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The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) 
is published Monday through Friday 
during the fall and winter terms by 
students at the University of Michigan. 
One copy is available free of charge 
to all readers. Additional copies may 
be picked up at the Daily’s office 
for $2 per issue. Subscriptions for 
September - April are $250, and year-
long subscriptions are $275. University 
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be prepaid. 

City Council talks 
oversight, Superfund

Council reviews 
commission makeup, 
EPA collaboration

The Ann Arbor City Council 
discussed 
involving 
the 
Environmental Protection Agency 
in cleaning up the Gelman dioxane 
plume as well as altering the makeup 
of the Independent Community 
Police Oversight Commission at a 
meeting on Monday.
City Council moved to replace 
Councilmember 
Zachary 
Ackerman, 
D-Ward 
3, 
with 
Councilmember 
Ali 
Ramlawi, 
D-Ward 5, as one of the body’s 
two liaisons to the ICPOC. Calls 
for a police oversight commission 
became more prominent following 
the 2014 shooting death of resident 
Aura Rosser at the hands of Ann 
Arbor police officers, and City 
Council adopted an ordinance in 
October establishing the ICPOC 
after 
months 
of 
debate 
and 
controversy.

Ramlawi, who is one of City 
Council’s liaisons to the Human 
Rights 
Commission, 
said 
the 
success of the commission was 
important to him.
“I felt that in the current state 
of affairs, it would strengthen the 
commission and also would tie the 
two commissions in our city — the 
Human Rights Commission and 
the Police Oversight Commission 
— in a way that would allow for 
more communication between the 
transition and for the newly formed 
body to do its work,” Ramlawi said.
Ramlawi noted an argument 
made by a resident during public 
comment that he would be better 
suited to sit on the ICPOC than 
Ackerman, who is white.
“This is a great personal interest 
of mine,” Ramlawi said. “I was 
referred to as a person of color 
earlier. It is true, I identify with 
being a minority, being Palestinian, 
but born and raised in this country, 
I do have a great empathy for people 
who get the raw end of the stick.”

‘U’ president 
reflects on school 
year, looks ahead

Each month, The Michigan Daily 
sits down with University President 
Mark Schlissel to discuss events 
and issues on campus. During this 
month’s interview, Schlissel touched 
on topics related to minority inclusion 
on campus, emergency preparedness, 
One University, carbon neutrality 
efforts and future goals.
The Michigan Daily: 
The 
development of the new Trotter 
Center on State Street was one of 
seven demands listed by #BBUM 
in 2013. While many students 
voiced their appreciation for the 
center, there was also criticism for 
the lack of fulfillment in regards 
to the other demands. In addition 
to BSU’s requests, La Casa also 
released a list of demands for 
the University in terms of hiring 
practices, spaces and more. What 
does the fact that certain student 
groups need to release demands 
to the University say about the 
overall campus climate? How does 
the University plan to continue 
meeting the needs of marginalized 
communities? Are any of the other 
demands from either BSU or La 
Casa being addressed? If so, how?
Mark Schlissel: I think the 

advocacy by student groups like 
BBUM, like La Casa is really 
important for the University. It 
helps us understand better how 
all different types of students are 
experiencing the campus. It helps 
us identify students that we can try 
to work together with to figure out 
the best way forward, and I think 
the new Trotter is a great example 
of that. So, students from BBUM, 
but also from many other groups, 
were part of discussions that led 
to the design of what turned out 
to be an absolutely spectacular 
project …. The BBUM demands 
preceded my arrival on campus 
but provoked what continue to 
be ongoing discussions between 
representatives of my office, the 
Vice President for Student Life 
Royster Harper, the Dean of the 
college Laura Blake Jones and 
others about how best to serve all 
different types of students on the 
campus.
Demands 
are 
particularly 
difficult; it’s not really an opening 
for discussion, it’s a demand. I 
think where things work the best 
is where students who feel strongly 
about things express their strength 
of feelings, then — as in the case 
of Trotter — are willing to work 
together to actualize a solution. 
We don’t have the capacity to 
do everything that every group 
demands of us, but we do have the 
capacity to meet with every group 
on an ongoing basis.

Schlissel: Advocacy 
“important” to ‘U’

Read more at MichiganDaily.com

ALEC COHEN / Daily
University president Mark Schlissel discusses various events and issues on campus with 
The Michigan Daily in the Fleming Administration Building Monday.

Read more at MichiganDaily.com

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