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trial would heighten safety awareness in the
community. "One of the helpful things
that's come out of this is the establishment
of several safety committees, and theiref-
forts will go a long way toward making
Ann Arbor a safer place," she said.
Not all reactions to the conviction
were positive. Dorma Burnside, an LSA
junior who has worked with the National
Women's Rights Organizing Coalition,
said that NWROC has denounced the re-
sults of the Mitchell trial and that she also
disagrees with the verdict.
"I think he was wrongly convicted....
It was apolitical strategy to ease the minds
of women on this campus and in this city.
Unfortunately, (the verdict) is giving
women a false sense of security,"
Burnside said. NWROC leader Shonta
Driver could not be reached for comment.
Mackie dismissed the idea that the ver-
dict was politically motivated.
"That's ridiculous and anybody who
says it has no idea what they're talking
about," he said. "Certainly someone as
dangerous as Mr. Mitchell being sepa-
rated from the rest of us provides a de-
gree of relief, but unfortunately there are
other dangerous people free in this com-
munity and it will continue to be our goal
to protect everyone in the community
from predators like Mr. Mitchell."
While Mitchell's attorney was unavail-
able for comment, Chief Public Defender
Lloyd Powell said that the defendant's
rights were guarded jealously. "It was a big
job to defend. ... We did the best we could
with what we had. (Mitchell's attorney) did
a good job," he said.
Powell said that the verdict would at-
most certainly be appealed, but that is typical
of 70to 75 percentoferiminal cases handled
by the publicdefender's office.
Students voiced mixed reactions to
the conviction. LSA junior Tassany
Espinosa said she feels largely unaf-
fected by the verdict.
"My reaction isn't very exciting be-
cause most women are raped by their
boyfriends and husbands and lovers and
so, one guy is off the street but that's not
where my fear is at," Espinosa said.
Recent LSA graduate Jeanette
Turner said she was more hopeful about
positive results from the trial's end. "I
think it will make people a little bit more
aware, and take preventive measures so
this will never happen again, instead of
waiting until it happens and then doing
something about it," she said.
Aaron Toth, a recent Kinesiology
graduate, said he found different reac-
tions between men and women.
"Most of the male population on cam-
pus, I don't think it's been on any of their
minds. I think thetrial has made more news"
nationally than in this community,"he said.
Second year Law student Stuart
Thiel also noted a difference along gen-
der lines. "Me, personally, it didn't affect
me so much but (the verdict) sure has
made my wife feel safer."
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Former journalism chair dies
By Ronnie Glassberg
Daily Editor In Chief
Wesley H. Maurer, who served as
chair of the former journalism depart-
ment at the University from 1949 until
s retirement in 1966, died on Friday.
e was 98.
"He created the journalism department.
It was pretty straightforward: He was the
journalism department," said Prof.
Jonathan Friendly, director of the Master's
Program in Journalism. "He created a pro-
gram that tried to marry the professional
needs with academic discipline."
Maurer bought the Mackinac Island
Town Crier in 1957 as a laboratory for
duate students interested in community
journalism. After his retirement, he contin-
ued working as publisher of the St. Ignace
News and the Town Crier, and was the old-
est active publisher in the nation.
Pete Marudas, the executive assistant
for intergovernmental affairs for Baltimore
Mayor Kurt Schmoke, had Maurer as a
professor as both an undergraduate and a
graduate and worked at the Town Crier.
"He remainedone of the important in-
fluences in my life. He was really a very
rward thinker," Marudas said. "He
taught a class in civil liberties. You really
came away with an enduring appreciation
in the constitution after that class."
In her May 2, 1992 commencement
address, Carole Simpson, an ABC News
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Maurer. Simpson said as a Black woman
with little experience she had a difficult
time finding a job after graduation.
"While my fellow U-M graduates
went off to their jobs on newspapers, ra-
dio and television, I went back to work at
the Chicago Public Library where I had
worked every summer from the time I
was 16 years old," Simpson said.
"Professor Wesley Maurer was
chairman of the journalism department
and he felt terrible about my situation.
And all summer long he worked on try-
ing to find me ajob. In August, he called
and said he had lined un an internshin for
me at the all-Black college in Alabama,
Tuskegee Institute. It turned out to be a
very good job."
Maurer's son, Wesley Maurer Jr.,
said his father saw community journal-
ism as a form of adult education.
"What he sought to do through much
of his career at the University was to pro-
mote the concept of journalism as a pro-
fession rather than as a trade," he said.
The University dismantled the de-
partment of journalism in 1979, merging
it with the department of speech, com-
munication and theatre to form the com-
munication department. In January, LSA
decided to remove all journalism courses.
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