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CORUNNA, Mich.
Man jailed on $3
million bond for
killing grandfather
A judge in Shiawassee County
has ordered a 21-year-old man
held on $3 million bond in the
fatal shooting of his 81-year-old
grandfather.
The Flint Journal says Josh-
ua Z. James of Ingham Coun-
ty’s Meridian Township was
arraigned Monday in Shiawassee
County District Court in Corun-
na on an open murder charge. It
isn’t known if he has a lawyer.
State police say that James
shot Marlin Howard at Howard’s
home in Woodhull Township.
The department says Howard’s
son found his body Friday.
FORT PIERECE, Fla.
Van crashes into
canal killing eight
The congregants of a close-
knit Haitian church gathered
Monday around Nicolas Alexis,
hoping to learn what happened
to 18 friends and loved ones who
had been expected to return that
morning from a late Palm Sun-
day service.
Alexis
described
how
he
frantically tried to check who
was alive after their overloaded
church van crashed in the dark-
ness in rural southwest Florida.
Three men who had been
seated near the 57-year-old died.
Alexis said he kicked out a win-
dow to escape.
“I jst know there is a God,”
said Alexis, sitting in a chair
dragged outside the Independent
Haitian Assembly of God to ease
the pain in his bandaged leg and
fractured ribs.
FORT DRUM, N.Y.
Pentatagon chief
endorses Arab
military reforms
Defense Secretary Ash Carter
is endorsing the Arab League’s
plan to form a joint military
force.
Details on how such a force
would operate are thin. But the
agreement announced Sunday
is a telling sign of a new deter-
mination among Saudi Arabia,
Egypt and their allies to inter-
vene aggressively in regional
hotspots.
In remarks Monday during
a visit to Fort Drum, New York,
Carter called the planned joint
force “a good thing.”
State
Department
spokes-
woman Marie Harf said the U.S.
was waiting to see the exact
structure and operational man-
date of the joint force.
Arab League officials said a
full proposal is to be presented
within four months.
SANAA, Yemen
Saudi naval forces
strike Yemen rebels
Saudi-led naval forces imposed
a blockade on Yemen’s ports as
coalition airstrikes on Monday
repelled an advance on the south-
ern port city of Aden by Shiite
rebels and forces loyal to a former
president, in what appeared to be
the most intense day of fighting
since the air campaign began five
days ago.
The move to block ports
appeared aimed at preventing the
rebels, known as Houthis, from
rearming, and comes after the
coalition achieved full control of
the skies and bombed a number
of rebel-held airports. The rebels
are supported by Iran, but both
Iran and the Houthis deny Teh-
ran has armed them.
As night fell, intense explo-
sions could be heard through-
out the rebel-held capital Sanaa,
where warplanes had carried out
strikes since the early morning.
Military officials from both sides
of the conflict said that airstrikes
were targeting areas east and
south of the third largest city of
Taiz, as well as its airport, while
naval artillery and airstrikes hit
coastal areas east of Aden.
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Daily wire reports
ows as neighbors — remnants of
the neighborhood’s heritage —
most of which are now gone.
However, Murphy says there
is still a lingering German influ-
ence by way of names in the
neighborhood, as seen in the
name of the local Bach Elemen-
tary School, and the fact that sev-
eral existing buildings in the Old
West Side were once breweries.
Jim Smith, co-owner of the
Washtenaw Dairy, a working ice
cream parlor and donut shop of the
Old West Side since 1934, said the
dairy once pasteurized, homog-
enized and bottled milk for resi-
dents to pick up on a daily basis.
Washtenaw Dairy now deliv-
ers all different products includ-
ing cheese, milk, ice cream and
doughnuts. The dairy provides
several Ann Arbor coffee shops
with milk, including Espresso
Royale, Sweetwaters and occa-
sionally Starbucks.
“This is a great family neigh-
borhood,” Smith said. “People
walk their dogs around here, and
on a nice summer night they all
come down to the dairy.”
Jay Platt, owner of the West
Side Book Shop, opened his
store in 1975.
The shop building was previ-
ously owned by a German family
who ran a photography studio in
the 19th century then converted
the store to a children’s book-
shop, selling German books.
“It’s an old and established
neighborhood,” Platt said. “There
are a lot of businesses that have
been here a long time.”
Germantown
German families once heav-
ily populated Ann Arbor’s “Ger-
mantown” neighborhood as well.
Today, its borders are defined by
East William Street to the north,
Main Street to the west, South
Division Street to the east and
East Madison Street to the south.
In 2010, Germantown was
voted as not qualifying for a His-
toric District status by Ann Arbor
City Council, paving the way for
developer Alex de Parry to tear
down seven historic homes as
part of his City Place apartment
project on South Fifth Avenue.
One remaining historic struc-
ture is the stone castle-like Beth-
lehem Church on South Fourth
Avenue, which was named a
historic site in 1982 by the state
of Michigan. According to state
records, the church was Ann
Arbor’s first German congrega-
tion, originally serving German
families who settled in the area
in the 1820s and 30s.
However, Murphy said the Ger-
mantown designation represents a
historical moment, less than a cur-
rently designated community.
“Nobody uses the term Ger-
mantown anymore and they
haven’t in all the time I’ve lived
here,” she said. “Germantown is
a historical place.”
of the sides come together and
we look at what each side wants
to do,” Murray said. “We look
forward to thoughtful, good
discussions with our partners
within coming weeks to build a
budget.”
Murray said the budget pro-
cess will hopefully conclude by
June, which is one of the gover-
nor’s goals for this year.
Under
Snyder’s
proposal
approved by the Senate, the
University’s funding increases
would align with the rate of
inflation and receive a 1.9 per-
cent increase. However, the
House passed just half of that
proposed budget and under
their version, the University
would receive a 0.9 percent
funding increase.
Rep. Mike McCready (R–
West Bloomfield), head of
the
House
Appropriations
Subcommittee
on
Higher
Education, said the 1 percent
increase instead of a 2 per-
cent increase was directed to
the subcommittee by Rep. Al
Pscholka (R–Benton Harbor),
the chair of the appropriations
committee.
“We are assigned targets by
the chairman of our appropria-
tions committee,” McCready
said.
“Our
appropriations
chairman assigned us a target
of 1 percent versus the 2 per-
cent. I don’t know the reason
that they have, but sometimes
they’re negotiating all of the
different budgets, and so they
may reduce in one area tempo-
rarily to try and get changes in
another area.”
Pscholka was unavailable to
comment on Monday.
McCready said the appro-
priations committee has yet to
present the proposal to the full
House and the details are liable
to change.
“There’s still a probabil-
ity that it’s going to be a 2 per-
cent
increase
because
the
Senate and the executive are
asking for a 2 percent increase,”
McCready said. “We’re going to
see how that plays out.”
Complying with the gov-
ernor’s recommendation, the
Senate agreed to a 2.8 percent
restraint on tuition fee increas-
es, and the House recommend-
ed a higher tuition restraint
of 4 percent or an increase of
$400 per student depending on
which one was greater.
“Originally I had asked to
remove the tuition cap and let
the market make the correc-
tions,” McCready said. “We
are negotiating on that cap,
and my recommendation is to
go with a 4 percent or $400
tuition cap restraint, which-
ever was higher, for schools to
work with to give them a little
bit of room.”
In testimony before the leg-
islature in February, University
President Mark Schlissel said
the University would appreci-
ate a higher tuition cap.
“We are all committed to
try to keep tuition as modest as
possible to promote accessibil-
ity to public higher education,”
Schlissel said in an interview
with The Detroit News. “And
it’s a balancing (act) to maintain
accessibility to quality higher
education. We want to have the
best faculty and the best facili-
ties. ... Having the flexibility
beyond what the governor pro-
posed would be welcomed, but
we’re not sure yet whether it’s
essential to us.”
still occurring throughout the
United States and abroad.
“Jewish people will not be
safe until all peoples are safe,”
Rubin said.
Each of the speakers spoke
on the importance of coalitions
and
overcoming
barriers.
Many speakers said while it
was important for people to
overcome discrimination based
on race to make progress in the
1960s, today it is important to
overcome religious differences
in
the
Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
Grupper said he found that
he had more in common with
people of different upbringings
and beliefs at times than those
of his own when it came to
viewpoints on civil rights.
“Culture and religion are
reflections
of
a
historical
moment: that there are those
who
accommodate,
and
those who resist,” Grupper
said. “I went to a Holocaust
commemoration at the Jewish
community center in Louisville
a few decades ago. The speaker
said the lesson of the Holocaust
was that Jews could only trust
Jews. I was sitting next to a
woman whose father, a non-
Jew, had landed in Normandy
during the World War II the day
the ship, the Susan B. Anthony
was sunk by the German navy,
and I knew I had more in
common with this woman’s
father, a gentile, than the Jew
speaking.”
Rubin said he was appalled
by the economic inequality
he witnessed during his visit
to the West Bank last year. He
paralleled the racial oppression
in the South during the 1960s
to what he saw as religious
oppression in West Bank today.
He said one of the most
shocking
scenes
from
his
trip was when he visited
Bethlehem and saw the 26-foot-
high guarded wall that is
topped with barbed wire and
surrounds the city. Zellner said
she sobbed for hours when she
saw the daunting wall with the
Israeli flag on it, and compared
the wall around Bethlehem
to the walls of concentration
camps during the Holocaust.
“If you say, like some students
said to me the other day, ‘Oh,
you’re evoking the Holocaust,’
that’s what one of them said
to us, and whether it’s unfair
or not, I am, because I am of
that age,” Zellner said. “I do
have that kind of context, and
most Jewish people have that
kind of context, and we should
have that kind of context; it did
happen to us.”
Zellner’s
portion
of
the
lecture emphasized how the
Jewish community has a long
standing
history
of
social
activism, which she believes
is not talked about enough.
Zellner said she left her civil
rights work in the South with
the lingering feeling that there
was something else that she had
not completed, but found it in
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
after hearing an Israeli-leftist
talk. She visited the West Bank
the following year.
“As civil rights workers we
have the nerve to talk about the
people of Palestine,” Zellner
said.
“We
learned
it
was
important to stand up then,
and, guess what, we think it’s
important to stand up now.”
Both Rubin and Zellner said
they noticed in the last five
years a resurgence in social
activism compared to the lull
that they noted in the previous
30 years.
“The past five years, there
has been a real explosion of
collective
action
amongst
students,” Rubin said. “I think
the students today are more
knowledgeable, strategic and
more disciplined than we ever
were.”
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recommendations individually
and emphasized the importance
of allowing for flexibility in the
process.
“While I think there are a lot
of ways to improve due process,
we can’t have a rigid, one-size-
fits-all procedure,” she said.
Pollack said she hopes to
release material in May that
will clarify how the grievance
hearing board will specifically
address cases. She added that
said she wishes to reconvene
with SACUA on the issue by the
end of the summer.
However, the initial SACUA
report recommended that the
verdicts in the cases in question
be reversed until they could
be “reconsidered in a forum
with appropriate due process
protections.”
Before
concluding
the
conversation,
SACUA
Chair
Scott
Masten,
a
professor
of business economics and
public policy, emphasized the
importance of addressing the
issue.
“I know on the report we
said we didn’t take a position,
but my personal response is less
balanced,” Masten said. “It still
remains a huge disappointment.
It bothers me immensely as an
institution that we can’t find a
way to redress these problems.”
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Martha E. Pollack, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, addresses concerns of SACUA Com-
mittee members during a session in the Fleming Building Monday.
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Hupy why the cost of recycling
services is increasing.
“Why is the cost increasing
dramatically
whereas
the
revenue
is
staying
put?
...
What’s happening is the gap is
getting bigger and bigger so we
need to get a handle on that,”
Kailasapathy said.
Hupy said he could provide
further analysis and a written
formal response along with other
formal answers to questions
raised by councilmembers during
the budget review.
The Ann Arbor City Council
will vote on the final version of
the budget May 18, following
two more meetings, including a
public hearing May 4.
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INDIANAPOLIS
(AP)
—
Gov. Mike Pence called off
public appearances Monday
and sports officials planned an
“Indy Welcomes All” campaign
ahead of this weekend’s NCAA
Final Four in Indianapolis as
lawmakers scrambled to quiet
the firestorm over a new law
that has much of the country
portraying Indiana as a state of
intolerance.
Republican
legislative
leaders said they are working
on adding language to the
religious-objections
law
to
make it clear that the measure
does not allow discrimination
against gays and lesbians. As
signed by Pence last week, the
measure prohibits state laws
that
“substantially
burden”
a person’s ability to follow
his or her religious beliefs.
The definition of “person”
includes religious institutions,
businesses and associations.
“What we had hoped for
with the bill was a message
of inclusion, inclusion of all
religious beliefs,” Republican
House Speaker Brian Bosma
said. “What instead has come
out is a message of exclusion,
and that was not the intent.”
The efforts fell flat with
Democrats, who called for
a
repeal,
and
even
some
Republicans.
“They’re scrambling to put
a good face on a bad issue.
What puzzles me is how this
effort came to the top of the
legislative agenda when clearly
the
business
community
doesn’t support it,” said Bill
Oesterle, an aide to Republican
former Gov. Mitch Daniels and
CEO of consumer reporting
agency Angie’s List, which
canceled expansion plans in
Indianapolis because of the
law.
Indianapolis Mayor Greg
Ballard, a Republican, said the
law threatens to undermine
the city’s economic growth
and reputation as a convention
and
tourism
destination
and called for lawmakers to
add protections for sexual
orientation and gender identity
to Indiana civil-rights laws.
“I call upon Governor Pence
and the Indiana Legislature to
fix this law. Either repeal it or
pass a law that protects all who
live, work and visit Indiana.
And
do
so
immediately.
Indianapolis
will
not
be
defined by this,” Ballard said.
After a two-hour private
meeting of House Republicans,
Bosma
said
Monday
that
repealing the law isn’t “a
realistic goal at this point.”
“I’m looking for a surgical
solution, and I think the least
intrusive surgery is to clarify
that (the law) cannot be used
to support the denial of goods,
facilities or services to any
member of the public,” he said.
Pence, who defended the law
during a television appearance
Sunday, canceled scheduled
appearances
Monday
night
and Tuesday, in part because of
planned protests.
In an essay for The Wall
Street Journal, Pence said
“the law is not a ‘license to
discriminate’”
and
reflects
federal law. But the Affordable
Care Act, he said, “renewed
concerns about government
infringement on deeply held
religious beliefs.”
“Faith
and
religion
are
important values to millions
of
Indiana
residents,”
he
said. “With the passage of
this legislation, Indiana will
continue to be a place that
respects the beliefs of every
person in our state.”
Indiana
lawmakers
try to quiet
controversy