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"Summer Detroit's and Smoke" Greektown in Friday wt ^^B in Friday Friday, November 9,1984THEBQLNEWS Vol. 67 Issue 42 Tracks: City works for crossing safety by Don Lee At the Monday meeting, he A letter from the Ohio Depart- staff reporter said, "I'd rather go to jail for ment of Transportation allowing that than for something else." the reinstallation of the signs Traffic safety at the city's Whether or not Elsass' sug- came late last week, said Dave railroad crossings has reached gestion had any part in it, the Barber, city public works direc- the point that a city councilman city now will be permitted to put tor. has come out in favor of putting up warning signs at the ConRail Barber said the city was plan- up signs illegally to remedy the* crossing at Clough Street. ning to install separate stop problem. signs and red flashers, although When told at Monday night's Mayor Bruce Bellard said the the ODOT decision may specify council meeting that state law city again would be able to put another type of sign. prohibits stop signs to be used as stop signs with flashing red traffic control devices at rail- lights at railroad crossings as a The eventual goal is to get road crossings, Ward 2 Coun- traffic control device. double-red flashers and crossing cilman David Elsass asked, The city had installed stop gates at the Clough Street cross- "Why don't we put some up signs several years ago but state ing, he said, possibly by summer anyway?" law ruled them illegal and they of 1965. "I thought it would be a good were taken down about 1980, Joe Fenton, traffic safety en- way to call attention to the prob- Bellard said. gineer for ODOT, said the city's lem," Elsass said yesterday. request for stop signs at the "... It seems like every month THERE ARE presently round Clough Street crossing required we're having some kind ofprob- railroad warning signs with am- the signature of the ODOT direc- lem over there (at the Clough ber flashers at the Clough Street tor in Columbus, but "more than Street crossing)." crossing, Bellard said. likely would be approved." Big shows began in '76 by Dina Horwedel big name entertainment was because it seemed to slaff reporter be very popular at other universities. "It seems to be a thing parents and students can What many students think of as being a tradi- both do together," Weiss said. "We try to get a tional Parents Day at the University has not performer who can appeal to both." always been such a big event. He said comedians seem to be very popular, and According to Larry Weiss, assistant vice presi- in the past Bob Hope, Rich Little, Red Skelton and dent of alumni affairs, the Parents Day we know - David Brenner have appeared here. complete with a big name performer - originated in 1976 through the Office of Alumni and Devel- HE SAD) Doc Severinsen is a performer who opment. appeals to parents and students alike. Tickets are sold out for the performance and Weiss said this is Weiss said the office handles the Parents Club, a the seventh sell-out in nine years in the history of fund-raising organization comprised of parents the Parents Day show. who make financial contributions to the Univer- sity. The club has financed such things as the When Weiss was a student here in the '60s, there typing room in Jerome Library. was a similar program called "Dad's Day." He said a football game and a show in the Main He said the office found it natural to sponsor a Auditorium of University Hall were the main Parents Day to show its appreciation to the events. But the show featured entertainment by parents of University students. students and top-name billings were not featured, BG News/Susan Crow Another reason for sponsoring Parents Day with he said. Linda Tillery, composer and singer, sings the title cut from her upcoming album entitled 'Secrets' before a small but enthusiastic crowd in the Grand Ballroom last night. Tillery and her band were invited to perform by Women for Women, Graduate Student Senate. Ethnic Cultural Arts Program and the Women Studies program. Dunns enjoy funeral home life Segregation found by Jim Nleman Having a funeral home be- Sometimes the Dunns are dis- that he had never moved out," at a Toledo school reporter neath them doesn't mean the turbed, not by mourners, but by Stephen said. Dunns have to be as quiet as music the family or the de- The Dunns plan to move into The Dunn Funeral Home is a church mice. ceased has chosen. TOLEDO (AP) - The city's large foreboding Victorian man- "(The mourners) make more "WE ONCE had "Jesus Christ the house next door in the next blacks. Twelve percent of the few months. "Who knows, school superintendent says white freshmen were in basic sion at 408 W. Wooster St. It noise downstairs than five kids Superstar" playing for eight disciplinary action is planned seems that if ever a house were could ever make up here," Mr. straight hours." Stephen said. maybe we will miss it," Becky courses, compared to 56 per- said. at a nigh school where blacks cent of the blacks. haunted, this would be the place. Dunn said. The Dunns bought the house, were placed in entry-level Not so. Funerals bring together peo- nominated for recognition on the Grades apparently were She recently told an acquaint- courses and whites in honors not considered in the assign- The funeral home was built !ile who haven't seen each other National Historic Register, from classes regardless of their ment process, the report said. about 1890. It is very large and or years and in this way. they an 87-year-old man. ance they were planning to looks like it should be in a horror are a lot like weddings and fam- move. "My. that must be a very Freshmen at DeVilbiss were big undertaking," was the reply. A three-week investigation assigned to classes by school movie. The only "Spook" to be ily reunions, he said. "He said he always wished of class scheduling at DeVil- administrators instead of found here, however, is the fam- biss High School also found randomly by computer, the ily cat. that teachers were given the method used at the other Spook, black and precocious, entry-level courses as punish- seven public high schools in has the run of the home's second ment. the district, school officials floor. She is the pet of Stephen "There are classrooms at said. and Becky Dunn. The Dunns and DeVilbiss that are racially Caumartin said Wednesday their 16-year-old son live in the isolated beyond what is ac- that disciplinary action would funeral home. ceptable, and those students be taken, but refused to name They insist there have been no were assigned to certain tea- those who would be disci- odd experiences there. chers based on punishment plined. "I've lived in funeral homes (of the teachers). Why? We "There seems to be no for the last 18 years," Stephen don't know," said Hugh Cau- method to the madness ex- said. Since his father was a martin, superintendent of To- cept the method ended up in a funeral director, he grew up in ledo public schools. higher rate of racial isolation the family business. Officials of the 43,000-stu- than would normally hap- When people learn the Dunns dent Toledo school district pen," Caumartin said. live in a funeral home, their first appointed a committee to in- reaction is usually bewil- vestigate possible racial seg- THE SITUATION came to derment as to why they would regation at the school after a light when Constance Robin- ever want to, Becky said. teacher complained in early son, assistant superintendent, This initial reaction of sur- October. The committee re- got a letter from a black prise is invariably followed by a ported that its investigation teacher who complained of string of jokes, puns and one- found a disproportionate being assigned to teach a liners about the Dunns' profes- number of black students disproportionate number of sion and lifestyle, she added. were assigned to the basic, basic-level courses. Teachers "AFTER LISTENING to entry-level classes. normally are given a mix of them for so long, they just come class levels. in one ear and go out the other," THE SEGREGATION, Robinson said school offi- Stephen said. which Caumartin called "se- cials would try to correct the The Dunns are also plagued by rious," occurred particularly problem in a way that is least practical Jokes, prank phone among freshmen at DeVil- disruptive to students. She calls or are the unsuspecting biss. Enrollment at the four- said students probably would accomplice to a Joke being year, north side high school is remain in their current played on a third party.