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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 
discuss current movements

Provost 
addresses 
grievance 
procedures

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GOVERNMENT
Reps. 
debate 
Snyder 
budget

Ann Arbor’s historic Old West Side maintains 
distinctive heritage, significant architecture

