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Open Hillel hosts
panel on ties to
Palestinian human
rights issues
By EMMA KINERY
Daily Staff Reporter
A panel of three Jewish civil
rights activists discussed their
experiences combatting racism in
the segregated South with about
100 members of the University
community in Weill Hall Monday
evening. The speakers paralleled
their activism 50 years ago to cur-
rent activist work centered around
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The event is part of a nation-
wide tour sponsored by Open
Hillel, a national student group
advocating for increased inclusiv-
ity of political viewpoints within
the Hillel International organi-
zation. The event was sponsored
by Jews Allied for Social Justice,
Jewish Voice for Peace, the Com-
munity Action and Social Change
program,
the
Organizational
Studies Program and Open Hillel.
Rackham student Sam Shu-
man, one of the event’s organiz-
ers, said the purpose of the event
was not to sway views as much as
it was to open discussion.
“The goal of this panel is not
to agree with everything that is
said, but to be open to hearing,”
Shuman said.
The panelists included Larry
Rubin, Dorothy Zellner and Ira
Grupper, who were all members
of the Student Nonviolent Coor-
dinating Committee in the 1960s.
Rubin said his drive to work
with the civil rights movement
in the South stemmed from his
belief that freedom cannot exist
until it is experienced by every-
one. He said he did not leave this
belief behind when he left the
South, he sees these injustices
Pollack declines to
discuss specific OIE
cases questioned by
SACUA report
By CARLY NOAH
Daily Staff Reporter
After members of the Senate
Advisory Committee on Uni-
versity Affairs raised concerns
earlier this month with the Uni-
versity’s Office of Institutional
Equity, University Provost Mar-
tha Pollack addressed the issue
at the body’s meeting Monday.
A significant portion of the
meeting focused on the status of
a SACUA report released earlier
this month that detailed what
the committee saw as major
flaws with OIE’s process. OIE
is the University unit tasked
with investigating and resolv-
ing incidents of discrimination
and discriminatory harassment
at the University.
The report expressed con-
cerns with the adequacy of due
process as employed in OIE
procedures. The report specifi-
cally considered the application
of OIE procedures in the cases
of three faculty members who
submitted complaints about the
process to SACUA.
“The evidence available to
us, examined in the course of
reviewing OIE’s practices, raises
serious doubts about the valid-
ity of the OIE findings in these
cases,” the report read. “SACUA
does not take a position on the
outcome of these cases. But our
findings regarding lack of due
process necessitate reconsidera-
tion of these cases.”
Pollack noted she would not
discuss the three individual
cases mentioned in the report,
but said the University must
now move forward and think
about how the process can be
improved.
During the meeting, she
discussed
the
committee’s
RITA MORRIS/Daily
Larry Rubin, a past member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and a Freedom Summer activist, talks about his experiences demonstrating for equal
rights and how it resonates with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy on Monday.
See SACUA, Page 3
See 1960S, Page 3
Higher education
subcommittees
consider tuition
caps, funding levels
By EMMA KINERY
Daily Staff Reporter
The Michigan Legislature’s
House and Senate Sub-Appro-
priation Committees on Higher
Education each met Thursday
morning to discuss the budget
for the 2015-2016 fiscal calendar
year.
Gov. Rick Snyder (R) delivered
budget recommendations in mid-
February. While the Senate com-
mittee agreed with the proposed
budget in full, the House made
several changes.
The budget is still in the com-
mittee phase and has yet to be
presented to either full chamber.
The recommendations of the two
chamber’s appropriations com-
mittees must be brought before
the full Senate and House. If the
full chambers disagree on the
details, the budget will go before
a conference committee to work
out the differences between the
two versions of the budget.
Dave Murray, Snyder’s deputy
press secretary, said the final bud-
get is far from finished and there
remains room for compromise.
“Now’s the period where each
See BUDGET, Page 3
By LARA MOEHLMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
The Michigan Daily will be
exploring Ann Arbor’s most
quirky, lively, and student popu-
lated neighborhoods during the
next month to see what makes
this city tick. Read the first
installment about the Old Fourth
Ward and the second installment
about the Ebel and Yost neigh-
borhoods.
Old West Side
The Old West Side of Ann
Arbor is a relatively quiet resi-
dential area on the edge of the
city’s lively downtown restau-
rant, shopping and bar scene.
The neighborhood is bound-
ed by the South Main and Ann
Arbor railroad tracks to the east;
Crest, Soule and South Seventh
streets to the west; West Wash-
ington Street to the north; and
Pauline Boulevard to the south.
Designated as a historical dis-
trict in 1972, the Old West Side
offers a collection of homes of
different styles and ages. Char-
acteristic of the neighborhood
are one-family homes, many of
which have front porches that sit
along tree-lined streets.
According to the National
Parks Service, a district earns
historical designation if it “pos-
sesses a significant concentra-
tion, linkage, or continuity of
sites, buildings, structures, or
objects united historically or
aesthetically by plan or physical
development.”
Barbara Murphy, vice presi-
dent of the Old West Side Asso-
ciation Board — an organization
that seeks to preserve the histori-
cal integrity of the district — said
the Old West Side was named a
National Historic District for its
iconic streetscape and overall
atmosphere.
Murphy said that the tree-
lined streets of the Old West
Side resemble those of American
neighborhoods circa 1900. She
also said the neighborhood is
significant in part because it was
one of the first neighborhoods
settled in Ann Arbor around
1840. Those who lived there were
predominantly German.
All architectural styles popu-
lar in the United States from
1860 to 1914 are represented in
the section’s mansions, located
mainly on West Liberty and West
Huron streets, according to the
OWSA’s website. Home models in
the neighborhood include Gothic
cottages,
Romanesque
villas,
Tudor and Colonial homes.
The neighborhood today is
composed of a mixture of older
couples, young couples, graduate
students and University faculty
members.
“We try to keep some cohesion
in the neighborhood,” Murphy
said, citing the Children’s Fes-
tival, Old West Side Garage Sale
and a Lurie Terrace Concert to
name a few neighborhood events.
Lurie Terrace is a senior citizen’s
home in the Old West Side.
Murphy, who moved to the
Old West Side neighborhood in
1964, recalled having several
elderly German couples or wid-
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1960s civil rights activists
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Provost
addresses
grievance
procedures
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Snyder
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Ann Arbor’s historic Old West Side maintains
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