The Michigan Daily - Thursday, June 9, 1983 - Page 3
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Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT
An employee of Joyce's Catering Service arranges snacks in preparation for construction workers at the University
hospital construction site. The firm was recently barred from the site by officials who say it violates University policy.
University bars catering service
from hospital construction site
Council
finances
program
for the
homeless
By HALLE CZECHOWSKI
City council members Monday night
unanimously approved a plan to give
$3,000 to shelter Ann Arbor's homeless.
Rev. James Lewis, pastor of St. An-
drew's Episcopal Church, requested
the money to fund the church's shelter
for the homeless during June.
ST. ANDREW'S, the only shelter
operating in Ann Arbor, received
another $3,000 grant four weeks ago.
But the money ran out last week and the
program has been surviving on private
donations.
Lewis said the shelter will operate as
long as the homeless have no where else
to go. But church officials are pushing
for a more permanent solution, and
Lewis said he will "keep going back for
as long as it takes" to solve the
problem.
"It's a great strain on the
congregation," Lewis said. "They have
said very clearly the strain cannot go
on for much longer."
TBE ANSWER MAY come at a
meeting tonight, when the Mayor's
Committee on Emergency Housing will
decide whether to give the church the
money, or use it to initiate a proposed
program through the city's Community
Development Office.
The proposed plan would require
homeless people to pick up a voucher at
the Office to prove that they need
shelter.
The church had been finding rooms in
the Ann Arbor "Y", Arbor Haven, the
Embassy hotel, and a house leased on
Division Street while the congregation
had the money. But lately, the church
has had to shelter the homeless in its
own basement.
LEWIS originally asked the council
for $5,000, which is what it cost the
church to run the shelter during May.
See CITY, Page 7
By DAN GRANTHAM
An Ypsilanti caterer who had serviced the University's
Replacement Hospital Project for two-and-a-half years
was banned from the construction site last month, after
hospital security realized catering is prohibited on
University property.
Ben Kelso, co-owner of Joyce's Catering Service, said
that University security officials forced him off the site in
early May, despite an old agreement with the construction
company that he could cater the project.
BUT UNIVERSITY security officials contend that the
old agreeemnt is invalid. "Catering has been prohibited
on University property for many, many years," said
Walt Stevens, director of University security.
Hospital security officials, however, were unaware of
the policy until recently, said Hospital Security Manager
Arthur Howison. "I'd never heard of (the policy) before,"
he said. "It was something that never came up."
The hospital's security system is independent from the
University's system.
Kelso also said he was unaware of the University's
policy against caterers when site workers told him to con-
tact Barton-Malow Construction, the site's general con-
tractors, for permission to cater the project two-and-a-
half years ago.
FOLLOWING A meeting with the firm's project
managers, Kelso made an oral agreement allowing him to
service the site, provided he was not at the project during
work hours.
Project Manager Don Shalibo said an agreement was made
"to accept one of the (catering) trucks on the site, as long
as it was gone at 7:50 a.m.," adding that he was unaware of
the University's policy.
"At that time, I did not know I was in violation of
University policy," he said.
SHALIBO SAID that Kelso could be removed from the
site regardless of the University's policy, since he violated
their agreement by catering twice a day. But Kelso contends
the agreement was for twice a day.
See CATERER, Page 4
Senate approves boost in state aid to 'U'
By CHERYL BAACKE
The state Senate yesterday approved
Governor James Blanchard's proposed
9 percent increase in funds to the
University 25 to 10 for the next year.
The proposed increase would boost
state funding to the University by $18.6
million, but the House of Represen-
tatives must vote on the proposal before
it is sent to Blanchard for final ap-
proval.
THE PROPOSAL is part of Blan-
chard's $761 million state budget which
includes a 9 percent increase for
Michigan State and Wayne State
Universities and a 7.5 percent increase
to Michigan's smaller four-year
colleges.
University officials are confident that
the house will approve the proposal, but
they said the increase is misleading
since the state cut $5.8 million from the
school's budget last year.
Under the proposal the University
would receive $163.8 million from the
state compared to last year's $144.4
million. But last year the University
should have received $150.2 million
making Blanchard's proposal only a 6.5
percent hike.
OVERALL, the increase in ap-
propriations is a positive sign from the
state that it is making a long-term
commitment to higher education, said
University Vice President for State
Relations Richard Kennedy.
"I think the University will get close
to the proposed 9 percent increase,"
Kennedy added.
Officials at Michigan's smaller
universities criticized Blanchard's
proposal because larger schools will
receive more state funds. But Univer-
sity President Harold Shapiro told the
Senate Appropriations Committee for
Higher Education in May that larger
schools need more money to support
key research projects which will
benefit the state.
SEN. WILLIAM Sederburg (R-
Lansing) proposed an amendment
which was voted down Tuesday to give
the "Big Three" universities a 10 per-
cent increase and raise funding for
other Michigan schools by 9 percent.
Sederburg said he proposed the
amendment because Blanchard's plan
does not give higher education the top
priority it deserves.
Senators also voted yesterday 20to 15
against a plan by Sen. Arthur Miller (D-
Warren) to restrict the number of non-
Michigan students at the University's
Law School to 40 percent. The school's
enrollment is currently 55 percent out-
state students.
Miller criticized "that mighty 'Blue
Machine' in Ann Arbor, the University
of Michigan," for taking more out of
state students when it receives the
largest share of the state's higher
education budget.
Miller said he was unhappy because
the Senate removed $470,000 in aid to
the state's three private law schools,
which have 90 percent Michigan
students.
But Sen. David Serotkin (D-Mount
Clemens) said the University's law
school is not "just any other law
school" and more out-state students
want to enroll. "It is a jewel in the
higher education community far
beyond the borders of Michigan."