A
new
nine-story
development,
currently
engaged in the City Council
approval process, may be built
on a currently vacant site next
to the University of Michigan’s
Medical Campus.
At its Nov. 20 meeting,
the
council
unanimously
approved the zoning necessary
for
the
development,
and
Catherine Ann Development,
the Bloomfield Hills company
responsible for the project, will
bring its designs to the council
on Dec. 18 for a public hearing
and final approval.
The development, which is
estimated to cost $40 million,
will sit atop a half-acre of land
that used to be home to a gas
station and then a laundromat
before a development project
was approved in 2005. The
project
was
dropped
for
financial reasons, and the site
has been vacant since then. For
the past few years, Catherine
Ann Development has been
working on a design for the
space, and it’s now proposed
a mixed-use building with
retail and restaurant space.
However, its focus will be the
building’s hotel — according to
Catherine Ann spokesman Tom
Shields, the company believe
this development will fill a
hole in the current Ann Arbor
infrastructure.
“Ann Arbor is probably one
of the few major university
towns that doesn’t really have
a signature hotel,” Shields said.
“Even though most people
in Ann Arbor are developing
apartments and condos, they
saw that as a real opportunity.
… They thought the location
was perfect, and the timing was
perfect.”
The site is located at Glen
Avenue and Ann Street, adjacent
to the Medical Campus and
University Hospital. Shields
said the company hopes to
service people who are coming
to town specifically for the
hospital, but also to the broader
University and city community.
“(It’s) a combination — for
those people who are coming
to Ann Arbor for University
events or for business looking
for an upscale, boutique type
of hotel to stay in, and then
combined with people who
are in town to visit patients
who are at the University
Hospital, combined with also
the ability to have conferences
and a convention space which
could be used by people who
are involved in the hospital or
medical community,” Shields
said.
As part of the #StopSpencer
week of action, the Campus
Antifacist Network hosted a
teach-in
Wednesday
at
the
Michigan League. The teach-in
featured history lecturer Anne
Berg and LaKisha Simmons, an
assistant professor of history
and women’s studies.
Both speakers discussed their
areas of study in the context
of the possibility for Richard
Spencer
coming
to
speak.
Simmons
spoke
about
how
certain speech gets censored
through violence, and Berg
discussed
the
genealogy
of
white supremacist thought.
Berg related the issue to Nazi
Germany and talked about the
history of national socialism
and how Nazi racism has a
longer
genealogy.
She
also
discussed how violence and
use of visuals communicates
on a subconscious level, where
people learn at an early age to
read racial messages.
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Teach-ins
continue as
profs. prep
for no class
CAMPUS LIFE
Faculty lecture on history
of fascism, censorship: ask
“are things getting worse?”
MOLLY NORRIS
Daily Staff Reporter
EMMA RICHTER/Daily
City Council is in the process of approving a nine-story development on a vacant lot next to the medical campus.
Development building in historic area
currently undergoing city approval
$40 million nine-story infrastructure proposed on site near Medical Campus
MAYA GOLDMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
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Central Student Government
and LSA Student Government
have tallied the final results
for fall elections, respectively
appointing candidates to positions
as assembly representatives and
elected representatives.
The
University
Elections
Commission certified the results
of CSG’s fall elections on Nov. 27,
naming assembly representatives
for eight schools and colleges
across campus while Medical
student
Whit
Froehlich
was
elected to the University of
Michigan’s Police Department
Oversight Committee.
Rackham
student
Sharon
Hu won seats in the Rackham
Graduate
School’s
and
the
School
for
Environment
and
Sustainability’s
assemblies,
and, according to the Elections
Report, the UEC recommended
Hu
take
the
Rackham
seat
and the SES seat be left vacant
because students in SES are also
technically Rackham students.
CSG, LSA
SG release
fall election
rep. results
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
5.365 percent of LSA
students voted, marked
increase from last year
LEAH GRAHAM
Daily Staff Reporter
The
prospect
of
white
nationalist
Richard
Spencer
visiting
the
University
of
Michigan has raised alarm not
only on campus, but also among
city residents and community
leaders.
Just
last
week,
Mayor
Christopher Taylor (D) criticized
Spencer in a Facebook post,
noting Spencer’s white nationalist
ideology runs counter to Ann
Arbor’s commitment to diversity
and inclusion for people of all
backgrounds.
“Richard
Spencer’s
fearful
vision of America is an affront
to Ann Arbor’s values and we
condemn him. He is not welcome
here,” Taylor wrote.
Nevertheless, Taylor supported
University
President
Mark
Schlissel’s decision to consider
allowing Spencer to speak.
Hundreds walk out of class against
‘U’ negotiation of Spencer event
A2 torn between
free speech, hate
CHUN SO/Daily
Students gather as part of the #StopSpencer events to protest the University’s consideration to host Richard Spencer on the Diag Wednesday.
ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
Students protest in march around Central Campus as a part of Week of Action
After Taylor support, residents resist
Last
week,
the
University
of
Michigan
administration
responded to Richard Spencer’s
request to speak on campus, and
moved forward to negotiate the
event. Today, in protest of the
administration refusing to deny
the request, students hundreds
of walked out of their classes and
rallied in the Diag, then marched
into other classrooms on campus.
A few hundred students and
community members gathered in
the University of Michigan Diag
at about noon on Wednesday, and
after a short rally, marched to
the Chemistry Building, Mason
Hall and the Fish Bowl in Angell
Hall. The rally is part of the
#StopSpencer week of action,
which includes teach-ins and
other forms of protest.
“On
Wednesday,
November
29 2017, Stop Spencer at the
University
of
Michigan
is
organizing a student walk out
at 11:45 AM in response to the
failure of University of Michigan
President Mark Schlissel and
the
Regents
to
deny
white
supremacist Richard Spencer’s
request to speak on campus,”
the Facebook event reads. “We
cannot learn in an environment
that is constantly disrupting our
learning by threatening our safety
and dehumanizing us.”
On Nov. 21, the University
said it was going to proceed with
Spencer’s request to speak on
campus, given the administration
can ensure the safety of students.
In
an
emergency
meeting
of the University’s Board of
Regents,
University
President
Mark Schlissel laid out “three
components” to the decision: the
safety of students, protecting free
speech in a democratic society,
and that denying the request
would give more attention to
Spencer and his cause. Schlissel
repeatedly said safety must be
guaranteed in order for the event
to take plcae.
LSA
senior
and
organizer
Hoai An Pham said, however,
in a speech to the protesters in
the Diag the walk out wasn’t just
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Daily Staff Reporter
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