2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, May 23, 2005
'U' will
renovate
Mosher-
Jordan
By Lindsey Ungar
Daily Staff Reporter
Mosher-Jordan Residence Hall will
be the first residence hall to undergo
building-wide renovation and restora-
tion as part of the Residential Life Ini-
tiatives program. The University Board
of Regents approved the $44 million
project during its meeting last week.
The renovations will make signifi-
cant improvements to student rooms
and create new spaces - such as a
Community Learning Center - to
increase interaction between students
while studying and socializing.
Construction on Mosher-Jordan is slat-
ed to begin in the spring of 2006. Direc-
tor Housing Public Affairs Alan Levy
said the Mosher-Jordan for completion of
the renovations is the fall of 2007.
RLI is considering heritage build-
ings in the Hill Area for the first series
of residence hall renovations. The next
project will most likely be Stockwell
Residence Hall, according to Levy.
Heritage buildings are historically
and architecturally significant build-
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said. Boulus added that changing the
way money is given to universities
without an increase in higher education
funding was akin to "rearranging the
seats on the Titanic."
Mosher-Jordan Residence Hall's renovations will be finished in 2007.
ings on campus, according to Levy.
He added that Mosher-Jordan was
selected as the first residence hall after
a campus-wide facility audit.
Built in 1930, Mosher-Jordan is in
need of infrastructure updates, Levy
said. After the renovations, the hall
will be equipped with air condition-
ing and wireless high-speed Internet
access. The building will also see
upgrades in new plumbing, heating,
fire detection, accessibility and bath-
room facilities.
"We want the building to be restored
to its original grandeur," Levy said.
"When the students come back (after
the renovations), they will be wowed."
LSA sophomore Chris Ebert, who
lived in Mosher-Jordan his freshman
year, agreed that the residence hall
needs to be updated.
"It's pretty dilapidated. A lot of stuff
in our room was broken," Ebert said.
Last week's revenue estimating con-
ference in Lansing determined that there
will be $16.5 million available to univer-
sities and community colleges.
The money comes from a surplus in
Michigan's general fund. After Gran-
holm cut $30 million from higher edu-
cation in March, her budget mandated
The Regents appointed Goody
Clancy & Associates to lead the design
plan. Levy said the firm was brought in
because it had a significant amount of
experience with historical preservation.
"We wanted to bring in someone
who is sensitive to the current archi-
tecture," Levy said.
Originally designed in the Gothic-style,
Mosher-Jordan will mainly see updates to
its interior. One major exterior change will
be the removal of the current loading dock
in the front of the building. Levy said they
plan to replace it with a "grand entrance."
Engineering sophomore Katherine
Adler said she was glad that most of the
changes were internal.
"Most of the beauty is on the outside,"
Adler said. "So (the renovations) won't
destroy that."
Currently Mosher-Jordan houses
around 500 students, and that will change
little after the renovation, Levy said.
that any surplus in the general fund must
be given to higher education in Michi-
gan this year. Granholm's cut was in
response to a revenue shortfall for the
fiscal year. She made the cut after prom-
ising universities she would not cut fund-
ing if they held tuition at or below the
rate of inflation, which they had done.
Greenbelt program
receives $1.7 m
By Laura Van Hyfte - urban sprawl," Garfield said.
Daily News Editor The federal government approved the
county's conservation projects, Garfield
The federal government allocated $1.7 said.
million to the Greenbelt Program, push- "The federal (government) says that
ing Ann Arbor one step closer to obtain- we are headed in the right direction and
ing the land necessary for the project. we are doing all of the difficult, behind
The Greenbelt Program is run by the the scenes work," he added.
city of Ann Arbor and provides money to Garfield said the overwhelming sup-
preserve land in eight townships around port for the Greenbelt can be attributed
the city. to the fear of urban sprawl consuming
The Greenbelt would be a system the beauty that Ann Arbor has to offer.
of undeveloped open spaces, including "People in Ann Arbor don't want
farmland and parks. The areas would this place to become just like Oak-
provide leisure space for residences and land county or a suburb of Detroit,"
try to combat urban sprawl. Garfield said. "We don't want strip
The project has been working to buy malls or wall to wall subdivisions.
land, or the rights to land that surrounds One of the things people like about
the city limits since 2003. Ann Arbor is the surrounding natural
Of the $3.1 million given to Michigan areas where people can bike, run and
for conservation, $2.7 million was given be outdoors."
to Washtenaw County for the Greenbelt. Funding will also help ease the tax-
A single county receiving federal payer burden that would have been
funding of this amount is unprecedent- required to purchase and preserve
ed, said Mike Garfield, chairman of the some of the Greenbelt land.
Greenbelt Advisory Commission. Garfield stressed that the project is
"Land preservation has never been still fairly far away from being com-
done on the scale that we're trying to do pleted.
it in Washtenaw County," he said. "We haven't finalized the deals with
However,Garfieldsaidthat theunique- all of the landowners and I don't want
ness of the project made it worthy of the to celebrate these transactions until
extraordinary funding. the ink is dry," Garfield said. "There
"All together, Washtenaw County had are several steps that have to be gone
six of the top seven properties that were throughbefore we can do that. We have
funded by the federal government. That money to spend, but there is going to
is because Washtenaw County is head be a lot of work that needs to be done
and shoulders above the rest of the state before we get close to our goals. It's
facing one of the state's biggest problems going to take several years."
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