L-o-op 's fate ren By ERIC MATTSON But several previous plans which the Many of the residents of a local cooperative devised to pay off the debt ,housing development say they may be were rejected when they reached ;forced to pack their bags and leave HUD's officer in Washington. :town unless the federal office of "(Reagan's appointees) want to blow Housing and Urban Development Arrowwood out of the water," said T(HUD) accepts a recently proposed a frustrated Damien Kaska, a resident of 1plah to pay off the development's debts. Arrowwood and member of its board of A'rrowwood Hills Cooperative, a 350-~ directors. :unit, low- to middle-income develop- SHOULD HUD refuse the plan, many meht located about two miles north of Arrowwood residents fear they will be they University Hospital, has ac- forced to fight for others low- or middle- cumulated a $640,000 debt since its con- income housing - which the city is ceotion in 1969. Up to this year the severly short on - or pack up and leave. ;government has been willing to let that town. debt slide as long as the cooperative "Personally, I would just die," said mide its monthly payments fairly resident Roxanne Ashford. "I would regularly. lose my home...if HUD did foreclose THE PAST few years, however, the and turned (Arrowwood) ' over to 'Reagan administration has come private interests there is no way I could fcollecting and the process of afford to live there." 'foreclosing Arrowwood's mortgage has Sue, Mumm, who has lived in begun. Arrowwood for one-and-a-half years, Ilesidents are hoping that the also said she would not be able to stay Housing and Urban Development office at the cooperative if the government will accept a last-ditch plan for the sells it. She said that her only option development to pay off the debt. would be to share a house with several HAPPENINGS' Highlight The University Activities Center's Michigras celebration continues today with two more Michilympics events: A Parcourse in the Diag at 4 p.m. and a Pizza Eating Contest in the Union at 5 p.m. The fun goes on at 6:30 in the U- Club, with the Billy "Frye," a roast of the University's favorite vice- president, and the semi-finals of the Battle of the Bands beginning at 8:30 in the U-Club. Films Alt Act-Burden of Dream, 7 p.m.; Fitzcarraldo, 9 p.m., MLB 3. - AAFC-The Road Warrior, 7 & 10:20 p.m.; Mad Max, 8:40 p.m. Aud. A Angell. Cinema Guild-The 22nd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival, 7, 9, & 11 p.m., Michigan theater. Cinema 2-The Sting, 7 & 9 p.m., Lorch. Mediatrics-All That Jazz, 7 & 9:15 p.m., MLB 4. Theta Chi-Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask, 7, 8:40, & 10:20, Nat. Sci. Performances School of Music-Symphony Band, 8 p.m., Hill; Composition Recital, David Gompper, 8 p.m., Recital Hall; Violin Recital, Cynthia Birdgenaw, 8 p.m., Rackham Assembly Hall. Brecht Company-St. Joan of the Stockyards, 8 p.m., RC Aud., East Quad. Pound House-Benefit Concert, Peter "Madcat" Ruth, 8 p.m., Union ~ballroom. Ark-Irish Fiddle concert, Liz Carroll, 8 p.m., 1421 Hill. - PTP-Play, Miss Julie, 8p.m., New Trueblood Arena. Speakers l.Muslim Students Assoc.-Arabic Circle discussion, 9 p.m., 407 N. Ingalls. Natural Resources-Don Rush, "Regional, National, and International tissues in Industrial Forest Management," 3 p.m., 1040 Dana. Southeast Asian Studies-David Hellman, "Quantity vs. Quality: Rural Development in Thailand," noon, Lane Hall. Transportation-R. Adiv & R. Duke, "Neighborhood Transportation Simulation Game," 3 p.m., 4050 LSA. Dickens Fellowship-Ruth & Robert Inglehart, "Trollope: Another Side of Dickens' England,"8 p.m., 1420 Hill. Anthropology-Rondald Berg "Report on Fieldwork in Peru," 4 p.m., 202 LSA. Engineering-David Ollis, "Kinetics of Mixed Cultures Involving Recom- binant Systems," 4 p.m., 1017 Dow; David Smithe & James Eridon, "A Mehtod for the Deconvolution of RBS Spectra," 4 p.m., Baer Room, Cooley; Nuclear Engineering Colloquium, 3:45 p.m., White Auditorium, Cooley. Western European Studies-Heinz Henisch, "Early Photographers of An- -Jcient Rome," noon, 207 Tappan. Guild House-Kathleen Dannemiller, "Women's Lives," noon, 802 > .Monroe. , Chinese Students Christian Fellowship-Bible Study, 8 p.m., Trotter House. Korean Christian Fellowship-Bible Study, 9 p.m., Campus Chapel. Chinese Bible Class-7:30 p.m., University Reformed Church.1 Tae Kwon Do-5 p.m., CCRB. Miscellaneous Duplicate Bridge Club-Pairs game, 7:15 p.m., call 668-1048., Folk Dance Club-International Folk Dancing, 3rd floor, Dance Studio, corner of State & William. Museum of Art-Art Break, Pru Rosenthal, "Nineteenth Century Pain- tings," 12:10p.m. Continuing Medical Ed-"Continuous Arteriovenous Hemofilteration for Acute Renal Failure," call 763-1400. SAC-Li'l Sibs Weekend, movies & cartoons in dorms, ice skating at Veterans Park, 8 p.m. Michigan Ensian-appointments for 1985 senior portraits, call 764-9425. Iranian Women's Assoc.-International Women's Day, 7 p.m., 126 East Quad. WCBN-5:30 News Report, 88.3 FM, 5:30 p.m. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 The Michigan Daily, Friday, March 9, 1984 - Page 3. iains uncertain other people. She explained, however, that she "doesn't want to live like a college student for the rest of my life." RESIDENTS BARE asking HUD to accept a $200,000 down payment on the debt and allow the cooperative to pay off the remaining money in monthly in- stallments. Most of that down payment would come from a $120,000 loan which Ann Arbor city council approved several weeks ago. Kaska said that Arrowwood has made its monthly payments fairly regularly since 1978. Much of the debt built up before that and should actually be blamed on HUD and the city of Ann Arbor rather than on Arrowwood residents, : he said. Because neither the city nor HUD, the two groups responsible for the cooperative's construction, made sure the structure met city building code, Arrowwood has been plagued with repair costs which have drained their ability to pay off the debt. "(THE DEBT) is HUD's fault and we shouldn't be forced to pay it back in an unreasonable fashion," Kaska said, who talks of legal action against the government if HUD does not come up with a counter proposal which the cooperative considers a reasonable payback plan. City councilmembers backed the cooperative because few of the residen- ts have the money to move out of town and perhaps even fewer will have any luck finding a new home in town. "We have a limited and dwindling stock of low- and middle-income housing in the city," Councilmember Larry Hunter (D-First Ward) said this week. "(And) I don't think they necessarily have the money to move away." For now, however, all the residents of the housing cooperative can do is wait. HUD officials declined to comment yesterday on Arrowwood's newest proposal. Officials at the department said the decision would be made sometime next week. State dept. official Five luftballoons Daily Photo by TOD WOOLF discusses arms control LSA junior Diane Vandenberg and her clownfriend LSA sophomore Vernon Grigg pass out balloons yesterday in the Fishbowl in celebration of Michigras. The Mardi Gras-like festival is sponsored annually by the University Activities Committee. , 4 By COLIN ZICK The Soviet Union's reluctance to negotiate with the United States is the main obstacle blocking an arms agreement between the two nations, said Assistant Secretary of State Robert Dean last night. Speaking to a 100-member audience in a Hutchins Hall auditorium, Dean said the Soviets have not responded to several U.S. offers to reopen negotiations. DESPITE THE diplomatic break between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Dean said he is confident talks will eventually start up again. But the next move is up to Soviet leaders. "The President has made it clear he will not offer new proposals simply to get the Soviets (back) to the table," Dean said. A hardline position by the U.S. is essential to combat the Soviets, "lack of restraint" in Afghanistan, Poland, and Third-World countries, Dean said. DEPLOYING Cruise missiles in Western Europe is necessary not only to defend the area, but to show America's determination to fight Soviet aggression, he said. NATO's decision to deploy the Cruise missiles, "was the clearest demon- stration that the U.S. was committed, without reservation, to the defense of Western Europe. "An attack on Europe is an attack on the United States itself," said Dean who is also a supervisor of U.S. policies in international arms control negotiations. U.S. channels for negotiations with the Soviet Union are open, Dean said. "The Soviets did not reciprocate our flexibility." Dean was the second speaker in a four-lecture series this month on "East- West Relations in an Age of Nuclear Confrontation," sponsored by the Cen- ter for Russian and East European Studies. MI MI, o% THE Place for Dance this Naropa Institute JUNE 18th - AUGUST 10th Naropa Institute Dept. 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You'll be meeting new people, learning a new language, ex- periencing a new culture and gaining a whole new outlook. And while you're buildingyour future, you'll help people in developing countries plan, design, and construct roads, buildings, sanitation systems, dams, bridges, canals or other structures which are critical for meeting their economic needs. APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED MARCH 13,14,15, 1984. FOR MORE INFO CALL 764-9310 OR 1-226-7928, EXT. 108 Oth Anniversary MY1934-1984 ' MORE THAN A BOOKSTORE 549 E. University Ann Arbor, Ml (at the corner of East U. and S Malicious Intent 00 (313)662-9270 outh U.) VILLAGE CORNER t r Zi- ,~- '- - - specials this week: Nabisco chocolate PINWHEELS.. ....... Nabisco PARTY GRAHAMS...... .... . . %/.% MILK gallons . . ECKRICH smoke sausage [beef, meat or polish] . PEPSI %. litres . . . . . F