Friday, ‘January 20. m7 Southeast Bottoms Project Biscussed a By BONNIE TINKER At a conierence last Saturday students from six lowa colleges discussed the philosophy and operation at a new project in Des Moines. "The Southeast Bottoms Pro< ject,” unrelated to “The Des Moines Project” or S.D.S., origi- nated last summer. Jim Dunn, a former social worker at the Wiiltie House in Des Mnines, orr ganized the summer staff oi nine who began preliminary block organizing. The most tangible results of last summer’s work were sev- eral “demonstrations." Granted, the neighborhood still doesn't have a stop light, and it doesn’t have sewers, but something much more significant was at complished. Gradually some or the people in the Bottoms be- gan to believe that change was possible, and that they could help to bring it. Although most at the stall left at the end of the summer, the Project continued. This tall it rented a house which the people iixed up as their “Project House.“ They use it tor regular meetings or the neighborhood, [or social acti ‘ties, and for a weekly medical and psychiatric clinic started by doctors irom the College ot Osteopathic Media cine and Surgery. A donated mimeograph is used to put out a neighborhood n e w s p a p e r, “ACT.” The community, of course, is not yet “organized” but the spirit of unity and optimism continues to grow These people are no longer talking about sim- ply “improving" their neighbor- hood — they are no longer going to be satisfied with the paving around the public water trough —they are talking about end~ lug slums; and they re doing something about it There are several immediate needs at the neighborhood if it is to develop One is a com- munity co- operative and credit union The people are consist- ently overcharged by local mer- chants, on whose credit they de» pend since they are unable to get loans trom banks and loan companies. Another important project is to get the area rezoned in the city’s current urban renewal plan the Bottoms area is zoned industrial, although there is no indication industry would use the area. A hasic premise oi the End the Slums Movement and OI the War on Poverty is that change must come about pri— marily through indigenous eta torts. People from outside the community may contribute re- sources not inund wllhin the t Conference community, but the real leader- ship and direction must be (lit:- tated by the neighborhood. in this context, the conference also discussed possible involvement of students in this and similar projects. it seems that college stuuems may tunction in two hasic ways: they could go to Des Moines on weekends to work, and they could raise mon- ey to help iinance the Projectt Student volunteer work is like ly to be unreliable, and most of it could be done by neighbor- hood volunteers or start anyway. Financial help is likely to be much more helpful to the com- munity. Funds could be used, for instance, to hire people irom the neighborhood as stait men‘r hers. 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