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Housing's newest p o licy overlooked by sopholllores By Vikki Heitkamp In the early 1970's UD's Housing policy required all freslunan and ophomores (except commuters) to live in University residence halls. Decreased enrollment was the apparent cause for the change. As of last spring, the residence staff recognized a need to reverse their decision and permit ophomores to live off campus to revent crowded living condi.ons in the dormitories. Apparently, most sophomores ve not yet taken advantage of e new policy. ACCORDING TO JEAN Harper, ssistant housing director, 394 phomore women are in esidence halls, as compared to some 490 freslunan women living in residence halls last spring. ( Residence halls include Campus South.) There are 508 sophomore men in the dormitories and Campus South while there were 703 freshmen men living on campus last year, Harper said. Many of the sophomore students who wanted to move off campus found themselves faced with a shortage of housing. Although none of the 119 UDowned houses were left for sophomores following the yearly housing lottery, there are a total of 48 sophomore men and women living in UD off-campus housing. "TIIESE STUDENTS are probably sharing a house with juniors," Harper said. Last year, empty UD houses (less than one-half the residents returning) were listed in the Flyer News. Students interested in living off-campus were allowed to inspect them. Students then filled out preference forms and received one lottery ticket for the number of people requesting the house, she said. If less than a full house requested the off-campus housing, they couldn't participate in the lottery. Seniors were given preference followed by juniors and then sophomores, she said. TIIE LARGE NUMBER of sophomores who did not move CContinued on page 2J IF YOU DON'T think the Flyers were playing sky-high against Akron, look again. This Jerry Nelson head shot cleared the Mead Tower In downtown Dayton. Just as this shot dwarfed the Dayton skyline, the Flyers dwarfed the top-ranked Zips, 2-1, In overtime. See story, page 8. FN/ John Ackermann) SA ' News By Deb Bonlfas What's new for Homecoming week this year? Warp Factor Six on Thursday in the E l Granada cafeteria beginning at 8 p.m., that's what. Warp Factor Six is going to be supper and dancing sponsored by BATU, the Homecoming Committee and Student Association (SA). "The purpose of the program is to br ing about different types of social and cultural events in a different type atmosphere, as opposed to another beer blast ," said Ste'Ve Tobia, President of SA. According to Jim Rice, chairma n of BATU, Warp Factor Six "will be an aid in dispensing any inhibitions that exist bet ween black a nd white students. It will prove that this campus can be unified if all of us put out the necessary effort." The nightclub type evening will be semi-formal and held from 8-11 p.m. Immediately following the supper, from 11 p.m.-1 a.m. there will be a dance band in the KU Ballroom. Entertainment at t.'ie· supper will be varied. A magician , a banjo and guitar player, a black drama club and a campus dance troupe, Shades of Black, will perform. Arrangements are being made with Fashion '70, who may perform. " It's not really a . fashion show, but a nicely dressed dance to disco music; hard to explain, but neat," Tobia said. The menu is reasonably priced, with waiter service. A fruit and cheese plate with ham and cheese sandwiches ($2.25) or stuffed corn beef sandwiches ($2.95) will be offered. Beverages, such as beer, wine, soft drinks and fruit punch will also be served. "Hopefully this is just the beginning of events that both black and white students will be interested in," Tobia said. The night will be free except for food and drink, but reservations must be made and tickets picked up in advance. Reservations can be made at the same ticket window as the one fo r Homecoming Dance tickets. SA is also or ganizing the sponsorship of the Oktoberfest, the F r iday of Homecoming week. which is also F und-Raiser Week for SA. At SA's general meeting Monday Director of Sudent Organizations Luke Dantuono said, " We're trying to get some sort of tent to set up in the plaza and some food caterers for the day. We've invited all the International Clubs to participate and the Central Service clubs are working on booths." A photographer will be on ha nd and SA Homecoming mugs will be on sale, John Schaefer, SA Fina nce director, explail"ed the raffle. Tickets are five for $1 and are available from any SA member. They will be sold at a table in KU during Homecoming week. " How we do on this raffle basically determines what we will be able to do for the rest of the semester," Schaefer said. Top prize for the raffle is $100, second prize is $SO worth of liquor and third prize is a keg of beer or the cash equivalent. Also at the Oktoberfest will be dunking booth which will enable [Continued on page 21 Cicely Tyson: Stunning, Poised By Kathy Fitzpatrick cely Tyson is an artist of the best calibre. Need more be d? Her perfonnance Wednes. night, part of the UD Arts '-', was finely-crafted, poised breathtaking. Sttmed as if her art flowed her as easily as a child ers at the world or an old reminisces about the This is the range of her t. and these are the images conjured as she traversed from one poem to another. n1) on began, it seemed as re skillfully interpreting As she progressed, one that she was in fact ' the threads of life ~ 111th all of its subtlety bittemess, shattered and 1llSdom l 01 ll"ERE young and old, giddy and worldly-wise and sad. Most of the poems she read reflected humanity through the black experience. She talked about love and how it dies, how it lives and how it can devastate us. The man left, she said, " with the rent money in one pocket and my heart in the other." In Nikki Giovanni's " Egotripping, " Tyson revealed a woman's survival through belief in herself. " I am ba-a-a-d," she whispered chillingly. " I am so hip that even my errors are correct." The poem spoke of woman as mother, woman as lover and finally woman as source of strength. Tyson made the emotions expressed in the poem transcend womanhood to become ' all of humanity. TYSON MADE IT appear as if her periormance were impromtu. But she said that, in spite of her success, she continued to take acting clases so that her senses stay at her fingertips. Talent, she said, is revealed when "You can do something instinctively." Her talent, instinctive, has become art through careful training. Tyson moved from one emotion to another. The most moving piece in the evening's repertoire traced a black child's attempt to attend an all-white school. In the beginning, her voice was light, like a young woman reminiscing about a childhood experience. The first day in a new school. So excited that she was the first to awaken that day. Still breathless, even as a blaring television reported on the angry mood of the white citizenry. ALMOST LAUGlll.JNGLY describing how her father paced with a pipe in his mouth and a cigar in his hand, although he didn't light either one. And then, the first walk to the new school. Alone, she noticed a crowd following her. Not afraid at first, until she stood in front of the school with people yelling at her. The guards allowing white children in, barring her from entering. She spied a bus bench. Somehow, if she could get to that bench, she would be safe. The race to the bench with the crowd right behind. And a white man sits down and says, " Don't let them see you cry." Boarding the bus, heading to where mother is, teaching in an all-black school. And mother puts her arms around her and cries. Through her shining eyes and voice, Tyson showed us breathles, childish anticipation, then slowly created the terror, sorrow and confusion of a child confronted with violence and hatred that she could not understand until many years later. HER PERFORMANCE WAS NOT perfect. She stumbled upon several words, but she pressed on. The minor errors seemed to increase her power over us. Tyson was stunning, confident. Her bearing in a question and answer period prior to her • perfonnance was one of a woman who took nonsense from no one, yet was sympathetic. A child in the audience asked (COntinuedon~l l FLYERNEWS Fri., Oct. 7, 1977 FN Sponsors Blood Bank Voice from the Ghetto Struggle for survival By Ron Cbemek It is said that our college years are the best years of our ~ves; this is not a statement with which I disagree. But there are certain aspects of college life that create an overabundance of problems for the average student. -IT IS VERY HARD TO BE SICK in college. You can't call in sick to all of your <'lasses, and often teachers will not let you make up exams. When you are sick, about the .,;tly thing to do is get a brown bag from the health center and grin and bear it. - There seems to be great difficulty in saving money while in college. There L, always something cropping up which drains the wallet of the greenbacks. If it isn't homecoming or turnabout that breaks us, it's just buying extra fnod occasionally or making phone calls to relatives and fri ends. - IT IS HARD TO BUDGET YOUR TIME while in college. Many times we put things off to do something else. Then we end up cramming all of our studying into one or two nights. This type of behavior often leads students right back to my first point about being sick. - Many students find it difficult to do their wash on a regular basis whi le attending college. I have been in rooms of some of my friends hen they had a carpet of dirty Levis on the floor. " I'll wash tomorrow," we say. Flyer News' annual Blood Bank will be held In the KU Ballroom on Oct. 17. Sign-ups for the drive will begin on Oct. 11. Students, staff and faculty are strongly encouraged to give of themselves In this worthwhile cause. The need for blood Is great, to say the least. The Community Blood Center [CBC] must supply 200 pints a day to 20 hospitals In a 10 county area. Also, stored blood must be continually replaced since It often becomes stale within 21 days. The cause ls more than worthwhile. In a short 15 minutes enough blood could be obtained to save a life. A person who needs blood Is not the only one who benefits from this life sustaining process. Anyone who gives is eligible to receive a free blood transfusion from the CBC or any hospital In the country. The donor also bas the satisfaction of knowing that be or she bas aided a fellow human being and possibly themselves. Discomfort while donating blood is kept to a minimum with numerous trained personnel on SA News ~ REAL---:;i. 1i~l(e/) ~ . ' ) YA ' WM'K M' tA' Sr/?I.J(;GJ..£ TA' M4JcE f-R' StJ;,1£1>/UH ' Fo.f! :!)EJ..F AN' (11 ' Ger NI/TJIJN' &IT A KJaK IN 'THE FME j Editorials removed. Most negative reactions to blood are simply psychological. Last year the Flyer News' Blood Bau broke all previous records for the amount ti donated. Students, staff and faculty of UD do all they can to make this drive a SUCC!S Isn't it worth the time and effort to sam Metermaids Milking Students ICoullnued from page 11 Tobia announced the first issue of the SA publication YOURS would come out Wednesday. Public Relations Director Dave Massey said the off-campus directory would be delayed. The directory will hopefully be available next Wednesday. Massey also discussed initiating a Unied Way Campaign on campus in October. Dantuono said SA would cosponsor the Rugby Club for their Cork 'N Cleaver night, Oct. 20. Beer and all drinks will be half prize. Selectperson of the Month of September was announced, with Mike Schwartz receiving the distinction. band. To give blood the donor must flnt rqli! Then a mJnJ-physlcal Is admlnistered · consists of taking the person's temperatur?, pressure, pulse rate and Iron level. At this time the donor answers questions oa Iii her medical history. Following this the blelll Letter to the Editor The University of Dayton metermaids are once again in full bloom after a long sununer lull in - IT IS VERY DIFFICULT to go on "classy" dates. If you have no serious police work. UD's maids are not readily recognizable this car and you have no money, you have no "classy" date. - There lies some difficulty in eating the right foods while in college, year because they hide behind especially if you live off campus. Not many people eat three well very expensive and official lookbalanced meals per day and many students stuff themselves with junk ing unifonns that include an food all of the time. The students in the donns have it a little better, excess of the finest police parabut often their distrust of cafeteria food does them in as well. phernalia that would even make Dick Tracy look like a rent-a-cop. -FlNALLY, MANY STUDENTS FIND IT DIFFICULT getting a job Under the guise of real policewhile in college. If you are not on work study you probably won't get an men, these people spend the on-campus job. If you don't have a car, it is hard to have an off-campus greater part of their working Job. If you don ·t have a job or a good checking account or rich parents, hours littering the windshields of you will have no money and no "classy" dates. If you don't have these, unsuspecting students' .cars with things, you might get sick of your situation and you won't do your countless numbers of parking wash, you won't eat right and you will put everything off until you feel tickets. better. In many cities, this job is given Oh well, I guess it's a losing battle to try and alleviate these to little old ladies, but at UD it is problems. We Just have to face them and do the best we can to stick the responsibility of an entire them out. force of police officers who often resemble an over-zealous pack of cub scouts intent upon earning merit badges. •••• Many students have seen student., to get "lucky" students and teachers all wet. A beer chugging contest between student.~ and faculty ls also being urranged Schaefer said. Al the same lime as the Queen's elecllon voting for an entertainment director to replace resigning director Bob Kocak will be ht>ld, according to SA Vice President Robb Voyles. Voyles also discussed the llll'Cling of students, Rev. Haymond Roesch, Margaret Holland and a student representative from each house in the 11helto, which was to be held last night. Voyles said the meeting was calkd by the Dayton Police, who hopc'd for a large tum-out. 2 Campus Security officers fulfill- knowing that any damagts. ing their obscure sense of duty by car during or aftertowingr. issuing citations or by reenacting likely be paid for by sequences from old Adam-12 epi- They're nice guys with 1 sodes. But, how many students name who do a nice job. It is comforting to know t.'t have witnessed real crimes on campus being solved or a campus campus metennaids ca: Sandy's the business as II! rapist being apprehended? Perhaps some exercise other the students. It seems tit than reaching over the wind- dents are paying to go to:· shields of cars would rid our boys more ways than one, becJll in blue of some posterior weight long as Campus Secllnl and gain them some deserved around, the maid! d respect on campus. Presently, milking. the only security on campus is to be found in not being the owner of a car. . - - - - - - - -'I It would be an extreme disservice to omit the mention of the disservice of Sandy's Towing Service. Campus Security and Sandy's go together like grease and palms, scratching each other's backs. Any student forced to deal with Sandy's will find satisfaction in Housing policy . .. (Continued from page 11 off-campus was part of the reason the Housing staff experienced a shortage this year. For the past two years during the sununer, letters were sent to any upperclassmen who had requested a residence hall room explaining that if he bad made other housing plans, he was eligible to receive a refund of his $50 housing deposit as long as he made the request before a deadline in late August. According to Edwin '1elbuish, housing director, the request served a two-fold purpose. "We needed extra space," he said, "and students who hadn't realized they could get back their $50 deposit would tell us about it." "MANY STUDENTS would find alternate housing but not notify us because they didn't know they could get their deposit back," Harper added. "We would call parents' a few weeks after school started before we found out that a student was living somewhere else." "It was a matter of convenience for both the University and the student," said Melbuish. The shortage of off-campus housing seems to run in cycles. "Years ago, when we bad full enrollment, the housing on the north and south sides of Stewart Street eventually expanded to students to meet their needs," Melhuish explained. "WHEN 1llE ENROILMENT decreased, families began renting the extra homes. Now, with the additional students, the cxfcampus housing will probably expand again," he said. "Usually it's about one and a half to two years behind the need." Managing Edl!III' •.. Associate Editor ·- News Editor · · · · • Asst. News Editor· · · • ':, Sports Editor , -· · , , • Asst. Sports Edita< •• Advertising IN/Mllf/l Asst. Ad Mlftllll' " Business Ml.,,..··· Asst. Business,,,... Noon Explosion' featured; icnic initiates Homecoming A Noon Explosion of music, beer d hot dogs as well as students, umni and the Dayton conunu·ty will celebrate Homecoming Oct. 15 at the UD Arena. Noon Explosion, which comines a pep rally, concert and · all> oarty, is a new concept in Sunday: International Tea - 2 p.m. - Kennedy Union Monday: Picnic at Stuart Hillnoon to 8 p.m. - Rugby Game at Founders Tuesday: Bar Night: Tim's, 8 to 11 p.m. - Flanagan's, to 2 a.m. Old U.D. football games will be shown at Flanagan's Wednesday: Queen Skits, 8 p.m. at Kennedy Union Ballroom. Special at Alex ander's - 11 p.m. to 1 a .m. Thursday: Queen Voting : 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at KU - 4 p.m.6 p.m. at Marycrest - 6 p.m. -a p.m. at Campus South. Movie, "Network" at Boll Theatre. "Warp Factor SixSupper Club" -8 p.m. at El Granada, sponsored by BATU, SA and the Homecoming Committee Friday: Queen Voting 10 a .m. to 3 p.m. at KU - Pep Rally in KU Plaza until 3 p.m. Octoberfest in Plaza at 4 p.m. sponsored by SA Block Party at 9 a .m. at Brown St. and K St. , sponsored by Rho Rho Rho fraternity and Lambda NU Sorority. Bloody Mary Saturday: Breakfast at Flanagan's - 9 a.m. to noon -Noon Explosion and Tailgate Party at UD Arena - Football Game 1:30 p.m. - Dance at Warnpier's - 9 p.m. Sunnava and Funktion Sunday: Ted Nugent concert at UD Arena , sponsored by Alumni Club ROOMY EFFICIENCIF.S All UUlltles Furnished from$85 up garage space laundry facilities congenial neighbors convenient transportation Call Val Titus 278-4i789 lto5pm pre-game entertainment, said Steve Gayes, chalnnan of Noon Explosion. The festivities will start at noon and continue to 1:30 p.m., at which time the UD football team will play Louisville. " The thrust of the occasion is to bring together students, alumni and the Dayton conununlty under a conunon interest," Gayes said. The Noon Explosion is to prepare the audience for group involvement at game time. Pre-game entertainment includes Ron Meyers' jazz band FLYER NEWS Fri., Oct. 7, 1977 with music selected to appeal to the various age groups and reflect the spirit of the occasion ' Gayes said. International flags and pennants will decorate the area and red and blue helium balloons will be released. Student Association will sponsor the tailgate party in conjunction . with the Noon Explosion, which is being sponsored by the Homecoming Committee and the Alumni Committee. Hotdogs and beer will be served. Tickets are $1. Presidential search The Presidential Search Committee at its meeting on Sept. 29 received 12 applications for the position of UD President. Committee Chairman Peter H. Kuntz expressed the group's satisfaction with the number and apparent qualifications of the candidates. Committee members will now study individually the candidates' written applications and resumes. Copies of these documents will also be furnished to members of the University's Academic Affairs Council for their conunents regarding in particular whe- ther or not additional infonnation or clarification of any statements is needed from the candidates. The Search Committee hopes to complete this first phase of the screening process by early November. Kuntz reaffirmed the Committee's charge from the Board of Trustees, following the review and screening process, to conduct interviews of candidates and to arrange for their interview by other individuals and groups of the University community. Names of candidates will be released at that time. CICELY TYSON Cicely Tyson ... [Continued from page 11 her if she made movies for money A We knew that answer. or for fun . "Out of the mouths of practical woman, money may babes," she laughed. Then she have been a factor for her. But beckoned the child on stage, pride in herself, her people and in whispered the answer in his ear humanity seemed to motivate her and took another question. even more. :, ior l-lomecominq Gee, but that's nice, it's even got ice! Order any large p12za and you can get up to 4 tree Peps,·s. It you order a small pizza. you can get 2 tree Peps,·s - no coupon necessary - all you have to do 1s ask 253-8121 528 Wilmington Ave Call us tor last. tree dehvery 919 Alberta St. II l blocks north oJ Campus 118-1119 LEARN TO RAPPEL FREE OF CHARGE CLASS BEGINS OCT. 20th st protess,onal, and proven ahty Choose from our library of 000 top,cs Send $1.00 tor the rrent ed,t,on of our 220 page •I order catalog RESEARCH ASSISTANCE I 1322 IDAHO AVE . No 206-E OS ANGELES, CALIF 90025 )213) 477-8474 ur re earch papers are sold to research purposes only 3 The Dept. of MILITARY SCIENCE will train a limited number of interested freshmen and sophomores in mountain walking and rock climbing. 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He explained that cases involvFischer, associate dean of the Law School, saw the book he ing abortion and the concept of a ~Tote go into print last summer. free press, issues with which TIie book, entitled " An Intro- most college students are familduction to Law and Legal Rea- iar, were included in the book . soning," was co-authored by Other chapters discuss the law in Richard F Zehnle, a law student terms -0f drugs and alcohol, emwho was responsible for much of ployment and education rights, sexual preferences and the the research. fL'ICher described the three welfare problem. A second aim of the book, basic objectives of his book, whkh ill designed for the college Fischer said, is to show law stuor first-year law student. First, dents the rationale for the law the book provides an introduction and legal system - who is into law and its nature in ways that volved, what roles they play and students can appreciate. what their limitations are. "MANY STUDENTS are bored Finally, for the non-law stuby the historical survey aspect of dents, Fischer hopes to "make ~1m1oo~m,m1m1,• ~ where 3 FLYERS land ~ ~ before or ofter .,....._QQLDDiilliTI I Pan:i;~:
