The Michigan Daily-Friday, July 17, 1982-Page 3 RUNA WA YAND FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER CELEBRA TES ANNIVERSARY Ozone House: 15 years service By KRISTIN STAPLETON A hysterical teenager, locked out of the house after' a family argument, telephones and asks for advice. For most people, this would be a dif- ficult problem to handle. But for Ann Arbor's Ozone House, such situations are an everyday occurrence. OZONE HOUSE, an area center for runaways and family counseling, celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this weekend, according to its coordinator Brian Murphy. The house, located at 608 N. Main, will hold an open house this weekend to make the community aware of its services. Besides counseling runaways, Ozone House performs a variety of services, including counseling families, telling people where to find government aid, and temporarily placing youths in licensed foster homes. "Right now we're working on a youth job develop- ment program," Murphy added. The main objective, however, of Ozone House is to create a "stable en- vironment" within the home through its family counseling, Murphy said. "WE ARE oriented to get the family back together, but we try to make sure that people feel their rights are protec- ted and they're not getting ripped off," he explained. The types of cases that come to the house have changed over the years, ac- cording to Murphy. "Ten years.ago kids ran away just to run. Ozone House was a stop-over place," he said. In the past few years, though, Mur- phy said economic difficulties are causing increased friction in families. "Now we mediate with families more," he said. RUNAWAYS traditionally have posed a problem to the city, according Daily Photo tby ELIZABESCOT'~~J OZONE HOUSE, located at 608 N. Main, marks its 15th anniversary this weekend as a community area center for runaways and family counseling. The house is inviting the community to an anniversary celebration tomorrow from noon to 5 p.m. to Ozone House officials. "Ann Arbor is one of the top 15 places where people run to when they run away," Murphy said, adding that University cities are popular with runaways because of their high concen- tration of young people. Murphy hopes the open house will attract community support and input. Ozone House primarily helps those from the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area, but also has counseled runawayus from across the country. THE HOUSE'S staff of roughly 80 volunteers and nine professional coun- selors receive intensive training, Mur- phy said. The training helps workers react clamly to "crisis" calls, of which the house receives an estimated 120 per month. Volunteers at Ozone House often are University students interested in gaining experience in counseling. One LSA senior who is considering a career and as a psychologist, said of her volun- teer work "I'm learning every I time I come in." Ozone House is funded by a grant from the Federal Buresu of Youth Development, state funds, and local fundraisers, Murphy said. 'U' proposes raising standards for athletes By BILL SPINDLE University officials hope to introduce a proposal at the next NCAA convention to raise academic requirements for in- tercollegiate athletic scholarships. Admissions Director Cliff Sjogren, who helped draft the recommendation said the proposal would change scholarship guidelines by adding high school course requirements, making test scores a possible scholarship criteria, and "significantly" raising the current 2.0 minimum high school grade point requirement. CURRENTLY the only NCAA requirement an athlete must meet to qualify for a scholarship is a 2.0 GPA (on a scale of 4.0). The recommendation is still tentative and must be approved by the NCAA Academic Testing and Requirement Committee before it can be presented at January's convention, according to Sjogren, who is also the committee's chairman. The recommendation is only one of several made in the last year which respond to a growing national concern that universities fail to give athletes a useful education. RECENT COURT decisions, in fact, have offered opinions that athletes are admitted to universities to participate in sports,.not to receive an education. "The courts keep telling us (univer- sities) we are running professional, not academic programs," said Tom Anton, who is Chairman of the University's Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics. Anton helped draft the proposal. Anton's comment refers to a court ruling that entitled an Indiana State football player to workers com- pensation for an injury received on the field. Sjogren also said the recommen- dation was in response to fears that some universities are not educating athletes, although he denied that the University had such a problem. "I think it has become evident that a large number of athletes have been ex- ploited by certain institutions," he said, "not all (institutions) though, and cer- tainly, I think, not (The University of) Michigan." SJOGREN SAID the proposal would re- quire athletes to take solid academic courses - such as math and English - in high school to meet scholarship stan- dards. Under the current system, many high school athletes are encouraed to take easy, non-academic courses to stay above the required 2.0 GPA. Sjogren would not reveal his recom- mendation for raising the minimum GPA, but he did say it would increase the requirementasignificantly." Also included in the proposal is an op- tion that scores from tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test or the American College Test could be used in an athlete's favor if he or she falls below the other recommended regulations-_ rt AP Photo Unbearable heat Scarback, a polar bear at the Detroit Zoo, takes a break from the hot and humid weather of the past few days.