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Having your car break
down while wearing high
heels in the middle of a week-
night is a less than ideal start
to the semester, LSA junior
Starr Ford can attest.
Running late to an event for
her pre-law fraternity, Ford
and a few friends hurried to
find parking and ran to Angell
Hall in their business attire
without paying much atten-
tion to whether or not they
had shut off the car's hazard
lights.
Returning to her car after
the meeting, she noticed her
car lights "flashing like it was
possessed."
"We marked it up to anoth-
er incidentof#StarrProblem,"
Starr said.
Her calamity still not over,
Starr returned all the way
hometogetherjumper cables,
only to be driven back by a
friend and find out that the
cables were broken - after 30
minutes of tryingthem.
"At this time it was just
comical," she said.
She finally resolved to call
AAA, who came to her aid
after another hour.
Looking back on the night,
she said it was "not surpris-
ing" that she forgot to turn
her hazard lights off, as she
received four tickets and had
her car towed three times
since the beginning of sum-
mer.
"Parents should really feel
at ease knowing that these
are the type of drivers that
inhabit the roads at a school
they pay thousands of dollars
for," Starr said.
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the University's high tuition, which
surpasses that of the other univer-
sities surrounding his properties,
factors into the demand for high-
rises.
"The fact that people are paying
that large amount for out-of-state
tuition generally shows a higher
income per capita per family," Perl-
man said.
Last year, The Washington Post
reported on George Washington
University's "rich kid" stigma.
It describes the scene at a roof-
top deck at one of the city's most
expensive apartment buildings -
surprisingly populated mostly by
students.
"The number one thingthat makes
you popular at GW is money," one
GW student told the Post.
Back in Ann Arbor, the housing
market reflects income disparity as
well. LSA junior Amina Fishburn
began her lease at Landmark this
September after living in Baits Hous-
es on North Campus her freshman
year and a sorority house her sopho-
more year.
"There have been times when I
don't necessarily want to tell people
where I live," Fishburn said. "A little
bit of a judgment does pass when you
live in Landmark or Zaragon or any of
the luxury apartments."
The first high-rise to sprout near
Central Campus was Zaragon Place,
which Perlman developed in 2009. It
is located about 1,200 steps from the
Diag, Perlman said. Three years later,
Perlman opened Zaragon West.
Perlman also owns property near
the campuses of Western Michigan
University and East Carolina Univer-
sity.
He said Ann Arbor is an expen-
sive town in terms of real estate. Ann
Arbor's urban settingmeans less land
and thus less area on which to build
housing.
"There isn't a bunch ofland to build
so you're forced then to build verti-
cally and that kind of construction is
much more expensive," Perlman said.
"With much more expensive con-
struction, you have to charge more to
rent."
On average, depending on the
occupancy of the unit, residents pay
from $1,000 to $1,400 per person
each month in Zaragon Place. The
International Center approximates
that the rent per person at a two-bed-
room apartment in Ann Arbor ranges
from $400 to $600 per month.
Fishburn said the cost is worth it.
"When it comes down to it, I don't
think people necessarily realize that
for what you're paying, you're actu-
ally getting a lot," she said.
Ladd said the storefronts in the
area are doing better because of the
additional business brought in by
high-rises such as Zaragon Place,
Landmark and the soon to open
ArborBLU.
"We're hopingthat long-term, stu-
dents will move out of the neighbor-
hoods and neighborhood houses will
revert back to family use."
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to connect with groups they might
want to get involved with, including
exploring volunteer positions with
community organizations and join-
ing on-campus clubs.
For example, Art and Design junior
Dustin Park recently joined UMBees,
a student group that works to raise
awareness about the dwindling popu-
lation of bees - a topic that has gar-
nered national attention. Members
also take part in a variety of activities
to support healthy bee populations.
LSA senior Mary Hirt belongs to
the Undergraduate Sustainability
Scholars Program, part of the Gra-
ham Sustainability Institute. This
learning community for juniors and
seniors is a nine-credit course that,
upon students' graduation, grants its
members a certificate in sustainabil-
ity and provides up to $3,000 in fund-
ing for field experiences.
"I used my money to go study agro-
ecology in Cubathis summer," Hirt said.
She also said she particularly
appreciated the educational diversity
within the program.
"We come from all different
backgrounds," she said. "We have
engineers, people from the English
Department, International Studies,
so it's a really great community to get
involved with because you get many
differentperspectives on the issues of
sustainability."
TEXTING
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being of the community's resi-
dents, collaborated with Chang. He
also created the program Parkside
Connected!- a repository of cell
phone numbers of the residents of
Parkside. FOP uses this program
to send out information such as
the time and location of important
community events, including food
giveaways or health fairs. During
Chang's research project, individu-
als who were part of Parkside Con-
nected! were recruited to be part of
the pilot study.
Twenty participants who were
familiar with receiving texts from
FOP received and answered mul-
tiple texts at varying times and
days regarding a range of topics.
"In our study, we asked them
what they would do in different
medical scenarios," Chang said.
"Another one we piloted was lit-
eracy and numeracy questions
where we basically used these
validated questions to understand
illiteracy and innumeracy of the
community. We were able to get
really great information that
could potentially be used to tailor
interventlions." -
In one medical 'scenario, the
participants received a text mes-
sage asking them what they
would do if one side of their body
became numb and they could
not talk. Because many people
responded that they would prob-
ably stay home, the researchers
determined that many residents
did not know the signs of a stroke.
This finding led to programming
to help spread the word in Park-
side about receiving proper medi-
cal care and being on watch for
health warning signs.
"'We sent the texts at differ-"
nt times of the day and different
days of the week because some-
times their regular doctor's office
would be open and sometimes
it wouldn't," Chang said. "We
would want to know, oh, would
they stay home, or would they go
to the emergency room."
Karen Daniels, a Parkside
resident who participated in the
study, said she heard about the
study from a text message she
received
and decid-
ed to par-
tiipate so she could improve her
texting skills. Danielsalso said
she now prefers texting to other
forms of communication.
"It's faster than talking on the
phone and you get to the point
faster," Daniels said. "I would defi-
nitely answer a text before I would
answer avoicemail."
Using texting to gather infor-
mation also has many impli-
cations for nonprofits and
community organizations. These
groups could potentially direct
'quhstifisn to members of the com-
munities they are trying to help
about how to use the nonprofits'
resources, and about what those
communities' top priorities are.
"I don't want just me to use this
technology," Chang said. "I hope
that other people see how easy it
can be and then how they may be
able to incorporate the opinions
and the viewpoints of the people
they're working with as well."
REPORTER
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Chief Justice John Roberts' court
is First Amendment protection.
"And it has, without question,
ruled for free speech in hard
cases," he said.
However, Liptak noted while
many view the Roberts court
as favoring freedom of speech
to the extreme, the court has
heard fewer cases than the pre-
vious three courts. Recent First
Amendment cases focus on laws
regarding campaign funds.
For example, Justice Antonin
Scalia respects the Constitu-
tion's guarantee of free speech,
Liptak said, defending it even
when it conflicts with his own
ideologies.
"(Justice Scalia) likes to tell the
story of how much it pained him
when he voted to strike down a
law making flag-burning a crime,"
Liptak said. "Here is what he said:
'If it was up to me, if I were king,
I would take the scruffy, bearded,'
sandal-wearingidiotsburningthe
flag and I would put them in jail.'
They come to the bench not with
an agenda, but with a sense of
neutral and dispassionate frame
of law."
Liptak also noted that this
viewpoint is often an outlier, and
politics do make their way into
the court.
"With the exception of Justice
(Stephen) Breyer, who's really
pretty much 50-50, all of the jus-
tices were more likely to favor
(their party line); the liberal jus-
tices were more likely to favor
liberal speakers, and conservative
justices conservative speakers,"
Liptak said.
He said while the Roberts
court is generally straying away
from sweeping rulings on hot-
button issues such as abortion,
gay rights and affirmative action,
Liptak said Zivotofsky v. Kerry, a
case the court is currently hear-
ing that deals with the stance on
listing Jerusalem versus listing
Israel as one's birthplace on U.S.
passports, stands to impact U.S.
foreign policy.
"Whatever the Supreme Court
decides, in the matter of Ameri-
can Constitutional law, the Mid-
dle Eastern press will report on
it in a kind of shorthand; and the
Supreme Court decision itself
may have an impact on their for-
eign policy," Liptak said.
Liptak said the court will also
address whether someone can be
prosecuted for issuing threats on
Facebook that are quotes from rap
lyrics.
At the reception, when asked
about his opinion of the Constitu-
tion's effectiveness, Liptaksaidhe
is behind the document as a legal
device.
"It's a work of genius," Liptak
said. "It's endured for a longtime,
and we are lucky to have it."
Public Policy junior Julie Sarne
said she came to the event because
of her interest in the constitution,
and how the current Court inter-
prets it.
"I think this event provided
a great forum for that because it
was more about how we report on
the court and how the court has
evolved and how that reflects the
Constitution today," she said.
Public policy junior Nick Rine-
hart said he was interested in a
reporter's take onthe court.
"It was interesting to hear
from his unique perspective,"
Rinehart said. "He gave pretty
candid comments and that's
something you don't usually get
from a reporter."
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POLICY
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groups are said to be responsible
for a significant amount of this
violence, and while the Justice
and Peace Law attempts to quan-
tify the disruption and violence
within communities, Castillejo-
Cuellar emphasized Colombia's
need for a strategy that is more
sensitive to the individuals and
communities at the heart of these
conflicts. He described current
methods as the "surgical extrac-
tion of testimony."
"There exist some forms of
violence that are not perceived
as such," Castillejo-Cuellar said.
"We require institutional proce-
dures as well as direct testimo-
nies in order to fully understand,
but what happens when testi-
monials cannot be easily classi-
fied? Extended narratives are not
investigated, officials speak in
Spanish, notilocal languages, and
we see a domestication of testi-
monies."
Through anecdotal stories and
personal experience, Castillejo-
Cuellar described the varyingkinds
of violence and poverty Colombi-
ans experience. He implored pol-
icy makers and researchers to use
methods of analysis that include an
understanding of individuals and
the histories of their communities
in a waythatdoes notdisregardthe
past.
To rectify what Castillejo-
Cuellar said he considers the
shortcomings of the Peace and
Justice Law, he wants to rede-
sign these short and 'uninvolved
methods of data collection sothat
they better reflect the experienc-
es of Colombians.
"Imagine a different kind of
investigation that includes these
kinds of conceptions of harm and
violence in a different way," he
said. "There is a need for histori-
cal clarification."
Following the lecture, Cas-
tillejo-Cudllar offered a Q&A
session with students and attend-
ees. Some of these queries per-
tained to his take on entering and
interacting with communities
like those in Colombia, as well
as his opinion on the prospects
for peace in Colombia. He said
with new methods of research
and policy-making, Colombia
has an opportunity to move for-
ward, though its past is still key
in determining its future.
"When I say I am from Colom-
bia, everyone knows this means
political conflict and drug wars
and all ofthis,"he said. "That term,
'political conflict,' is now some-
how engraved in our identity."
While at this point Castillejo-
Cuellar remains somewhat pessi-
mistic about a peaceful future for
Colombia, there remains some
hope for his country. The Justice
and Peace Law and other policies
may give Colombians a sense of
false security, of only aesthetic
change. Castillejo-Cuellar hopes
to bring this history of violence
and the victims of this violence
to the forefront of policy-making
moving forward.
"I think we still lack the politi-
cal leadership to move the pro-
cess even further forward. We
lack the leadership of someone
like Nelson Mandela," he said.
"You live, in my experience,
there and you have this sense of
everything is cool, everything is
fine and moving forward, butyou
have this sense that underneath
there is something wrong, a war
going on."
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