Illi4OW pan4,. ai1 m Arnn Arbor, Michigan Thursday, October 24, 2013 michigandaily.com ADMINISTRATION Gratz may run in 2014 regent race Firefighters look on as employees of DTE Energy clean up a car crash on State Street near Al Glick Field House Wednesday. Car crash knocks out power Driver lost control in the area. ity box full of wires near the also scene repairing the electrical Captain Jim Budd of the Ann appeared to be damaged. lines and inspecting the gas of vehicle after Arbor Fire Department said Most of the vehicle's airbags main for damage. the crash occurred around 3:30 appeared to be deployed in the DTE spokeswoman Randi 'medical emergency' p.m. Suffering from a "medical crash. The car was towed from Berris said crews checked the emergency," the driver struck a the scene shortly before 5:30 p.m. broken meter, but found no gas By ADAM RUBENFIRE fire hydrant near on the side of Huron Valley Ambulance leak. She said the house's gas Managing News Editor the street nearest to the Al Glick spokeswoman Joyce Williams line had not activated. Field House, Budd said. The car said the victim was taken to About 470 customers were A car crashed intoa house at then crossed the street, hitting a University Hospital in unstable affected as a result of the elec- Granger Avenue and South State guard wire that was stabilizing condition. No further details tric outage. Crews were still Street near the Al Glick Field a power pole in the area. It final- were available about why the working at the scene as of 6:40 House Wednesday afternoon, ly came to rest after hitting the driver lost control, due to pri- p.m., but power should be destroying part of the home's *house's porch, knocking out a vacy laws. restored sometime Wednesday porch and knocking out utilities gas meter in the process. A util- DTE Energy crews were on See CRASH, Page 3A Plantiff in 2003 SCOTUS case is waiting on ruling in Schuette suit By SAM GRINGLAS Daily StaffReporter on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month, anti-affirmative action activist Jennifer Gratz, who was the plaintiff in the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case Gratz v. Bol- linger, did not placate the buzz around her potential candidacy for the University's Board of Regents. At an on-campus talk Tuesday, Gratz said she has.not ruled out a run. In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Gratz said after her remarks her decision will likely hinge on the Court's deci- sion in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, the case for which Gratz traveled to the court earlier this month. Schuette v. Coalition chal- lenges the state of Michigan's 2006 ballot initiative, which banned the consideration of race and gender in college admissions. Though Gratz is neither plaintiff nor defendant in the case that's currently before the court, she is no stranger to the affirmative action debate. In Gratz v. Bollinger, the high court ruled on the Univer- sity's use of affirmative action in undergraduate admissions. In the following years, Gratz played a key role in passing Proposal 2, Michigan's 2006 affirmative action ban. With the state's policy ban- ning affirmative action again in the national spotlight, Gratz has reemerged as one of its main pro- ponents. If the court determines that a state can't make laws against race- or sex-based admissions and that a university's govern- ing body has the autonomous authority to determine affirma- tive action policy, Gratz said the only way to influence the issue would be from a seat on the Board of Regents. Conversely, if the court upholds the state constitutional See REGENT, Page 3A STU DNT GOVERNMENT School gov't leaders get to work on goals Leaders working on branding, housing and syllabi database By WILL GREENBERG Daily StaffReporter The University's student governments are looking to regroup and move forward this year as each school heads its own projects and increases cooperative efforts. LSA-SG WANTS TO MAKE DEGREE MORE . ATTRACTIVE Initiatives for some of the larger organizations, such as LSA Student Government and Rackham Student Government, want to increase the student enjoyment at the University and improve prospects for the future. Sagar Lathia, president of LSA Student Government, said he's hoping to use this year as an opportunity to rebrand the University's largest school. Lathia said many LSA stu- dents have been wary of their future job prospects compared to students from the more tech- nical or specific programs. He wants to better inform under- classmen of the resources and opportunities within LSA, to help them see the long-term benefits of an LSA degree. "Hitting it on both fronts, I think, will comfort people in the sense that they're already in the major that they love but knowing that they can do what they want and they have the support of LSA to get to their career goals is something that I think LSA students will really, really appreciate," Lathia said. He added that LSA-SG plans to have alumni involved in the rebranding campaign as well, to give students real-life exam- pies of their future options. Additional LSA-SG projects include reorganizing the bud- get to a rolling budget -which Lathia says should allow them to fund more student organiza- See GOALS, Page 3A Marjorie Heins, founding director of the Free Expression Policy Project, delivers the Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom at Hutchins Hall Wednesday. Civil rights lawyer lectures about academic freedom ANN ARBOR Squatter complicates move-in for students Unapproved tenant kept six students from moving into house in Sept. By MAX RADWIN Daily StaffReporter Moving into a house on cam- pus can be a stressful process. But it's even worse when you dis- cover someone is already living there and refuses to leave. The tenants of an Elm Street house operated by Investor's Property Management delayed moving in due to a "squatter" that refused to vacate the unit. The man living in the house had sublet the residence through the prior tenants without the approv- al of IPM. Details of the debacle weren't available earlier this semester due to ongoing litigation. But now, the inconvenienced stu- dents and IPM officials are talk- ing about the mishap. On Aug. 27, IPM notified the six University students who were See SQUATTER, Page 3A Heins reflects on ousting of three faculty accused of being communists By AMABEL KAROUB For theDaily Civil liberties attorney Mar- jorie Heins spoke at the Sen- ate Assembly's 23rd Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Free- dom at the Law School's Honig- man Auditorium Wednesday afternoon. Heins talked about her book, "Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Free- dom, and the Anti-Communist Purge," which describes U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have redefined academic free- dom in recent years. Much-of her lecture describ- ing the history of academic freedom through discussing Supreme Court cases that involve the topic. When defin- ing academic freedom, Heins referred to the Supreme Court's -standard, which defines it as a university's right to "determine for itself on academic grounds who may teach, what may be taught, how it may be taught, and who may be admitted to study." 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