The Michigan Daily-Saturday, May 23, 1981-Page 3 Council approves funding By LOU FINTOR In an unprecedented move, the Ann Arbor City Council approved a new city budget Thursday that includes $3,600 in funds for a city-wide rape prevention and awareness program. s The funding proposal was spearheaded by the Ann Arbor Anti- Rape Coalition and, as outlined, will in- clude comprehensive community education through the Ann Arbor Police Department's Crime Prevention Unit. "THE ACTUAL money will be used to purchase educational materials," said Leslie Morris, 2nd Ward coun- cilwoman. "It's not really a new program per se, but a prioritizing of the crime (of sexuatassault)." Rape prevention program gets affirmative nod consists of one detective who oversees everything from the "Neighborhood Watch" robbery protection program to investigation of rapes and sexual assaults. THE FUNDING increase will allow for a far-reaching program that will deal with sexual assaults from a preventive angle, Morris said. Marcia Wallin, a representative of the Ann Arbor Anti-Rape Coalition, is hoping for the organization of an ad hoc citizens committee to advise the Crime Prevention Unit. She is expecting the Ann Arbor Police Department to work closely with the committee, adding that Police Chief William Corbett has been very cooperative in the past. According to Morris, the program is now in its early stages and implemen- tation will take place within the next month. City Administrator Terry Sprenkel confirmed the councilwoman's obser- vation, saying "We are now in the early planning stages." FUNDING FOR the program will come from within the city Police Department's operating budget ear- marked for the Crime Prevention Unit, according to Sprenkel. Currently, the Crime Prevention Unit Law School alumni assemble for reunion and issue discussion By MARK GINDIN The second annual Law Alumni Reunion and Law Forum held this weekend sponsored reunions of various classes - including the Class of 1931 - along with seminars on law-related issues. "Our class has the best reunion record of any class," said Richard Whitker, '31. "We have had one every five years" since their graduation, he said. ACTIVITIES planned for the alumni yesterday included seminars on an- titrust law, litigation psychology, and the taxpayer revolt. "We would like to have more" atten- ding the gathering, said Prof. Roy Prof- fitt, who coordinated the forum, but it has "gone extremely well" so far. The class of 1941 had their 40-year reunion in the Law School's Lawyer's Club last night, while the Class of 1931 assembled at Campus Inn to receive their induction into the Emeritus Club. ALL GRADUATES are eligible for the Emeritus Award at their fiftieth reunion, according to Law School Dean Terrance Sandalow, who addressed the class before distributing the pins and certificates. "I know that if the requirements to get into school had been like they are now, I wouldn't have gotten into school," said '31-grad. Al Dimmers af- ter receiving his Emeritus award. DIMMERS SAID he felt there were many people lost in the law school ad- mittance screening process who would otherwise have become fine lawyers. After the dinner, Sandalow spoke on the state of the law school. University law school students average a 3.6 GPA and their LSAT scores are in the top two percent nationwide, according to the dean. He thanked the class for their support over the years, especially now in times of economic distress. The weekend was deemed a success by Whitker. "We have 65 percent of the living class here," he said, whose class made up 50 percent of the alumni assembled for the gathering this weekend. Lolling through the Arcade STROLLING THROUGH the arcade in the early evening, a couple and small child find few crowds. EVOLUTION FROM KEG PAR-TIES TO DINNER PAR TIES: From undergrad to grad lifestyle By SUE INGLIS Football games, dorm food, English papers, chemistry hourlies, Drake's, Dooley's Charlie's-and, of course, the cliche "Where 'ya from, what's your major?" This is the stuff un- dergraduate years are made of. But there is no Dooley's or Charlie's in the life of a p graduate student. And while an undergrad may feel free to drop in on the party of a friend of a friend, many grad students say that would be taboo in their social circles. IT'S ALL PART of the transition from keggers to dinner parties. And that's part of a bigger transition, from undergrad to grad lifestyle. Grads tend to live among the "real" people in Ann Arbor, in fairly quiet neighborhoods, somewhat distanced from Central campus. Some say an "un- dergraduate avoidance" tactic exists among them. Many grads point out that the things which seemed important to them at age 19 years old often lose their appeal by age 27 or 28. "THE TIME YOU had at 19, you don't have at 27," explained Martin-Burke; now-working on a-Ph.D. -in history. "You really can't afford to blow a weekend off." According to Burke, grad parties don't draw "loud and boisterous people," and they usually break up by about, 1 a.m., when people start to feel guilty about wasting time. Grad students also say they tend to drink less frequently than they, did as undergraduates. And some say they consciously avoid places where "sophomoric behavior is more prevalent." According to one medical student, graduates prefer to fraternize more with "townies," choosing bars like Del Rio or Old Town over places traditionally frequented by undergraduates. Law and Business School students say Dominick's during the day is a popular spot among them. MOST AGREE that the social life of a grad is not as active as that of an undergrad. Most attribute their "isolation" to the fact that many of them are from out of state, and don't come here to live collectively. Also the very nature of their academic work tends to isolate them, because grad programs are - generally rigorous-and demandagreat deal oftige And by the time you're a grad student, you've broken off most financial ties with home; economically, it's a good idea to live farther away from campus, where rent is cheaper, according to many students. Some, however, say they choose to live farther away from campus as a "retreat from un- dergraduate noise" and as a means of maintaining a "real" perspective. "We deliberately live away from campus," said Ann Moyer, a Ph.D. student in history. Moyer ex- plained that student life per se is something you grow tired of after four years as an undergrad. She acknowledged that some graduate students con- sciously avoid undergraduates. "I find the sorority. sister, frat rat type abhorrent," she said. Although most grad students say they .meet few people outside of their own area of study and that a social life as a grad student here requires a genuine effort, most agree that they are not unhappy with their lifestyle. "You're working on something you're going to devote your, ife t," said one, medical . student.