Page 2-The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 11, 1990 Students take a stand against off-campus housing injustices by College Press Service Facing high off-campus rents and hostile local government that have plagued students on many campuses across the country, a group of Uni- versity of Maryland students is tak- ing a fight for lower rents to the court room. The group of unnamed students and landlords, led by student gov- ernment President Daniel Cones, has filed suit to overturn a 1989 law that restricts the number of unrelated people who can live in any one dwelling. Similar efforts to restrict students from off-campus houses and apart- ments also have sparked student re- sistance at the University of Idaho, Northwest Missouri State, Mar- quette, and Duke universities. At Maryland, the suit claims Prince George's County's "minidorm" law violates students' constitutional rights. "It is clear that the whole intent of the law is to make it difficult to rent houses to students," said Jay Holland, the lawyer representing stu- dents and landlords in their case against the county. The mini-dormitory law, passed last November, mandates that any house where three or more unrelated people live must have at least 70 feet of bedroom space for each per- son and at least one parking space. By limiting the number of stu- dents in a house, each person has to pay a bigger share of rent, putting a house rental out of reach for most students. That leaves students to choose between less-private apart- ments and dorms. Similar campus-community con- frontations are unfolding at other schools this fall. Y S ACCIDENTS Continued from page 1 Monday of 19 Palestinians in a clash with police in Jerusalem, and by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's threat to retaliate against Israel. Saddam announced Tuesday that Iraq had added another missile to its arsenal and said it could be launched "against the target of evil when the day of reckoning comes." He made it clear he was referring to Israel and the U.S.-led forces sent to Saudi Arabia after Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2. About 170,000 U.S. forces are deployed in Saudi Arabia and on warships in the gulf region. In Washington, family members of U.S. service personnel, two members of Congress and religious leaders gave a news conference to state their concern about the military deployment in Saudi Arabia. They urged Bush to pledge no offensive action and to make the U.S. forces part of a "truly multinational and purely defensive peacekeeping force" under U.N. leadership. Although the United States has so far taken no military action in the gulf, at least 24 servicemen have died in training of other accidents, the Pentagon said Wednesday. FLIERS Continued from page 1 "they shouldn't necessarily be pun- ished, they should be educated." MSA Rackham representative Corey Dolgon said by not attacking the incident, the administration "legitimized (it) under the guise of free speech." "What the dean is saying is, 'it's my job to protect this,' but racist speech is not free speech," Dolgon asserted. Bollinger said the administration had not issued a statement condemn- ing the flyers. "I don't think it's ap- propriate for the institution to inves- tigate and sanction even very repel- lant political comment," he said. Others believed an investigation would be extremely difficult. Dorsey said that although more should have been done, it is not likely an investigation would locate those responsible. Second-year law student Mike Troy, a former MSA representative, said, "it's nearly impossible to track someone down who did something like this." Bollinger agreed that such an in- vestigation would prove unsuccess- ful. At least several dozen fliers were placed primarily in first-year law students' folders, and scattered amongst those belonging to second- and third-year students, said Cori Yates, a second-year law student who discovered the fliers the night they appeared. The folders, located in Hutchins Hall, are open to the pub- lic. Yates said she and her friends also removed at least seven fliers from the walls on the second and third floors. The incident occurred during Minority Alumni Weekend at the Law School. .wil Go away already...AUAM- I Students dodged puddles on the diag, and ran to class through the third (or is it fourth?) day of consecutive rain, in this picture shot from the third floor of the UgLi. U.S. student activism on Gulf Crisis draws meager turnout S- by College Press Service - It was going to be a show of stu- dent opposition to the United States' military intervention in the Middle East. But only 20 University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana stu- dents showed up to protest at the Sept. 5 rally. T[he lukewarm turnout, was in fact, typical of student anti-war demonstrations that have been held nationwide since President Bush an- nounced Operation Desert Shield, in which he sent 40,000 U.S. troops to defend Saudi Arabia against a possi- ble Iraqi invasion. Rallies generally have been sparsely attended and erratically held. Student Desert Shield opponents say the much-touted campus anti-war movement, born in the days of Vietnam, will come to life soon. The issue "is whether people will accept a military confrontation," maintained grad student Robert Naiman, who organized the Illinois demonstration. He thinks it will take a while for it to take hold. "There wasn't anything specifi- cally set up for this issue," he noted. "It's simply the shock of the new. It takes a little bit of time for people. to react to the situation. Others attribute the anti-war movement's slumber to students; unwillingness to concede there really may be a war. _ ' C R E A DIN G & L E A R N I N G "S K ILL S C E N TE R EFFICIENT STUDY SKILLS = MORE FREE TIME! The U of M's READING AND LEARNING SKILLS CENTER is offering a Reading and Study Skills Workshop to help college students: - learn efficient reading and study strategies - organize and plan study time - read faster with greater comprehension " have more time for other interests Workshops will be held Thursdays, Oct. 18 - Nov. 8, 4-5:30pm at the RLSC. Fee: $100 (U. of M. students), $135 non- U. of M. VIGIL Continued from Page 1 aware that they are paying for some- thing very wrong and inhumane," said Van Valey. School of Social Work student Julie Blum said that as a woman with Israeli and American citizen- ship, she felt it was really important to attend the vigil. "I want to stress that violence is bad, she said. 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