8-The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, May 17, 1995
State reps criticize 'U' reputation in Lansing
By Spencer Dickinson
Daily Staff Reporter
When State Senator Alma Wheeler
Smith joined Ann Arbor Representatives
Liz Brater and Mary Schroer to address
faculty members on Monday, the three
Democrats wamed that the University was
doing a poor job selling itself in Lansing.
"There is a sense (in Lansing) that
this is a bastion of liberalism," Brater ,
said. Schroer added that her colleagues
called the citizens of Ann Arbor "not real
people who are out of touch with the state
because they have received everything
on a silver platter."
The state House voted to withhold an
increase in the University's appropriations
because the number of non-residents has
risen above 30percent.
Smith (D-South Lyon) said "there is
an out"of the sanctions. She criticized the
University for failing to respond to the leg-
islation, saying a planto put the ratio back
in balance or even an explanation for the
excess non-resident enrollment would
have appeased her colleagues.
She specifically targeted University
President James J. Duderstadt. "I was in
office four months before I heard from
(Duderstadt)," she said. "He's not smooth
when dealing with people with whom you
have to compromise."
"He doesn't do a much better jobhere,"
said Senate Advisory Commmittee on Uni-
versity Affairs member Lou DeLacey. He
added the University was represented in
Lansing by an administration he called "a
small, not very representative group."
Smith said she heard from Michigan
State University's President M. Peter
MacPhearson two weeks after she took
office. All three said they had received nu-
merous communications-from both the ad-
ministration and faculty of Michigan State,
a school they agreed exemplified good
public relations.
Vice President for University Rela-
tions Walter Harrison said antagonism to-
ward the University was to be expected.
"It's not too different from flagship uni-
versities in a lot of states," Harrison said.
Schroer closed by calling on faculty
to do their part in improving relations.
"Bring the knowledge out of the strato-
sphere of academia," she said.
Smith assured the faculty the Univer-
sity was still respected. "You are still the
school of choice, but you need to show
us how accessible you are," she said.
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on the corner of South University and
East University for $1100 in order to
protecthimself against theunfair compe-
tition that resulted from street vendors.
"The city is holding the merchants as
hostages to their own sidewalks. If
people understood how easy it is to get a
permit to sell on the sidewalks, the city
would be at war," Ladd said.
The South University Merchants As-
sociation has hired an attorney to fight
the city against the permit policy.
The street vendors in Ann Arbor argue
thatunfair competition would only occurif
they were no longer allowed to sell.
Christopher Lauckner, who has been
selling original postcards for4 1/2 years
outside of Michigan Book and Supply,
says that street vending gives small busi-
nessmen the opportunity to earn a living.
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It costs a lot of money to start a business
in Ann Arbor - that would leave most
of us out in the cold," he said.
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Michigan Book and Supply said he sup-
ports the street vendors in front of his store.
"We keep it pretty much under con-
trol. They don't take up too much spacl
and they are not obnoxious street ven-
dors," Schindler said.
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Street Association, said that she is working
to create an equitable situation between
vendors and the business community.
"This is not an adversarial kind of
thing," Serras said. "Everyone in Ann Ar-
bor is a small businessman and if anyone
understands how hard it is, the merchants
in Ann Arbor do."
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