Meetings to focus on AIDS, shelter by Janet Wayne An international conference will focus on such issues as housing for single-parent families and the elderly, shelter for battered women, special needs of women with AIDS, and homelessness. The conference, entitled "Shelter, Women and Development: First and Third World Perspectives," presents speakers from more than 17 countries. It begins tomorrow and ends May 9. "The traditional family concept where the father works and the mother stays home with her 2.5 children is no longer valid," said conference Chair Hemalata Dandekar. "Though the nuclear family is not representative of a significant number of the world's families, the design of public housing and the eligibility re- quirements to occupy public housing assume a traditional family structure," she said. "Poor women with children have limited options to avail them- selvesofsafeandaffordablehousing." Abstracts for each topic will be published and available for sale to the public approximately 90 days after the conference. A public art exhibition, organized in conjunction with the conference, is on display until May 12 at the Slusser Gallery inthe Art& Architecture Build- ing.Photographs,paintings,drawings, slide shows and videos document the current status of shelter and housing. "The exhibit is intended to illus- trate current housing conditions, and to explore architectural solutions to womens'shelter problems,"saidexhi- bition co-chair Melissa Harris. Harris explained that the architec- tural structure of the exhibit itself is a metaphor for the current conditions Wednesday, May 6, 1992 - The Michigan Daily Summer Weekly - 3 Runners streak through area streets in annual Nude Mile by Gwen Shaffer arrested the group. Huffman said the original meaning Daily News Editor The following year, other team behind the run has been lost. "There's I clearly recall my first exposure to members spread the word they would no shock valuein itanymore," she said. the Nude Mile as a first-year student. be repeating the nude traipse through "People used to see us and scream, Just after midnight, I was making my campus.But this timethe dateremained 'Those are naked people!' But now its way home from a party. Inebriated stu- secret to avoid police harassment. like'Tonight's the Nude Mile.Where's dents waited in bar lines and shrieked LSA senior Jennifer Huffman and my camcorder?"' wildly,celebrating thelastdayofclasses. Art School senior Sandy Smith ran in The special feeling of community Leaving the party atmosphere on their fourth Nude Mile this year. They has disappeared from the Nude Mile. South U, I passed through the West said they were initially hesitant about "The first two years, we were a cohe- Engin arch into the Diag. Through the participating. In fact, the first time they sive group of people. This year, it was darkness, I heard a faint thumping. As ran, the two women started out holding so big, we weren't even all together," the pounding escalated, a pack of stark hands because they were nervous. Huffman said. naked (with the exception of running Huffman and Smith said the event Incorporating athemeintotheNude shoes, of course) men and women has changed significantly since they Mileisbecomingincreasinglypopular, whizzed by me. I turned to my room- participated as first-year students. This especially as more people participate. mate and exclaimed, "Oh my God, year, whatoriginatedasan intimatejog HuffmanandSmith"wentformal"three STREAKERS!" among friends had evolved into a free- years ago and ran sporting bow ties. Most everyone hasa funny story to for-all with more than 200 runners. Last year, along with another woman, tellaboutfirstencounterswiththeNude HuffmanandSmith,whowerecrew theyraninformationtospellout"Michi- Mile. But what compels the runners to team members when they first ran with gan Crew" across their rear ends. As bare it all to a gawking campusof thrill- about 60 other people, said the entire graduating seniors,Huffman and Smith seeking students? attitude enveloping the Nude Mile has wore their mortarboards and tassles. The Nude Mile began eight years changed. Many women reported being Despite the disappointment of this ago when sixfriends from the crew and grabbed and having lewd comments year's run, both Huffman and Smith track teams ran naked through campus yelled at them this year. "The specta- said they are glad to have been part of during the last week of classes-just to tors are completely disrespectful," the Nude Mile. "The whole concept is do something nutty. Cops chased and Smith said. just crazy!" Architecture junior Lisa Kulisek writes on a black slate in the center of her exhibit "Approaches and Interpretations of Housing for Women." women face in development and shel- ter. "As you enter the exhibit, you see the hard edges and finished surfaces. Moving along the exhibit, the struc- ture reveals itself and shows raw con- struction andrough surfaces,"shesaid. "Thisrepresents the underlying prob- lems and real conditions that women face in obtaining shelter, that on the inside, the situation is not so clear cut." The exhibitis intended to be inter- active. Chalk is provided for visitors to leave their thoughts on a wooden platform interlaid with slate, which will then become a part of the exhibit. Religious Services AVAVAV.AVA ST. 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