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removed before Tuesday's start of class-
es, but gallons of paint dumped down
the front of the building remain.
Don Cohen, Michigan regional
director
of the Anti-Defamation
The Detroit Medical Center has decid-
League, says it is unknown whether
ed to tear down the former Sinai
those involved in the incident are asso-
Hospital building, it was announced
ciated with a well-known hate-
last week.
group/white power rock band whose
Factors included in the decision to
leader lives in Rochester Hills.
raze the 850,000-square-foot building,
Woliung says school officials suspect
opened in 1950, were maintenance
students are responsible for the graffiti.
costs of $200,000 a month, and a
Cohen requested that school staff
building that would cost $20 million to
offer an outlet for concerned students.
renovate.
Woliung expects teachers will incorpo-
After several community meetings
rate discussion of the incident into the
were held, the neighbors suggested
social studies curriculum as well as the
replacing the 34-acre site with zoned
students' annual review of the school's
residential and mixed-use development.
code of conduct.
"This process has been a wonderful
"We seem to feel that it is not a
example of a business and community
hate crime because we have not had an
partnership," said Conrad Mallet,
experience like this before," and no
DMC's chief administrative officer.
specific group was mentioned,
"The DMC knows that the success of
Woliung says. "We're looking at it as a
this land is directly tied to the success
one-time thing."
of northwest Detroit."
Cohen, however, describes the van-
The DMC plans to save the four-
dalism
itself as a crime and said the
floor medical professional building and
use of the swastika, a symbol of white
the parking deck.
power, makes it hate-related. The
— Harry Kirsbaum
Oakland County Sheriff's Department
is investigating the incident.
Coincidentally, a national ADL
program, "Close the Book on Hate," a
campaign designed to fight learned
intolerance through the promotion of
Dozens of swastikas painted on a
reading as a form of education, will
rooftop skylight at Rochester High
take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.
School were discovered on the morn-
27, at the Rochester Barnes and Noble
ing of Monday, Aug. 28, along with
Booksellers, 2800 S. Rochester Road.
graffiti aimed at school officials, none
The bookstore chain is the national
of them Jewish.
sponsor. For information, call (248)
Jennifer Woliung, community coor-
853-9855.
dinator for Rochester Community
Schools, says the Rochester Hills
— Shelli Liebman Dolfmai
school's infrequent vandalism has
never included antisemitic material or
swastikas in the past. The graffiti was

Wrecking Ball
Ahead For Sinai

Much love from Jerry, Karen,
Gad and Randy

Rochester School
Site Of Hate Crime

Corrections

In "ZOA Man" (Aug. 25, page 17), Menachem Begin was referred to as
•
Z'vai
commander of the Hagana; he was commander of the IIrgun
ZL (
Le'umi), forerunner of the Herut party and later the Likud. The Irgun was
more extreme than the Hagana.
The story, "No Longer A Dream" (Aug. 25, page 6), refers to Hillel Day
•
School of Metropolitan Detroit as serving students in nursery through
eighth grade. Hillel's program actually begins in kindergarten.

• A photo with the story "Side By Side"
(Aug. 25, page 43) misidentified a coun-
selor in the JCC Special Needs Day Camp
Inclusion Program as Shaina Stewart. The
caption should read: Lauren Epstein, 20,
and Julie Schwartz, 20, both of West
Bloomfield, share a laugh with camper
Lauren Ettinger, 13, of Farmington Hills.

