The 
U.S. 
Department 
of 
Agriculture is awarding “The Ann 
Arbor Greenbelt: Saving Michigan 
Farms 
Regional 
Conservation 
Partnership Program” $1 million 
dollars, according to a Feb. 4 press 
release. The project is led by the 
City of Ann Arbor Open Space and 
Parkland Preservation Program, 
also called the Greenbelt. It aims 
to 
protect 
surrounding 
Ann 

Arbor agricultural lands through 
conservation easements, the right 
to use someone else’s land for a 
specified purpose. Greenbelt and 
its local partners will match the 
grant, which means a total of $2 
million will go toward preserving 
farmland in Washtenaw County.
Partners in the project include 
Washtenaw County Parks and 
Recreation 
Commission, 
Scio 
Township, Ann Arbor Township, 
Augusta 
Township, 
Legacy 
Land 
Conservancy, 
Southeast 

Michigan Land Conservancy, The 
Conservation Fund and the USDA 
Natural Resources Conservation 
Service.
This 2018 fiscal year, the 
Saving Michigan Farms program 
is one of 91 projects selected 
for the Regional Conservation 
Partnership 
Program 
funding 
by the USDA Natural Resources 
Conservation Service. The USDA 
list of chosen projects describes 
ecological 
and 
local 
benefits 
of the Saving Michigan Farms 
program. These benefits include 
protecting food security and 
local economics, maintaining 
the 
agricultural 
heritage 
of residents and combating 
environmental concerns.
According 
to 
Jennifer 
Fike, the Greenbelt Advisory 
Commission 
chair, 
the 
USDA grant will amplify the 
Greenbelt’s land preservation 
efforts.
“(The grant money) is an 
awesome way for us to leverage 
federal dollars to match the 
amount of money that we put 
in to protect land in Washtenaw 
County in the Greenbelt area,” 
Fike said. “It allows our (tax) 
dollars to go further to protect 
more land.”
According 
to 
the 
USDA 
website, 
the 
RCPP 
funds 
projects through four types 
of programs, including from 
the Agricultural Conservation 
Easement Program. Though the 
Greenbelt has received USDA 
funding directly from ACEP 
before, this is the first time 
Greenbelt has received such 
funding through the RCPP, Fike 
explained.

“It could potentially allow us 
to go after larger parcels of land,” 
Fike said. “I’m not sure, as (both 
types of funding) are very similar. 
It just allows us more funding — 
one million dollars — whereas 
ACEP funding is a lot less.”
The Saving Michigan Farms 
program will preserve agricultural 
lands 
by 
functioning 
as 
a 
Purchase of Development Rights 
program, a voluntary program 
for which landowners can apply. 
Owners of qualified agricultural 
property are compensated for 
accepting 
a 
permanent 
deed 
restriction through a conservation 
easement, which prohibits future 
development on that land. The 
land remains private property, and 
the landowner may receive income 
tax benefits for donating part or all 
of the value of development rights.
To 
LSA 
freshman 
Noah 
Clements, who is a student in the 
Program in the Environment, PDR 
programs are especially beneficial 
for their long-term effects.
“Conservation 
easements, 
like Greenbelt is doing, are really 
sustainable, and they keep that 
land undeveloped for decades to 
come,” Clements said. “It really is 
a future-minded project, which is 
what we need.”
According to the Greenbelt 
website, PDR programs benefit 
farmers in a variety of ways, such 
as 
rendering 
farmland 
more 
affordable, which helps younger 
farmers; gives older farmers a 
way other than selling their land 
to fund retirement; and assists 
in the transfer of farmland from 
generation to generation. Fike 
echoed these points, expressing 
that PDR programs can help 

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ON THE DAILY: ‘U’ BAN ON FACULTY-STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS IN PLACE 

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: CARTER, STUDENTS DISCUSS 
DRAFT. MSA’S ALLAND GOES TO D.C.

A new University policy took 
effect on Monday prohibiting sexual, 
romantic, 
amorous 
and 
dating 
relationships between faculty and 
undergraduate students in for all three 
University of Michigan campuses.
The policy is part of significant 
revisions to University procedure 
on faculty-student relationships that 
came after a working group, consisting 
of faculty from all three campuses, 
made recommendations to University 
President Mark Schlissel. 

The 
policy, 
which 
prohibits 
relationships between “teachers” and 
“learners,” bans relationships between 
faculty, graduate student instructors 
and undergraduates responsible for the 
delivery of course content with students 
they have academic or supervisory 
authority over, including in class, labs, 
online, field or other settings. 
Graduate 
and 
professional 
students are also banned from having 
relationships with faculty members 
inside their discipline or academic 
program, in which the faculty member 
has or might reasonably be expected to 
have academic or supervisory authority.

Supervised and non-supervised 
postdoctoral research fellows may not 
engage in relationships with faculty 
members in cases where they have had 
or might be expected to have academic 
or supervisory authority as well. 
University Provost Martin Philbert 
told the University Record that helping 
students advance as learners should be 
the primary mission of all educators at 
the University. 
“Maintenance of an environment 
of trust, openness, civility and respect 
that enables each person to reach 
their full potential is at the core of our 
mission as educators at the University of 

Michigan,” University Provost Martin 
Philbert said. “It is incumbent on our 
faculty to nurture the advancement and 
pursuit of knowledge, which result in 
lifelong professional mentorships and 
service to our society.”
According to an email sent to 
the Ford School of Public Policy, the 
Public Policy school will consider rare 
exceptions. Requests for exceptions 
must be made in writing by the faculty 
member, GSI or other teachers.
This policy applies to the University’s 
Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint 
campuses.

Feb. 19, 1980
President Carter and National 
Security 
Advisor 
Zbigniew 
Brzezinski met with 300 student 
leaders from across the country 
- including Michigan Student 
Assembly (MSA) President Jim 
Alland - in Washington Friday to 
discuss the reinstatement of draft 
registration.
Both Carter and Brzezinski 

reaffirmed that the proposal now 
before Congress is a necessary 
step 
to 
protect 
American 
interests abroad, Alland said in 
an interview yesterday.
“The overriding concern at the 
conference was the registration,” 
Alland said. “It’s hard to know 
what a meeting like this will do, 
however, it’s always to express 
views.” He described his own 

feelings on registration as “very 
mixed.” 
Campaign workers for Sen. 
Edward 
Kennedy 
(D-Mass.) 
invited the visiting students 
to a reception at Kennedy’s 
Washington headquarters, but 
All And said he did not attend it.
He 
added 
that 
students 
expressed concern that they were 
being used as political pawns. 

“To say that it was not a 
political move (on Carter’s part) 
would be nothing, less than 
naive,” he said. 
Alland, however, said he felt 
the president was “very sincere” 
in his desire to hear student 
response to foreign policy. “I 
really got the feeling that they 
wanted to hear what the mood 
was across the nation.”

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landowners in their present-day 
business operations as well.
“Land prices in Washtenaw 
County can be pretty high,” Fike 
said. “(It can be) very difficult 
financially to make a living at 
(farming). By being able to place 
land in a conservation easement 
with us as a partner, that allows 
(farmers) the financial capability 
to put the money back into their 
business and grow food for local 
markets, such as Ann Arbor 
Farmers Market, selling to Ann 
Arbor restaurants, selling directly 
off their farm.”
The Greenbelt arose out of the 
2003 Open Space and Parkland 
Preservation Millage, a 30-year, 
0.5 mil tax levy in response to 
the worries of suburban sprawl 
in Ann Arbor in the 1990s. More 
commonly known as the Greenbelt 
Millage, the measure passed with 
two-thirds of the vote.
Michael Garfield, director of 
environmental advocacy group 
known as the Ecology Center, 
spearheaded 
the 
Greenbelt 

ballot measure in 2003. Garfield 
explained the context in which the 
measure arose, describing rapid 
development in the 1980s and 
1990s.
“Back in the 1980s and ’90s, 
there was unplanned, unrestrained 
suburban development in all of 
southeast Michigan … quite a 
distance from the urban center 
of Detroit,” Garfield said. “There 
were ginormous (sic) developments 
in Washtenaw County fairly close 
to Ann Arbor that were being 
proposed 
that 
would 
utterly 
transform the landscape around 
here … We were concerned about 
the loss of natural resources, and 
loss of good farmland that could 
be used to build a sustainable food 
economy.”
Garfield 
also 
described 
unrestrictive development laws, 
which made control of suburban 
sprawl difficult.

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