al Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 16, 1986 City zoning board gives sorority OK By SUSAN GRANT The Ann Arbor Zoning Board of Ap- peals voted yesterday to allow the Alpha Xi Delta sorority zoning variances on their site plan to make the University-owned Kalmbach Cen- ter their new home. The Alpha Xi Delta sorority, which revived itself after being dormant for several years, immediately began looking for a house after pledging 115 members in October. THE KALMBACH Center at 1735 Washtenaw Ave. was purchased by the University from the Alpha Chi Omega sorority in 1972. Until recently the center was used by the University as a convention center and to host University guests, but the center is now vacant. Tuesday night the Ann Arbor Plan- ning Commission voted 8-0 to give the sorority a special exemption use and site plan approval contingent on yesterday's vote at the Zoning Board of Appeals. City zoning requires a special exemption to be obtained from the planning commission for all large groups who wish to live in this par- ticular area. Because the sorority's plan violated a few zoning codes, the sorority had to ask for zoning variances. These violations include reducing a lan- dscape buffer from 15 feet to 2% feet, parking within 10 feet of the building, and using 14 parking spaces instead of the required 15 spaces. According to Ann Arbor law there must be one parking space for every five beds. The sorority plans to house 75 women, which would require 15 spaces instead of the 14 spaces the lot can hold. THE ZONING Board of Appeals voted 9-0 on the landscape and parking buffer variances, and 6-3 to allow 14 parking spaces instead of 15. Since the sorority's revival, mem- bers have been meeting in Angell Hall and other public places, but they want their own home, said Alumni President Jennie Lombard. "The sorority needs a house to provide unity," said Lombard. "When the girls have a home there is con- stant communication. They have a chance to build up a sisterhood." Sophomores fight (Continued from Page 1) en enrktir isia a 1 more concerned about students who lock themselves into an academic program during their freshman year. "COLLEGE is a time to explore your interests and part of that is un- certainty," he says. But the uncertainty is only part of the slump, sophomores say. Another oUI111 ld CC 51 la c motivation to study. "Everything seems to take six times longer," say: sophomore Mia Schmiedesk former valedictorian from] High School in Ann Arbor. " like to go here, but just not s wish I were more motivated, s lack five s L amp Pion I wo tudy but I ymptoms o of somethingI can't do." LSA sophomore Jim Lydon put it or more precisely. LSA "SOPHOMORE slump is the period a when you consider college a big Weer blowoff, and you wake up when your ould grades come in." Kraus agrees. y...I "Getting good grades isn't as im- it's portant to me as it was before," she says. "I'm only doing what I have to in order to get by, and it makes me feel really guilty." But Dr. Charles Judge, director of LSA academic services, feels that lack of motivation and anxiety about the future can be found at all grade levels. "It happens to everybody...I don't find it limited to any one group." DESPITE STATISTICS which show that the University's sophomore and junior class had the highest number of expulsions last year, Judge remains skeptical. "I'm always struck at how many juniors and seniors who have done ob- viously well up to that point end up being dismissed," Judge says. "(The dismissal rate) can also reflect those people who get into programs too dif- ficult for them and it's finally cat- ching up with them," he adds. "IF YOU HAVE a house the girls are able to communicate and form life-long friendships," Lombard said. "I have friends I made in college and still feel a bond between us whenever we communicate." Lombard added that the sorority members are eager and enthusiastic about the Kalmbach Center. Neigh- bors also welcome the move. They have shown their support at both the planning commission and zoning board meetings. Neighbor Douglas Crary, who lives at 1842 Cambridge Rd., said at yesterday's meeting that he is "ab- solutely delighted that the possibility that a sorority will return to this house." the slump Yet, it is during their second year at the University that the slump hits most students the hardest - and most bounce back in their junior year. "LAST YEAR I didn't do well at all, but this year I'm kicking a--," said Andrea Greer, a junior who decided to major in English. "I was too busy trying to develop myself as a human being. Last year I had to find out who I was and what my goals were and now it's a lot easier to work because I know what I want to do, and I'm really excited about it." After a .9 increase in her semester G.P.A. from sophomore to junior year, Greer reflects that the slump was a learning experience. "I learned to take easier classes. You learn the tricks of the trade," she said, "what classes to take and not to take, what homework to do and not to do, and how to get through all the red tape at the University." But take heart sophomores. Greg Morton, an engineering student, maintains that there are worse things in life than sophomore slump. "I guarantee that fifth year senior slump is a lot worse than sophomore slump." Morton said. "Understanding and Masterin the MCAT" A Seminar on the MCA T's Design and the Successful Student's Battle Plan TOPICS: " Overview of the MCAT and Its Purpose " MCAT's Major Pitfall: The Most Difficult Section of the MCAT . Strategies for the Concentration of Your Resources for Maximum Performance " How to Make Your 10's-1 2's, 11's-1 3's GUEST SPEAKER: NORMAN MILLER A Leading Expert on the MCAT, Founder and President of Excel Career Service, Ltd. 8 P.M., MONDAY, JAN. 20, 1986 MICHIGAN LEAGUE - HUSSEY RM. ALL STUDENTS WELCOME - NO CHARGE 'U' director prompts NCAA change IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS Aquino's leader killed MANILA, Phillipines - Gunmen shot to death one of opposition can- didate Corazon Aquino's local campaign leaders yesterday in the first killing that has been linked to the Philippine presidential election cam- paign. Opposition leaders claimed that the killing in Aquino's home province of Tarlac, north of Manila, was designed to frighten the people who sup- port her bid to unseat President Ferdinand Marcos in the Feb. 7 election. Former congressman Jose Yap said the victim, Jeremias de Jesus, was shot to death a day after he told a U.S. Embassy political officer of armed men "terrorizing" opposition supporters in the province. Yap said there were reports that de Jesus' driver also was killed in the shooting in Capas municipality, 55 miles north of Manila. Yap said he had no details of the killing, but Assemblyman Luis Villafuerte said reports from the area indicated de Jesus was aboard a jeep when he was shot. Aquino was campaigning on the central Philippine island of Panay, 250 miles south of Manila, when the shooting occured. 100 killed in Beirut warring BEIRUT, Lebanon - President Amin Gemayel's militia defeated his Christian rivals in a 10-hour showdown with tanks, artillery and gunboats yesterday. The fighting killed 100 people and wounded 300. Military sources said Elie Hobeika, the Lebanese Forces militia chief fighting the Maronite Catholic president for leadership of the nation's 1.5 million Christians, had surrendered to the Lebanese army commander. Gemayel opposes the peace agreement Syria negotiated with the Lebanese Forces and the country's two most powerful Moslem militias in an attempt to end the decade-long civil war that has cost at least 100,000 lives. The victory of the Gemayel loyalists appeared to dash hopes for the success of the peace pact. The Syrian-brokered accord would give Moslems more power in the government and military, which traditionally have been dominated by Christians. It was signed Dec. 28 in Damascus by Hobeika, leader of the largest Christian militia; Druse chieftain Walid Jumblatt and Nabih Berri, leader of the Shiite Moslem militia Amal. Budget balance triggers cuts WASHINGTON - A $11.7 billion first installment toward a balanced federal budget was triggered under a new deficit-reduction law yester- day, paving the way for cutbacks in hundreds of programs and a near governmentwide hiring freeze. Some federal officials said layoffs of federal workers also was a possibility. However, budget director James Miller called on agency heads to look for other ways to make the required reductions including cutting down on travel expenses and not filling vacancies. "The administration's firm position is that we're going to meet these challenges in a way that minimizes disruptions," Miller told a news con- ference. The cuts were set in motion by the issuance of a joint report by Miller's Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office projecting that the fiscal 1986 deficit would soar to $220.5 billion - $8.6 billion above last year's record flow of federal red ink. Miller said he doubted that these cutbacks - amounting to 4.3 percent for domestic programs and 4.9 percent for the military on March 1 - would result in widespread disruptions or anything "like closing the Washington Monument or draining the Tidal Basin" here. Shultz warns against lax U.S. terrorist policy WASHINGTON - The United States risks having "a policy of paralysis" unless it is willing to take open and covert military action against nations that support terrorism, Secretary of State George Shultz said yesterday. "We cannot let the ambiguities of the terrorist threat reduce us to total impotence," Shultz said in a speech dotted with references to Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy. The United States must have "the stomach," even when results are slow, to keep up on the pressure against state- sponsored terrorism, he said. Otherwise, "it would amount to an admission that, with all our weaponry and power, we are helpless to defend our citizens, our interests, and our values; this I simply do not accept," he said. Shultz, one of the Reagan administration's strongest advocates of using military power against terrorism, made the remarks in a speech to the Pentagon-sponsored "Conference on Low-Intensity Warfare," at which Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger spoke Tuesday night. Gorbachev announces plan to rid earth of nuclear arms MOSCOW - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announced in a statement read on national television yesterday that the Soviet Union is proposing a plan for "ridding the Earth of nuclear weapons within 15 years." The statement, on the eve of the fourth round of Geneva arms control talksbetween the Soviet Union and the United States, said the Soviets also will extend a unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing for another three months. The unilateral ban on testing was announced in August and expired Jan. 1. The announcement was made at the beginning of the nightly television news program. "The Soviet Union is proposing a step-by-step and consistent process of ridding the Earth of nuclear weapons, to be implemented and completed within the next 15 years, before the end of this century," Gorbachev said in the statement, read by an announcer. Vol XCVI - No. 1 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. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and Sub- scribes to United Press International, Pacific News Service, Los-Angeles Times Syndicate, and College Press Service. (Continued from Page 1) view. "I think your high school grades should be enough," he said. The NCAA also passed a new drug testing rule mandating that players in championship and football bowl games be screened for a wide range of drugs. According to the rule, which was authored by University pathology Prof. Paul Gikas, both the player and the coach face a stiff penalty if the player fails. 10 Tutu rallies support to oppose apartheid system (Continued from Page 1) paigning for basic human rights," said Tutu, "the laws of our country are against us." AMONG what Detroit Mayor Coleman Young termed "a veritable gaggle of bishops and clergy and a S . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .......::, :.s.... . . - ".,- ... .... .. .. .. .. ... ... ... ... ... ... nun. *. _:...: c : .e, ervc sc rm c US iiznhp(rpri O O at io'Tions T i ad naakot, mis ~.P~i~u i~ t tiidou aden th jj . O a foi . fultho~itesc - th0 b t utc feI)oaer pn1 se. S 1 - -. -g U -1o ~~~ 'c ] flock of politicians" surrounding Tutu during his speech, was Rosa Parks, one of the first people to set off the civil rights movement in the '50s by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. Tutu said he was pleased to be in Detroit during Martin Luther King's birthday. Although many similarities have been drawn between Tutu and King, Tutu said he is "not in the same league as Martin Luther King Jr." He said, "he is a tremendous, tremen- dous orator ... and far more an original thinker than I would ever hope to be. He is something that I am not. He is a pacifist. I am not a pacifist. I am a peace lover." Tutu said, "Quite simply. I'm op- posed to all forms of violence." But he said if he had to choose between the violence of the apartheid system, or the violence required to overthrow it, he would choose violence to over- throw the system. TUTU SAID he feels there are cir- cumstances where one must use force but "it is possible for change to hap- pen through nonviolent means." Tutu drew similarities between himself and King, as he believes both he and King sought to use moral authority and to draw power from the church. Tutu also spoke at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul last night and ap- peared on a PBS live broadcast. Today he will speak at the Detroit Economic Club and hold a community rally at Cobo Arena at 5:00. Ad- mission to the rally, which includes performances by local gospel and en- tertainment groups is free. 01 Can we serve you? Editor in Chief.................NEIL CHASE Chief Photographer...............DAN HABIB Opinion Page Editors .......... JODY BECKER PHOTO STAFF: Jae Kim, Scott Lituchy, John JOSEPH KRAUS Munson, Matt Petrie, Dean Randazzo, Andi Managing Editors ....... GEORGEA KOVANIS Schreiber, Darrian Smith. JACKIE YOUNG Sports Editor .............. 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