In a story for its March issue, entitled “Is Your College Student Safe at School?,“ Reader’s Digest attempted to evaluate the level of safety at colleges and universities nationwide. U-M, which ranked 34th nationally, received an A for its security performance. While the story claims that shootings at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech prompted the story, the study Readers Digest conducted did little to address the problems in those cases.
The study’s ratings are based on nineteen, self-reported survey questions presented to universities. All of the questions regard security at on-campus buildings, mostly dorms. Questions include “the percentage of students in dorms with full-time security, “the percentage of students in dorms with camera” and the existence of a “mass emergency response system.” Yet as the study’s methodology reveals all variables were given equal weight in the study, so an emergency response plan is just as valuable as the number of full-time university police and the “percentage of students in dorms with sprinkler systems.”
Since neither the Virginia Tech or Illinois State shootings happened in dormitories these questions seem completely irrelevant to accessing that sort of safety. The article does, much later, include anecdotal accounts, such as the infamous murder at EMU last year, which may have been prevented by these types of security features. It also points out that students often ignore or flaunt these features, leaving doors propped open or letting people enter buildings behind them.
Furthermore, while the study does account for the size of each college it fails to recognize that small schools such as Maine’s Bowdoin College, which ranked nineteenth nationally, are likely to have a much higher share of students living in dorms that say U-M. Since the article is directed at parents, it may give them a sense of the safety available in on-campus housing but forgets to remind them that students at schools like U-M are likely to vacate university housing by their sophomore, or definitely junior year.
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In a unanimous decision the Ann Arbor City Council rezoned several streets in the Lower Burns Park area south of campus for single family housing. The change in code will impact Golden Ave, Granger Ave, Rose Ave, and Brooklyn Ave.
Several speakers including Nancy Leff, the chair of the Lower Burns Park Neighborhood Association spoke in favor of the rezoning. Leff pointed out that her organization had originally asked only to have Golden rezoned in accordance with statements in the 1992 city master plan. Leff said that the Neighborhood Association had “no complaints about people who live in our neighborhood. The group explained that they supported the rezoning to prevent future development of large multi-family homes in the area that could change the composition of the neighborhood. Under tonight’s decision structures that are currently used as multi-family units will be grandfathered as “legal nonconforming structures” until their use changes.
“This reasoning is absurd,” said area land-lord Bart Fisher. Fisher stated that he believed the Neighborhood Association hoped to excise students from the neighborhood. The Association denies such claims.
Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje recognized that more students have moved into the neighborhood in recent years. He voted in favor of the rezoning.
“This won’t change this from one kind of neighborhood to another,” said Councilwoman Joan Lowenstein. She stressed that the rezoning is intended to preserve the neighborhood from future pushes to greater density housing rather than to exclude any current residents.
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Just in case anyone missed it, former MSA representative Anton Vuljaj was sentenced late last week in connection to the denial of service attack he carried out during the spring 2006 MSA election. Vuljaj, who at the time was a member of the S4M party, used a computer to temporary shut down the website of rival Michigan Progressive Party (MPP).
As the Michigan Daily reported on Friday, Vuljaj will receive six months probation and 100 hours of community service. The sentence falls far short of the two and four year maximum jail times for the two felony charges that Vuljaj faced.
The debate over the location of graduation will continue tomorrow when students march from the Diag to the Fleming Administration Building to ask that graduation take place on campus.
The Maize Out March is being organized by a group of students originally from Bridge the Gap (BTG) that is promoting tomorrow’s march under the UM Unity Nation logo. BTG is a student group formed in 2006 to “promote dialogue between all parties of the Israel-Palestine conflict on campus.”
“Of course this event does not relate to Middle East politics but the overall theme was to include everyone,” said BTG co-founder and spokesperson for the Maize Out March, Mike Eber. Eber, an undergraduate student, said that BTG has held discussion events before and had even hoped to put on a combined Lupe Fiasco and Matisyahu concert last term. Members of the group decided to focus on the graduation issue because of its ability to unite campus.
While a rally was held last week, Eber hopes that outreach for this march will help increase its size. Members started a Facebook event that had about 200 confirmed guests at the time of writing. This action also distinguishes itself by having a platform for action.
“The platform takes into account that the administration is trying. I think deep down they will be able to move graduation to campus,” said Eber. The group’s platform calls for Spring Commencement to be held on campus without singling out Michigan Stadium.
Unlike another web effort, Big House ’08, the platform also directly condemns the creation of luxury boxes. The group asks that renovations comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. “It’s almost too shallow to in one way protest not being able to graduate in the Big House but also not see that people who are handicapped cannot be there,” said Eber.
The march, from the Diag to Fleming, is scheduled to begin at noon on Tuesday, January 29th.
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According to the Ann Arbor News, city residents have again resisted what they see as encroachment by students into previously residential areas. The News reports that City Council voted down, 10-1, a large-scale student apartment project proposed for a site at Maple and Pauline. The project, proposed by Wood Partners, would have built five buildings housing 160 four-bedroom units and 640 parking spaces to the site. City Council had previously voted 8-1 in favor of the project and the city planning committee had also give its approval.
The move comes only weeks after the News reported that City Council may look to rezone some streets south of campus as single-family only, disallowing new apartment or multi-unit home construction in the area near Burns Park.
At yesterday’s meeting, city residents resisted the project.
The News article states:
At one point during the public hearing, one resident turned to the team of developers who were sitting in the corner of the council chambers and pledged to fight the development even it was approved.
“This means war,'’ Ken Parks told the developers.
Yeah, that sounds like Ann Arbor. While resistance from residents has stopped the project for now, I wonder how successful the project would have been. The cross streets of Maple and Pauline, on the southwest side of town is far from campus. Its about 1.5 miles away from Michigan Stadium and almost 2.5 miles away from the Michigan Union. I doubt most students would be willing to live that far away.
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I don’t usually write post’s linking to other writers without a newshook but I am making an exception. David Brooks has a great opinion column over at the NYT today about the way identity politics are pitting Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama against each other.
I wrote a similar argument in a column last year about Gallaudet University (not yet on our new archives), the only university in the US geared toward deaf and hard of hearing students. A fissure over the University’s support for cochlear implants caused students to protest her failure to support deaf culture.
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Senator John McCain and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney were the big draws for attendants at an Americans for Prosperity event in Lovonia today. Between the candidates ABC reporter John Stossel addressed the crowd. His statements today helped to contextualize the name of his long-running 20/20 segment “Give Me a Break.”
Stossel spoke against government regulations and subsidies. Stossel spokes about the massive rise in government since President Johnson’s Great Society. According to Stossel, government makes up about 40 percent of GDP today. Stossel challenged the idea that government agencies like the FDA do a good job of protecting us, pointing out that in the time it takes to get new drugs to market many people die from the causes such drugs are meant to prevent.
“Why can’t the FDA be volintary?” asked Stossel, saying that citizens could choice if they wanted to follow the FDA’s advice. Stossel critisied the media’s characterization of new drugs and technologies as well.
“Bad reporting has made Americans afraid of the innovation that has made their lives better,” said Stossel. Stossel asked people if they would be willing to have an odorless, invisible gas power their homes if it would reduce oil use, before explaining that natural gas does just that. “We accept coal and natural gas because they are old yet we are afraid of nuclear power.”
Stossel challenged the idea of the economy as a pie with large businesses taking an unfair share. “People like Bill Gates bake thousands of new pies,” said Stossel.
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Moves by students to resist the move of spring commencement from Michigan Stadium to EMU’s stadium are coming in from every direction now.
Three members of MSA, Gibran Baydoun, Stella Binkevich, and Nate Fink, along with one former MSA member Jen Hsu, wrote a letter to the Michigan Daily today and have started an online petition. The petition asks students to:
Sign this petition if you believe that the University needs to revisit all options regarding the location of the 2008 Spring Commencement ceremony.
The Daily also ran viewpoints by editorial board member Kate Truesdell and Juhi Aggarwal, founder of the blog Michigan Graduation…Not at the Big House?
One of the more virulent letters today was posted not in the paper but on that blog. The letter written by seniors Robert Gassior, Michael Radtke jr, and Kelly Wang concludes that:
We have worked four hard years toward our diploma and it is our time to shine at the Big House. The Michigan Difference is in our hands and we will not allow it to be compromised.
The final sentence should not be missed since it likely alludes to this decision’s impact on the graduating classes role in the Michigan Difference campaign, the University’s current fund raising drive.
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Despite devoting an entire theme year, themes usually last only one semester, to connecting students to China, it was in-state rival Michigan State University that took honors from the Chinese government this week.
The Detroit News reported today that MSU’s Confucius Institute received The Confucius Institute of the Year award from the Chinese Language Council International (a branch of the Chinese government) in Bejeing earlier this month.
Unlike U-M’s theme semester, which has included speeches by the Chinese ambassador to the US and special classes in disciplines from language, history, and political science among others, MSU’s program presents opportunities for high schoolers to learn Chinese online.
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U-M’s endowment has risen dramatically in the past several years. According to the Detroit News, U-M’s endowment now stands at $7.1 billion, making the third largest endowment for a public university in the country. That money has been put to many uses but not toward lowering tuition costs. The News reported today that tuition at both U-M and MSU has risen by 30 percent over the past five years. The spike has put pressure on many students, including familial privations for MSA President Mohammad Dar.
Now U-M’s development office is seeking to get more private donations earmarked for scholarships rather than research or construction.
The News also reports that this years is the first time that private donations made up more of the U’s budget than did state funding. This is not due to drops in state funding; in fact the Ann Arbor News reported today that the state budgeted a 1 percent increase in U-M’s funding for the upcoming fiscal year, but due to an early completion of U-M’s current capital campaign. The campaign reached $2.5 billion earlier this year.
The Ann Arbor News story also indicated that several public universities in the state will be making nominal decreases to tution or fees for the upcoming term; U-M is not one of them.MSU will decrease fees by $2.50 per credit hour, which could save in-state students about $37.50 next term. Wayne State will drop a $13 per credit hour tuition fee this term.
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