After Former U.S. Rep. Sander
Levin agreed to give documents
from his time in the House of
Representatives to the Bentley
Historical
Library’s
archives,
the Ford School of Public Policy
hosted the Congressman and
several members of his family on
Monday evening to celebrate his
history in public service.
Levin represented Michigan’s
17th District from 1983-1993, 12th
District from 1993-2013 and 9th
District from 2013-2019. He was
chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee in 2010,
helped to pass the Affordable Care
Act and played a pivotal role in
shaping economic policy. Levin is
currently working as a professor
of practice and Distinguished
Policymaker in Residence at the
School of Public Policy.

According
to
Terrence
McDonald, director of the Bentley
Historical Library, the library’s
archives include papers from
former U.S. Rep. John Dingell,
D-District 12, former U.S. Senator
Carl Levin, D-Mich., — Sander
Levin’s brother — as well as
several former governors of the
state of Michigan.
Materials stored in the Bentley
Historical Library’s archives are
held in bankers boxes, each of
which measures out to one foot.
Sander Levin’s documents equate
to over 700 feet, indicating the
breadth of material to be collected
and accessible to the public for
future research in approximately
one year.
In an interview with The Daily,
McDonald explained the process
behind bringing Sander Levin’s
documents to the collections.
“We try to contact members
of the Michigan congressional

delegation, governor of the state,
(and) senators the year before or so
their terms are coming to an end,”
McDonald said. “We want to build
— and we have — a substantial
collection of all the officeholders’
(documents) in the state.”
After a brief reception in Weill
Hall, McDonald provided opening
remarks in the Vandenberg Room,
introducing community members
to speak on Sander Levin’s history
in
public
service.
University
President Mark Schlissel praised
the Bentley Historical Library and
the opportunities for scholarship
and
research
Sander
Levin’s
papers would provide.
“I’d especially like to thank
Congressman Sander Levin for his
service to the people of Michigan
and to our nation,” Schlissel
said. “That service will live on in
perpetuity as he’s generously made
his papers available to students,
faculty and scholars by donating
them of course to the Bentley
Historical Library. There they
can enlighten and encourage
and inspire all those who read
them and use them.”
Public
Policy
Dean
Michael
Barr
reflected
on his experiences with
Sander Levin when they
both
held
positions
in
public service.
“It’s been a real honor to
have had a chance to work
with him when I was in the
government and to see first
hand the extraordinary work
that he did in the halls of
Congress fighting for working
people, fighting for families
throughout his career,” Barr
said.
Barr
also
explained
students and staff appreciate
the work Sander Levin has
been doing at the Public
Policy School. Sander Levin
currently co-teaches a class
with former Public Policy
Dean Susan Collins titled
“Policy
Design,
Strategy
and
Practice”
with
a
particular focus on trade and
unemployment policy.

Taubman and LSA sophomore
Jared Freeman attended the event
because of his family’s connection
to the Levin family. Freeman
said he enjoyed hearing how
the University is using Levin’s
experiences to serve students on
campus.
“It was cool to hear the
perspective on how Sandy can
apply
his
actual
experiences
battling different legislation in
Congress to kind of apply that to
his teaching and to the students
taking his class,” Freeman said.
At
the
event,
McDonald
introduced Sen. Carl Levin to
speak about his brother. The two
brothers are the longest serving
pair of siblings in congressional
history. Carl Levin described his
brother’s work in public service
before being elected to Congress,
focusing on the experience the
archives will show.
“There’s a goldmine in his
archives,” Carl Levin said. “It’s
a
goldmine
of
intelligence,
of learning, of the lessons of
experience from 36 years in the
House, the lessons of learning how
to fight … for average people who
need fighters. And Sandy’s always
been there.”
McDonald
also
moderated
a
brief
conversation
on
policymaking with Sander Levin.
Sander Levin expressed gratitude
for the opportunity to teach at the
Public Policy School.
“Carl and I faced this issue as
we were retiring: what we would
do next,” Sander Levin said. “This
University...has provided us with a
chance to carry on, and what more
could we do … than to be with the
next generation?”
Sander
Levin
ultimately
explained his hope that those
who interact with the collections
will be able to learn from his
Congressional work.
“The archives there represent
the efforts of so many people,”
Sander Levin said. “What Carl and
I are trying to do is to take these
documents and to extract lessons
from them that will be useful for
the future.”

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Opinions on Clarence Thomas cut across race, sex

October 15, 1991
The tumultuous debate that
has swept the country over the
Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill
hearings has left University
students deeply divided.
Riddled with diametrically
opposing forces - Black and
white, man and woman - the
Senate hearings have yielded
student opinions that do not
conform to any strict patterns.
Within the Black community,
opinions differ among women.
Engineering
sophomore
Jessica
Daniels
threw
her
support behind Prof. Hill.
“My support for Professor
Hill has nothing to do with
her being an African-American
female,” she said. “If she’s

proven wrong she has a lot to
lose.”
Baker-Mandela
Center
(BMC)
Director
Latrice
Dixon also said she considers
Hill’s
accusations
accurate.
Furthermore she said she saw
the issue of sexual harassment
rather than that of race as the
salient issue.
“(Prof. Hill) has been a
symbol for so many women
who are reluctant to bring
sexual harassment forward,”
she said.
Yet not all women said
Thomas should suffer for his
past behavior. First-year LSA
student Dyann Logwood said
she believes Clarence Thomas
sexually harassed Anita Hill,

but
should not be penalized for
his past actions now.
“Since it happened 10 years
ago I think he would realize
that that’s a mistake that he
made and life goes on.”
Rejection from the Supreme
Court on this incident alone,
she said, would be unjust. Yet
other women saw Hill as the
opposition’s vehicle to the
destruction of a Black Supreme
Court nominee.
LSA senior Cherron Rowland
said, “She’s being paid-off. The
whole thing is a set-up against
him.”
“I think they are making
him an example that Black
people can’t be involved in

the Supreme Court or higher
positions.”
Other women denounced the
Senate’s handling of the sexual
harassment charges and called
their actions insensitive.
“What I’m most angry about
is that those 98 men will never
understand her fear of not
exposing this earlier,” said RC
senior Abigail Warwick.
In
response
to
Hill’s
potential
credibility
gap
of never detailing Thomas’
actions to friends, Warwick
says, “It was very professional
of her not to talk of the graphic
details with her friends who
defended her.”
Among men, disagreement
also
cut
across
racial

boundaries.
Although
opposed
to
Thomas’ political views, LSA
senior
Anthony
Haralson,
expressed
remorse
over
witnessing what he called an
“obvious conspiracy” to derail
Thomas.
“I feel sad that these are
supposed to be the better
people of our race and they
are being pitted against each
other,” he said.
Haralson
questioned
Hill’s accusation of sexual
harassment, “I believe Anita
Hill perceives she was sexually
harrased.”
But Haralson pointed to
Thomas’
otherwise
clean
record as evidence attesting

to his probable innocence.
“I don’t think when sexual
harassment happens, that is an
isolated thing.”
LSA
sophomore
Oscar
Daniels
agreed
that
Hill’s
accusations may have been
merely twisted perceptions.
“They may have had a close
relationship where he believed
that he could joke around about
certain subjects and Anita not
be offended by them. She was
but she kept it inside… had he
known, I think he would have
stopped completely,” he said.
LSA sophomore Tony Pitts
echoed
this
sentiment.
“It
would be different if she would
have come forward at the
beginning.”

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