The Michigan Daily-Saturday, May 15, 1982-Page 5
CONVENTIONEERS FLOCK TO DORMS
For rent: Drm rm w air, 'U' vu
By AMY GAJDA
Maids and air-conditioning aren't typ-
ical dorm room fare for students, yet in
summer you can find both luxuries in
many University housing facilities.
The services make dorm-life bearable
for the many conventioneers who come
to Ann Arbor each summer for
workshops and mini-courses.
In summer, the housing staff ensures
that dorm life changes drastically to
accommodate the nearly 16,000 conven-
tioneers who are enrolled in programs
sponsored by their individual
organizations, said Nancy D'Angelo,
the convention coordinator for Univer-
sity housing.
"WHAT COULD be a better place to
board the students than at student dor-
ms," D'Angelo said. Bursley, Alice
Lloyd, Couzens, Stockwell and Fletcher
halls are the only dorms not used for
summer housing.
"The cost is less than a hotel, only
'It's been a long time since I've experienced dorm
lifestyle.'
magnitude of probler
with the group. Sh
elementary and junior
ents from the Gifted S
about $12 per night for a single room,"
said Leroy Williams, director of
housing information. "Plus, the con-
ventioneers are together and therds
less distraction ina dorm," he said.
The extras the incoming groups
receive are those offered by any hotel.
Along with in-dorm maid service and
air-conditioning, housing also provides
conventioneers with television sets and
"a totally different menu (then the
students have), of course," said one
food service employee.
"THE FOOD IS very good and abun-
dant," Shirley Spann, a convention
banker now staying at MoJo, said.
Despite such abundancy, it's not all
-Dick Huttenlocher, as the most problemati
"BECAUSE THEY
bank conventioneer easily bored, they ha
around," D'Angelo sai
happiness in the conventioneers new- ago, they found time to
found dorm life. Barbour elevator." N
"We try to tell them the dorms have sity simply disconnec
floor bathrooms," D'Angelo laughed, upon the arrival of tt
commenting on the number one said.
problem among the primarily post- Conventioneers mus
college-years guests. "It says so right dormitory with app
in the contract." University summer s
BUT, AS Dick Huttenlocher, another "Frankly, I don't thinl
banker, said "It's been a long time sin- in Markley know the
ce I've experienced dorm lifestyle." tioneers staying in
Convention group sizes range from 12 Williams said.
of the University of Utah's Japanese Dave Grech, an Intef
student population to the 400 North in Markley, said the
American Benthologists (who research haven't bothered him
the bottom of the sea.) as much as the food.
Yet group size does not equal the
ms D'Angelo has
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tudents Institute
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are bright and
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rewire the Betsy
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conventioneers
yet, at least not
Federal judge
throws out
A bscam
conviction,
WASHINTON (AP) - A federal judge threw out
yesterday the conviction of -former Rep.
Richard Kelly (R-Fla.) and, in a condemnation of FBI
tactics, cast a new legal cloud over the entire Abscam
investigation of congressional corruption.
U.S. District Judge William Bryant dismissed all
criminal charges against Kelly, wiping out his Jan. 26,
1981 conviction by a federal jury for bribery, con-
spiracy and other federal crimes.
SAYING THAT "our public servants are not
recruited from the seminiaries and monasteries,"
the judge ruled that Kelly had been the victim of im-
permissible government entrapment.
During the Abscam operation, government under-
cover agents posing as Arab sheiks attempted to lure
members of Congress, videotaped by hidden
cameras, into accepting bribes in return for
legislative favors. Kelly was among six members of
the House who were convicted.
Sen. Harrison Williams Jr. (D-N.J.) also was con-
victed, and his resignation under threat of expulsion
on March 11 made him the last to leave his office in
the wake of scandal.
In St. Petersburg, Fla., Kelly said he couldn't
rejoice in Bryant's decision because the entire Ab-
scam episode was sad for the nation. "I'm really
kind of a bomb around here," he said as he met repor-
ters in the office of his attorney, Anthony Battaglia.,
"Because I'm not feeling very elated, I'm not feeling
very happy."
"I THINK THE whole episode is a very serious
situation as far as the country is concerned," Kelly
said.
Minor quake rocks
Mount St. Helens
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP)- Lava
was pushed from the crusty dome in-
side Mount St. Helens yesterday in an
eruption described as "a whisper," and
a steam plume rose several thousand
feet into the air.
Spotters in a small plane reported.
seeing glowing rockfalls on the nor-
theastern side of the stadium-sized
dome and a light dusting of old ash
kicked up from the crater floor and fell
on the northwestern flanks of the
volcano.
THE LATEST activity, which A.B.
Adams of the University of Washington
geophysics center termed a "minor
eruption," came four days before the
second anniversary of the May 18, 1980
blast that flattened 150 square miles of
timber, sent an ash cloud around the
world and left 60 people dead or
missing.
"It came in with a whisper rather
than a roar," Adams said of yester-
day's eruption. "Itappears at this point
that it's non-violent."
The mountain most recently erupted
A little more than a month ago.
THE STEAM plume rose to 16,000
above sea level over the southwestern
Washington volcano at about 3 a.m.,
then dissipated. It was detected by
National Weather Service radar in Por-
tland, Ore., about 5 miles to the south-
west.
Several vigorous blasts of steam,
dust and old ash also rose from the top
Hof the lava dome periodically.
Moderate earthquakes continued to
jolt the mountain and Adams said a
harmonic tremor which began about 1
a.m. continued for some time. Oc-
casional gas emissions also were detec-
ted.
A HARMONIC tremor, detected on
sensitive seismographs, usually in-
dicates the movement of molten rock
inside the volcano.
The red zone hazard area around the
mountain was closed at 11 p.m., leaving
about 300 loggers temporarily without
work.
If it had been a major eruption, winds
would have carried ash to the northeast
to an area between Stampede Pass in
the Cascades and Wenatchee in central
Washington, the National Weather Ser-
vice said.
SINCE THE May 1980 eruption, the
volcano has had five explosive erup-
tions, six non-explosive dome-building
eruptions and one explosive dome-
building eruption.
During dome growth, molten rock
pushes into the floor of the crater.
Previous dome-buildingeruptions have
left a mound of hardened lava 680 feet
tall-75 feet higher than Seattle's space
Needle-1,800 feet wide and 2,000 feet
long.
The latest round of activity began
Tuesday and the U.S. Geological Sur-
vey issued an eruption advisory. It was
upgraded to an eruption alert by late
Thursday with scientists predicting an
eruption within 36 hours.
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Daily Photo by JACKIE BE!
Future stars
Although they may not be typical Wolverine recruits, these two aluminum
walk-ons anxiously await the startof the upcoming football season,
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