The Michigan Daily - Monday, May 13, 2002 - 3
Concern
over sprawl
increases in
Michigan
Ashley Fdedian
For the Daily
Court prohibits ban on smoking
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According to a study published earlier 1999, bu
this month by Public Sectors Consul- in 1998z
tants, Inc., urban sprawl has been a to the st
growing problem in Michigan for the decision
past decade. As a consequence of remain p
increasing county populations, "stresses StateI
are put on county governments to pro- smoking
vide additional services," said Mark The stat
Coscarelli, senior consultant for Great local go
Lakes and Environmental Policy at PSC. strict tha
b Coscarelli added that increased coun- With r
ty populations call for more infrastruc- ing caus
ture services - including fire intensely
protection, ambulances, roadways, utili- have mix
ties and police force - that he said Heidi
"need to be advanced as a result of locatedc
migration out of urban areas." should 1
He said he believes urban residents should b
move out of the city in search of peace
adqitnwbeing threatened byth
vrdevelopment counties are exper-L S
in rural areas actually work in urban
areas," State Rep. Chris Kolb (D-Ann By Megan
Arbor) said. Forthe Daily
"The state needs to articulate a vision
for our urban areas," Coscarelli said. Scientist
While residents are drawn toward share ideas
vibrant and livable communities, "urban at the Uni
communities have to have policies that symposiur
help make them safe, clean, green and The eve:
have good schools," Kolb said. Hospital,f
"Too often we have been ignorant that field and q
ye ourselves are responsible in making LSI co
decisions that add to sprawl," he added. symposiu
Sprawl communities are popping up is a recen
next to highway interchanges and in has been a
areas where government building have FOR
been placed, Kolb said. "It's easier for
people to move out (of the city), and eas-
ier to commute farther and farther from
where they work and where they live, " /Mothe
he added.
Although the growth is modest, Ann V nta
rbor is the only urban area in Michigan
that has increased in population rather
decreased. Kolb aid between1999
and 2000, 4,500 people moved to the
area, an increase of 4 percent.
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jail or a $500 fine.
Roumel, an attorney for Student Legal y
Services, said the case is moving for-
ward and Robinson will plead not guilty
hen the time comes.
f"He is remaining strong. He is deter-
mined to fight these allegations and
clear his name," Roumel said.
When he came to the University as a
freshman in 2000, Robinson was
already considered one of the founda-
tions of the team. Despite his impor-
tance to the squad, the recent
allegations will be taken "very serious-
ly," basketball coach Tommy Amaker
t id in a statement released regarding
e incident.
"We will continue to monitor the situ-
ation as it proceeds through the proper
legal channels,"Amaker said.
Rosenberg
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lichigan Supreme Court refused last Mon-
ar the appeal in Michigan RestaurantAsso-
vs. the City of Marquette, upholding the
te Circuit Court and the Michigan Court of
in their earlier decisions to prohibit a
ban in area restaurants.
uette adopted an ordinance in 1997 that
smoking in restaurants starting in January
it the MRA and six restaurants sued the city
and won. The city appealed, taking the case
ate Supreme Court, but the Circuit Court's
a was upheld and the smoking ban will
rohibited.
law requires restaurants to maintain non-
sections but does not prohibit smoking.
e Supreme Court's decision ensures that
vernments do not enact ordinances more
n the already existing law.
ising evidence showing the harm that smok-
es, restaurant smoking bans have become an
debated issue. Ann Arbor restaurant owners
ed feelings on the potential smoking ban.
Metzger, owner of Metzger's Restaurant,
on East Washington Street, said the decision
be in the hands of restaurant owners. "It
e our choice," she said.
Pete Poulos, owner of Frank's Restaurant on
Maynard Street, said he believes the decision on a
restaurant smoking ban should be left for the pub-
lic to decide. "Everybody has rights. If the whole
public wants the law, then we should listen to
them," Poulos said.
Others said smoking should be allowed in restau-
rants if owners improve the separation between
smoking and non-smoking sections. "Restaurant
owners should make sure that non-smoking sec-
tions really do not have smoke," LSA sophomore
Pavan Bhargava said.
The next step in propagating a restaurant
smoking ban is for the county to pass a regula-
tion under the public health code.
Washtenaw County Corporation Counsel Curtis
Hedger said public hearings on the issue will occur
in June, an order may be drafted in July and a regu-
lation could be passed by August. "We want to
ensure that smoking sections are truly segregated
from non-smoking sections, as you can be in a non-
smoking section, but the smoke permeates," he said.
Washtenaw County Commissioner Leah Gunn,
who is working on a county-wide ban on smoking in
public and private workplaces, said she feels there is a
possibility that the Supreme Court's decision rejecting
the smoking ban on restaurants will be overturned.
"We are having a series of public hearings to
know what the public thinks. It has to go through
Eastern Michigan University junior and Starbucks
employee Michael Nitschky takes a cigarette break
last week.
the public health director Helen Clement and
then the Board of Commissioners will vote on
it," she said.
[ symposium puts cell biology in the spotlight
Hayes The six men asked to lecture, described by Dixon as on campus," he said.
r __"stars in the field," were selected specifically for their University Biological Chemistry Prof. Zhaohui Xu
excellence in the field of structural biology. said he feels that this exchange of ideas will raise edu-
ts from around the country came together to "These are the world experts, collectively among the cation levels and inform the general public as to what
Thursday on various aspects of cell biology best people in the world," Dixon said. structural biology is all about.
versity Life Sciences Institute's first all-day The symposium is one of several aspects of the Life "One of the reasons we (had) this symposium is to
M. Sciences Initiative, launched in 1999 by former Uni- provide students an opportunity to interact with scien-
nt, held in the Ford Auditorium at University versity President Lee Bollinger and the University tists from all over the world," Xu said.
featured lectures by top researchers in the Board of Regents in an effort to advance education and Not only did the symposium have positive educa-
uestion-and-answer sessions. research in the areas of science and medicine. tional benefits, but it also brings the University's
-Director John Dixon highlighted the LSI Director of Communications Karl Bates, medical program into the national spotlight. "It rais-
u's importance. Dixon said cell biology the symposium's organizer, said the symposium is es the visibility of the institute nationally. (The
it topic in an area of science where there an important part of the initiative. "The sympo- speakers) go back and tell people what Michigan is
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