Hillel re-opens at old location The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 21, 1988 - Page 5 Lecture unites culture by art BY DAVE BERNSTEIN Hillel has gone high-tech. Stark floors, bare walls, and well- worn couches have been replaced with modern facilities in the Hillel Foundation's new $3 million facil- ity. After more than a year in a tem- porary location, the new Hillel building, at 1429 Hill Street, is now open, although the process of mov- ing in is not complete. - The new building stands on the site of the original facility, which Was razed in 1987. < "This building was designed with Hillel needs in mind," said Joseph Kohane, associate director of Hillel. He -said it has additional space, a student lounge, and a main audito- riIm that will be used by the more than 25 student organizations Hillel sponsors. Kohane sees the new auditorium as a major cultural arts location at the University and in Ann Arbor. The seating capacity will increase from 144 at the old building to. 350- 400 in the new. Organizations such as Hill Street Forum and Hill Street Players will be able to use the audi- tprium instead of competing with other University groups for space at campus facilities. The former building was demol- ished, Kohane said, because it was old, in need of constant costly re- pairs, and Hillel had outgrown it. "The layout was not very conducive for an integrated organization operating smoothly," Kohane said. He called the new building "a high-quality home for a very active organization." Debra Reiter, a Business school senior and chair of United Jewish Appeal, said that the layout of the new building will encourage interac- tion among different Hillel organizations. "Before, the offices were scattered all over the place and we couldn't have meetings," she said. "Now, the building accommo- dates more events and more people." Gayle Kirshenbaum, an LSA se- nior who works on Prospect maga- zine, believes that the new building encourages Hillel members to see each others' projects and communi- cate. "I think it gives Jewish stu- dents a really good working atmo- sphere," Kirshenbaum said. Kohane said most of the build- ing's cost was covered by fundrais- ing, especially from the Detroit Jewish community. Contributors saw Hillel as a foundation that was worthy of support, he added. The building has been open since Oct. 20. There will be a formal open house for students either Jan. 9 or, 10. BY JONATHAN SCOTT AND ANNA SENKEVITCH Myung Raymond sat before a group at Bursley residence hall last night, painting ink strokes that were alive as she spoke about some of the many different "sparrows" of Asian art. Raymond was one of three artists who talked about - and in her case demonstrated - their artwork at "The Essence of the Spirit," a lecture on multi-cultural art that is part of the Asian American Art Exhibit fea- tured this month in the Michigan Union. She urged people to dismiss Western standards when judging the art of her culture, saying that most critics view Asian artworks as indis- tinguishable. as "sparrows running around." The purpose of Asian art is to capture the vitality of the subject by abstract, not realistic, representation - in contrast to Western naturalist art, she explained. The emphasis of Asian art training, she added, is to achieve both a paint stroke which is "alive" and a high degree of concen- tration; to paint the personality and not merely the appearance of the subject. This artistic attitude is central to Asian life, Raymond said. "The painting mirrors what we think." By understanding this, she added, the viewer will "understand Oriental people better." University student artists Franklin Willis and Jerry Longboat also talked to the group about their art. Willis, who will study art in Europe in the next few months, spoke about ways for other Black artists to get into the field. "In the arts, you're taught how to draw, not how to survive," he said. He urged art students to hunt for scholarships and grants offered by the University and other institutions, to seek advice from professors who are career artists, and begin to take their work to galleries for showing. Longboat, a Cayuga Indian whose Iroquois tribe originates from the upstate New York Finger Lakes re- gion, presented prints he has made as a tangent to his graphic design ma- jor. "A lot of it is dealing with a lost feeling," he said, "a feeling of not being in full contact with the (Native American) culture." He said he has used his art to express, as well as explore, what he described as his changing, increasingly opti- mistic sense of his cultural identity. LSA senior Natasha Raymond, herself an artist, coordinated the talk. The lecture will be given again tonight at 7:30 in the South Quad minority lounge. ROBIN LOZNAK/Daily The new $3 million Hillel building was recently opened to the public, although its official grand opening will not be until January 1989. Bursley Continued from Page 1 which holds the Bursley snackbar accounts. "The ledgers were a general mess," said Dave Fausch, a Bursley resident advisor who examined the bqoks at the beginning of this year. "As far as I could figure out, the only thing the records showed was that the snack bar/store is heavily in debt." Many inconsistencies add to the mystery surrounding the snack bar's debt. Giamo said that Peot mentioned purchasing $50 worth of T-shirts with his own money. A cancelled check, found in the store's ledger, was made out to Peot for $296.83 and reads "reimbursement for T- shirts." "I think that they didn't organize their debts and pay them on time," said Caroline Gould, Bursley's building director. "Their first priority was payroll and their invoices from the vendors came second." Gould said that since the snack bar was listed under Bursley Enter- prises, an extension of Bursley Council, the responsibility of the debt now lies with the council. "We heard this year that we might be liable," said Alex Kim, Bursley Council treasurer. "As far as I know, we don't really have an official position. We don't want to make a position on rumors we have heard. We are checking into it, though." "I feel that Bursley Council shouldn't be responsible in the least. I don't believe they are connected to us." said Giamo. According to Gould, in order for University Housing to buy out the store and make it an Entree Plus op- eration, the council would have to come up with the $3,000 plus an additional $1,000-1,500 to serve as start-up money. That money would later be returned to the council. Nancy Ballard, Bursley Council member and LSA sophomore, said, "We will pay off the debt if it comes to that, but before we go putting out over $3,000 we're going to make sure it's our responsibility" U.S., allies pull navies from Gulf MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - Gambling that peace will prevail despite a deadlock in Iraq-Iran peace talks, the United States' European allies are stepping up the postwar dismantling of their military forces in the Persian Gulf. In recent days the mine sweeper Crocus, the last of three Belgian warships deployed to the gulf a year ago, sailed for home. The last five Italian warships and one from the Netherlands are preparing to leave by Dec. 31. Officials said those moves, like an earlier cutback in France's regional fleet from 11 to seven ships, came because the Iraq-Iran cease-fire, three months old yesterday, had brought stability to the gulf. The United States has withdrawn two ships and scaled back convoys and other operations. B ut its 25 warships represent about half the foreign vessels in the region. U.S. officials, however, say the American commitment to peacekeeping has led to the best-ever relations with the Arab gulf states, and the Arab leaders remain nervous about a hasty pullout. POLICE NOTES Sexual Assault Ann Arbor Police arrested a male for a sexual assault yesterday. He will be arraigned today on third de- gree sexual assault, said Ann Arbor Police staff Sergeant John King. The attack occured early yesterday morning in the Maynard Street car- port. A woman was leaving the Nectarine Ballroom night club when she was approached by a man also leaving the bar. He introduced him- self and she then voluntarily got into his vehicle, King said, where he assaulted her. 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