The Michigan Daily -Wednesday, September 25, 1991 - Page 3
Juniors, seniors make
home in residence halls
by Uju Oraka
Every year many students rush to
experience life off campus, but there
are some who prefer to remain liv-
ing in the dorms.
Shenita Talton, an LSA senior
living in Helen Newberry said, "I
don't like to pay rent, and with
heavy class loads it would be a pain
to have to cook everyday." Talton
added that she likes the location of
the dorm because all of her classes
are within a five-minute radius.
Jajuan Williams, another senior
who lives in a residence hall, said
she did not have the time to look for
her own apartment. "The dorm is
very convenient and hassle-free,"
she said.
Since the University is located
on a large campus with an abundance
of off campus housing, many stu-
dents have the choice to live in
dorms or in apartments. Unlike
small, private colleges, the Univer-
sity is not required to house all stu-
dents.
"Housing officials are required
to accommodate all first-year stu-
dents," said Housing Department
spokesperson Ed Solowitc. Approx-
imately 17,000 students live in
University housing, most of whom
are first-year students.
Housing reports from the last 10
years show a declining percentage of
students living in University hous-
ing as students reach upperclass sta-
'I don't like to pay
rent, and with heavy
class loads it would
be a pain to have to
cook everyday'
- Shenita Talton,
LSA senior
tus: 98 percent of first-year stu-
dents and 40 percent of sophomores
elect to live in University housing.
However, for juniors and seniors,
those numbers shrink to 15 percent
and 6.5 percent, respectively.
As the numbers reflect, after one
or two years of dorm living, most
students prefer to live off campus.
LSA senior Sylvia Curtis experi-
enced living both on and off campus
and prefers living in an apartment.
"It gives me a chance to get away
from the campus environment," she
said. "College life seems stressful
with the competition and the non-
private moments. Living off campus
gives me the opportunity to be a
part of a college world and the real
world."
Other students have moved out
of the residence halls to save money.
"It's a trade-off - living in an
apartment you pay less money for
less noise, better food, greater inde-
pendence and more privacy," said
LSA sophomore David Pittman.
Solowitc also said many stu-
dents leave the dorms for a better
social life, such as moving into fra-
ternities or sororities.
"Living in the dorm is better be-
cause you meet more people... I have
a lot of friends on my floor that I
hang out with," first-year LSA stu-
dent Alyssa Murray said. "If I were
to live off-campus, I would pick one
of my friends from my hall to live
with me."
You're soaking in it MICHELLE GUY/Daily
Ewe Madsen, supervisor of introductory biology classes, has the occupational fringe benefit of cleaning out
the departmental fish tanks. Yesterday, Madsen undertook some "fall cleaning," sweeping the excess food
out of the 55 gallon tropical marine tank in 1566 C.C. Little.
Yeltsin arranges cease-fire
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MOSCOW (AP) - Boris
Yeltsin scored a diplomatic coup
yesterday by arranging a cease-fire
between warring factions in
Arnenia and Azerbaijan. But strife
raged in Central Asia and Georgia's
leader ordered a state of emergency
in the Georgian capital.
SYeltsin and Kazakhstan
resident Nursultan Nazarbayev
negotiated a temporary end to the
conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh,
which has claimed 800 lives and
driven tens of thousands from their
homes since 1988.
.The settling of the dispute was a
diplomatic breakthrough that had
eluded President Mikhail
Gorbachev for years.
"We don't exclude the
ossibility that he will get
involved in other places," Yeltsin
spokesperson Pavel Voshchanov
told The Associated Press, referring
to conflicts simmering elsewhere in
the Soviet Union.
Georgian President Zviad
Gamsakhurdia said he would call a
state of emergency in Tbilisi today
and vowed to oust hundreds of
ghumed opponents who have occupied
the republic's broadcasting studios
since Sunday.
Rebel Georgian National Guards
captured four armed supporters of
Gamsakhurdia and held them in the
center.
Tengiz Kitovani, commander of
the maverick guards, claimed
Gamsakhurdia's backers were trying
to provoke the opposition, which is
insisting that he step down.
Yesterday, Gamsakhurdia
singled out former Soviet Foreign
Minster Eduard Shevardnadze as
directing the opposition.
Gorbachev's new spokesperson,
Andrei Grachev, praised the "sons
of perestroika." The spokesperson
denied the two republic leaders had
upstaged the president, saying
reforms that Gorbachev began in
1985 had enabled them to secure the
truce.
"The fact that the two most
important leaders of the Soviet
republics are looking for a
compromise solution to offer to
some others ... does not mean the
president is not functioning,"
Grachev told reporters.
Yeltsin and Nazarbayev had
persuaded leaders from Armenia,
Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh
to meet Monday in a neutral
Russian town to discuss the
conflicting claims to the enclave.
The sides announced yesterday
that they agreed to put down their
guns immediately and restore
limited self-rule by Jan. 1 under
Russian and Kazakh supervision, the
news agency Tass said.
A joint communique signed
Monday said Soviet army and
Interior Ministry troops would
remain in the region as peacekeepers.
The new reformist Soviet
defense minister, Yevgeny
Shaposhnikov, took part in the talks.
The sides agreed to "ensure the
eventual return of all deported
people to their homes" and
guarantee their safety; to release all
hostages within two weeks and to
reopen all railways and highways.
The communique was signed by
Yeltsin, Nazarbayev, Azerbaijani
President Ayaz Mutalibov and
Armenian President Levon Ter-
Petrosian, with "participation" by
Nagorno-Karabakh officials.
Whether the agreement would end
bloodshed in the conflict was
impossible to determine.
Student engineers hold reception
by Karen Pier
Instead of attending their first
interviews with sweaty palms, en-
gineering students met recruiters
with appetizers and punch in hand at
a reception last night.
The reception, organized by the
Society of Women Engineers, was
designed to break the ice between
students and corporate recruiters
before tomorrow's Career Fair,
which is held by Delta Beta Phi and
the Society of Women Engineers.
About 100 students and 100 re-
cruiters mingled during the event. It
was nervewracking for members of
both groups.
Although engineering graduate
student Michael Schachler had at-
tended similar reception in his na-
tive Germany, he said he came to last
night's reception to work on
"losing excitement and nervous-
ness."
For one student, the reception
was a bit overwhelming. The fanci-
ness "makes me feel underdressed,"
said Engineering senior Dave Power.
Power said he was 'going to the re-
ception to "meet some people, make
some contacts, so they'll recognize
my face."
Similarly, University alumnus
Alex Martin, a recruiter for Proc-
tor and Gamble, said that although
he had a hard time putting himself
in the students' place, he understood
their nervousness.
"My fiancee said to be aware of
their nervousness and that they
would be hanging on my every
word. I'm somewhat nervous my-
self. It's important to represent this
company," Martin said.
Others were more relaxed.
Bob Louis, a recruiter from John
Deere, said he thought the reception
was "very nice ... It's a good idea.
Nice icebreaker."
The reception, with appetizers
such as tea sandwiches, meatballs,
fish, shrimp, fruit, chips and fancy
dips, was held in elegant, chandelier-
lit rooms at the Campus Inn. Cor-
porations represented at the affair
sponsored the event, said Jennifer
Nussbaum, a member of the Society
of Women Engineers.
The reception has been held for
several years, said Engineering
sophomore and Career Fair chair
Jamie Hare.
The Career Fair will be held to-
day at North Campus Commons and
Chrysler Building from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
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Senate considers extending unemployment benefits
Corrections
Colleen Dolan-Greene's name was spelled incorrectly in yesterday's
paper.
GEO negotiators are seeking a 4 percent raise in the first year and a 1
percent raise in the second year. There was no discussion of future raises at
*Monday' s meeting.
In a story which ran Sept. 16 abortion rights bill SB141 was reported
incorrectly. The bill was passed by the Senate and is now being considered
by the House.
A story in yesterday's paper unclearly reported that UB-MTS will no
longer exist second semester. It will continue to exist into second
semester, but student accounts will be moved to UM-MTS.
THE LIST
What's happening in Ann Arbor today
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Senate moved yesterday toward ap-
proving a Democratic bill extending
jobless benefits for 20 weeks as
Republicans, eager to show they too
are concerned over the recession,
proposed adding up to 10 weeks of
benefits.
GOP lawmakers pressed for the
less-generous alternative, endorsed
by President Bush, while offering a
separate plan to cut the capital gains
tax rate and take other steps to prod
the sleepy economy.
"President Bush will veto this
proposal," Republican leader Bob
Dole of Kansas said about the
Democratic bill. "And the veto is
going to be sustained."
"And then we ask ourselves,
well, what have we done for the un-
employed? Zero."
"How many more Americans
must lose their benefits before this
administration acts?" asked Sen.
Edward Kennedy, (D-Mass).
Bush has argued that the
Democratic measure is unneeded be-
cause, he says, the recession is end-
ing. He has also complained that the
$5.8 billion legislation would push
the federal budget even further into
the red because the government
would have to borrow to finance it.
"Let's bring on the leeches; let's
pile on the blankets; let's spread the
misery," was how Sen. Phil Gramm,
(R-Texas), characterized the
Democratic measure.
The Democratic bill would pro-
vide 20, 13, seven or four weeks of
additional benefits, depending on a
state's unemployment rate. It
would cover people who have ex-
hausted the basic 26 weeks of bene-
fits since April 1. The new program
would expire July 4.
The House approved a $6.4 bil-
lion version of the bill on Sept. 17
by a 283-125 margin, which House
Democratic leaders boasted made
the measure veto-proof. To iron out
differences between the two bills,
the House planned to debate the leg-
islation again as early as tomorrow.
The smaller, $2.5 billion GOP
alternative, sponsored by Dole, was
similar to a Republican plan the
Senate rejected Aug. 2.
It would provide at least six
weeks of additional benefits and as
many as 10 weeks. But rather than
driving up the federal deficit, the
measure was designed to pay for it-
self from money raised by auction-
ing off new radio frequencies and by
increasing efforts to recoup bad
government loans.
"Obviously, it's not as generous
as the proposal on the other side, but
we pay for it," Dole said. "I think
that's fairly generous to future tax-
payers and future generations."
The other Republican plan, spon-
sored by Gramm and several other
conservatives, would cut the capital
gains tax rate, a favorite Bush pro-
posal. That tax is paid on sales of
real estate and other property, and
supporters of cutting the rate say its
reduction would encourage such
sales and actually raise more money
for the government.
The Gramm plan also would ex-
tend the research tax credit for
businesses, create new individual re-
tirement accounts, give tax breaks
of up to $1,000 for many first-time
homebuyers and create other bene-
fits for individuals and companies.
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Meetings
U-M Baha'i Club, weekly mtg.
Stockwell, Rosa Parks Lounge, 8-9:30.
U-M Students of Objectivism,
Union, Welker Rm, 8 p.m.
U-M Engineering Council. 1500
EECS, 7 p.m.
Michigan International Relations
Society, mass mtg. League, rm D, 7
p.m.
U-M Rifle Team, mass mtg for old and
new members. Rifle Range, North
University Bldg (NUBS), 6:30.
Speakers
"New Soviet Politics: A Panel
Discussion," Profs. Jane Burbank,
John Fine, William Rosenberg, John
Patrick Dale. Lane Hall Commons,
noon.
"Theories of Technology and Work,"
Linda Blum. 1014 Dow Bldg, 3:30-5
p.m.
"Cold War Criticism and the
Conflict of Interpretations," Tobin
Siebers, Rackham West Conf. Rm, 8
p.m.
Jan Karski of Georgetown University,
Wallenberg Lecture. Rackham Lecture
Hall, 8 p.m.
"Minimax Estimation for
Spherically Symmetric
Jorgenson. Union, Pond Rm, 7-8.
"Organic Chemistry at the
University of Michigan, Part II,"
Chem Bldg, rm 1640,4 p.m.
"Animal Rights Revisited," Carl
Cohen. Med Sci II, S. Lecture Hall,
noon.
Furthermore
"America, Israel and the Occupied
Territories," brown bag discussion.
Rackham East Conf. Rm, noon.
"Testing and Grading," LSA TA
Training. Angell Aud C, 4-5.
U-M Ninjitsu Club, Wednesday prac-
tice. IM Bldg, wrestling rm, 7:30-9.
U-M Rowing Team, novice practice.
2:30,3:30,4:30,5:30.
U-M Women's Lacrosse Club. Call
996-8591 for info.
Phi Kappa Pi Scaffold Sit. Diag, 8
a.m. 9/24 - 4 p.m. 9/25.
ECB Peer Writing Tutors.
Angell/Mason Computing Center, 7-
11.
Ultimate Frisbee Club. Mitchell
Field, 7-9.
U-M Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do Club,
Wednesday workout. CCRB Martial
Arts Rm, 8-9.
Free Speech and Hearing
Screenings. Union, Crowfoot Rm, 9-1,
1:30-4.
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