Wednesday, June 28, 1995 -The Michigan Daily - 15 MrrcmELL Continued from page 1 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." lot them blues tsar Rojas of the band Los Lobos plays a mixture of Tex-Mex blues rock at the Frog Island festival in Ypsilanti on turday night to an enthusiastic crowd. r- 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 Welcome Students and Faculty!! "We Cut Hair To Please" e 6 Barbers * No Waiting THE DASCOLA STYLISTS For Men and Women 668-9329 Liberty off State reporter and University alum, mentioned 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. 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