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REGENT
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ban on affirmative action, Gratz
said she wouldn't see as much of
a reason to run for the Board of
Regents.
"I think the Constitution
should really determine what the
University can do," she said.
In an Oct. 10 Detroit News
opinion article, Gratz said, as
regent, she would have the abil-
ity to impact policy at a University
she still admires.
"I want to take the battle full
circle," Gratz said. "I'd be there to
address hard issues."
Gratz graduated from UM-
Dearborn and cited the Univer-
sity Hospital's role in saving her
brother's life during a battle with
cancer.
Additionally, Gratz said on
Tuesday she would also consid-
er other contenders in the race
and determine "if they espouse
the principles important for the
Board of Regents."
GOALS
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tions - and continuing to address
student needs presented through
the online forum.
GRADUATE STUDENT
LEADERS WORK ON
HOUSING, RELATIONS
S The Rackham Student Gov-
ernment has already been very
active this year, specifically on
housing for graduate students,
under the direction of RSG Presi-
dent Phil Saccone. RSG worked
with University administration
on the Munger Residence Hall at
a forum last month, but Saccone
said the RSG has even more on
the horizon.
As early as next week, RSG
will work with the Washtenaw
Area Apartment Association on
gathering student input on their
apartment-leasing ordinance,
Saccone said. He added that RSG
is trying to determine student
opinion on possible changes to
the current law, which takes
apartments off the market for 70
days following a lease signing.
"I suspect that they would
be at least in favor of keeping
the current ordinance and not
extending the amount of time
because it puts a lot of pressure
on students to make a decision in
SQUATTER
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set to move into the house for a
lease starting this fall that some-
one was still living in the house,
and that their move-in date,
scheduled for Aug. 29, would be
delayed.
But Engineering senior Jac-
lyn Reimann, one of the incom-
ing tenants, is doubtful that IPM
became aware of the situation
that close to the move-in date.
"They had to have known,"
Reimann said. "That's when you
go and clean the houses and get
everybody out."
The following day, IPM and the
squatter attended a court hearing,
during which a judge informed
representatives of the company
that although the man was not
paying rent, the city could not
legally force him to leave, because
he had received occupancy from
the company's previous, lawful
tenants, IPM property manager
John Wade said.
"In the court's eyes, they still
saw him as a legal occupant,"
Wade said.
According to Michigan law,
tenants must be provided with a
30-day eviction notice if they stay
To run in the November 2014
general election, Gratz must
become one of the two Repub-
lican candidates nominated by
the state convention to face off
against the two chosen Demo-
cratic candidates.
The state party's nominating
conventions do not occur until
later in 2014.
In 2012, three Republican can-
didates tussled for a spot on the
Republican ticket. So far, alum
Ron Weiser, an Ann Arbor busi-
nessman, former chair of the
Michigan Republican Party and
the current RNC Finance Chair-
man, has been the only Republi-
can candidate to throw his hat in
the ring.
Weiser sought the position in
2012, but he was not nominated
to run on the general-election
ballot. In November, Democratic
candidates Mark Bernstein and
Shauna Ryder Diggs defeated the
Republican candidates, cardiolo-
gist Rob Steele and Dan Horning,
a former regent.
If Gratz achieves her party's
nomination, she will likely face
two incumbent Democratic
regents, whose eight-year terms
will expire in January 2015.
Regents Katherine White and
Julia Darlow, both Ann Arbor
attorneys, will have to run for re-
election to retain their seats on
the board.
In a statement to The Michi-
gan Daily on Tuesday, White said
she plans to seek a third term as
regent. She was first elected in
1998.
Darlow said in a statement she
has not yet decided if she will seek
a second term.
If Gratz were to win a seat, she
could face a Democratic major-
ity board. The board's makeup is
currently six Democrats and two
Republicans.
The two Republicans currently
on the board are Regents Andrew
Richner and Andrea Fischer
Newman. Gratz said Tuesday she
was not worried about finding
allies on the board in either party.
"Whether I found allies or
not, I would stand up for what
I believe in, and I think I have a
proven record of that," Gratz said.
FREEDOM
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a whole.
This distinction was crucial
in determining the fate of the
three former University profes-
sors that the lecture honored:
H. Chandler Davis, Mark Nick-
erson and Clement Markert,
who were suspected of com-
munist affiliations, testified
before the House Un-American
Activities Committee regard-
ing.
When these professors
refused to testify, all three were
suspended from teaching at the
University, ultimately leading to
Davis and Nickerson's perma-
nent dismissal.
The University's choice to
fire the professors was contro-
versial, because the termination
was due to "extramural speech"
- speech, or affiliations with
political groups outside of the
University.
Heins noted the practice of
these dismissals and similar
cases were addressed in the
1968 court case Pickering, in
which the U.S. Supreme Court's
opinion asserted that under
the First Amendment, teachers
could not be punished for their
remarks on public issues unless
their expression could be prov-
en to interfere with "workplace
efficiency."
While some believe that the
ruling in Pickering v. Board of
Education resolved the issue of
teachers lacking first amend-
ment rights, universities are now
left to decide whether or not the
extramural speech of their pro-
fessors interferes with their abil-
ity to do their job.
Heins said sometimes profes-
sor's opinions might differ from
those supporting universities,
causing the institution to decide
that their public opinions do
interfere with workplace effi-
ciency.
"The trustees don't like it, and
they bear pressure on the univer-
sity to fire the professor," Heins
said.
In an interview before the
lecture, Heins said opinions on
academic freedom are complex
because, while it has a legal
meaning, it is also subject to the
standards of a university. She
said it is time for the University
to make a firm stance on where
the line is drawn between pro-
fessional workplace and personal
freedom.
"Even though the First
Amendment only applies to what
public universities do the con-
cept of academic freedom should
apply to all colleges and institu-
tions," Heins said. "It's the basic
underpinning of what we under-
stand higher education to be,
but it's not unlimited. Yes, there
should be free speech on campus
... the professor ought to have a
lot of freedom but not complete
freedom - there's got to be some
protections."
After the lecture, Rackham
student Vishal Khandelwal said
it's important that professors
and researchers take notice of
the issues Heins brought up.
"It's really relevant to how
we'll be conducting academia in
the future," Khandelwal said.
"I wish she could have stressed
more on the opposition that fac-
ulty face from, within the aca-
demic establishment."
a relatively short period of time,"
Saccone said.
RSG also looks to build bet-
ter student-faculty relations in
the graduate school, improve the
resources in the career center and
implement instructor evaluations
online, he said.
Other governments are head-
ing similar efforts in their respec-
tive schools. The Public Health
Student Assembly, led by Presi-
dent Cameron Glenn, will seem-
ingly start from scratch this year
to try and emphasize collabora-
tion between the Public Health
departments and an increasingly
diverse student body.
ENGINEERING COUNCIL
WORKING ON SYLLABUS
DATABASE
Engineering Council President
Cristine Zuchora is working on
an online syllabus database for
the engineeringschool to meet an
overdue request from students.
Earlier this year, LSA Student
Government leaders launched
their own archive of syllabi, the
result of a two year effort.
The Engineering Council is
also working to amplify connec-
tions with student organizations
and help the groups' funding.
Across the board, student gov-
ernment presidents said they are
pleased with the resources they
have and can reach their own
goals individually. Still, many
acknowledged that more collec-
tive action could be beneficial to
the student governments and the
University overall.
While in the past collaboration
between Central Student Govern-
ment and the various individual
governments may have been lack-
ing, the presidents are looking to
increase parthership this year.
CSG President Michael Proppe
said there is room for increased
collaboration on some larger proj-
ects, calling LSA's segregated
efforts in improving digital access
to syllabi as a "missed opportunity"
for unity.
In the past, individual stu-
dent governments have primarily
focused on their own agendas and
rarely on campus-wide initiatives,
Proppe said.
"It's kind of a two-way street,"
he said. "The other student govern-
mentscome to us aswellas making
sure we're going to the other stu-
dent governments to uphold that
communication."
Proppe added that better orga-
nization of the University Council,
headed by CSG Vice President Rob-
ert Dishell, should allow for more
joint projects in the comingyears.
Proppe said collaboration has
seen results so far this year, noting
Rackham Student Government's
forum on the Munger Residence
Hall, appeals against the new
footballseating policy and
expressed concerns about the
presidential search committee.
Student charged in teacher's murder
14-year-old boy
found walking on
state highway
DANVERS, Mass. (AP) - A
well-liked teacher was found
slain in woods behind this
quiet Massachusetts town's
high school, and a 14-year-old
boy who was found walking
along a state highway over-
night was charged with killing
her.
Blood found in a second-
floor school bathroom helped
lead investigators to the body
of Colleen Ritzer, a 24-year-old
math teacher at Danvers High
School who was reported miss-
ing when she didn't come home
from work on Tuesday, Essex
District Attorney Jonathan
Blodgett said. .
"She was a very, very respect-
ed, loved teacher," Blodgett
said.
The suspect, Philip Chism,
was arraigned on a mur-
der charge Wednesday and
ordered held without bail.
The teenager, described by
classmates as soft-spoken and
pleasant, also did not come
home from school the day
before and was spotted walk-
ing along Route 1 in the neigh-
boring town of Topsfield at
about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Officials didn't release a
cause of death and haven't dis-
cussed a motive in the killing.
A court filing said Ritzer
and Chism were known to each
other from the high school, but
it did not elaborate. The arrest
was made based on statements
,by the suspect and corroborat-
ing evidence at multiple scenes,
investigators said in court doc-
uments.
Ritzer's family said they are
mourning the death of their
"amazing, beautiful daughter
and sister."
"Everyone that knew and
loved Colleen knew of her pas-
sion for teaching and how she
mentored each and every one
of her students," the family said
in a statement provided by her
uncle Dale Webster.
At his arraignment in adult
court in Salem, Chism's defense
attorney argued for the pro-
ceeding to be closed and her
client to be allowed to stay
hidden because of his age. The
judge denied the request. The
lawyer, Denise Regan, declined
to comment outside court. No
statement had been released
from his family byWednesday
evening.
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past the natural end of the lease.
Since the house's occupier was
protected by the rule, it forced
Reimann and the new tenants to
wait.
IPM pushed back this year's
tenants' move-in date to as late as
Sept. 19th, and offered to put the
six tenants in hotels near Plym-
outh road and Briarwood Mall in
the meantime.
Because it wasn't clear if they'd
be compensated for the hotel stay,
the tenants decided to stay with
friends or live at home instead.
Two of the tenants did not have
cars to commute to and from cam-
pus, so the hotel option wasn't
practical.
A secondary hearing was
held Sept. 4. The squatter, who
attended with his social worker
and stepfather, found other liv-
ing arrangements and agreed to
leave the Elm Street house that
day. Within the week, IPM had
cleaned the property and given
the new tenants their keys.
Reimann said IPM is waiving
rent for her and her roommates
during the timespan in which
they weren't able to move in. She
said they're also looking to get
compensation for commuting to
and from campus. Wade didn't
detail how the tenants would be
compensated.
Gayle Rosen, housing attorney
at the University's Student Legal
Services, said in an e-mail inter-
view that subleasing problems are
frequent, but rarely involveasub-
tenantstayingtoo longor refusing
to vacate the unit.
Rosen added that she more
commonly sees instances of
building damage and nonpayment
of rent, but noted that these cases
usually occur in the spring and
summer, when more students are
subletting.
Wade, the IPM property man-
ager, warned students to think
twice before they sublet their
homes.
"I think it certainly proves
that it makes a lot of sense to go
through the proper channels,
to check with their landlord,
to make sure they're following
proper procedures," Wade said.
"This points in the direction of,
well, how much economic relief
are you getting (from subleasing)
versus what are some of the other
risks that you may be undertak-
ing?"
-Editor's note: Daily Staff
Reporter Kaitlin Zurdosky was
one of the incoming tenants in the
house. She was not interviewed
for this article, per Daily policy.
CRASH Wednesday evening. ambulance,"
Jim Grob, an Ann Arbor resi- State Street between Arch
From Page 1A dent, said the driver was still Street and Stimson Street had
awake when emergency person- been closed down since the crash,
nel helped him from the vehicle. but the street reopened shortly
evening, Berris said. "I was sitting my house when I after 5:30 p.m.
DTE's outage map estimated heard what was a hell of a crash ...
that service could be restored by the porch moved," Grob said. "He -Daily News Editor Alicia
7:30 p.m. Power returned later looked alright when he got in the Adamczyk contributed reporting.
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