The Michigan Daily- Friday, January 22, 1993 - Page 3 Students weigh housing options, consider dorms, apartments by Brett Forrest Daily Staff Reporter Looking for an apartment? Jeez, hat a hassle. Well, everyone has to do it - at least most people do. The time of year has arrived when most University students sign the dotted line to secure a pad for the 1993-94 academic year. A large majority of first-year stu- dents live in University residence halls. After their first year, though, most students elect to move off #ampus. Fifty-three percent of dorm residents are first-year students while 26 percent are sophomores. Senior Housing Advisor Mary Perrydore said approximately 20,000 students live off campus. Panelists call for renewed SMilitancy by Peter Matthews 0Former Black Panther militants criticized Martin Luther King, Jr.'s belief that "America had a con- science" in a lecture Wednesday night. The four-member panel ad- dressed a crowd of approximately 300 people at the "Freedom Forum: Legacies of the Black Power Movement" at the Power Center. * Each panelist had an interesting background to offer. Dhoruba bin- Wahad spent more than 19 years in prison; Ahmad Abdur-Rahman spent more than 21 years in prison; and Assata Shakur was incarcerated be- fore her escape to Cuba. Ahmad and Dhoruba spoke in person while Assata's speech was played from a recording made in Havana. Gloria House - a Wayne State *(&University professor, former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee member and a key organizer during the Black Power movement - was the fourth speaker. The three U.S.-based speakers are involved in fights for fair treat- nient of "political prisoners" in U.S. prisons. They cited such abuses as excrement and glass in prison food. Ahmad said the University corn- 9munity' s failure to protest Darryl Gates' appearance on campus demonstrated a weakening of the B lack consciousness. .While he attested to the need to resurrect an Afrocentric national cilture, he warned against becoming contented with symbols of difference rather than organizing to create "real change." ' "You cannot make a Molotov Wcocktail with papaya juice" he said. >Dhoruba lambasted "that clown" Spike Lee's cultural productions - especially his "mainstreaming of Malcolm X." .Dhoruba described multicultural- igm as "an attempt to homogenize anid thereby neutralize" the revolu- tionary potential of the Afrocentric culture and identity. * "If you don't struggle you defi- nitely won't win and if you struggle you might win." Many of these students cited a strict meal regiment, a lack of pri- vacy and a feeling of confinement as grievances that led to their decisions to make the move out of the dorms. "I needed more room and a flex- ible eating schedule," said LSA sophomore Raj Shah, who lived in South Quad last year and now lives off campus. "There's a lot more flexibility living in a house. There are no quiet hours either," he added. But living off campus can also create complications as students dis- card the homey atmosphere of the dorms and fend for themselves. "Upon moving in, our apartment was not in the shape the rental com- pany said it would be," said LSA sophomore Hooman Ghanzafari. "They also hedged around some of the promises they made." When problems such as these arise, students can turn to the Ann Arbor Tenants Union (AATU) for help. "We receive 300 calls a month," said AATU program coordinator Jerri Schneider. "We can help in terms of giving information as to which laws apply to a certain situation." However, landlords said they also encounter problems of their own with students, which they try to avoid by explaining the components of the lease before it is signed. Cost can also be a factor for stu- dents deciding where to live. Alan Levy, public relations direc- tor of the University Housing Division, said a standard single in a University dorm costs $5,092 for the eight-month academic year. A dou- ble will set students back $4,284, while a converted triple is $3,607. These prices include lodging, utili- ties, local telephone service and a meal plan of 13 feasts per week. According to a survey by the University's Housing Information Office, a furnished one-bedroom apartment located in a one-mile ra- dius from Central Campus averages $532 per month. A two-bedroom is $772, a three-bedroom is $1,063 and a four-bedroom is $1,363. Some students said they enjoyed life in the dorms and opted to con- tinue living there. "I had a good time in the dorms last year and decided to stick with it," LSA sophomore Eric Younger said. Younger lived in Bursley for the 1991-92 school year and cur- rently calls Alice Lloyd his home. "A dorm experience isn't something you're going to get your whole life. You're going to be living in a house or apartment for most of the time." The presence of a large group of students in the same living area could make for better communica- tion as well. "There is the existence of a built- in social network," Levy said. "People, in principle - and in a large part, in reality, look after each other. If someone is lonely or de- pressed, they can get support per- sonally at a higher level than if they were living off campus." If students have trouble finding a place to live on their own, they can turn to the off-campus housing divi- sion of the Housing Information Office. "We can help if a student has a question regarding a particular landlord or management company," Perrydore said. "If a student is hav- ing a problem with a landlord they can come to us." Peace Corps veterans earn degrees Volunteers pure e ifticates while teaching atinner-city sdools by Courtney Weiner_ The University School of Edu- cation received an $829,584 grant from the Dewitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund which may make joining the Peace Corps a smart career move for University students. The grant will support the Peace Corps Fellows/USA program, which places returned Peace Corps volun- teers in full-time teaching positions with public schools in urban areas suffering from teacher shortages. While teaching, students pursue a master's degree in education. "The program offers the Detroit Public Schools a pool of talented, often bilingual teachers with experi- ence in cross-cultural settings," said School of Education Dean Cecil Miskel. Sixteen fellows are teaching in Detroit elementary and secondary schools as permanent substitutes. When the program is completed, they will earn masters of arts degrees in education from the University and certification as teachers in the state of Michigan. Program participants said they find teaching in Detroit to be similar to their experiences overseas. "Cities are foreign countries themselves," said Tim Mahoney, who teaches at Detroit Kettering School. "Like working in the Peace Corps, teaching at an inner-city school is a new culture that I must be able to adapt to." Some students may rule out the Peace Corps in order to pursue more career-oriented activities. LSA sophomore Kelly Selman said, "A two-year commitment ex- tremely far away in a Third World nation is an experience I can not even imagine. When I come back I would not know what I would even be coming back to." However, the Peace Corps Fellows program comforts students by providing continued education when they return from overseas. "It would be much better know- ing that I could go straight into a masters program. After four years of being supported by my parents, I could not tell them that I want to go into the Peace Corps without some kind of plan for my return," Selman added. The Peace Corps Fellows pro- gram was established in 1984 to combat a shortage of science and math teachers in the New York City schools. Health officials warn students to be wary of sexually transmitted diseases Look out below! Earl Bond tosses a piece of concrete from the second floor of Randall Laboratories into a wheelbarrow. Tru dell criticizes 'neon fiefdom' by Sarah Kiino Polly Paulson of the University Health Services' Heath Promotion and Community Relations Office said genital warts - the most com- mon viral STD - are being seen in epidemic proportions. "Because of AIDS and HIV we do not hear about genital warts as much. (If not for AIDS) genital warts would be to the '90s what herpes was to the '70s," she said. Chlamydia is the most rampant bacterial STD - both in the general population and on the University campus. Of the 12 million new STD cases diagnosed annually, 3 to 4 mil- lion are chlamydia. Other common STDs include herpes, syphilis - which has risen 75 percent since 1975 - and gonorrhea. Claudia Dwass, a research assis- tant in the Health Promotion Office, said although the actual number of gonorrhea cases nationwide has dropped in the past five years, the proportion of antibiotic-resistant cases has risen. Some STDs have incubation pe- riods, during which symptoms do not appear. Health experts debate whether AIDS is taking needed attention away from other STDs. UHS Director Caesar Briefer said he does not think the AIDS epidemic is overshadowing other diseases - at least not inside the medical profession. "The two are in sync because if you practice safer-sex techniques to prevent AIDS, you also help protect yourself against other STDs." However Dwass disagreed, say- ing that outside the medical profes- sion other STDs tend to be over- looked. "People forget about all kinds of other infections that are much easier to get." Paulson said she does not believe the STD education available to the public is completely adequate. She cites a survey taken in a residence hall last year. Only 15 percent of the students surveyed had received STD education in high school. "Most people have a general idea of what they have to do (to protect themselves), but it is not very con- crete," she said. "Information needs to be very specific and clear." She said that serial monogamy - when a person is in consecutive one- person relationships - is often a problem. People are not aware that they should have an STD test done each time they switch partners. by Peter Matthews Daily Staff Reporter An ethnically diverse crowd of more than 50 people packed the School of Education's Schorling Auditorium last night to listen to John Trudell. Trudell, who appeared in the movies "Thunderheart" and "Incident at Oglala," was an orga- nizer of the 1969-71 occupation of Alcatraz and the national spokesper- son for the American Indian Movement (AIM) from 1973-79. Among the central themes of Trudell's speech - which was wo- ven around and through readings of his poetry - was how the natural power, beauty and harmony of the earth, of tribal communities and of each individual has been exploited and corrupted by the "predators" that came from Europe and infected the New World with their "virus" that "didn't know how to deal with life, it only knew how to consume and de- stroy it." Trudell likened Columbus and the Pilgrims to the Nazis, who he said also believed themselves "civilized" and justified in committing genocide. Trudell argued that the "basic system has remained the same" from medieval times to the present and people are "electrical serfs" in a "neon fiefdom." Trudell concluded by calling upon his listeners to liberate them- selves from guilt and insecurity and refuse to permit the "dream slavers" to destroy their dreams, usurp their power and "feed us to the industrial machine." Expensive Blue Jeans, Alcohol Consumption? Evolution Pilot 151 1 CR-Feb. 1 - Mar. 18 Evening Class Open to All For info call: Sharolyn 483-2487 NOW LEASING SPRING FALL 1993 Keystone Properties 608 Packard 663-IZ84 Correction for Mitch's Place ad on Thursday 1/ 14: SUNDAY B2-NIGHT Have one of our great Burgers + a draft of beer $3.99 I Friday Q Biological Productivity, Present and Past, John A. Dorr memo- rial lecture, Chemistry Build- ing, Room 1649. Q Drum Circle, Guild House Cam- pus Ministry, 802 Monroe St., 8-10 p.m. ', Europa, Europa, video, Interna- tional Center, Room 9, 7 p.m. U Handbell Ringers Group, new members needed, 900 Burton Tower, 2-3 p.m. Q Hillel, Shabbat Services, 5:25 p.m.; Sephardim and Israel, af- ter dinner. U Korean Campus Crusade for Christ, Christian Fellowship, Campus Chapel, 8 p.m. d Leonardo's Friday Night Mu- sic, Espresso, North Campus Commons, 8 p.m. ;0 Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do Club, - CCRB, Martial Arts Room, 6-7 p.m. 0 TaeKwonDo Club, regular work- Saturday Q Abortion Clinic Defense, Cube, 4:45 a.m. U The Academy of Early Music, Jaap Schroder, baroque violin- ist, Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church, 306 N. Division St., 8 p.m. U Chinese Ghost Story III, Chi- nese Film Series, LorchHall Au- ditorium, 8 p.m. U Hillel, Rosh Hodesh Service, 7 p.m. 0 Minority Career Conference Pre-Conference Workshop, Career Planning & Placement Program Room, 9:30-11:30 a.m. I Roe v. Wade Anniversary Party, AngellHall,Fishbowl, 11-2p.m. U Roe v. Wade Demonstration, Diag, 12-1 p.m. U Selling Apple Pie in Japan: Making It Worth the Effort, Continental Breakfast, 8:30- Sunday U Ballroom Dance Club, CCRB, Dance Room, 7-9 p.m. U Drums of Korea, Dr. Robert Provine, part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture series, School of Music Recital Hall, 2 p.m. J Hillel, United Jewish Appeal Campaign, 7p.m.; Israeli Danc- ing, 8-10 p.m. U The Magic of Plant Tissue Cul- ture, Matthaei Botanical Gar- dens Auditorium, 2-4 p.m. U Newman Catholic Student As- sociation, Bible Study, Saint Mary Student Parish, 331 Th- ompson, 6:15 p.m 0 Phi Sigma Pi, general meeting, members only, EastQuad, 6p.m. U Safewalk Nighttime Safety Walking Service, UGLi, lobby, 936-1000,8 p.m. - 11:30 a.m. Q Tiffany Interiors, Sunday tour, Art Museum, Information Desk JANUARY 22 AND 23 FILMS FROM -uLCK EUROPA, EUROPA-8:00 PM The incredible true story of a German Jew who survives World War II by taking on a succession of new identities, eventually ending up a Nazi war hero and a Hitler Youth. In German and Russian with English subtitles. -o i