supplemeol i to the State News- ! Family isolation, v' crowded living conditions Vv lead to child abuse in married housing by Carol Thomas Social Services workers. "and they can't afford a A child is dead — "he fell "Students are much too babysitter, some of them say down the stairs," his parents, both students, weep. But civilized for that physical it's all they can do." trained emergency doctors stuff," explained one Married housing's peculiar offer jail instead of sympathy. investigator. "But what some living situation brings pressures of those brilliant sadists have on student marriages and is They discovered the toddler done to their children's minds also the cause of a lot of child was beaten to death with a coffee - table leg. ought to be punished by 20 abuse, according to Heifer. years in prison." "You find the same Gruesome murders, beatings MSU police say they situations — and the same and burnings are associated with "child abuse." Grim - investigate very few reports of abuse — in Army bases and actual physical abuse, but are ghettoes, anywhere where concluded. "And if there's a might otherwise be incurred faced policemen unmercifully foul thereby." people are forced to live in - up somewhere in the haul the child - killers off to beseiged by telephone calls from neighbors that another close quarters with a lot of personal and family People who report prison. relationships, it's the kids that suspected child abuse are kept But not all child abuse family "just left" their small pressure," said Heifer, who is a children alone. professor of Community suffer." anonymous, if they wish, said involves blood or death, But the children still have to Hofstra, but occasionally the "Perhaps it's better that the Medicine in the MSU College authorities say. person is asked to testify of be protected from their parents in MSU's married student parents leave their babies home Osteopathic Medicine. sometimes and the court about the abuse. alone instead of staying there Heifer has done extensive work Michigan housing community is in the field of child abuse. Dept. of Social Services' Youth "We try, whenever possible, and beating them?" questioned occasionally rocked with a Protection Division steps into to build a case out of our own dramatic child - murder, but pediatrician Dr. Ray Heifer. "It's not a kind the gap, using its investigative investigations," he explained, very little of the child abuse "If the pressure builds up to comparison, is it?" Heifer and counseling personnel to try but sometimes the reporter's a point where the parents can't laughed. among student families is to help the parent - child crisis. testimony is necessary. take it any longer," Heifer said, Aside from obviously physical, according to Michigan "Our department tries to de "We urge anyone who crowded living conditions. Heifer says the - emphasize the criminal side of suspects someone of abusing isolation of child abuse," Henry Hofstra their child to call us," he individual families in their from the Youth Protection added. apartments often leads to child Division said. After the suspected abuse is abuse. reported, he said, investigators Putting a community center Instead of prosecuting from the Social Services into married housing areas abusive parents except in the division will visit to try to help might help alleviate a lot of the most serious situations, Hofstra alleviate any problems. If tension. Heifer suggested. says his staff tries to help the possible, the parents will be "In the summer they can go directed to parents to accept the counseling or outside, but in the winter the responsibilities of children. psychiatric help to try to solve only place to go is the Many deaths can be the problem before it gets laundromat," he added. prevented, Hofstra said, if worse. But with these pressures is As a final resort before neighbors, friends and relatives the "spare the rod, spoil the will criminal prosecution, the child report suspected child child" philosophy that has abusers to the Dept. of Social might be temporarily removed been the prevalent theory of Services. from the home by the probate child - rearing for many court until the home situation generations in America, Heifer "When a child is killed, we is safe for the child. said. usually find that many people In major cases of child "When a parent is upset, near to the abusing parents abuse, however, the one slap can lead to another, knew about the problem prosecuting attorney may insist until the child is seriously before," he said. that the parents face criminal injured," he explained. "If the "And somehow, if they charges for their brutality, parents did not habitually use knew and didn't help or report Hofstra said. physical punishment, the line the incident, they're almost as "We find in our work that between physical and guilty as the parents in that the student couples who are nonphysical actions would be child's death," he added. having trouble handling the greater and it would be easier Michigan's child abuse law responsibilities of their to stop." states directly that "any person children are receptive to "It takes a very stable acting in good faith who makes counseling," Hofstra couple with a lot going for a port...including taking the concluded. "It's a matter of them to make a go of it in child to an appropriate medical getting them over some rough married housing, especially facility...shall be immune from times in their lives and their Child abuse: could it happen to her? with children," Heifer civil or criminal liability which marriages." u«r»x«» pajajju UIBb uJ3«m«U aq ubo sjuayjfcd aunpsi sioiaop UB are ajreo suiBi3oad vnuap Aqeq - 'suoiwuoma hbm. pub jo saureu 1BH1 papp« -»aa o-\ Asea are siuaunuiodde puc 'PI«S uauisa^ods avi A*»s»V»<»*s aan jiaiuo miean lB MB3 isoiu|« sXolua laqujaiu auo 3\\4M area ml«»M »°J I'1"'*5 01 P-»°Jic I."®3 *3lO miM siuapms suiajqoid — <)IE:> a/iRq l.uop H4|^H University eases life single parents' cares By Jeff Gutsell behaved of the children there," Dunkan said proudly. "Danielle told me last night The campus chapter of the that I am both her mommy nationwide organization and daddy," Sherrie Dunkan Parents Without Partners, said. "I had to tell h«r no, that concerned about the I am only her mommy. She has inaccuracy of the prevailing no daddy around her." notion, has worked to spread The problem Danielle posed information about single for her mother is one of many- parent's children, Dale Hull, a facing single parents daily. MSU counselor and herself a 'Hiough life can be tough single parent said. She pointed for any parent without a to several recent studies spouse, many of the nearly 60 indicating children of divorced living in MSU Married Housing parents have found that living there are apt to be just as stable as children with both can sometimes ease its burdens. In the liberal environment parents. of As could happen university housing a single elsewhere, a sense of aloneness parent rarely, if ever, has to face the pervades single parents' daily sort of blatant life among the more than prejudice that might be 2,000 couples in Spartan encountered off campus. Yet even here a vague sense Village and Cherry Lane of alienation from married apartments. Dunkan, a senior sociology neighbors can sometimes be detected. It's major, recalled that when she a sense that the moved into status of being a Cherry Lane single parent apartments several years ago is something of a curiosity. there was no one to help her. "People who don't know But she me well sometimes ask me was lucky. The MSU what my husband is Volunteers came to move her majoring furniture for her. in," Dunkan said. 'Then when I tell them I'm not Still, the volunteers weren't living with around to talk and him they say, 'Oh you're the simply student who. . " developing companionship outside the She avoids family often playing her becomes a major problem for stereo loudly, particularly at single parents. night, she said, to avoid In the hectic race to care for fostering stereotyped opinions a child yearning for attention that she, like all single parents, and meet the Sherrie Dunkan disputes the idea held spends her nights partying. demands of by many married housing residents that children of school and household work, single parents tend to be wilder titan others. She said her Single parents must also best behaved children at the daughter Danielle is one of the cope with the friendships are difficult to Spartan Village Day Care Center, widespread develop. Even attitude that they do not know leaving the wait at home until interested in dealing with day - other single parents who share how to raise their children. apartment for entertainment accompanied by a man. to - day problems," Ruth Hill, their needs and are requires an effort. As a result, Hull willing, "Neighbors always want to explained, a Spartan Village resident, said. often eager, to share drop hints telling you how you "My first year in married they are slow in meeting others "The girls seem to spend their housing I spent most of my responsibilities. can raise your child better," of either sex. time complaining about how time She had lived in Spartan Spartan Village resident Tori talking baby talk to my With this problem in mind hard it is to remarry." son Erick," Martin said. "He Village nearly a year without Martin said. Parents Without Partners has was still crawling then and I knowing any of her neighbors Many residents of married sponsored social events which Many single parents are well, Martin said, when another didn't have a day care center to housing and even the Married encourage women to enjoy the finding that the environment single woman moved next leave him in." of married Housing manager John The problem of companionship of other housing can offer door. After they became Roetman feel that the children getting to women. answers to these daily needs. friends they found themselves know people and of single parents are wilder and finding "Many of them had never Many have found that the making acquaintances with the entertainment away from first friends they make rougher than those of married thought they could enjoy going are couples around them. home is also one of habit — a couples. out with other single parents," habit especially difficult to Yet supervisors at the Hull said. "But break for those they loved it." Spartan Village Day Care newly It is this sort of Center dispute such an idea. separated from their spouses. Many women are unwilling companionship, unfettered "I had a woman from the with goals of to go alone to parties or finding future day care center tell me that spouses, that several Danielle movies. And rather than go out was one of the best organizations around campus with other women they may seek to encourage. Dan Melcer, professor of Family and Child Sciences, recalled a young woman saying a year ago that her involvement with an informal organization sponsored by the People's Church of East Lansing literally saved her life. In her companionship with the group's members she found relief from the strain of her family and school responsibilities which had lead her to contemplate suicide. Yet, many single parents, particularly the more independent, are dissatisfied with the approach these organizations take toward solving their goals. "At Parents Without Partners meetings no one seems Ruth Hill, left, and Tori Martin have found that living in married housing has helped to alleviate some of the problems they face as single parents. MSU's married students society spokesman said, and don't have problems with one member enjoys almost free appointments are easy to get. V accinations, dental care health He added that of Health they can't afford care care at the Health Center. names and wel\ — - baby programs are to. "It's doctors taking patients can be offered pathetic," said an extensively by the "The attitude here is to unidentified Health Center obtained by calling the medical health department, and visiting ignore it and see if it'll go doctor. "I see fathers coming society. nurses often pay calls in away," Spartan Village "I'm willing to sacrifice married in here faking their kid's costs one resident said. "Thankfully it does go away most of the symptoms so they can get prescriptions. things to get good medical care for my kids," a student wife mothers housing who are trouble taking care of a sick to help having time." "But I can't diagnose from said, "but some of my friends child at home. plague For MSU's population of are so broke they can't afford what people tell me, so I have Although MSU student student dependents — usually to say no," he added. the price of the office call if dependents are excluded from the wives and children of full - As an alternative, student they're not deathly ill." care at the University Health time students — a major illness Those who "can't afford the Center, they are eligible for dependents can turn to private can mean financial disaster for doctors, emergency rooms or price of an office call" unless low-cost student insurance student a family on a tiny budget. "When our little girl got sick last winter, my husband had to county - supplied medical services. they're deathly ill are spending a lot more on health they would if they visited care than sponsored by the ASMSU. for a A single student year's medical pays $46 "The first two are too coverage, drop out of school and get a private doctors when they were while married couple pays families a expensive and the last one isn't job to pay the medical bills," available all the time," a ill, says Dr. John Wiegenstein, $78. Adding an additional another married emergency room physician at child brings the cost up to housing student said. resident explained. Private doctors in Ingham St. Lawrence Hospital. $151. "If it had been it The sign on St. Lawrence's The insurance policy is me, County are a little hard to find, wouldn't have cost us a cent," but still available for married emergency room wall states popular among students, by that doctors fees will be added her husband added. students, according to the according to an insurance Carol Dependents are excluded Ingham County Medical to regular hospital costs, so the company employe. It covers Thomas from care at the University bill for a stitched-up forehead almost all medical Society. expenses Health Center because of Many young doctors — or a cold — can run over $25 except routine health care. overcrowded conditions at the for a visit. But many students find beginning their practices are "And people are just getting even the low cost insurance center, leaving many families happy to have more patients, a - stop - gap, temporary health too expensive, saying that they care," Wiegenstein explained. would rather take the risk of a "We're not getting at the cause major illness rather than pay ITIarried students: of time." the illness most Many student families, he of the the security. more than $100 The insurance doesn't pay for said, use the emergency rooms for day - to - day colds, sore significant minority By Mike Fox married. Though the comparisons at St. Lawrence and Sparrow hospitals as their exclusive source of health care. "You could just about get throats and illnesses — only major accidents. hospitalization "It's the day - to - day stuff or unfortunately do not encompass precisely five visits to a private doctor I can't afford for my wife and While most students attend MSU to get a corresponding age groups, one can infer that for the price of two emergency kids," said a Cherry Lane degree, a number of students get something the MSU student marriage pattern parallels else out of college: marriage. room visits," he added. resident, "so insurance that the general population. Though hardly a new phenomenon, In a class standing breakdown, one finds The Ingham County Health doesn't pay for that is out of Dept. steps into many gaps left the question." married students at MSU constitute a that 3.1 per cent of the freshman are married; neglected special interest group numbering 5.5 per cent of the sophomores; 13.4 per cent in health care by the university "My wife and I have an 8,363 students. and private sources, but agreement," joked one student. of the juniors; and 21.3 per cent of the concentrates most of its "I'm the only one who can get Statistics recently compiled by the seniors. programs in the child health sick around here." registrar's office at special request indicate that Of the total 33,414 undergraduates this 21.3 per cent of the senior class is married. fall, 11.5 per cent are married. Of course, the Though this percentage might not be surprising today, it is probably greater than 20 years ago. percentage of marriage among graduate students is higher, indicated at 56.6 per cent. MARRIED? Some observers at the university think the Of course, college has always been a good WE percentage of married students has climbed in meeting ground for recruiting mates. The the past two decades. Unfortunately, detailed NEED university has assisted married students by data on the percentages of married students is providing 2,284 apartments in married available only back to 1967. PEOPLE housing complexes, but need for day care facilities and extended health care for families In this six year span, the total number of WHO undergraduate married students has risen of married students pose new problems for from 9.4 per cent to 11.5 per cent. Though KNOW MSU. Before tackling such needs of married only a slight increase, insurance agents and THE others who analyze college populations feel students, however, it helps to lift them out of obscurity by getting a better picture of the there has been a boom in marriages by VALUE students still in college since World War II. numbers of married students at MSU. OF Of this fall's 41,378 total student Though statistics are not available to enrollment, 20.2 per cent is married. In document the theory of a boom in college SHARING comparison with the general population of marriages, the trend over the past six years Michigan, data from the 1970 census indicates has been a slight increase which will probably that 28.7 per cent of the age group 20 to 24 is stabilize at about the current levels. Don't Hibernate This Winter Come out and BOWL THE AUTOMATIC SCORERS ARE HERE!! Bowling is fun for the whole family. It's great exercise and fits any budget. Choice Daytime League Spots Available OPEN 9 AM DAILY HOLIDAY LANES MSU VOLUNTEER BUREAU 3101 E. Grand River 337-9775 Day care center lacks space; lOO kids turned down weekly by Maureen McDonald A group of children at in a The fees for full circle laughing and chanting - day service are $30 a week, and the familiar rhyme, "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick ..." in adjusted for part time child MSU's unique day care center. care service. The center services between Elizabeth Santos, a member 150 and 165 children a day, on of the Faculty Student Board a married students first at the center, said the priorty fees tend to accommodate only two Fingerpaints transforms Elysa Flanders into the terror of the day care center. kinds of people: those on While fortunate children welfare and middle income play in the new and efficient students. The in between scholarship fund for the day modular - students at the center," Melcer structure, over 100 couples, Santos said, are care center," Santos said. "The Expansion plans, which are said. "We need a careful applicants are turned down excluded due to trustees act like 'to hell with still in the nebulous stage, lack of each week due to lack of financial aid. married students after integration of teaching services include provisions for space. they The center is and research, with a full only licensed for leave classes.' " nutritional planning, family 110 children in the "We've The trustees did allocate a learning experience for the medicine, marriage counseling building at seen the board of children." one time. trustees loan of $10,000 to finance and various on getting a The community construction of the modular present facility services. incorporates the departments Ann Thomforde, president structure, which was to meet of family and child the immediate need for sciences, of the Married Students Union, a day psychology and social work care facility. within the "The structure was chosen day care program. (continued on page 6) as the quickest and least expensive way to deal with an emergency situation," Santos said. "The trustees feel the situation is alleviated now, and there is no need for further expansion of facilities." However, expansion is the thrust of day care advocates. Donald Melcer, associate professor of the Institute for Family and Child Care and member of the steering committee for the day care center, would like to see a community service center as an expansion of the present facility. "We cannot simply double the capacity of the center without taking a critical look Lee McDuff ie and the other children at the day care center at child care will play outside until temperatures are too needs, community cold, but a time. 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University housing would like to see a shelter, University's latest booklet on married housing. However, regulations prohibit undergraduates from driving on wading or swimming pool built for the use of small children. In of Tesidnts. Roetman said there is a relative question of safety some say the facilities of involved. Married campus during the day, and the order to use the LM. housing married housing are inadeauate buses are frequently pools a residents have the option of recreation, to meet their needs. by trains. delayed child must be 53 inches tall and 13 years of age. seeking shelter during tornado Complaints include no quiet There are virtually no alerts, he said. This is a luxurv, but it does study areas study areas outside the apartments, recreational lack of facilities for recreational facilities for adults within the married housing get verv hot in married housing in the summer, Thomforde are Married housing residents instructed to stadium eo to during alerts if they the units, according to Ann said. Air conditioners in the mar life in adults, and lack of shelter wish to go to a shelter. Many areas. times attempts to reach the The university "has tried to shelter are stopped by trains blocking the married provide the best utilization of space at the lowest cost," south part of tracks campus. in the according to John Roetman, "When these apartments were built no one was housing manager of married housing. Student apartments in married housing rent for $115 per concerned about Roetman stated. tornadoes," month for a one-bedroom by apartment and $121 per month The union would like to see Angelia for a two-bedroom. This study facilities, branch Carroll includes telephone service and libraries, community room all utilities. facilities and expansion of day The lack of studv facilities care to serve more residents o? within married married housing. "I don't housing is a think problem to it's unreasonable to a«k for th» undergraduates especially. While graduate same facilities as in the assistants have offices in which dorms," Thomforde said. thev can The low cost factor seems to study, be the University's undergraduates must use thp explanation library. for the lack of facilities about The furnishing of each which residents comnlain. apartment include a study Roetman said the addition of desk. How the students utilize these facilities would have to them is, of course, a matter of result in an increased cost of individual choice. Married housing apartments, operation. This increased cost Roetman are usually crowded with a said. Thin walls and small family's daily needs, forcing some residents to use would be passed on to the porch children add to the space for storage. students in the form of study higher rents. Babysitters and Parents the State News wants you to get acquainted Throughout the period between Monday, November 20 and Tuesday, November 28, a special section of the Classified pages in the State News will be devoted exclusively to babysitters and parents who need their services. In this section babysitters will be able to advertise their services and parents cm advertise their need for babysitters. The Cost? For this section only, you can run a 15 word liner for $1.00 per day (pre-paid);. And your ads will be set aside from all the classified liners so that everyone concerned will know right where to look everyday during that the period will run. The Deadline is 1:00 P.M. one day prior "A"" ^lDU!UW«v sjuapisaj map nig ibdiuiouods otti% am §utv«Bdas jo &miqissod am pa^saSSns Pub jnjaoBad .\\OAiiR|aj §uisnoi{ patxjBui ui ajij n r UU sai\rarej momiM. sa\dnoa \BiaAag aji» 3Sex\ia sa^BUj uiaouoo pup ssamirjdjaq jo iijids y _ ZLt>\ ' L\ juk*ura aoK * fepu;1 Foreign students adjustment problems find By Susan Ager foreign students who do not "and Americans think, 'It will the home. Driver's training is pass a proficiency test. He take six months to get either too expensive or too A Spartan Village washing finds, along with several other difficult due to the language machine ate a load of Carmen well-acquainted, then for sx students, that what he learns ir months we'll have fun and then barrier. Cardenas-Marin's laundry. these courses is not worth what I'll never Some foreign students in see them again for a The culprit was he pays. married housing form car lifetime. super-powered American The Community Committee pools, share taxis with other detergent, which she used as for International "Many Americans figure car-less friends or bum rides liberally as the Spanish Programs (CCIP), a city-wide it's not worth it." from neighbors— used only as a varieties. Last fall, the married organization to aid foreign last resort by most. students in adjusting to students' organization began a Learning the idiosyncracies "We operate like farmers," a of American American life, offers English welcome committee to help products is only Mexican student said, "doing one of the facts of American classes for two hours a week foreign students ease into our shopping in one whack life which for home-tied wives at Spartan American society by satisfying foreign students whenever we can get a ride." must confront in university their immediate needs. The Village School. But some, Other services for foreign married housing. committee has greeted close to including Carmen students in married housing Spartan Village, University Cadenas-Marin, find the 200 foreign families since, include CCIP's Host Family Village,and Cherry Lane house instruction too little to help. advising, explaining and program and Homemaking She supplements the village "We say hello to everyone pointing to available services, approximately 400 foreign American Style classes. couples, for whom making classes by riding three different easily but the relationships are including the Lending Center. The Host Family program conversation, making friends buses for over an hour each not often very deep." Stocked with kitchen and pairs foreign and American and making even short trips are day to free classes offered by families, encouraging them to baby equipment, clothing, the major obstacles to "fitting the Lansing school district. She — Mary Fabre linen and lamps (not provided dine, site-see or go out for an in." hitchhikes home. occasional evening— but to do by married housing "When you are a foreigner, English skills often stagnate may be afraid to speak in it together. The goal is an management), the Lending sometimes you are afraid you in married housing, despite the faulty English. Center charges foreign students exchange of both cultures and can't express yourself," said close living conditions. "Americans are always in a a very small rental fee for use good times. Alfredo Cardenas-Marin, a "Some people may live in hurry" is a common complaint of the donated goods. These Three hundred American Spanish student in natural married housing for six years of the foreign student. "We say become theirs until they leave families have volunteered to resouce economics, of his and never even say good hello to everyone easily," said married housing, when the fee host a foreign family, reluctance to complain to monaing to gheir neighbor," Mary Fabre, from Aixpence, according to co-chairman goes to repair, clean or management about his smelly said Alex Edwards, active in France, "but the relationships purchase new goods. Annabelle Larzelere. sofa. Married Students Union of are not often very deep." Transportation is another Najda El Zaro, a five-year He is enrolled in university MSU. The problem is tripled She and her husband immediate and frightening resident of Spartan Village who English classes required for for the foreign student who Michael, working toward a problem. Few couples claim participated in the Host Family master's degree in agriculture and the luxury of a car when they program and will return soon natural resources, found arrive, and most stores are too to Jordan, said, "when I go Americans unwilling to spend far to walk to. home, I will be so proud to Counterpoint time on temporary friendships. "Foreigners are expected to Even if car, a couple does own a the foreign wife, often not know recipes how I to fix learned from American my Counterpoint is a biweekly supplement to the Michigan State stay a short time," Fabre said, a student, is still confined to friends." News published by students of Michigan State University. Editorial offices are in 341 Student Services Bldg. Editors are Andrea Austin and Sylvia Smith. Columns on women, minorities and press criticism are features of each Counterpoint. Persons wishing to contribute to future issues should contact the State News. Day care needs expansions center. She reiterated the option of letting political (continued from page 4) common complaint of nigh groups hold meetings at the would like to see recreational center, but realized the facility prices excluding most married facilities, study areas and a could not accommodate more students' children. than 50 people at one time. But the cost of quality day meeting room included in plans for a new center. There is no place in Spartan care has to be high. Infants A recent faculty - student Village for married students to require the fulltime care of a board meeting for the center congregate, as the residence registered nurse, and toddlers Artists & Craftsmen reinforced complaints about halls provide, the student - need close supervision. For this the lack of space. faculty board members said at reason, the center can only Bring your special talent to the Pack - Rat the "There is not enough space the handle a limited number of one of the kind shop. Set up your own display of meeting. for toddlers and youngsters The center children in these age groups, hand crafted items and make money. barely - kept indoors in cold months to accommodates the children of according to Melcer. Consistently year - round. Contact Martin Keeler run, jump, climb and make The full day sessions for further information. Spartan Village residents. noise — the children need more Thomford said only 10 per provide an educational outlets," Santos said. cent of married students' program, a lunch, two snacks, a 332-4522 The group discussed the children are served by the nap and free play. The center has received federal certification for its excellent teaching program. WHY DON'T Creative "The center provides a quality environment for children, not merely MARRIED custodial supplement to the a PEOPLE Playthings home," Jackie coordinator of the center, said. Wood, Melcer added that a good day care environment is better DATE? 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This conflict tends to make rearing children "It's like living in a in married housing fishbowl," said one 'It's like living resident of Cherry Lane. "Because close to neighbors, you have to use you're so however try to stress the difficult. Parents, advantages of the situation. Shannaz Coyer of Cherry Lane for consideration and cooperation in instance emphasizes the feasibility of keeping dealing with situations that just can't be avoided." tabs on children by sharing the responsibility in a fishbowl' of watching them. "I'm Among the difficulties confronting beginning to like neighbors in married student housing are community living for this reason," she stated. those caused by the physical closeness of "This is great for the children as far as race relations go," added Carol Soriano, by apartment units. Students list noise levels as a Cpartan major negative result of this cramping. Village resident "They have less contact with Linda Distractions caused by children predjudice than they might have in a suburb Sandel playing in the so they grow up more openly." enclosed bay areas as well as inter - unit Other residents were not commotion are frequent complaints. Most quite as positive residents on the issue of race relations. A married find studying at home virtually impossible for these reasons. couple in Spartan Village hinted at a subtle but very present prejudice Lack of privacy is another problem. Lisa existing among a limited number of residents. "You Wendelken, University Village resident, get the explained the situation by stating that, "the feeling that some people are worried about the white purity of their cramped condition cause you to withdraw bay area from social relationships with neighbors. neighborhood," they said. "That's too bad because it spoils an otherwise Psychologically you feel that you must guard friendly what little privacy you have." atmosphere." A lack of informal Difficulties involving over - abundances of friendships in these garbage, competition for inadequate numbers apartment complexes bothers a number of of parking spaces, and cluttered residents. They attribute this isolation to the front nature of student's activities. walkways reinforce the need for According to consideration. Tempers flare easily under such Howard Jones of Cherry Lane, "The conditions but neighbors motivation level is high as far as education continually strive for compromise to avoid direct confrontation. goes. The number one goal of getting a degree takes precedence over One major cause of argument concerns the everything, including placement of couples without children in bays neighbor relationships." Jones added that while the occupied by growing families. "Newly - atmosphere of married couples and others without children married housing is friendly and cooperative, don't try to understand the people are more concerned with reaching for impossibility of keeping children quiet," stated one Spartan something better than with forming bonds to tie them in. / LAKE FRONT U-ITI, msu fill housing gaps CONDOMINIUM At both University of and University Villages and rents for Michigan and MSU married Cherry Lane. Even with a $115 per month; two bedrooms boost the charge to FOR SALE housing residents find they recent addition of 700 $121. This includes all utilities must adapt to often hostile apartments, U-M can only and phone; at U-M utilities and Only minutes to MSU - New 1 bedroom environments to survive accomodate about 4,500 maintenance are included and Townhouses with lake front location, academically. In areas not faculty, staff and students in phone service is optional. patterned for married or family family housing. beautifully wooded area. You can walk Transportation causes many autonomy, married housing is a U-M applicants for married to the golf course.IMMEDIATE complaints from married necessary alternative to housing are screened and OCCUPANCY. Rent is waste, build housing residents in Ann Arbor expensive and limited off - chosen on an income basis, as it does in East Lansing. campus living. with those needing the equity in your own home and enjoy life Though free bus service is at Lakeside Due to a much tighter cheapest housing in order to available for residents in the Village. housing situation in Ann stay in school getting the first farthest units, some residents Arbor, married housing at U-M priority. call it erratic. Call Bob Simpson at offers a wider choice of family Cost vary considerably more The most common problem 339-9513 apartments along with greater at U-M housing than at MSU. at both universities' married Noon til 8 PM restrictions on residents. Monthly charges range from housing units is noise from Over 500 more available $108 for a simple efficiency, to neighbors' children transmitted apartments are the greatest $140 for one bedroom near through paper - thin walls. The difference between housing units of MSU and U-M. family campus, to $150 for a larger apartment much farther from interference seriously inhibits studying and relaxation jOafiesidc ^Tillage This enables MSU to house the university. available in other housing Haslett Road over 6,200 residents in Spartan A one bedroom unit at MSU situations. 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An community projects. explanation of why certain On a nationwide basis, black women leam of the things must be done could projects range from bringing The original purposes of sorority's doings if they are not easily clear up the social change via job training black Greek life seem to have somehow made available to the communication channel. for drop-out girls, been to provide housing for public? A transfer student from rehabilitation of women black students (especially for It's understandable that Howard University told me prisoners and teaching young those on campuses north of the some secrecy (especially of that the sororities at Howard adults to encouraging higher Mason-Dixon line), to establish certain rituals) should exist, are involved with community education by awarding a social life for the black but the almost extreme secrecy activities and programs, but scholarships and fellowships to students and to create a sense that's practiced by the MSU like here of they are more deserving and needing students. community involvement chapters causes a lot of young involved in social activities. She Each chapter donates its time among the black students via women to feel alienated before further stated that at Howard, and energies — voluntarily — to assorted community projects. they even being to ask these programs. a potential pledge must have a It seems to many questions about any particular certain economic and social It seems, then, that the independent black women, sorority. background before she is basic problems the sorority however, that the Other negative feelings accepted by the sorority. faces today are one of contributions the black pertain to the indefinite There four black are communication and one of sororities are making today are pledging period, the high sororities at MSU: Delta Sigma ridding itself of the social primarily social. But black participation costs (meaning Theta, Alpha Kappa Alpha, institution sororities may be receiving this image. If these Irene Evans is a Flint the miscellaneous expenditures Zeta Phi Beta and Sigma problems are cleared, the black criticism because so few blacks outside pledging fees and dues) Gamma Rho, and they are all sophomore majoring in sororities will truly have fully understand the sororities' and the possible irrelevence of involved in some sort of achieved black relevancy. journalism. A few Michigan State exciting than dating, but still is a double standard thought to be an relationship, by definition, that in marriage there is which still applies to ideas educational process by is casual and the University students seem to have all the dates they inevitable impact with of right and wrong in 1972 which the opposite sexes participants are not in a want, whenever they want reality. just as it has for get to know one another. position to make choices Dating: In dating reality is any deeper set of them. But many members generations. Dating, however, turns out on of both sexes have mangled by imagination. Nearly every guy I to be miseducational. Who values. In other words, questions about how to Much is said about how talk to will SAY that a girl makes the decisions on a dating does not prepare the find suitable dating people change for the partners or even if they worse after they marry. I want to participate in the contend that the change has as much right to sexual freedom as a boy. But try date? Who pays for the evening? Who starts the young people for marriage, it only prepares them for to pin him down as to making out? Who is the more futile dating! dating game at aD. initially comes in dating. whether he would marry master? Who is his losing time People who date waste a Before marriage the portion of their lives in a persons put on a false - filler that leads to front and each sees the the a promiscuous girl, or even one who was fingered few times. He suddenly servant? These basic problems illustrate the plight in other from a favorably becomes edgy, wary and which the typical female nothing but pain. In game dating, not only does each biased point of view. fool "put her best foot Then, after the wedding something the chauvinist inarticulate. It is finds herself if she chooses this route of social forward," but often each and after the screw, each does not want to discuss, behavior. It is interesting sees everything, including returns to the real self as it something he does not to note that the role - the dating partner, is, not as it was thought to want to face. taking that starts in the through rose - tinted be. What about the woman? dating period sets the stage spectacles. Playing the dating game She is expected to keep for later marriage and Usually, because of this, increases the effect of the her sexual desires under home management promises are made that double standard, especially control until after patterns. cannot be kept and and emphatically on the marriage. Show me female Dating emphasizes such expectations are built up woman. Women who who is able to do this, and things as clothes, physical that cannot be fulfilled. frequently date pay a I will show you a shape, smile, hair style and Marriage, then, would higher price emotionally dishonest individual. smell. Actually these seem like a letdown. The and -psychologically than Women need to be stroked criterion are inevitable reason is not that marriage do men. No matter what as much as men. because of the very nature Sharon Szafransky is a is less interesting or anyone might say, there Dating is traditionally of the dating game. The Westland freshman. Foreign news: the way it really is? press out about other countries. The State News fulfills a campus own city, county, state or In our so-called underdeveloped nations (which country, obviously they are need and so it covers campus not interested in what happens I define simply as those nations The most important ways of events and publishes a lot of abroad. that have not been allowed to mass communication in this have their own chance to pictures of ducks and bikes, as The first two items I call and other countries — well as the famous Doctor's develop) of our so-called Third television, and ''auto-drowning,'' newspapers, Bag. World, our coverage of radio — don't provide an inward-looking or self-centered international news is In radio, the same problem very perspective. The thirc I regard adequate picture of what is — one rarely hears about different — any paper publishes as part of the traditional happening in the rest of the international events. a large section concerning all world. apathy of many American After almost four years of sorts of international news. In television, the monopoly people. As a saying goes: as daily observation of this long as I have my mobile Perhaps this is so because we of three channels provides a not so inward - looking particular problem and as a home, my color TV and my are half hour daily program of (due to our often attributed foreign student who happens brand - new car and I can trade so-called "international" news to be interested in things that "inferiority?"). them in every other year; as in which they cover events that As a professor of mine once happen not only in the USA, I long as I have my monthly usually center around Vietnam, have come to the conclusion put it: Not everything is like a paycheck, why should I worry Paris (the peace talks) or any that this could be so because: newsman says in his closing about anything else? other place where 50 or more • This country is sc big that broadcast: "That's the way it people got killed due to an people get lost easily within its Unfortunately, the way I see is." That's the way it is for accident or a natural disaster; boundaries; it, events in other areas have a him, or for whoever chooses other news doesn't qualify as • This country is so lot to do with this country. the news to be broadcast. interesting enough to be powerful and industrialized Sometimes I wonder what the Perhaps this news covered. and computer - oriented that impact in the people's minds commentator should end his The same happens with the people don't have the time would be if they were program by saying: "That's the radio and newspaper; the New or the interest or both to get informed of what really goes way I was told it is, but there k Luis Berruecos is a Mexico York Times gives you a two informed; on in the world. No wonder, no time on my part, nor pound mass of advertisements • If most Americans don't too, that people confuse interest on yours to tell it how City graduate student in in which one has to dig to find even care what goes on in their Columbia with Colombia. it really is." anthropology