Sulfaro
has
since
filed
complaints with the University,
MSU, MPSA and two other
professional
organizations.
After filing the complaint with
the
University,
Sulfaro
said
Elizabeth Seney, U-M deputy
Title IX coordinator, contacted
her but never followed up with
her or her witnesses. University
spokesman Rick Fitzgerald stated
the University does not confirm
nor deny the existence of the
investigation against Jacoby by
the Office of Institutional Equity.
Rebecca
Gill,
an
associate
professor of political science at
the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas, was also propositioned
by Jacoby for a relationship.
Following
a
presentation
of
her paper at a 2001 conference,
Jacoby approached Gill and gave
positive remarks on her work.
Jacoby encouraged her to take
an ICPSR course he taught in the
summer of 2002 at Michigan, and
she did.
After the last day of Jacoby’s
course, Gill, Jacoby and others
went to a pub to celebrate the end
of the session. Jacoby told Gill
about “how mysterious and good-
looking she was” and that they
would both be working together
at MSU.
Jacoby then asked Gill to
consider having an affair with
him, implying the relationship
would be a way to advance her
career at MSU.
Gill spoke to Jacoby once after
this incident, soon before her
graduation from MSU. According
to Gill, at the time Jacoby’s wife
was the graduate director of
Gill’s
doctoral
program.
The
program’s policy required that
Ph.D. students with specializing
in American politics had to
have Jacoby on their doctoral
committee. Gill requested not to
have Jacoby on her committee
because of her discomfort with
him, and when meeting with
Jacoby, was told she was mistaken
about the pub incident.
“I expected him to say, ‘Oh I
never meant to make you feel that
way,’” Gill said. “But, he just said,
‘That didn’t happen. You must be
mistaken.’”
Gill
told
The
Daily
she
graduated late from the program,
finishing after Jacoby’s wife’s
role as the Graduate Director
ended in 2007.
3
NEWS
Thursday, May 3, 2018
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
City Council votes to repurchase
property on South Fifth Avenue
At a special session
councilmembers
supported affordable
housing for downtown
By RACHEL CUNNINGHAM
Summer Daily News Editor
During their fourth and final decision
on the “Y lot” repurchase, Ann Arbor
City Council voted 11-0 to purchase the
lot for $4.2 million at 350 South Fifth
Avenue.
The special session on Tuesday
comes after postponing the decision in
previous meetings. The city had sold the
lot to local real estate developer Dennis
Dahlmann in 2014 for $5.25 million with
a promise to create affordable housing
and commercial developments on the lot.
The lot is still vacant, and Dahlmann has
sued the city in order to extend his own-
ership of the lot for another four years.
Many residents called for the afford-
able housing prices to be based on medi-
an income instead of a fair-market value.
The fair-market rent is determined by
the market value of a unit, but many
residents voiced their preference for
rent to be based off Ann Arbor’s median
income to make the units more afford-
able. According to the 2016 census, Ann
Arbor’s median income is $57
,697 and
the city’s poverty rate is at 23.4 percent.
In the city’s decision, rent will be
based on a fair-market rent of 110 percent
of fair market range. The city has not yet
determined the number of units to be
built on the property.
Ann Arbor resident Sharon Ongaro
called upon City Council to repurchase
the lot to help those who work in the
downtown area have affordable housing.
“There’s opportunity for the city of
Ann Arbor to step in, take control of that
lot and hand it to a developer with the
requirement that some number of the
units be affordable housing,” Ongaro
said. “We all know that it’s needed. We all
know that gentrification has taken place
and shoved people out of their homes
through the years and we need to have
affordable housing so the people that are
making our downtown tick have a place
to stay.”
Ann Arbor resident Sandi Smith, a
local realtor and president of the Washt-
enaw Housing Alliance, was also in favor
of City Council repurchasing the lot as
a way to address housing affordability
issues in the city.
“Y
ou (City Council) need to take
some action,” Smith said. “This won’t
solve everything, but you need to take
some action to make sure that you get
some money into the affordable housing
trust fund. A good way to find affordable
units is to use government-owned land.
It’s smart.”
Councilmember Zachary Ackerman,
D-Ward 3, sponsored the resolution as a
means of improving Ann Arbor’s afford-
ability and quality of life for citizens.
“I think as we build a community
with a high quality of life and a sustain-
able economy, we need to look to that
same premise that intentionally pro-
moting affordability is critical to sustain
quality of life and a healthy economy,”
Ackerman said.
Councilmember Sumi Kailasapathy,
D-Ward 1, also supported the resolution,
expressing a desire to see the city stick to
its project plans and not turn the prop-
erty into a luxury facility.
“We have seen way too many proj-
ects that are being built that are being
called affordable units but are really not
affordable at all,” Kailasapathy said. “I
don’t want to get into a situation of voting
on this and then later on saying ‘it’s not
financially (liable). We are going to put
luxury units for affordable units which
are $1600 for a two-bedroom apart-
ment.’ Affordable for who? That’s more
than the mortgage I used to pay.”
Despite voting for the resolution,
Councilmember Jane Lumm, I-Ward
2, supported the city’s attempt to repur-
chase the property but did not support
the specified resolution proposed at the
meeting because of the project’s expens-
es.
“Building affordable housing units on
the city’s most expensive real estate does
not make economic or financial sense,”
Lumm said. “It is also not the most cost-
effective way to leverage taxpayers’ dol-
lars in adding affordable housing units.”
Protesters from organizations such as
Ann Arbor Ozone House were present at
the meeting calling for the city to repur-
chase the lot and construct affordable
housing units.
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Freedom of speech — especially
in the context of racism and hate
speech — has been a linchpin for
the campus community this year in
light of controversy over a potential
appearance by white supremacist
Richard Spencer.
“If we don’t trust our ideas enough to
sail them out of harbor once in a while,
they remain unformed, untested,” he
said. “Rather than wrapping ourselves
in a security blanket … we raised a
collective voice against those who lack
collective decency.”
Martin ended his remarks with
the notion that, “in the long run, good
ideas triumph over bad; integrity beats
dishonesty.”
Public Policy now-graduate Nadine
Jawad, outgoing Central Student
Government vice president, discussed
the importance of service, following
the example of the Ford School of
Public Policy’s eponym, Gerald Ford.
“When I think of the University of
Michigan and the Ford School, I think
of the will to overcome challenges
and in that will I see a very distinct
opportunity,” Jawad noted, discussing
the challenges of the year and her
college tenure but importance of
looking toward change.“There is
nothing more important than my
service to those around me.”
University President Mark Schlissel
mentioned his special connection with
this year’s graduates, as he began his
tenure at the University of Michigan
in 2014 when the 2018 graduates
were starting their University careers
as freshmen. He noted many of the
athletic triumphs at the University
in the past four years, gaining cheers
from the audience with references to
teams’ runs in the Final and Frozen
Four championships, among other
noteworthy events. Schlissel discussed
graduation as a turning point for a
“new community of scholars.”
“Class of 2018, today you graduate
into an increasingly global society
where the challenges are enormous
and there are no simple answers,”
Schlissel said.
Schlissel expressed the importance
for graduates to live their lives
embodying the “Michigan difference.”
“I believe we all change the world
in ways large and small, and each of
us through our Michigan experience
finds a way to make an impact,” he
said.
Following Schlissel and other
speakers were presentations to four
honorary degree recipients, including:
Jeanne Craig Sinkford, who received
an honorary doctor of science; Penny
Stamps, who received an honorary
doctor of fine arts; David Walt, who
received an honorary doctor of science;
and main speaker Woodson, who
received an honorary doctor of laws.
Woodson,
the
1997
Heisman
Trophy winner who led the Wolverines
to the 1997 co-national championship,
then
addressed
the
graduates.
Woodson made lighthearted jokes
noting, “You’re all stuck with me … but
at least this year you have a speaker.”
This
referred
to
student
disappointment
surrounding
last
year’s commencement, at which
no specific speaker was named in
exchange for a Bicentennial-themed
ceremony.
Woodson began by drawing several
parallels between him and Desmond
Howard, another famed Michigan
football player, Heisman Trophy
awardee and national championship
winner.
“Once you get here, you get to
witness the tradition of Michigan,”
Woodson said. “…When you leave here,
that’s the time when you’re really going
to appreciate your time being here.”
Woodson
also
made
a
few
politically-charged allusions about a
hypothetical wall between Michigan
and Ohio — his home state — taking on
commentary against President Donald
Trump.
“If we built that wall, neither me nor
Desmond (Howard) could have come
here...so scratch that.”
He later shifted to a message about
service. Speaking about his childhood
being raised by single mother of three,
Woodson said he wasn’t alone, and
he couldn’t have gotten where he is
without others.
Then, Woodson touched on the
recent anniversary of the death of Dr.
Martin Luther King 50 years ago this
month, and the significance of King’s
activism and commitment to racial
justice.
“Dr. King cared about people, and
he gave his time, he gave his energy,
and ultimately Dr. King gave his life,”
Woodson said. “But those things that
were happening to people, it never
stopped him from trying to help
others. He helped people he knew, he
helped people that he didn’t know and
that’s because of one major quality that
I believe that he had that I hope all of
you have as you go through your life. ”
He made a request to the graduating
class: to look around and see people as
they are.
“I guarantee you, if you can begin
to see people that way, just as human
beings, you will begin to treat them
differently,” Woodson said. “You will
begin to understand their points of
views … I’m asking you — I’m begging
you — do not carry the hate forward.”