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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.

—Compiled from 
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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RITA MORRIS/Daily

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.

MICHIGAN
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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.

COUNCIL
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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