Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 27, 1988 0 Vacancy Continued from Page 1 they're just too expensive," Russ said. She said almost all of the low- cost housing available has already been rented to students, but more ex- pensive units, like those offered by Tower Plaza, are out of most stu- dents' budgets. New construction is not the only cause of the increase in unoccupied housing, Russ said. "Part of the rea- son the vacancy rates have gone up, we think, is that people have doubled up" and started to share houses and apartments meant for less people, due to the high price of renting. "You're not seeing an increase in vacancy rates resulting in any form of price decreases," Russ said, noting that "average rent increases appear to be around 20 percent a year." Ann Arbor City Councilmember Terry Martin (R-Second Ward) dis- agreed, and said both vacancy rates and rents could not continue to be high. "If the vacancy remains high, rents will be sure to come down," she said. The last time the vacancy rate for the campus area was higher than the current 7.0 percent level was in 1982, when the rate was 13.2 per- cent. "What had happened (then) was the economy in Southeast Michi- gan... had gone to pot," said Ed Sa- lowitz, the Housing Division's director of research development. But Salowitz did not relate the current rise in the vacancy rate to a troubled economy. Instead, he at- tributed the increase "to the fact that Ann Arbor has experienced a number of housing increases." In addition, he said, "A number of non-students who lived in the cam- pus area have decided to move," which further increased the vacancy rate. Veramay, who conducted the va- cancy study, stressed that its intent must be kept in perspective. "I'm not sure it generalizes to the city of Ann Arbor," she said. Continued from Page 1 Although the committee is chaired by minority student Rana Mookher- jee, he is the sole minority student on the committee. Members of the committee also refused comment. This is not the first time the fraternity system at Wisconsin has encountered racial problems. In 1986, the Kappa Sigma fraternity held an off-campus "Martin Luther Coon" party and last May the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity had a "Fiji Island" party where the party-goers painted their faces black and the room was decorated with a cartoon of a Black man with a bone through his nose. Asked if incidents of this sort were a problem at the University of Michigan, Tracye Matthews, coordi- nator of the Baker-Mandela Center and a member of the United Coali- tion Against Racism, said, "Things have happened here in the past. However, I think that the visibility of students against racism has made it less safe and less acceptable to have such blatant racist acts." Div est Continued from Page 1 meetings, and hired speakers from the African National Congress, demand- ing that the University divest. Recently, FSACC built two shanties on the Diag to protest apartheid. Since then, two of FSACC's demands - that jailed South African activist Nelson Man- dela be granted a University honorary degree, and that the University divest the last $500,000 - have been met. But the shanties - which sym- bolize the living conditions of many Blacks in South Africa - will stay up as long as apartheid continues, FSACC members said. l M 4 Zrid Atnniversar y '4 l r Just 2 short years ago The Stereo Shoppe opened in Ann Arbor - our fifth store in Michigan. You have responded very enthusiastically to our products, our policies, our people, and our prices. To celebrate two successful years in Ann Arbor we've slashed the price on dozens of our best products just in time for the Holidays. Here's merely a sample of what's on sale: IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Israel/PLO clash in Lebanon Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian guerrilla bases at Sidon and' Beirut yesterday, killing at least six people, including a man identified as a senior PLO commander. A family of six and three other people were missing and feared dead' under the rubble in Mieh Mieh, a refugee camp outside Sidon that suffered the greatest damage. Police said 41 people were wounded, all but one were wounded at Mieh Mieh. In south Lebanon, Israeli soldiers and allied militia poured artillery fire on positions of Lebanese guerrillas in and around Mashgara, police reported. Jets struck targets outside the southern port and the capital in the third and fourth raids since a suicide Shiite Moslem car bomber killed eight Israeli soldiers a week ago in the border "security zone" Israel maintains in south Lebanon. Ten killed in helicopter crash Two Marine Corps helicopters crashed in the desert during a night training exercise Tuesday, killing all 10 people aboard, the military said yesterday. Lt. Mary Baldwin, a Marine spokesperson, said she had no details on the cause of the crash or whether the two airships had collided. The search and recovery were hampered because of fear of unexploded ammunition at the site on an Air Force range and because of its' remoteness, officials said. The two helicopters, a Boeing CH-46 with four men aboard and a Bell UH-1N with six men, were taking part in the final training exercise of a course at the Yuma base for weapons and tactics instructors, base spokespeople said. The copters went down about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday approximately 125 miles southeast of the Marine Corps Air Station at Yuma, officials said. South African elections face fierce opposition Security forces ringed polling booths yesterday as South Africans of all races, voting simultaneously for the first time, elected segregated municipal councils nationwide. President P.W. Botha's National Party faced a fierce challenge from the extreme-right political party in white communities. Many of these communities were experiencing their first partisan local elections aftet decades of national dominance. Anti-apartheid clergy such as Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, opposed the elections and urged South Africans to fast and pray during the day. The turn-out was low in many Black townships where anti-apartheid activists urged an election boycott in defiance of state-of-emergency regulations. Police reported scattered arson and stone-throwing attacks but no fatalities or major clashes. Whales are finally freed BARROW, Alaska - Two whales trapped for nearly three weeks in the arctic ice pack were freed yesterday by Soviet and American icebreakers, superpower saviors who hacked a path to the open sea. "The whales are loose and in the channel and headed out." said Lt. Mike Haller, a spokesperson for the the Alaska National Guard. "They looked good all afternoon. To look at them, you'd have thought they had their bags packed and were ready to head south." "They're in the main lead, and I can't help but think they'll keep on truckin'. I don't know how much more we can do." said rescue coordinator Ron Morris of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Scientists and others involved in the rescue may never know the whales' fate. Rescue officials decided not to put electronic tracking tags on the already stressed animals. 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