The Michigan Daily-Thursday, September 4, 1980-Page 7-DX
Union renovations planned
By JOYCE FRIEDEN
While the Michigan Union has always been the
"center" of campus since its construction in 1917, it"
has experienced varying degrees of student activity.,
In response to recent demands to restore the Union as
a bonafide student center, the University has
targeted the upcoming school year for a multi-million
dollar renovation project. When the dust settles later
this spring, the Union may once again becdme the
social nucleus of campus.
At present, the Union houses a wide range of
facilities for students and faculty. The ground floor
holds music practice rooms, lockers, a barbershop, a
ride board, snack bar, a copying center, and the
University Cellar, the student-run bookstore.
ON THE FIRST FLOOR there is a bank card
machine, a building directory, a gift shop, the ticket
office, the University Club (a restaurant in which all
U-M students, faculty and staff are members), a
lounge, administrative offices; and an art gallery,
which may be closed in August to make room for a
new student lounge.
The second floor of the Union features a billiards
room, assembly halls, and offices for various student
organizations. The third and fourth floors of the
Union primarily house offices, both for students an-
University organizations. Among these groups are
the Office of Student Services, the Ann Arbor
Tenant's Union, the University Counseling Service,
and Student Legal Services.
ALSO LOCATED ON the third floor is the Univer-
sity Activities Center (UAC). Members conduct all
the activities in the Union, from scheduling use of
meeting rooms to sponsoring, Michigras, an all night
party held annually at the Union. The center,
moreover, provides cider and doughnuts on the steps
of the Union before football games, mini-courses in
bartending, ballroom dancing, and other activities.
According to Suzanne Young, Interim Director of
the Michigan Union, the University campus has ob-
served changes in students' attitudes toward their
Union. "The Michigan Union used to be *the hub of
campus activity-the presidency of the Union was the
most prestigious job on campus from the 20's to the
50's," Young said. In the 50's, she explained, the
University combined the programming departments
of the Michigan League and the Union into UAC. This
action, coupled with formation of diversified student
groups and increased operating costs, contributed to
the "slide" of the Union's campus dominance in the
60's, Young said. ,
For many years the Union also housed a hotel,
which detracted from its function as a student union,
according to Assistant Vice-President for Student
Services Tom Easthope. "The decorum required for
a Student Union is different from that required for a
hotel. We've got to change that image," said
Easthope. Last year, the Union hotel was closed and
the extra rooms were made available to graduate
students.
UNION OFFICIALS are implementing many
changes to "try to give the Union back to the studen-
ts," said Easthope. "Next year's freshmen will be
able to see the revitalization of the Michigan Union
from beginning to end."
According to Young, the University has allocated
$4.8 million for the Union improvements, and are
paid in part by mandatory student fees. Many of
these changes will get underway in the fall, she said.
"First and foremost, we want to get a student food
service in the building. A Union's job is to be the
'living room of the campus,' and we want students to
be able to come in and have a cup of coffee in the
middle of the day."
Other possible changes include-more lounge
space, an expanded bookstore, a "Michigan Union
store" selling candy and magazines, and a "market-
place" housing different kinds of food shops, such as
an ice cream parlor, a health food store, and a fast
food store. Renovations are expected to be finished
sometime next spring.
"If you see a lot of dust and boarded up areas in the
Union, just be patient," Young advised.
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Religious activity slowly
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By STEVE HOOK
Students are becoming more involved with
religion at the University, according to
religious leaders and scholars in Ann Arbor.
After nearly a decade in which organized
worship was scoffed at by most students,
recent years have marked a subtle resur-
gence in local activity.
"Each year, it seems that we get more and
more students," said Rev. Steve Bringardner
of the University Church of the Nazarene.
"There has been an increase from what I
have seen all across campus, with many
levels of involvement."
THE PRESENCE of nearly 70 diverse
religious groups on campus attests to the
growth of religion at the University. The
largest of these are: Guild House, a campus
ministry since 1894; Newman Student
Association, the University's Imost active
Catholic group; Hillel, the most active Jewish
group on campus; Lord of Light, a student-
oriented Lutheran campus ministry; and
Wesley Foundation, a Methodist campus
ministry.
Rev. Bob Hauert, director of the Univer-
sity's Office of Ethics and Religion, noted that
renewed religious activity on campus has
been accompanied by a similar increase
world-wide.
"Internationally, the role of religion in
politics seems to be on the upswing," he said,
pointing to developments in Iran and South
America. "There is a resurgence of religion
around the world that seems significant."
EXPLANATIONS FOR the upswing are as
diverse as the faiths themselves, but most
religious leaders agree that as students have
become less radical they have been slower to
reject organized religioh.
Suspicions about "establishment"
religions, developed in the late sixties and
early seventies, are fading. The result is that
students are now beginning to
tional services in the numbers1
years ago, religious leaders sa
"There was a pattern of
began over ten years ago," sai
drew Foster of Canterbury I
was viewed as a stronghold of
ment. But in the past five ye
been a significant shift. Stu
more comfortable and welcom
settings."
REV. GORDON WARD, wh
student-oriented Lord of L
Church, echoed Foster's appr
religious attitudes. "We w
period when students were tu
dinary religions," he said. "
and more people are comin
Ward added that students a
values" in larger numbers t
significant ethical questions."
Hauert said he also sees a
increasing on
attend conven- "mainline" religions. "In the early seventies,
that they did 15 you saw the rise of many esoteric religions,"
y. he said, "such as the Eastern religions. And
alienation that they have become well established and have a
d Chaplain An- life of their own. But there does seem to be a
Loft. "Religion shift in the other direction."
f the establish- MANY WHO cited a trend towards
ears, there has traditional religions said students are also in-
dents now feel volved with more "conservative," "self-
e in traditional centered," and "materialistic" activities.
According to Luis Gomez, an instructor of
Far Eastern Languages since 1973, students
o serves at the are "less critical and curious; they are not
ight Lutheran seeking profound understandings like in
aisal of student years past.
ent through a "They don't seem to be as ready to'have
irned off by or- their existing beliefs challenged," he said.
But now, more "They seem more interested in maintaining
ig to church." thestatusquo."
are "clarifying Rev. Hauert said he is "concerned" about
oday, "raising this trend. "Around campus, there seems to
be a tendency for religious activities that are
shift towards more egocentric-more inwardly-directed.
campus
"People seem less concerned with the
general welfare than they are with personal
welfare," Hauert said. He cited the growth of
transcendental meditation, transactional
analysis, and health movements as evidence
of the trend.
Religious affiliation of
University students-
Fall term, 1979*
Religion Percentage:
Catholic ................. .. 37
Jewish ...................* 11
Lutheran . . . . . . . . . . . .... .... 6
Episcopal........ ........ 6
Methodist ................... 4
Presbyterian ................ 4
Others .... ............. 19a
*Based on results of CRISP survey '
Ailing economy
brings need for
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By HOWARD WITT
As the economy worsens and the job
market tightens, more students are
searching for jobs during the fall and
winter terms. And if trends from spring
and summer Lontinue, the employment
picture looks rather bleak.
The popular job-hunting wisdom "It's
not what you know, it's who you know"
has been replaced in recent months
with "It's not what you know, it's being
there when someone quits." Said one
local restaurant a manager: "We
reached a point where we had more job
applicants than guests in the lobby."
THERE IS HELP available,
however, for students in search of jobs.
With assistance from Univqrsity or
private job placement services, careful
scanning Of the Help Wanted ads, and a
little luck, any student can survive the
scramble for part-time jobs.
More than 3,500 students found jobs
through the University's Student Em-
ployment Office last year. Located on
the second floor of the Student Ac-
tivities Building, this department of the
financial aid office lists available jobs
throughout the University as well as
some off-campus openings.
Clerical, technical, service/main-
tenance, and research-related jobs are
among those regularly posted on the of-
fice's job-opening boards. Students
choose those jobs that interest them
and then make contact with the em-
ployers.
STUDENTS TRYING to make ends
meet while at the University seem to
almost always find ways-either
through the University, or privately,
by typing term papers, scalping foot-
ball tickets or setting up a food stand
in the Diag.
FOR THOSE. STUDENTS who can
demonstrate financial need, a variety
.of work-study jobs is available. There
are more work-study jobs than there
are students to take them, according to
officials in the work-study office, also
located on the second floor of the SAB.
Work-study is a federal form of finan-
cial aid in which the government pays
80 per cent of a student's wages and an
employer the remaining 80 per cent.
Jobs are classified according to the
University's system of job descriptions,
with wages varying from the minimum
$3.10 per hour up to more than $8 per
hour.
AVAILABLE WORK-STUDY jobs
are as varied as those positions adver-
tised in the Student Employment Of-
fice, ranging from clerks and research
assistants to graphic artists.
Perhaps the most offbeat-and in-
teresting-jobs can be found in the
classified advertisements of local
papers. Tucked in among the more
mundane housekeeping, babysitting,
and bookrush jobs are appeals for
canoe instructors, computer program-
mers, and bagel deliverers. One local
massage parlor advertises discretely
for "Models.. . 18 and older ... No ex-
perience necessary, we will train."
Hundreds of entrepeneurs have made
their marks on the community hawking
fruit, sandwiches, and imported shirts.
Students who type or write particularly
well have offered their editing and'
manuscript preparation services to,
fellow students struggling with theses
and term papers.
Finally, the dormitory system is con-j
sistently in need of student food service;
workers. These jobs, which include'
dishwashing and food preparation, are
particularly well-suited to those studen-
ts desiring flexible hours and em--
ployment close to their rooms.
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