Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, August 10, 1984 Summer conferences hold dorm rates down By DAVID JACOBS While most students are out of town for the summer, a steady stream of visitors and prospective students keeps the dormitories open while helping to cut the cost of student housing during the school year. "We handle 13,000 to 15,000 people. between May 1 and the 20th of August," said Nancy D'Angelo, manager of conference services for the University. MOST OF the summer residents who fill eight of the University's dorms come from freshman orientation, parent orientation, and summer sports camps, D'Angelo said, although a variety of other activities also take place. The fees charged for these activities help keep student dorm rates down because "the more money that comes into the building the more students will prosper,"D'Angelo said. "In the last five years," she said, "the program has doubled as far as participants and as far as income." In those five years the program has made between $1 and $1.5 million in gross income each summer. One unique group among this summer s conference participants was the 54-member group of people age 62 and over from the Elder Hostel program. The senior citizens spent a week on campus and took three mini-courses from faculty members during their stay. The program is sponsored by an international organization which serves 60,000 people nationwide. In addition to the financial benefits, D'Angelo said the summer conferences help build the University's image because paticipants come from many different parts of the country. Although summer orientation ends today, the conference program will continue with 700 people coming to campus this weekend for the 20th Annual International Combustion Symposium, a forum sponsored by the Engineering college. :z ,a n .. F . : , , ',. :., } 4 4 Lifesavers Associated Press Protesters wave banners outside Bob Jones High School in Madison, Ala., yesterday before a speech by presidential candidate Walter Mondale. 4 Kroger to reopen 45 stores in the state DETROIT (UPI) - Laid-off Kroger Co. clerks and clerks. cashiers yesterday approved by a 2-1 margin U nion accep n y ASKED WHETHER the new contract was contract concessions that will result in the reopening X" '! deal, Brown responded, "Is there a d of 45 stores closed by the grocery chain two weeks between light and dark?" ago. oLt8achUsdod dKroger under the agreement guaranteed b Commercial Workers Union approved the three-year stores open for the life of the contract. Al concessions pact by a vote of 1,476-614. plans to reopen at least 45 outlets, the comp A SPOKESWOMAN for the nation's second IQO rk e rs not guarantee the fate of the additional five largest food chain said Kroger will decide next week stores. when the 45 southeastern Michigan stores will Detroit area shoppers were dismayed a reopen, but added it likely will be the end of August rejected a concessions bid that would have stripped closing of their neighborhood stores, some before doors swing open. About 2,800 workers will them of their seniority while at the same time cutting had been operating since 1917. Brown said h return to their jobs. wages and benefits. yet know which stores would reopen. The spokeswoman said Kroger would make no KROGER, WHICH is based in Cincinnati, HE SAID he bore no ill will toward thec additional comment pending a vote on a similar maintained its labor rates in Michigan were virtually stemming from the often-tense contract neg concessions contract Friday by 550 meat cutters, the highest paid nationwide. during the past month. However, union official Horace Brown said the The shutdown of the Michigan stores followed "I'm not bitter - when you've got to Howevni n of ficial H orac e on by the similar actions in Pittsburgh and Ohio. concession on wages it doesn't leave you witl reopening the stores hinged on the vote by the The contract approved by workers retains seniority taste in your mouth," said the union leader. clerks and cashiers, rights on a nationwide basis, said Brown. He "But to return 2,800 jobs in a state like Mic The firm on July 21 closed 70 stores in Michigan, acknowledged workers took cuts in wages and encouraging. All I know is the company s laying off 4,200 workers, after union members widely benefits. which total about $14 an hour for senior made a mistake'" s a better ifference o keep 40 though it any does or more bout the of which e did not company otiations make a h a sweet chigan is aid, 'We 4 4 ,+. . va v va rva r al A %& l l 0.1V .aa q aaca . Toothpicks ean be hazardous From AP and UPI Disease Control in Atlanta. CHICAGO - Toothpicks may seem harmless, but Budnick said in a telephone interview yesterday that he toothpick-related injuries send 8,000 people to hospital had been afraid the subject was "too trivial" to spend emergency rooms each year, with some deaths reported government money pursuing, so he did the work at home from swallowing the wooden slivers, a researcher said on weekends. yesterday. "Toothpicks are just one small part of the injury problem CHILDREN younger than five were found to be 20 times in the country. But overall, injuries are the leading cause of more likely to suffer severe injuries from toothpicks than death in persons one to 24 years old," said Dr. Lawrence adults, because the youngsters were prone to stick toothpicks Budnick, who prepared the study for the national Centers of in eyes or ears, his report said. 4 HAPPENINGS Friday Chinese Fellowship-meeting, 8 p.m., Trotter House. Korean Fellowship-Bible study, 9 p.m., Campus Chapel. Performance Network-American Buffalo, 8 p.m., 408 W. Washington. Labor-Women Workers, 7:30 a.m., North Campus Commons. HRD-course, "Word Processorg, Hands on," 8:30 a.m., lIMOAd. Serv. Send announcem' Ann Arbor Film Coop-The Awful Truth, 7:30 p.m.; Holiday, 9:15 p.m., Nat. Sci. Cinema Two - Gigi, 7:30 p.m.; An American Paris, 9:35p.m., MLB 4. CFT-Eraserhead, 7:30, 9:10, 10:50 p.m., Michigan. Cinema Guild-The Shining, 7 & 9:30 p.m., Lorch. Saturday Go Club-meeting, 2 p.m., 1433 Mason H. Music-Medieval Festival, 11 a.m., School of ents to Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard, AnnA Music. Performance Network-American Buffalo, 8 p.m., 408 W. Washington. African Fellowship-meeting, 1634 McIntyr, 6:30 p.m. Labor-Women Workers, 7:30 a.m., North Campus Commons. AAFC-Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 7, 8:40, 10:20 p.m., Nat. Sci. Cinema Guild-A Day at the Races, 7:30 p.m.; Duck Soup, 9:30 p.m., Lorch. Cinema Two-Hail the Conquering Hero, 7:30 p.m.;Unfaithfully Yours, 9:30 p.m., MLB 4. Arbor, Michigan 48109. 4 4 . _ ...