Rese Fox 4 MSA

*Please remember: I'm located at www.foxformsa.blog.com*

If you have ever wanted to do something about the problems at the university, now is your chance. The MPP will be running a full slate in the upcoming Michigan Student Assembly elections and we need the best candidates to voice an active platform for change. If you have ever considered working for student interests now is your shot. The MPP is actively developing a platform that carefully addresses a wide array of student issues, from textbook prices to campus safety. If there is any issue on campus that you are passionate about, MSA and LSA-SG are two underutilized organizations to achieve change.

Michigan Progressive Party Informational Meeting!!!
This Sunday, Feb 12, 2:00 PM
Pond Room ABC, Michigan Union (First Floor)

For more information, or if you can't make the meeting, please write jkoller@umich.edu or visit our website at www.MichiganProgressiveParty.com

Hi, all,

Fox4msa.blog.com is being moved to foxformsa.blog.com. This site will still stay up, but I'll be transferring over old entries and updating the new site. Thanks!

Rese

Dear Student Leaders:

My office and several other university offices have been working
diligently since last term on the infrastructure for the University's
centralized hotline for reporting hate crimes and bias incidents. I am
sending you this brief note to inform you that the line will be live on
Wednesday, February 1. The number is 734-615-BIAS (2427). I will be
sending an announcement about the hotline and other U-M efforts to the
entire campus community later this week.

In the meantime, please refer to the "Student Matters" website
(http://www.umich.edu/~ovpsa/studentmatters/bias.html) for information
on how to react to and report hate crimes and bias incidents.

If you have questions about this, please contact me at 764-7420 or
smeklund@umich.edu.

Susan Eklund
Dean of Students

Hi, all,

So, this is pretty dire. TODAY in a FEW HOURS is the day we find out if student aid gets slashed.

We NEED to stop the largest cut to student aid in HISTORY, $12.7 billion in permanent cuts that help students afford college. These cuts would affect 240,000 students in the State of Michigan ALONE and 70% of students at good ole University of Michigan. The estimate is that these cuts will cost the average student borrower over $4,000! Do you have an extra $4,000 hanging around? I sure don't! (Go to studentaidaction.com for more info, or read this story from the Battle Creek Inquirer featuring Umich student Rachel Chapin and talking about student aid cuts, but make sure to CALL SCHWARZ 202-225-6276).

The University of Michigan Alumni Club Chair, Joe Schwarz, is a US Congressman and has voted to protect college affordability when he was a state legislator in Michigan. It all changed in November when he voted for the largest cuts to student aid. The vote passed by TWO, meaning that if Umich students would have called him and gotten him to change his mind the budget wouldn't have gotten a majority and would have failed.

Now both the House and Senate need to reconcile differences in their proposed budget, so we have ONE MORE CHANCE to stop the raid on student aid! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take one minute to call Congressman Schwarz's office.

Schwarz's office number is 202-225-6276. Yea, democracy ... fight for an affordable education!

Here is an example of what you can say:

“The Senate recently passed a budget reconciliation bill that would cut $13 billion from federal student aid programs. Since you are the Chair of the U of M Alumni Association and should be in favor of student financial aid, I am calling on you to vote NO on this budget bill that will be up for a vote on February First.”

His office number, again, is 202-225-6276.

Thanks, again, for your efforts!

Rese

Oppenheimer Properties, INC

How do I get inside one of Oppenheimer’s houses?

1. The traditional approach:
   You can call us to set up an appointment and Todd or Howard will meet you at the house. We need at least 24 hours to give the current tenants notice we are coming over.
2. The spontaneous approach:
   It is a long tradition at U of M that students find their own ways inside houses that they are interested in seeing. We don't encourage this method but we can't stop it either.

Campus Rentals

To View the Units

Viewing Tip: Look beyond the housekeeping practices of the present busy occupants. Check out the layout. Then use your imagination to see yourself and your friends living with your things around you.

If there's no one home when you go to look, or if you would prefer to have a Campus Rentals representative show you through, feel free to contact us at the office. We'll be glad to arrange for you to see it.

Campus Management Inc.

We strongly encourage every prospective tenant to view a unit before proceeding with a rental. Many people prefer to view apartments and houses by going out on their own. However, Campus Management, Inc. can assist you with this process. We employ a full time rental agent who is available to meet with you and insure that you get through each unit and answer all of your questions. In any event, respect for the current resident's right to notification and privacy is paramount to us. If you chose to go on your own and are unable to gain entry please contact us so that we can assist you in this process. If, from the outset, you prefer to have an appointment please call us and we'll arrange to notify the current resident and meet you at a time of your choosing.

Hi, all,

One thing you all might not know about MSA is that our front office staff is pretty darn amazing. They put up with reps and students alike asking really silly questions or giving them grief for things they can't control, but they still do a great job day after day. Josh Kersey, one of MSA's front office staff members, just sent me a link to AirBus's new site.

www.msa.umich.edu/airbus

Check it out! Thanks, Josh!

~Rese

Signing a Housing Lease in October Sucks.

 

 

 

Come to the MSA-City Council Public Hearing on the Lease Signing Ordinance & Push the Lease Dates Back to January !

(open to all students)

 

 

 

Monday Jan. 30^th @ 6:00pm

Hi, all,

I JUST figured out how to do this (maybe ... let's see if it works ...). Here are pending resolutions to be voted on this coming Tuesday. The first resolution addresses MSA follow-up on internal spending to make sure we aren't breaking any rules (making MSA have a mini-SOAS-equivalent body that checks receipts and budgets just like student orgs' receipts and budgets are checked). The second resolution recognizes that politically active student organizations should be able to be funded by MSA. They both will be revised a lot over the weekend, so please give me your feedback!

Thanks,

Rese

PS: Let me know how the resolution downloading goes. I think you *may* have to log on to the umich system with your uniqname and password ... I will try to figure out how to get rid of that so that more people can access the documents. Also, right now you'll see an "unsupported MIME type" message, but you can still access the documents, I think. You'll have to click "download" and place the files on your computer. When I learn how to post them to a webpage I'll start doing that. Also, thoughts on pdf files versus Word documents? Since Adobe's added the wonderful search feature I've been quite fond of pdf files, but please let me know any reasons that I should post with Word.

Hi, all,

MSA is holding a safewalk after the meeting on Tuesday. We will walk around student neighborhoods to determine what places do or do not feel safe at night. Feel free to join us! We'll meet in Chambers after the meeting then break up into three groups to target different student neighborhoods. We'll supply the flashlights. This will be a fun way for MSA to get to know each other and for you to get to know MSA!

Thanks,

Rese

Hi, all,

MSA will be holding a meeting to figure out ways to promote MSA's housing review website. It will be at 5 pm today (Monday) in MSA Chambers.

Please take a moment to rate your landlord!

https://www.msa.umich.edu/housing
(you will be prompted to give your uniqname and password)

Thanks,

Rese