Solstis School Seeks U Aid

A campai & h a s b e e ff launched by an experimental secondary school here to try to persuade the University to change its plans and allow the school to continue this fall in a University-owned house. Officials of Solstis School, now located at 706 Oakland, say petitions will be passed out on the University Diagonal asking the University to reconsider its positiori. The signed petitions will be presented to U-M President Robben W. Fleming. Solstis founders signed a lease for the old house in June, tvith the understanding that the louse would be demolished at :he end of the summer. The house is in a rundown condition and not up to city code. The University does not want to invest funds for renovations. Ted Turkle, director of the U-M Tutorial Project and associate director of student organizations at the University, eontends that renovations sufficient to allow the house to be used for Solstis classes and - . offices could be made for about $4,000. Turkle says it would probably eost the University at least that amount to demolish the house. Only the main floor of the house was used his summer by Solstis, since the other áreas are not up to code. Solstis was an experimental summer project begun in June by a group of Ann Arbor secondary students and teach-, ers and U-M students who were dissatisfied with usual approaches to education. The project was considered successful by Solstis people, and they hope to expand the school this fall - if they can find a home.