. A New and Vital Black Drama I Can't Hear the Birds February 11 - 15 ® Wed-Sat 8pm Su GUESTE Earl s Singing n 2 pm ARTIST I D. A. Smith -- ..,," PTP Ticket Office Michigan League Mone Fri 10.1 & 2-5 Phone 764.-0450 AN While economizing is still a prime reason for joining, Buchele says he is "perplexed that mote people aren't joirling us," in these hard economic times. "Dark financial clouds often mean sunshine for the co-ops," Buchele said, but apparently these clouds are not dark enough to boost ICC membership. The first student residential co-op in North America was established in Ann Arbor in the 1930s. Students, hardhit by the Depression doubled up to cut costs so they could remain in school. This term room and board costs of co- op living come to $200. Mystery illness hits six Texas students DALLAS '(AP) - Six art students at Southern Methodist University have contracted a mystery ailment that resembles both Legionnaires' disease and a deadly form of metal poisoning reported earlier along the Texas Coast, doctors say. "It's pretty much of a mystery," said Dr. James Garriott, a Dallas toxicologist who has been investigating the cases for two months. "At this point, nobody knows what to do." All six victims - who are reporting loss of hair, numbness of extremities and, in one case, loss of fingernails are art students at Southern Methodist University, said Dick Sutcliffe, director of university public relations, adding their course of study was the only known common factor. Garriott said 400 samples of art supplies from the school's art depar- tment have been tested for the rare, poisonous metal thallium, but no trace was found. Officials at the University of Texas Poison Control Center have confirmed at least eight cases of thallium poisoning since last September. At least one death may have resulted from an exposure to the metal. Karl Kroshinsky and Michael Ortlieb. were the famous "Cheap uglasses" double-play duo in the 1950s.