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Trotter House closes for repair

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By KAREN TENSA
Trotter House, the University's
minority student center, is closed for
renovations until fall which has left it
without a director, University officials
said yesterdsy.
The temporary closing has forced the
acting director of Trotter House, John
Powell to return to his former position
as assistant director of the University's
Office of Community Services.
TROTTER House, which is funded by
the Office of Community Services, ap-
pointed Powell two years ago when the
former director quit, said Moorehead,
director of community services.

Because of inadequate funding for the
minorities center, the University can't
pay the director a large salary which
has made it difficult to find someone to
take the job, said Tom Easthope,
associate vice president of student ser-
vices.
The University will be looking for a
permanent director for Trotter House
after the renovations are completed,
Easthope said.
POWELL WOULD not say if he would
return to the center next fall if the
renovations were the only reason he
left.
The renovations on the 50-year-old

building include making it accessible to
handicapped people, repairing the
plumbing, painting the interior, new
carpeting and a larger parking lot.
Costs for the repairs haven't been
finalized yet, Easthope said.
MANY STUDENTS and faculty who
used Trotter House in past summers for
recreation were disappointed by the
closing.
Niara Sudarkasa, the director of the
Center for Afro-American and African
Studies, said she was "sorry to see the
house closed for the summer."
The building will be open for an art
exhibit in late July during the city's an-

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nual summer art fair. The building was
constructed in the late 1920's by Phi
Kappa Sigma fraternity. When the
University later purchased the building
in the early'70s, it was in poor condition
said Moorehead.
'U' Co-ops
suffer low
occupancy
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The stereotype of the co-op student
being "radical," which began during
the political activism of the 1960's and
1970's might also turn away potential
residents, said Marcel Salive, president
of the ICC.
BUT A DIVERSE group of students
live in co-ops, said Clara Steinzor, LSA
senior, who lives Debs co-op. It isn't
limited to "natural, veggie, hippie
types," she said.
Salive said he is concerned that co-
ops find a way to respond to the
changing student market.
"We may have to be vigorous in
public relations," Salive said. "We've
been lax in the past because in the '70's
everything filled up at the drop of a hat
- we never campaigned."
The ICC is planning a membership
drive for next fall to encourage students
to take advantage of co-op savings,
Salive said.
Infirmary
closed
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Health Service administrators have
argued about the infirmary closing for
several years, Briefer said. The infir-
mary is not accredited as a hospital,
and has been in violation of fire codes,
he said.
"We're the last of the Mohicans
among Big Ten schools to close the in-
firmaries," Briefer said. Students
health services at the University of
Illinois, Purdue, and Northwestern
universities maintain infirmaries. But
Briefer said both Illinois and North-
western are "very interested" in
closing their infirmaries.
The proposal to close the infirmary
was approved this spring by the Student
Health Advisory Committee, made up
of students and administrators. Com-
mittee member Tom Kerr, senior in the
School of Natural Resources, said the
decision wasn't a controversial one.
"If there was a perceived need for
(the infirmary), it would have been a
big deal. But the infirmary wasn't
worth it to the students as a whole,"
Kerr said.
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