The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 3, 1988 - Page 5 A2 Tenants' Union tour focuses BY KELLY GAFFORD An hour-long walking tour with the Ann Arbor Tenants Union Saturday showed not the highlights of the city, but the areas in which commercial re-developers, big busi- nesses, and government have forced low-income tenants into homeless- ness. The tour began on Fourth Street in front of Braun Court, a seven- building court that once housed moderate-income families. But when the building was purchased by on homeless developer Peter Allen - who turned the court into a restaurant/retail strip - many Ann Arbor residents were forced out of their homes, the tour leaders said. Another stop was the Downtown Club, which once housed 60 people and the YMCA. But when Dave Kircher, a landlord of low-rent prop- erty bought the building, the Club began to deteriorate, the tenants union said. In 1983, unpaid utilities were shut off and once again, tenants were forced into homelessness. When Mayor Lou Belcher and his associates purchased the Club in December 1983, they donated the front of the building to the private Ann Arbor Historical Society, In Ann Arbor, the average room goes for $19 a night or a monthly rate of just over $300. But in a re- cent survey conducted by SRO housing, the homeless and near- homeless said that they could only afford to spend $194 monthly on housing. 'U' discussions to focus on emotions and 'ISM' words ALEXANDRA BREZ/Daily Horse and Marriage Dexter newlyweds take advantage of Friday's warm weather for a buggy ride across the Huron River. 'U professor lends advice on Gorillas In the sfilming BY LISA WINER Racism, sexism, heterosexism, and classism are words used often in the classroom and the media. But the words themselves may disguise the very emotions they should express, counselors say. A coalition of University offices has attempted to overcome this language barrier by creating a series of luncheon discussions, entitled "Understanding and Challenging our ISM's." The bi-weekly, year-long, series kicks-off today with "The Challenges of Diversity: Our IS M's Defined and Explored." The University offices - among them Counseling Services, Minority Student Services, Gay Male and Lesbian Programs Offices, and Sexual Assault and Prevention Awareness Center - created the program to address the "ISMs" on an emotional, rather than intel- lectual level. Living in a scholarly climate, we too often approach and speak of discrimination in a detached, unemotional, and even elitist manner, said Tom Morson, a Counsel- ing Services' Senior Counselor and coordinator of the University's outreach program. "(We) can't just look at (discrimination) from a his- torical, legal, cognitive approach," said Morson. "Feeling is a vital component. You can't really move toward diversity until you've removed blocks and fears." Nine University offices participated in the formation of the program. This unification is notable because it is "what diversity is about - people who are very dif- ferent coming together to work on similar goals," said Morson. The joined efforts of University offices are quite significant, agreed Delro Harris, the Minority Affairs Council chair for the Michigan Student Assembly. The offices usually have difficulty addressing a problem in a complete way, he said. BY DIANE COOK A University professor who worked intimately with the production of Gorillas in the Mist - a story about the struggles of Dian Fossey to protect the endanged gorilla - doesn't think the movie offers any long-term solutions, but it may be a starting point. Prof. David Watts, an assistant anthropology research scientist, served as an advisor on the gorillas' behavior and Fossey's life because of his close ties to her. Fossey, a researcher who dedicated nearly two decades of her life to the preservation of mountain gorillas in central Africa, immersed herself in a single- minded crusade to protect gorillas from the incursion of humankind. In the course of her efforts, she involved herself in bitter clashes with poachers and Rwandan government officials - tactics that lead to much speculation surrounding her murder shortly after Christmas in1985. After Watts worked with Fossey at the Karisoke Research Center she founded in Rwanda, he became active in efforts to conserve the gorillas and directed the center for two years after her death. Yet despite his close ties to the center and Fossey, Watts didn't like the idea of making her life into a movie when a screenwriter approached him in 1986. "I didn't trust them to present an accurate version of her life - which of course they're not going to because no commercial film does that," he said. To capture the essence of Fossey's life, the filmmakers shot primarily on location in Rwanda, with actual gorillas in the wild. As the set's gorilla expert, Watts told the filmmakers "what they could try to do, what they shouldn't try to do at any given moment." "It was important that I was there because gorillas aren't relaxed among strangers... they know me well and because they trusted me they would put up with them," said Watts. "In that way I was sort of their ambassador to the gorillas." See Gorillas, Page 7 Police Notes An East Quad resident was beaten in the East Quad courtyard and treated in University Hospitals' emergency room Friday evening following an aborted drug deal, Ann Arbor police said. Police are holding an Ann Arbor man on charges of felonious assault. The 18-year-old victim, who requested anonymity, told police that at 6:13 p.m. he had a conversation with the suspect about a drug deal. 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