2 - The Michigan Daily Summer Weeky- Wednesday, July 15, 1992
Students, seniors share hearths in program
by Victoria Kuohung about trusting that person. internationalvisiting scholarscomprise Leases areon aper month basis,and about politics."
Daily Staff Reporter "No one agency existed that tumed thelargestgroupofseekers, after which any party may terminate with thirty Homesharehowever, is not alw,
Private, clean and quiet - not to its attention to housing for the aging." are Universityundergraduates,students days notice. for everyone.
mentionaffordable-off-campushous- Community service providers - from other colleges, young divorced Ann ArborresidentFlorence Allen Conflicts sometimes occur ifs
ing sounds too good to be true to many including representatives from Child fathers or mothers, and finally young was initially reluctant to find a dents and seniors keep different hot
students But the Housing Bureau for andFamily Services,seniorcitizen cen- professionals. homeshare partner but was impressed if theyhavedifferentexpectationsab
Seniors makes it a reality for about 75 ters, and church groups - formed a "It's a way for one generation to by the Bureau's screening process. neatness, or ifseniorsexpect more co
people each year. committee to solve the problem. help another through a difficult time," "I often travel and I like having panionship than students are willint
Established in 1983, the Bureau- With the University Hospital's do- said Bureau Coordinator Lori Parshall. someone here when I'm gone," Allen give, Parshall said.
administered through the University nation of S20,000, office space, and a She said the agency helps senior citi- said. "It's an informal arrangement - But peer counselors, who are
Hospital's Turner Geriatric Services- phone, they founded the Housing Bu- zens stay out of nursing homes. they pay for room and if they want to, their late sixties to early seventies,;
places people in the homes of senior reau for Seniors. But Parshall emphasized the Bu- they can do chores and subtract from available tohelp people adjust.Parsh
citizens throughout Ann Arbor. Housing applicants, called "seek- reau is not a personal care agency. the rent." said only one out of 20 people lea
Pearl Axelrod, a Bureau peer coun- ers," must provide four references and "All of our seniors are not frail and Often lasting friendships are made before intended.
selor, said the service was founded to undergo a one-hourinterview. The Bu- weak," she said. "Students get scared between homeshare partners. ThefBureaureceives partial fund
help relieve housing problems which reau then places qualified seekers with off because they think that they'll be One senior citizen helped plan the from the City of Ann Arbor and theC
faced senior citizens. senior citizens, who also must supply waiting on seniors hand and foot." wedding ofherhomeshare partner, then of Ypsilanti, but funding fr
"Wehadworkshopson shaking the references. Yard work, errands, and other a University graduate student, said Michigan's Office of Services to
blues, and we noticed that many older "I liked their personal touch-they chores, however, can be exchanged for Axelrod. The two still visit each other Aging has been cut.
people had problems about housing," aren'tout for yourmoney likerealtors," lower rent. regularly. "We could have much more nu
Axelrod said. said Katrina Ragan, a librarian at the Depending on the amount of work Allen also keeps in touch with her bers if we had a full-time staff," s
Sheadded,"They worried about the Washtenaw County Library who has done, rent varies from free to $300 per former homeshare partners. She ob- Parshallt"Trying toaccomplishmatc
money, about being lonely, and if they lived in a homeshare for nine months. month and includes utilities but not served, "I enjoy making friends with a within the time frame that responsi
had a person living with them already, University graduate students and food or phone expenses. younger generation. We enjoy talking seekers give us is difficult."
family, especially the family, to edu- people. If we pass out condoms th
EDUCATON cate kids about sex and prevention," will be lawsuits."
Continued from page 1 she said. Caroline Douglas, a School of N
o Som ethinig Construc j eOftenstudentslikeLSAjuniorFrank DelRosario is in favor of making sicjunior, related similar fears. "Th
Leerelatedhumorous talesofvery brief condomsavailablebutonlyif thismove is a concern that condom distribut
flthbut uncomfortable "birds and the bees" is accompanied by increased education advocates sex which the kids' m
chats with parents around the age of 17, and counseling. not be ready for -and condoms ar
an age when over 50 percent of kids But the Ann Arbor News reported 100 percent effective."
have already had sex. School Board Trustee Mei Mei Uy as Although Douglas said she i
ChristinedelRosario,anLSAsenior, saying, "We have to be aware of the favor of more sex education in h
had "very little" sex education in her statistics, but we have to talk about the schools, she recalled her sex educa
Catholic high school. She saw this as a failure rate of condoms and the impor- background was an open and trut
problem, citing disease and unplanned tance of abstinence and monogamous parent.
'd w d r n d pregnancies among her peers. relationships." She added that the best approac
. M"I think more responsibility should Uy had added, "Passing out educating kids about sex comes ft
have been taken by the school and the condoms is not the solution for young the family.
BOARD disaster.The administration istrying to cerns unfounded
BkOARDs gain a streamlined, linear sense of con- "This insures a Board with me
Continued from page 1 trol over the student publications." bers that care about the Daily,"he s
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over the Daily's editorial content.
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been trying to do is to insure the long-
termsurvival,growth,andeditorialfree-
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Noah Finkel, a task force member
andformerDailyEditorinChief,praised
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