EDITORIAL
Proceed with caution
in housing changes
Michael Eyster, director of the Office of University
Housing, has proposed new family housing eligibility
requirements in the hopes of changing existing guide
lines. But first he wants constructive student feedback,
after which he will determine what changes to make.
His goal should l>e to restructure the guidelines in
a family-oriented way As it stands now, students with
children are given priority — if they arc within a sjm;
cific income group — and married students .ire next.
The new proposal instead gives priority to students
with children who have demonstrated financial need,
and gives preference to childless students who have fi
nancial need. Couples and affluent parents are given
lowest priority.
Although the proposal has some good points.
Eyster needs to straighten out a few significant flaws
before it can be passed.
First, because the proposal would give childless
graduate and undergraduate students with financial
need priority over students with children who don t
have financial need, the name "family housing" be
comes a inis mier A family, for the purposes of the
University, is traditionally made up of a parent or par
ents raising a child, or two people sharing a relation
ship.
Under the current rules, single graduate students
are last on the priority list, not second or third. Eyster
needs to make clear whether low income students will
become the focus of the housing units, or if families
will remain the priority. If the complex does focus pri
marily on low-income students, the apartments should
not operate under the guise of "family housing " They
should lie identified as what they are — low-cost apart
ments.
Second, "financial need" has to he solidly de
fined. In the proposal as it was written, "financial
need" meant people who receive financial aid. But
Eyster said the proposal was inaccurate, and he will
have a different set ot guidelines based on a variety of
criteria.
Eyster needs to make sure aid less students who
have children are given a fair shake at housing units. II
one of these families can't afford normal housing, they
should he given priority over single students, no matter
what their tax returns say. There are always extenuat
ing circumstances to every situation. There's nothing
wrong with denying housing to affluent parents, but
not all aid less families are affluent.
Third, opening the units to non-married couples is
admirable bcxuiusc it will allow homosexual couples to
live in family housing. Unfortunately, it may also cause
students who are looking for low-cost housing to just
grab a roommate and sign up That would be a blatant
abuse of the new guidelines and needs to he prevented.
Family housing units need to he delegated proper
ly. They are meant for parents and couples who can't
afford a $400 per-month apartment along with child
expenses. And Eyster can't forget this.
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Shipping out
Apparently there i>. saini' bit
terness roueerning the omis
sion of Madonna's book Sex
from the University library
Well, if Madonna is indicative
of si holarshlp and leadership
in current Amerii an culture,
then I humbly request a tmnsier
to a desk-jot) assignment in one
of our overseas»nmbassles
Thank you
Scott Camp
Political Science
Layoff
I think it's about time some
one spoke in favor of I’hi kap
pa Psi fraternity Niki Rauch
spoke out in her letter [ODE.
Dm 1) and said she was not
protesting against the Individu
al that raped her. but the frater
nity itself Her reason lor not
condemning tin- rapist was be
cause he acted "maturely and
responsibly" after the rape She
said Phi Psi promotes an atmos
phere of rape, abuse and ha
rassment to women
Now let's get some things
straight After the rape hap
pened, Phi kappa Psi visited
sororities to tell the girls what
happened Members admitted a
rape had occurred, and that the
pledge had been disaffiliated
They said they planned a
seminar for their fraternity
members and pledges I know
they carried through with their
plan because I went to it
Phi Kappa Psi is as much a
promoter of rape as any other
fraternity, co-op. dorm or club
Any place where alcohol is
served — and there are people
willing to abuse it there is an
environment for rape.
People should stop laying the
finger on Phi Psi. Members
were at least responsible
enough !o admit to the rape
and take action. We should lay
our focus on the organizations
that keep these incidents quiet.
Stop using Phi Psi as the scape
goat to a much broader prob
lem
Isadora Fried
Finance
Stay home
This letter is written in re
sponse to tin' "opinion written
bv Tammv Da lev {ODE Doc 7)
l-'irst of all, it is in my "opin
ion (ii.it Daley's column is the
exact reason as to why there are
so many problems with race re
lations not only on tins cam
pus, lint ill six iotv as >i whole
Daley and 1 attended the
same meeting that tier column
was about (Korean/African
American race relations), 1
think If we did, her column
was based on totally miscon
strued information in order to
make the organizations that put
on the forum look bad, as well
as the people who attended it.
But do not get me wrong, we
really did appreciate tier being
there
Secondly, Batey wonders
why some people did not want
people from the press there
Well, just look at all of the great
press we received for it A won
derful token article {ODE. Dec
.1) and. of course, her beautiful
ly well-written, misconstrued
fact containing "opinion" col
umn
It was that we were just too
plain modest to have all of that
good press come our wav We
just wanted to share the fortune
with others not so fortunate
But hey. thanks lor coming
I'inullv, if Batey came to the
forum to try to learn and help.
I'm sure all who were there ap
preciated her noble efforts, but
she would have been even
more help if she would have
"stayed home in bed" with her
door locked
Craig A. Sims
Black Student Union
Left out
I was wondering where Mid
dle Eastern students (Arab and
Jewish students) fit in on the
neat little chart — "Minority
Students at the University" —
that appeared on the cover of
the Dec. 7 Emerald
I guess the answer is no
where.
If anv students should feel
ioneh and isolated, il should
he Middle Eastern students be
cause thev are left out of the
picture completolv Are Alri
can. Asian. Latino/Chicano and
Native Americans really the
only minority groups represent
ed here on campus7
Christina Komeshian
TCF
Ask for Sex'
The Unwrald's recent interest
in library-collection building is
both noteworthy and praise
worthy Unfortunately, the Uni
versity library's position was
not presented fully and accu
rately in the Dec. 2 article on
the library's review of Madon
na's Sox for possible inclusion
in the collections
Cheryl Kern-Simirenko noted
that if the library received a co
gent statement of research or
instructional need, the library
would buy it She further ob
served that the presence or ab
sence ol controversy was not a
reason to purchase or not pur
chase An item's relevance to
the University's research and
instructional mission would be
the determining factor. Accu
rate inclusion of this informa
tion would have rendered the
editorial superfluous
Kern-Simirenko also noted
tile book's possible value to tile
study of popular culture and
her expectation that research li
braries with large popular cul
ture collections would pur
chase it The University library
does not collect extensively in
popular culture and therefore
inclusion of Sox did not seem
warranted.
Those were all salient points
in the discussion of the issues
and should have boen shared
with the campus community I
regret you did not do so.
Georg* W. Shipman
Univarsity Librarian