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EWSBRIEFS
TROIT
G Cox against
hippewa land deal
Michigan's attorney general is
jecting to a settlement reached
ter five years of litigation that
ould grant the Saginaw Chippewa
ibe some authority over land that
claimed was part of the original
servation.
The deal signed this week would
ut all or part of seven townships
mid-Michigan's Isabella County
nder partial control of the tribe,
hich is known for its Soaring
agle casino in Mount Pleasant.
here are agreements on taxes,
olice jurisdiction and zoning,
mong other issues, affecting tribal
embers who live there.
In a court filing, Attorney Gen-
ral Mike Cox said the settlement
epresents a significant change in
e relationship between the state
nd the tribe, and the public needs
ore time to digest the deal.
Cox, a Republican, said he was
specially concerned about a pro-
ibition on non-tribal police going
nto tribal territory unless they
ere in hot pursuit or responding
o an emergency.
ASHINGTON
Study finds 'don't
ask, don't tell' can
be easily repealed
Gay rights advocates said yes-
terday they hoped Congress will be
moved to repeal the law known as
'don't ask, don't tell" after a Pen-
tagon study found it could be done
with little harm to the military.
The Senate is expected to vote
next month on ending the 17-year-
old legislation barring gays from
serving openly in the armed forces.
Several senators, including Olym-
pia Snowe, R-Maine, and Jim Webb,
D-Va., have said they wanted to see
the study's findings before deciding
how to vote.
"These results confirm what
those of us who actually know the
modern military, especially the
rank-and-file troops, have said
all along: The men and women of
America's armed forces are profes-
sionals who are capable of handling
this policy change," said Alexander
Nicholson, . executive director of
Servicemembers United.
Repeal opponents shot back, say-
ing the group leading the study,
which has not been released pub-
licly, was biased and that selected
details were leaked to the media
this week in an effort to drum up
public support for repeal.
HAVERFORD, Pa.
Teen forced to leave
horse at home
Whoa! There will be no more
horsing around for a suburban Phil-
adelphia teen who's been commut-
ing to school on his trusty steed.
Roby Burch had been riding his
horse Jet about four miles each way
to the private Haverford School. He
was keeping the horse in a corral on
school grounds.
Burch told The Philadelphia
Inquirer that school trustees decid-
ed in October that the horse was a
liability. The teen then began keep-
ing Jet at his uncle's house nearby.
However, Burch said Jet hurt his
hoof from the repeated trips over
pavement. Another family horse
twice escaped while Burch was in
class.
Now he's getting a ride from his
parents. The 16-year-old hopes to
get his driver's license in February.
JERUSALEM
Former Israeli
Prime Minister to
leave hospital
Former Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon, comatose for more
than four years after suffering a
series of strokes, is going home'to
his ranch, an aide said yesterday.
One of Israel's most popular
and controversial figures, Sharon
has been in the long-term care
unit of Tel Hashomer Hospital
outside Tel Aviv since suffering
the strokes in 2006.
Rasnan Gissin, a longtime
Sharon aide, told The Associat-
ed Press that "the plan is by the
end of the week for him to return
home." Sharon has a sheep ranch
in Israel's south.
Dr. Zeev Rothstein, director
of the hospital where Sharon has
been a patient, described his con-
* dition as "mini-unconsciousness,
meaning he is not unconscious
but he is not fully conscious.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports.
ZARAGON
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cause for any increase in busi-
ness, but I think that it is good
for business," Hirachian said. "I
think it makes the street very
attractive."
Hirachian added that the
economy is still a little slow to
bounce back and it might be
canceling out any benefits of the
nearby Zaragon residents.
"It's still too soon to know,"
she said.
One reason local businesses
may not be seeing an uptick in
business, despite a swell of stu-
dents living in the area, may be
because Zaragon Place came
with two attached businesses.
Revive and Replenish, located
on the main floor of the apart-
ments, were part of the approv-
al process for Zaragon Place.
Revive is a coffee shop and deli
that prepares its own food, while
Replenish sells beer, wine, chees-
es and some essential groceries.
Dick Schubach, one of the
owners of both Revive and
Replenish, estimated that during
the school year, 80 percent of his
customers are students and that a
significant number of those stu-
dents come from Zaragon Place.
"It's been a very enjoyable
symbiotic relationship," Schu-
bach said. "It's great for the kids
826MICHIGAN
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including budget cuts to pub-
lic schools across the country,
classroom overcrowding and an
increase in parents' work time,
Uhle said that one-on-one inter-
action between children and their
teachers or parents is less fre-
quent. She added that 826michi-
gan is able to help address this
problem by providing children
with one-on-one tutors.
"We have somehow found a
way to make (826michigan) invit-
ing and fun, and the best way you
can describe it is to look around at
the children who are happy to be
here and so relaxed," she said.
826michigan opened in Ann
Arbor in 2005 as an indepen-
dent organization affiliated with
826national, Uhe said. The
national branch was founded in
San Francisco by author Dave
Eggers, and has since spread to
eight locations across the coun-
try. Each location has a different
store theme, like a pirate store in
San Francisco and a superhero
store in New York.
The Ann Arbor organization
collaborates - with local public
schools, specifically those in
Ypsilanti, and with places like the
Ozone House and Avalon Hous-
ing - housing organizations that
support low-income families in
the area - in the hopes of com-
bining learning and fun, Uhle
said.
"We serve in a year about 2,000
students and some of those are (at
826michigan) and some of those
are out in school classrooms and
other places," she said.
According to Uhe, one of their
most successful programs is a
second-grade class field trip, in
which students come to 826mich-
igan and write and create their
ownbound books.
"In two hours a second-grader
walks in with nothing and walks
out with a book that they wrote,"
she said.
Volunteers and students using
the tutoring services can come
by on a drop-in basis whenever
they're available, Uhle said.
"It's a really appealing volun-
teer opportunity for people," she
said, "because they don't have to
and it's great for us."
Joe Schlenke, a longtime
employee of Espresso Royale
on South University, said he
believes the stores that opened
with Zaragon Place have added
competition to coffee shops in
the area.
"I have seen the diversity of
our clientele increase a little bit, I
haven't noticed any sales boost,"
Schlenke said. "I think there is a
little more competition."
But Zaragon residents say they
are taking advantage of Zaragon
Place's central location and fre-
quenting shops in the area.
LSA sophomore Udae Sandhu,
a Zaragon Place resident, said
he believes tenants of the apart-
ment complex are likely to be
more affluent than other stu-
dents, which is probably good for
area businesses.
"A lot of kids here are willing
to spend a lot more money than
the average student," Sandhu
said.
Business sophomore Costa
Mavroleon, another Zaragon
resident, said he finds the fact
that the building is surround-
ed by a variety of restaurants
encourages him to eat out more
often and spend money at area
establishments.
"You are much more encour-
aged to go out and eat just
because of the location," Mavro-
leon said.
commit necessarily to a sched-
ule."
826michigan works closely
with the University's Master of
Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Program, and many MFA stu-
dents are tutors at the center.
,Catherine Calabro, the pro-
gram coordinator of 826michi-
gan, first got involved with the
organization while she was a
graduate student in the creative
writing program. She said she
loves the organization's innova-
tive spin on learning.
"It's really exciting to see
adults and students use their
creativity to come up with some-
thing together," Calabro said.
In addition to students in the
writing program, Uhe said vol-
unteers of all ages and disciplines
are needed and welcome.
LSA senior Erin Bernhard, an
826michigan volunteer, said she
feels that she is making a differ-
ence by helping a young girl from
Korea complete her homework
and learn English.
"I absolutely love it," Bernhard
said. "I love being able to make
her laugh and smile."
Education junior Katy Wagner,
who also tutors at 826michigan,
said the organization is an ami-
able and worry-free environment
for kids and teenagers.
"(26michigan) makes things
really fun and relaxed, and so I
think that kids don't feel pres-
sured to have the right answer all
the time," Wagner said.
In addition to the tutoring ser-
vice, the organization also hosts
a variety of writing workshops
like poetry writing, prose writ-
ing, fairy tale writing and super-
hero writing. Students' work is
then published online and in the
several books and catalogs that
826michigan distributes.
Julie Rick, a master's student
in the School of Information,
interned at 826michigan this
past summer and now works
there a few days a week. She
said it is really the people behind
826michigan that make the cen-
ter's services possible.
"I think that the people who
are here want to be here and
have a deep love of kids and
learning and want to share that
to help create life-long learners,"
she said.
RAGSTOCK
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Ragstock is based in Minneapolis
with 15 locations throughout the
Midwest. The concept for the store,
Parker said, began in the 1960s as
rag-picking companies became
popular. College students would
ask if they could look through the
clothing at factories before the
items were turned into rags. Gradu-
ally, this method evolved into the
idea behind used-clothing stores
like Ragstock.
Ragstock gets all its used cloth-
ing from a warehouse that buys
the articles by the bale and sorts
through it to distribute it to all the
store branches, according to Parker.
As for the new clothing, the com-
pany has buyers who go out to New
York City and order various items,
she said.
The store also gets overstock or
irregulars of name-brand products
so it can keep prices low, Parker
said. These cheap prices help to
attract college customers, which is
why every Ragstock store is located
in a college town. But, the clothing
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thing that just becomes common
practice for years to come," she
said. "No one will even know that
this was something that we didn't
do in the past."
Members of both councils were
initially concerned that some
sororities might not participate
in the policy because some soror-
ity national organizations did not
want their members taking on
increased responsibility and liabil-
ity at parties. But LSA senior Mike
Miniaci, vice president of social
responsibly for IFC, wrote in an
e-mail interview that so far the
amendment is going better than
originally anticipated.
"I expected some hiccups as
we were first implementing the
policy," Miniaci wrote. "But every-
thing has gone smoothly. Fra-
ternities and sororities are both
cooperating, and the results are
showing with the increased safety
at our events."
The social liaisons have been
very helpful to-the fraternity sober
monitors, according to Miniaci.
"With the social liaisons looking
after the members of their sorority,
the sober monitors can focus more
LSA sophomore Deidre Ratliff shops for a onesie at Ragstock yesterday.
is meant to appeal to a variety of
ages, Parker said.
LSA senior Jessica Jurek said
she's found Ragstock to be a
"trendy-meets-vintage" kind of
store.
"For me, it looked like a combina-
tion of Salvation Army with bright
Christmas sweaters and tie-dye
shirts," Jurek said.
But Jurek said she wonders if
on actively controlling the event,"
he wrote.
over the course of this and fol-
lowing semesters, Miniaci wrote
that both councils will have a
better sense of the amendment's
strengths and weaknesses.
"I anticipate IFC and Panhel to
evaluate the amendment and make
changes if they are necessary," he
wrote.
Engineering senior Lianna Gor-
don, executive vice president of
Panhel, said she thinks IFC events
have improved with the new initia-
tive.*
"It is safer," she said. "(The
social liasons) know their sisters
and they can identify them versus
a fraternity member who doesn't
necessarily know who they are,
where they're from, how old they
are, whether they live in a dorm or,
in the sorority house, etc."
General safety knowledge with-
in Panhel has also increased with
the addition of educational work-
shops on the effects of alcohol con-
sumption, Gordon said.
This semester, Gordon has
restarted the Secure in Sister-
hood workshops in partnership
with University Health Service.
The goal of these workshops is to
increase alcohol awareness, partic-
ularly among new freshman mem-
many students will find out about
the store because of its location,
which is a few blocks away from
Central Campus.
"I feel like people might not walk
by there as much, though, because
it is not in the best location," Jurek
said. "Although, they had unique
things, and it would be worthwhile
to walk the extra five minutes to get
an outfit for themed parties."
bers, for whom the workshops are
mandatory.
"We were trying to reach out
to them and say, 'Listen; you are
going out at night, what's the story
you want to tell in years to come?
... What stories do you portray?'"
Gordon said.
For example, the workshops
addressed the implications of hav-
ing party pictures on Facebook,
and how various medications like
birth control, ADD and ADHD
medicine can affect how intoxicat-
ed one feels, she said. Other topics
included the effects of Four Loko,
the recently banned alcoholic ener-
gy drink.
The point of the workshops,
Gordon said, isn't to preach to
membersthat they shouldn'tdrink,
but rather to encourage them to be
safe.
"The purpose is to help girls
understand when they need to help
their sisters, how to help them-
selves and how to be responsible at
night," she said.
Gordon said she hopes the work-
shops will continue in the future to
ensure all future Panhel members
are educated about these issues.
"When you try to change a com-
munity, you have to start at the
youngest level so it can carry on
through," she said.
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