University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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friending students for a long time. Leo’s is a warm little restaurant snack-type place where bleary- eyed students come to nourish themselves after all-niters or early morning tests. The food is cheap, but students have learned by now that they must purchase two hamburgers to get enough meat for one bun. Leo makes his hamburgers by hand and some- times forgets that they shrink on the grill. The front window and the shelf near the wall are filled with the dust covered kleenex, band- aids and toothpaste that nobody ever buys. Despite the dust, Leo’s is one of the cleanest places around. It’s the lunchtime hangout of the Sociology and English professors who have of- fices in Foley Hall next door. Dean Mahoney, who has not for- gotten his humble beginnings as a U of D English undergraduate, often comes back to haunt Leo's and can frequently be seen gest- uring wildly to make his point to some student or faculty member while looking past them out the front window. White Tower occupies the op- posite extreme of the Strip. Few students go there unless no place else is open. Many students find the waitresses unpleasant, the hamburgers greasy and the clien- tele undesirable. The U of D Pizzeria and the 20’s are someplace in between. The Pizzeria is one of the few places besides the Union which is open late enough for dinner be- fore an evening class. U of D stu- dents are the only people dumb and hungry enough to put up with disgusting food. The 20's is the only bar within walking distance, which is why it does such a tremendous business. Over the summer it was remod- eled; the bar was moved to the opposite side and kitchen facili- ties were included. The 20’s spe- cializes in umpteen varieties of submarine sandwiches, which are a lot of bread and not much meat. On a campus completely devoid of social life, the 20’s is the place to be on Thursday night. The new 18 year old drink- ers and old veterans pack the joint to anticipate the weekend and hussle a date for Saturday night. Last year the ABC Bookstore moved from Six Mile to a more central location on Livernois. ABC began a few years ago as an attempt to furnish its owner with a living, U of D students with cheaper books and supplies and the U of D bookstore with com- petition. It has succeeded in all three as its expansion into the neighboring storefront will attest. Ma Clayton’s is worth the trek down to Puritan. It is the cleanest restaurant around and features ‘“homecooked” food. Word has leaked out however. At noon- time, one must battle truck driv- ers and telephone linemen for a stool at the counter. The worst part about Clayton’s is devouring the generous portions of food to get to the homemade pie that’s for dessert. The other campus extension is the Fisher Mansion. The mansion was donated to the University by the Fisher family, who made their wad manufacturing Fisher bodies for General Motors. As a non- profit organization, U of D does not have to pay taxes on the house, but they are stuck with an aging building which requires a great deal of maintenance and is seldom used except for meetings, conferences, teas and small din- ners. Despite the cost of upkeep the mansion’s opulence and beautiful setting make it easy to overlook its flaws. The majority of the Universi- ty’s students are commuters. For them U of D is sort of an exten- sion of high school. There’s not much for them to do here except attend classes. They can fre- quently be found playing cards in the Union or eating lunch in their cars. If they are fortunate enough to belong to a car pool, they often wander around looking bewil- dered, trying to find their ride home for the night. Commuters usually cut out as soon as their classes are over and perhaps if there were something to hold them here, they would hang around longer and get to know more of the other students. The students who live in off- campus housing are divided into two categories. Some live within walking distance and consider themselves. resident students al- though they do not live in the dorms. Those whose distance from school dictates that they drive sometimes think of them- selves as commuters, while the students who remember their earlier years in the residence halls will always identify them as dormies. Until this year, if a commuter arrived at campus after nine o'clock he frequently had to cruise the two distant chuck- holed lots trying to find a parking place. If his search were reward- ed he still had to troop a half mile through knee deep mud and hope that his battery didn’t get ripped off before he returned. All that is changed now, well almost. For a mere $25 a year or $10 a semester a student can purchase a parking sticker which assures him a parking place somewhere in one of the University’s fenced- in lots. The security patrol oc- casionally tickets unstickered cars and, although the lots are still muddy, the chuck holes aren’t as deep as last year. Other than that not much has changed , except that there are more park- ing places available.

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