4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 25, 1985 House eases hospital stay for families of ill By EVE BECKER Pillows and blankets are stacked up in piles along the windowsills of a lounge in Mott Children's Hospital. Seventeen to 18 members of different families have spent the night here. Some have been in the lounge for a few days, some for a few weeks. Until the opening of the Ronald Mc- Donald House tomorrow, staying in the lounge has been the best option for many parents whose children are in Mott Hospital. ALTHOUGH the grand opening was Oct. 19, the house needed more work to get it ready for residents and make it conform to fire and safety codes. The 24-bedroom house, a three minute walk from Mott, will offer parents a chance to stay near their child in a family-type atmosphere. The cost will be six dollas a night for ne room. It is built as a temporary home for families of seriously ill children at i area hospitals. "IF THERE is room available in the house there won't be anyone tur- ned away," said Linda Kelleher, public relations coordinator for the Ronald McDonald House. At this point, Kelleher said, parents do not have to meet any qualifications in order to live in the house. There is also no time limit on the time a family can stay. "Other houses have been full. If this happens we have a priority list. The first priority are families coming from more than 50 miles away from Ann Arbor," she said. SHERRY BLACK, who has been sleeping in a lounge for a week, said she might stay in the Ronald Mc- Donald House. "I have a friend who stayed in one in Detroit. They gave her a place to stay and her own room," she said. "It gives you a sense of home for a change." "We're offering a plan for people who don't want to stay in the hospital," Kelleher said. THE FACILITY may attract people now staying in the lounges, but she feels some will continue to stay there because it has been a long standing policy of the hospital to accommodate families wishing to sleep in the lounges. The families have nothing but praise for the hospital staff who provides blankets and pillows for the families in the lounges. "All I can say is they've been really nice to us," said Avis Baragar who has come from Saginaw with her husband Wayne. Her granddaughter is undergoing heart surgery. THE BARAGARS have been in the lounge since last Tuesday, staying with their daughter and son-in-law. They were expecting to stay in the lounge for one night and then look for a hotel "but there weren't any available because of the game," Avis said. "We may have to stay here, we couldn't afford it otherwise. We're on a fixed income. Our kids can't afford to go-to a hotel. He (the child's father) is missing work as it is," she added. The family was not aware of the program for the Ronald McDonald House, but said they might try to stay there "because it isn't that far away" although their children will probably continue to stay in the hospital lounge to be near their daughter. Steve Hause, information officer for Mott, said "the hospital's policy is not to forbid parents to stay in the lounge." MOTT HOSPITAL also sponsers a host-home program in which parents can stay in houses in the community. But 40 percent choose not to take this option, mostly because of the distance from the hospital, Hause said. The Bell Tower hotel also has a discount for parents who have children in Mott. 'U' receives less from state than peer institutions (Continued from Page 1) University officials say. That figure fell to 47.5 percent in 1983. Tuition in- creases and budget cuts were made to compensate for the loss. Over the last two years, however, state support has risen slightly. It now accounts for more than half of the University's budget. As a result, in- state tuition has also been frozen for the last two years. THE UNIVERSITY currently ranks in the top 18 percent among its peers in state support, the panel said. Peers include other Big Ten public univer- sities and the University of California- Berkley. Setting the top 15 percent among its peers as a goal the panel said the state is underfunding the University by $59 million, or 29 percent of the $208 million it gave the school this year. "The University of Michigan is pretty well off, relative to other schools in the state," Sullenger said. "All the other schools fell below the 75 percentile among their peers." Those schools were given the 75 percentile - or top 25 percent - mark as their goal, he said. SULLENGER, added, however, that the panel is concerned about the University's high tuition, which ranks in the top 10 percent of its peers. The state would have to increase its sup- port this year by $120 million to bring the University's tuition down to the top 25 percent among its peers. Decreasing the University's tuition to just the top half in in-state tuition, would require $240 million more, the panel said. Such a large increase is not expec- ted to come soon, if at all. STATE BUDGET officials are an- ticipating a slow-down of the state's economic growth. As a result, the University is expected to get only about two-thirds of the $34 million in- crease it says it needs next year. "Clearly, I think the members of the panel agreed that if the governor Cheerleaders (Continued from Page 1) said of the all-male squad which has a 50-year tradition at Michigan and is best known for the daring stunts and acrobatics it performs at football games. MOST collegiate cheerleading squads today are co-ed and perform more complex cheers than the Michigan football cheerleaders, West said. Michigan's co-ed cheerleading squad failed to submit its demo tape and the legislature want to increase the funding, it'll have to be done over a long period of time," Sullenger said. "It's now up to the government and the state legislature to decide whether (the state) wants to embark on such a long-range plan," said Ralph Nichols, the University's associate vice president for state relations. He would not speculate on what state leaders may decide. Spokesmen for the governor and chairs of the state's higher education sub-committees also refused to com- ment, saying they were still studying the report. make finals to the NCA by the deadline, but Coach Pam St. John said her squad will be competing for a similar national title in the next month. "I'm super excited about the guys going to the competition," said Trissa Frever, a member of the co-ed squad. THE upcoming competition will mean plenty of practice and traveling for the squad in the next month, but Seymour said the cheerleaders are excited about the Fiesta Bowl trip and the competition. -- ------------ ------ - - ------ ----------------------1 I~I I 1 i T.vM. I CooKES I I. I I Don't be a turkey Take a dozen of Mrs. Peabody's cookies to Mom's for Thanksgiving I $1 off dozen I Holiday Orders Coupon must be presented 761-CHIP Offer valid through 11-28-85 I I I* o- - .. -.. m m m - -....m m.....m- m m............ IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS Car bomb injures Americans FRANKFURT, West Germany - A car bomb exploded yesterday out- side a busy U.S. military shopping center, injuring 31 people, most of them Americans, and destroying 42 cars, a U.S. Army spokesman said. The blast came at 3:20 p.m. in the store's parking lot, breaking win- dows and blowing a hole in a nearby building. West German police said there was no immediate claim of respon- sibility for the explosion. The bomb blast was the latest in a series of attacks against U.S. military facilities in West Germany. Bill Swisher, a spokesman for the U.S. Army's 97th General Hospital, said 30 people were treated at the hospital, but 24 people were released by early evening. "All but two of (those treated) were Americans," Swisher said. "None of the injuries appear to be life-threatening." Officials said the bomb was packed in a sedan carrying West German license plates. They said West German police launched an investigation. The blast left a crater in the parking lot and scattered debris from wrecked cars up to 60 yards away. Shuttle to launch on schedule CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After first postponing the launch 24 hours, NASA reversed itself yesterday and said space shuttle Atlantis would life off on schedulte tomorrow night on a flight to practice space station con- struction concepts. Officials said a problem with a faulty hydraulic valve was resolved much more quickly than expected and flight director Gene Thomas direc- ted the launch team to pick up the countdown at 2 p.m. EST yesterday. Launch is set for 7:29 p.m. EST tomorrow in what should be a spec- tacular show on only the second after-dark liftoff in 23 shuttle missions. During a week in space, the six-man, one-woman crew will deploy three commercial communications satellites, and space-walkers Jerry Ross and Sherwood Spring will erect a 45-foot beam and a small pyramid to test techniques for assembling a space station in orbit. Just 3 hours before the count was to-start, the space agency announ- ced the flight had been postponed until Wednesday night because of the need to replace a bad valve in the hydraulic system of engine Number Two. Israeli govt. to investigate spy scandal involving U.S. JERUSALEM - The Israeli government pledged a thorough in- vestigation and possible dismissals yesterday over an alleged spy scan- dal that threatened to. damage its relations with the United States, its closest ally. A statement by the Foreign Ministry did not confirm or deny that Israel bought sensitive military intelligence from Jonathan Pollard. Pollard, 31, a civilian employee of the Naval Investigative Service, was arrested Thursday on charges he gave secret documents to a foreign government. Authorities said he admitted receiving $50,000 by selling military secrets to Israel and Pakistan within the last two years. His wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard, 25, was arrested Friday night on charges of possessing unauthorized classified documents. Voters turn out peacefully for Honduran elections TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Voters turned out peacefully yesterday in this key U.S. ally in Central America to choose a president in elections held just hours after a government panel decided how the winner would be chosen. A peaceful transition from one civilian president to another would be the first in Honduras since 1929. Nine candidates were running, but the race appeared to be largely bet- ween Rafael Leonardo Callejas, a 42-year-old banker and businessman who studied at the University of Mississippi, and Jose Azcona del Hoyo, 58 a civil engineer. Nearly 2 million Hondurans were eligible to vote at 6,500 voting tables segregated by sex throughout this nation of 4 million people. Also at stake were all 132 seats in the National Assembly, 284 mayorships and three vice presidencies. The National Electons Tribunal ruled just before midnight Saturday that an electoral reform pact, forged by the nine presidential candidates earlier this year to end a political crisis, would prevail in the general elec- tions. Under that pact, the leading candidate of the party that gets the most votes will be the next president, to be inaugurated Jan. 27 for a four-year term. The Honduran Constitution calls for direct election of a president by a simple majority. Militiamen ignore cease-fire BEIRUT, Lebanon - Rival Moslem militiamen shelled each other with tank and mortar fire in west Beirut for a fifth day yesterday, ignoring their own chieftains' threats that violators of a cease-fire would be killed. Police said at least 65 people have been killed and 278 wounded since the street battles broke out Wednesday between the Shiite Moslem Amal militia and the Druse Progressive Socialist Party. The two sides called a Syrian-backed cease-fire Saturday night, but fighting resumed at about midday yesterday. Rescue teams, unable to reach some embattled areas for days, dragged dead and wounded from devastated apartment buildings as tank fire and exploding mortar rounds rocked the capital's Moslem sector. Druse chieftain Walid Jumblatt and Amal leader Nabih Berri met at Berri's home for their first talks since the fighting began. A security force of 300 militiamen from both sides was set up under Syria's sponsorship Saturday night to enforce the cease-fire, the sixth since Wednesday. PM n F" r u HUE THIS WEEK AT GUILD HOUSE 802 MONROE ANN ARBOR, MI 48104 El Monday, November 25 8:00 p.m. GUILD HOUSE READING SERIES Holiday trav (Continued from Page 1) sophomore from Northfield, Ill. SHE'S RIGHT. Recently almost 54 students wanted to go someplace in Ohio - mostly Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland. Those passengers had access to only about eight potential drivers, five of whom were going to Cleveland. Almost 33 students were waving their thumbs for a ride to New York. Traffic in that direction, however, seemed pretty scarce with only seven drivers offering places in their cars. Southeastern Michigan, including Detroit and Lansing, was the destination for at least 44 homebound students. But only nine drivers were listed. WHEN STUDENTS can't work out schedules, many choose to rent a car. According to Tracy Spencer, an employee at Hertz Rent-a-Car, about 60 or 70 students rent out of an 80-car stock on the day before Thanksgiving. It's probably the biggest time of the year. "THANKSGIVING is usually the biggest because a lot of students haven't been home since school star- ted," Spencer said. While most students reserve Escor- ts and Horizons at cheaper rates, Spencer adds that full-size two-doors like Thunderbirds and Cougars are also in demand when the compacts ec l plans vary are out. And if all of the smaller cars in use, students can travel in a mid- or full- size at the same price it would take to rent a compact. NEXT TO cars, airplanes are the most popular mode of transportation for students who don't want to drive and can afford to take to the skies. Ellen Migliore, a manager at the Conlin Travel Agency on South University, says that approximately 75 percent of her clients in the past month have been students. As a result, most Wednesday flights to the New York area are booked. Cost-saving deals, such as the $98 to $118 round trip fare to New York that Conlin advertises are always popular, according to Migliore. TO ENSURE a seat on the plane, tickets must be purchased at least a month in advance. "We have a greater number of students than at other times because of the special fares," says Tina Huf- fman of Arbor Travel on S. State. Holiday rates such as $49 round trip to New York and $29 to Chicago are especially popular. "You have to get arrangements early because (the planes) fill up early," Lehrich said. "You have to keep calling the airline and see if someone cancelled out to get a seat." n S MIRIAM PEDERSON and DONALD SMITH Reading from their works. November 27 6 - 8 p.m. RICE & BEANS NIGHT $2 requested Proceeds for material aid to Central America. n S' Going hom for Thanksc Don't forget to st Ulrich's for the si you'll need... calculators, comput( reference books, Uo art supplies, prints,c lamps, watches, clot jogging suits, typew globes, fine writing r sculpting tools, port engineering and dra supplies, fine papers and just about anyth else that you'll need Don't forget to visit our new store: .a 5 e giving? top by upplies ers, frames, fM jackets, calendars, cks, riters, pens, :folios, ft ing s, t-shirts ling . Egyptians raid hijacked jet (Continued from Page1) tower by radio that the hijackers killed seven passengers. Mifsud said one woman, most probably an American, earlier was shot to death and her body thrown out of the plane. He could confirm no other deaths, but said there may have been."other corpses aboard." JOEL LEVY, the deputy U.S. Embassy chief in Malta, told repor- ters that one of the three Americans aboard the Egyptair jetliner was killed. He said at least two bodies, in- cluding that of an American, were thrown off the plane before the assault. Several wounded passengers, including the two other Americans, also were tossed off. The Reagan administration ex- pressing grief at heavy casualities from the bloody assault on a hijacked aircraft by Egyptian forces, nonetheless expressed support for the "difficult decision" to storm the jet at the Malta airport. Vol XCVI - No. 58 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the Fall and Winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April - $18.00 in Ann Arbor; $35.00 outside the city. One term - $10.00 in town; $20.00 out of town. 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