LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - 3 THIS WEEK Five years ago... University President Lee Bollinger announced his intent to move the executive offices from the Fleming Administration Building into Angell Hall. Bollinger had long desired to bring the administration closer to students. Although plans were temporary, the proposal was designed to move the president and his staff into various LSA administration offices on the first floor and basement of the build- ing. Several students and faculty responded positively to the decision. "I like the idea of moving to Angell Hall," Michigan Student Assembly President Trent Thomp- son said. "It's one way of making students physically closer to the administration. Moving to Angell Hall will give a central position on where the administration is." Five years later, the president's office remains in the Fleming Building. Ten years ago... Mark Schollett, president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and Megan Stedman, Chi Omega sorori- ty president, confirmed allegations that Chi Omega bribed SAE into letting Chi Omega members play in the Mudbowl by sending a female stripper along with pizza and cham- pagne to the fraternity. Schollett also confirmed that he received a keg of beer from the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, also hoping for a Mudbowl spot. "We regret the offensive nature of the incident and apologize for the neg- ative statement that it makes," Sted- man said. Members of the Interfraternity Council said actions against the houses would be taken by the national chapters of their organiza- tions. Oct. 30, 1987 The state Senate passed a bill allow- ing state universities to deputize their public safety officers. At the time, the University was the only Big Ten School not to have a regular campus police force. Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline) said he thought such a move would be positive. "It is clearly a more effective way to protect students than currently exists." But state Sen. Lana Pollack (D- Ann Arbor) said she would oppose a deputized police force at the Uni- versity. "The very nature of the University is independence and that's a good rea- son not to have a police force," Pol- lack said. Three years later, the University made the controversial decision to create the Department of Public Safe- ty as a police department. Oct. 26, 1965 The American Friends Service Committee and Students for a Democratic Society held a meeting for community members to discuss the draft and possible alternatives to not serving in the Vietnam War. Paul Lauder, a member of the AFSC, told his audience that they had the options of serving in the Medical Corps, taking a clerical position in the Army or another gov- ernment position for two years or going to jail if they decided to ignore the Selective Service. But SDS President Carl Oglesby said the bigger issue of the meeting was actions being taken in Vietnam rather than the draft. "But, then, if I were the govern- ment and were in the position of having to justify our actions in Viet- nam' I would rather talk about the fdraft too.'' Nov. 1, 1956 The Student Government Council approved a motion to investigate residence hall funding. The study would cover the current plan, its effects on students and comparable systems at other univer- sities. Also during the meeting, there was a discussion related to the ongoing Suez War in Egypt. Nov. 1, 1978 The University announced the cre- ation of four residence hall study rooms to alleviate overcrowding in University libraries. Students com- Prof: Military violates law schools' By Tomislav Ladika Daily Staff Reporter The founder of a group that is suing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called on Law School students and fac- ulty yesterday to join the "current civil rights battle" by protesting military recruitment policies that he said violate college nondiscrimination clauses. The military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy - which discourages military members from discussing their sexuality - conflicts with law school non-dis- crimination statements, said Boston Col- lege law Prof. Kent Greenfield. These statements in almost every case protect students from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, said Green- field, who is the founder of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights. But colleges are required to allow mil- itary recruiters onto their campuses or lose federal financial aid provided by the Department of Defense, according to the Solomon Amendment passed by Con- gress in 1995, Greenfield said at the Law School yesterday. "The enforcement of the Solomon Amendment forces the Law School to compromise its principled commit- ment to equality and non-discrimina- tion," Law School student Madeleine Findley said. Findley is a member of Outlaws, a student group that sponsored the pres- entation. Greenfield said he created FAIR with the help of some of his law students to sue Rumsfeld after the Department of Defense sent letters to law schools equality across the country threatening to revoke federal funding. "The Defense Department were act- ing like thugs," Greenfield said. "They wanted special treatment. They wanted to come on our campus and only hire straight people." All other recruiters that come to law schools are required to abide by the schools' nondiscrimination policies, he said. ."You can't condition government benefits on whether the recipient agrees with the government, and that's what the Solomon Amend- ment does," he said. He added that some schools that have joined FAIR in the lawsuit have received between $100 and $300 million in fund- ing from the Department of Defense. The only schools that have publicly announced their support for the lawsuit, which was filed five weeks ago, are New York University, George Washing- ton University and Golden Gate Univer- sity, he said. The Department of Justice, which usually handles such lawsuits, filed a brief defending the Solomon Amend- ment and the military's recruitment policies. The brief states that federal aid pro- grams are unconstitutional only when their conditions prohibit recipients from engaging in constitutionally protected conduct outside of the program's scope. "The provision at issue has nothing to do with the protected conduct, speech, that the plaintiffs' claim is infringed upon," the brief states. "(The Solomon Amendment) does policies not prohibit the recipients from engag- ing in any protected conduct - they are free to speak as they please. They are only prohibited from discriminating against the military from gaining access to campuses in their recruitment activi- ties." Greenfield said since the Department of Defense began threatening to take away their funding, law schools have been "caving in ways we would never teach our students to do." Greenfield said "it would be incredi- bly powerful" if the University Law School or its faculty joined FAIR in the lawsuit. He asked University students to encourage Law School faculty and administrators to support the suit. Many schools and the American Association of Law Schools have declined to participate in the lawsuit because they fear government retalia- tion, he said. "The more numbers we get, the hard- er it will be for AALS to be a non-par- ticipant" in the suit, he said. "Now everybody's scared of retaliation, but in a year everybody will be saying, 'My, what were we thinking?'" After Greenfield concluded his speech, a Law School professor announced that he would support the initiative. Law School student and Outlaws member Pierce Beckham said Outlaws has been meeting with Law School fac- ulty and administrators. "Faculty members at the Law School tend to be very supportive of LGBT issues,"he said. Boston College law Prof. Kent Greenfield, founder and president of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, discusses yesterday his lawsuit against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. GREENBELT Continued from Page 1 Homeowners already pay a 0.5 mill tax, part of which allows the city to maintain bicycle and hiking paths around the city, but Proposal B would prolong the tax for a 30- year period. "Proposal B doesn't take a single cent away from parks, but instead will add to, them," Hieftje said. Students for PIRGIM, the Environmental Justice Group, and other environment-friendly organizations have been working with the Environmental Issues Commission of the Michigan Students Assembly on the Greenbelt proposal. Ellen Kolasky, who is a co-chair of the MSA commission, responded to the concerns about housing. She said that legislation simi- lar to the Ann Arbor Greenbelt proposal has been passed in other cities, including Boulder, Colo. While the average housing price in Boulder has increased by 106 percent, she noted that the average housing price in Denver, a city without a greenbelt plan, also increased by 103 percent. Kolasky, an LSA junior, said Proposal B is not anti-development and preserves the quali- ty of life for Ann Arbor residents. "(The Greenbelt proposal) offers environ- mental protection and benefits everyone, regardless of class and both students and non- students alike," Kolasky said. MSA passed a resolution to support Pro- posal B at its meeting last night, after Hieftje spoke in its favor. MSA will hold a teach-in at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Michigan Union Ballroom to educate students about Proposal B and to garner its support. 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