Page 2-The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, September 26, 1990 Students' arrests increase College College Press parties Service end in clashes with police Lunch- time :reading First-year LSA studentDan Whang takes advantage of one of the last few nice days to relax outdoors as he studies near the Graduate Library. Nuts and Bolts by Judd Winick YOU LOOK NO , YOU'RE G~OD -TE oNE wCHoOKS' 7 OH, NO DON'T, f OH -4SURF- -. You DO. 01*-'. WELL "TI-AMKS. // IF ERE JAS ANYMORE TENSION HERE, rT WOULD HAVE LEGS OH SHUT- p. The school year has opened with a seemingly unusual number of mass arrests on campuses nationwide. A number of private student par- ties, a mainstay of the season as col- legiates return to campus, have sometimes eroded into violent con- frontations with police. Big parties, sometimes spilling outdoors from apartments and frater- nity houses, have ended in clashes at various universities in recent weeks. Observers cite relatively new minimum drinking age laws and a new willingness to crack down on student drinking for the increased number of confrontations. Students say their social lives are effectively being pushed out of bars RooMs Continued from page 1 problems created by overcrowded classroom, such as students not be- ing able to see chalkboards or hear professors, University officials are examining ways to improve class- room facilities. Halloway said there have been proposals to add chalkboards, desks and transparencies to rooms in Ma- son Hall, Angel Hall, and the Frieze Building. However, he added the is- sue has been discussed for at least five years without many concrete re- sults. Before improvements can be made, Halloway said the situation must be thoroughly studied to know where the problems lie, to aid, Hal- loway's office is planning to send questionnaires to teaching assistants and professors to evaluate the rooms. Though overcrowding has the po- tential of being a fire safety hazard, Robert Patrick, assistant administra- tor of Public Safety, said the Uni- versity's rooms are safer than those at other institutions. "We try to check on all of the rooms and make sure that they are safe. However, if more fire exits are needed or something else then we get it as soon as we can. Safety is not the problem," Patrick said. More overcrowding problems could be solved, if there was better communication between professors and the Room Scheduling Office, said Stella Theros, administrative as- sistant in the Room Scheduling Of- fice. "Sometimes after professors change rooms, they don't tell us..." Theros said. "We need to be better informed about room changes before we can help anyone. More people should be made aware of this prob- lem," she said. and sponsored campus functions and into supervised private parties. Now many schools are trying to break up, or at least regulate, the private student parties, too. Many collegiates think their "unspoken rights as college students are being violated," said Felix Savino, head of the Drug and Alco- hol program at the University of Wisconsin, where Madison police have been busy breaking up large private parties this fall. Moves to break up parties ended in tragedy at the University of Ari- zona, where a campus security police officer was killed at a fraternity party on Aug. 24, when he tried to wrest a gun from an angry student during what is usually the biggest party weekend of the semester. The killing has led to an invita- tion-only rule at fraternity parties. One day later, on Aug. 25, University of New Mexico (UNM) campus police arrested 14 students attending a Lambda Chi Alpha street party that apparently got out of hand. In the process, police barricaded the streets of the school's fraternity row, brought in a canine unit and then turned the episode into a racial issue by first trying to round up stu- dents at Alpha Phi Alpha, the only predominantly black fraternity in the area. "When they got there, the action they took was against us," com- plained Shihunwa Crum, head of the Black Student Union. I MrCHIGAN . W~~r es ----------- -"-- ii=q T.A. Peter Webb's English 167 class is overcrowded, forcing first-year LSA student Julie Weeder to stand through class. 1140 South University Prof. Edward Gramlich, chair of the Undergraduate Economics De- partment, explained such room changes: "Lots of departments are congested. The problem is that if you close a course you prevent stu- dents who need it for graduation re- quirements to get in. And, if you open it then it is too big, and you have overcrowded rooms." The long-term problems remain, but suggestions are being made to resolve them. 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