Pgge 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 6, 1989 Noise (ontinued from Page 1 Friedman admits that fraternities have been ir- responsible, and on occasion, still are. However, hesaid his fraternity has taken positive steps and has recently received encouraging feedback from neighbors. Friedman added that his house "has no choice b to comply" with city laws, citing a threat m Police Chief William Corbett to "padlock tk Sigma Alpha Mu house as a public nui- s~ce." ' ALPHA TAU OMEGA President Steve l ,ry said he has also received a warning from *rbett. "The Chief of Police wrote us a letter telling. us that because of the disturbances police have. been forced to staff more police on the week- ends... they blame us for costing the city money," he said. Corbett said the city has spent $22,000 -_ much of it overtime pay - to deal with "problems with noisy parties in apartments, in dwellings, and in fraternities" during the past To counter such city police costs, coun- cXimember Terry Martin (R-Second Ward) sug- gusted, "If indeed the police are called because of voaisy parties, the people involved should pay the police cost., MANY FRATERNITY members do not foresee a significant change resulting from the apended law. They are, however, trying to in- erease awareness of the problem. Even the higher fine does not appear to inspire, much trepidation. Sigma Alpha Mu President John Friedman said he is not especially fearful. "I don't think it will be enforced," he said, adding that though the previous maximum fine was $100, "we never received the full penalty." OTHERS ARE more worried. Alpha Tau Omega President Steve Perry said the fine is "kind of harsh." He has reservations about assur- ances of police restraint, as they have issued "unwarranted tickets" in the past. a"This time," he said, "if the fraternity receives an unwarranted ticket, they can face paying a much greater fine." Jay Ptashek, president of Alpha Epsilon Pi, is worried that the fine can be given to first offenders." Furthermore, "I do not feel it will have any impact on fraternities in the form of a deterrent because most houses could probably af- ford the fine. It comes out of house funds; mem- bers won't feel the pinch as long as it doesn't happen every weekend." & RATHER THAN passing around the hat to pay a fine, Ptashek and others say fraternities are, trying to take more positive measures to avoid disturbing their neighbors. "Our house gives neighbors a number to call before the police so we can hopefully act upon it. We have an open house with neighbors once a year and since we've had no significant problem lin about two years," Ptashek said. Neil Bloomfield, a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi, feels that "when neighbors complain to our house, I think they should do so in a non-antag- onistic manner. A lot of times when we gener- ally aren't aware of causing excessive noise, the neighbors call up and yell... Whether it's right or wrong, fraternities respond hostilely to such antagonistic threats." Neighbors have also tried to improve relations with the fraternities, with varying results. "WE'VE AGREED to do things with each other like call the [fraternity] officers first if we're disturbed, and let them have their op- portunity to control the groups," said Ullman, who said her home is "surrounded" by fraternities and sororities. "I think some of them have changed their attitudes towards having really open and large parties because they realize that no one can con- trol them, and there's nothing much to gain by having all those people there." Ullman said that amidst the improvements, there are still fundamental differences which keep the residents and Greeks at odds. "At times there were problems with the Sammies [Sigma Alpha Mu], but now they have very concerned officers. I think last year was a really good year; there was a really good under- standing. Then this year it deteriorated a little bit. It's that mix of different lifestyles. "For example, we and our kids got woken up at three in the morning one Friday night. Our kids had soccer at eight the next morning. So we called at ten in the morning to say we wanted to talk to them. The cook said, 'they're all asleep, I'm not going to bother them.' Well, we'd like not to be bothered when we sleep." Councilmember Ingrid Sheldon (R-Second Ward) agrees. "You have two different lifestyles. When you're 20 and living in a group home, you probably behave a little different than when you're 40 and living with a family. I think there has to be a large degree of tolerance. Families have to recognize that they're living next to stu- dents, and students recognize that they're living next to families." THE NEW ordinance is a continuation of the city's attempts to please permanent residents. Neighborhood difficulties with fraternities date back to the 1984 revision of zoning laws which facilitated student group housing. On March 2, 1987, the city council approved a plan severely restricting group housing in North Burns. Park. The council acted in response to neighbors' continuing complaints of litter, noise, traffic, and parking problems generated by the area's fraternities and sororities. North Burns Park Association president Van Houweling had outlined neighborhood com- plaints against group housing at a public hearing for the Ann Arbor Planning Commission. COUNCILMEMBER Epton, who repre- sents North Burns Park, voted in favor of the zoning change last year. He said he placed his faith in the experts and followed the recommendation of the Planning Commission. "The ordinance is not directed specifically at fraternities," said councilmember Liz Brater (D- Third Ward). "Councilmember Epton specifically discussed that such an ordinance must not be dis- criminatory. It applies to any resident of the city who is disturbing their neighbors with noise." Sheldon said the noise ordinance was "mainly brought about from requests from police so that they could have more authority" in cases of loud, excessive noise. However, she added that there is "quite a bit of latitude with a $500 fine. I don't think the police will use the ordinance indiscriminately." Councilmember Brater feels the problem is much deeper, stemming in part from drinking. "I THINK that it needs to be addressed not only legally but from a psychosocial point of view; why students are using so much alcohol," Brater said. She said the Interfraternity Council should address this problem and that she will "be making some efforts through the city to try and work with the University." "The University has tended to abdicate that re- sponsibility and I'm not entirely happy about that. I really think that they should examine what they could do about the fact that so many of their students are abusing alcohol," she said. Mary Beth Seiler, adviser to the PanHellenic association, said, "though (the Michigan Student Assembly) recognized the Greeks, PanHel, and IFC, the University of Michigan considers the Greek system completely off-campus." An ex- ample of this, according to Seiler, has been the University's inability to take sanctions against Kappa Sigma fraternity for a recent racist inci- dent. The University's Office of Student Services declined comment on the issue, although there have been meetings between the police and the University concerning the neighborhood's prob- lems, according to Ann Arbor Police Lieutenant Dan Branson. CAUGHT in the middle of the conflict be- tween fraternities and neighbors are sororities, even though they are viewed as less disruptive than fraternities. Neighbors fear that once a house is zoned for group living for a sorority, it could eventually be sold to a fraternity. The result is that finding a house becomes an almost impossible task for fledgling sorority chapters. "Without a house it is very difficult for a chapter to survive," said Andrea Marx, member of Delta Phi Epsilon, a sorority which has been unable to purchase a house since its revival five years ago. According to Kathy Smiley, Delta Phi Ep- silon's national representative, "neighbors gener- ally don't want a saturation of people anymore in the form of fraternities or sororities. They per- ceive this as a great threat; they feel that their privacy will be threatened. "It looks really bleak right now for housing for sororities. Pi Delta sorority, which was just recognized, is having a real difficulty finding a house, along with Delta Phi Epsilon," she said. "Though we are pleased that Sigma Kappa was just able to purchase a house, I do not see further improvement." SMILEY HAS apprehensions about future City Council actions. "In January, more zoning stipulations will be reviewed such as the number of square feet allotted per person. It could swing either way," she said. "The laws could become even more stringent." "It's a University community," Smiley said. "Students need group housing, and the neighbors have to be more tolerant." IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Stock purchases condemned LANSING, Mich. - Apartheid foes condemned a buying binge yes- terday that saw the state buy at least 5335 million in stocks of companies that do business in South Africa. The purchases, made on behalf of the state's $15.7 billion pension fund by Treasurer Robert Bowman, came shortly before a ban on new investments of state pension funds in companies with South African ties went into effect. The stock buy was made through a fund that buys in a single package all 478 stocks listed on the Standard and Poors 500 index, Bowman said. A list released by Bowman last week indicated that at least 94 com- panies on the index were believed to have South African ties. "He didn't violate anything, that's clear, but if he were clearly in the spirit of it(the law), he wouldn't go out and buy right at the end," said Sen. Dan DeGrow, R-Port Huron. 3 African students in China admit guilt, report says BEIJING - Three African students held by police in connection with a brawl that triggered racial unrest in four cities have admitted they broke the lay, an official report said yesterday. One of the three remained under arrest in the eastern city of Nanking, apparently facing trial, while two others werer being punished with 15 days of "disciplinary detention," the Xinhua News Agency said. A fourth African was released and returned to his school last night, the report said. In related developments, about 45 African students held 10 days at a guesthouse following the brawl returned to their university in Nanking yesterday. In Hangzhou, about 150 miles to the southeast, African students ended a 10-day class boycott after their college's president agreed to give them a direct telephone line and write an open letter saying none had AIDS. One African country warned it might recall its students because of the treatments of African students Unions fight work at home WASHINGTON - Unions and clothing-industry groups filed suit yesterday trying to block new government regulations that would allow work at home in five industries after a 40-year ban. The suit contends that the Labor Department regulations, set to take effect Monday, do not contain adequate safeguards to prevent violations of laws governing minimum wage, child labor, maximum work hours, workplace safety and other issues. The lawsuit also attacks the department's record of enforcing regula- tions covering homework in the knitted outerwear industry which has been legal for the past four years and asks that the government be ordered to consider reinstating the ban in that field. About 167, 000 workers are employed by the affected industries, which generated $10 billion worth of production in 1986. Services held 'for crash victims LOCKERBIE, Scotland - Residents of this close-knit town buried a 10-year girl and an 81 year-old widow yesterday who were killed when the flaming wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 came crashing down on Locker- bie. British security chiefs, meanwhile, convened an emergency meeting to review anti-terrorism measures. The National Aviation Security Committee moved up the session from its February date following the disclosure eight days ago that a bomb felled the Boeing 747 on Dec. 21 killing all 259 people aboard and II townspeople. Yesterday, several hundred mourners attended a Requiem Mass for 10- year-old Joanne Flannigan, whose parents are still missing and presumed dead. The girl was the first of Lockerbie's victims to be buried. Searchers so far have recovered 242 bodies from the crash and have re- leased 149 of them for burial. EXTRAS Spielberg to animate tiny Bugs, Porky, and Sylvester LOS ANGELES (AP) - Is the world ready for Bugs Bunny's kinder, gentler offspring? Director Steven Spielberg hopes so. Spielberg, a long-time lover of animated cartoons, is joining forces with Warner Bros. for a new television version of Warner's famous "Merrie Melodies," to be called "Tiny Tunes." "These will be offspring of the famous Warner Bros. cartoons, such as Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Sylvester the Cat," Spielberg said at a news conference Wednesday. "But I don't know if they will be actually sons and daughters. I'm not quite sure how reproduction works in 'toons."' Spielberg promised there would be no violence in the new half-hour episodes and that they wouldn't have the chase scenes that are a staple of many cartoon shows. "Tiny Tunes" will be distributed for syndicated television by Lorimar Telepictures Corp. for the fall season of 1990. 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