University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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west quadrangle 1st Rumsey Front Row: Emily Gilchrist, Nicole Starr, Amanda Johnson, Jodi Liu, Sarah Bradbury, Claire Friedman, Caroline Surducan, Megan Miller. Back Row: Kathryn Mokienko, Yek Wee Sing, Andrea Kerlestra. Katelin Spencer, Noelle Fox, Angela Ventimiglia, Elizabeth Alderman, Lindsey Lottrell, Ashley Potchynok, Michelle Barbour. Stephanie Manduzzi, Melissa Skupin, Natalie Orpett. J. Neff photo 1st Rumsey Front Row: David D ' Addona, Colin Mclntyre, Carlos Galaviz, Sean Dougherty, Antoine Green, Travis Williams. Back Row: Greg Rekowski.Tom Bellen, Kyle Wismans, Sean Genmaine, Jeffrey Yang.Andrew Loh.Adnan Sabic.Nick Schoeps. Michael Martin. J. Neff photo 4th Rumsey Front Row: Navneet Mander, James Spithogiannis, Austin Maxey, Fred Bean. Row 2: Goran Petrovich. Ted Pixley. Don Nguyen, Bradley Dobbie, Andrew Montagna, Brent Reitter, Alex Sin. Row 3: Bery Paseh, Andrew Plaisted, Dan Vargas, Jeffrey Adams, Paul Edick, Kurt Saisfield, Andrew Vane, Ian Gallagher. Back Row: Mike Hulsebus, Kevin Tsang, Ivan Herndon, Nicholas Jasieniechi. Phillip May, John Florip, LumanTemby. . Neff photo 1st 2nd Wedge Front Row: Aaron Remolona, Mahesh Padmanaban, Fouzaan Zafar, Lucas DiGia, Sayf AI-Katib, Brandon Edmonds. Row 2: David Castellani, Harnoor Tokhie, Chris Roberts.Tobias Long, Ryan Kaufman, An drew Hall, Dan McMonagle. Row 3: Robert Duerr, Matthew Smith, Adam Brinckerhoff. Prashanth Gururaja, llya Rusinov, Chris Melenovsky. Row 4: Mike Taptill, Mike Rowe, Steven Hurles, Andrew Mannebach, Ryan Heller, Duane Bennett II, Graham Ogilvy. Back Row: Nick Rutledge, Eric Hamill, Matt Cutlitla, Christopher Chwasz, Nathan DeVries, Kevin Dore, Michael Niegsch, Michael Long. Tedjasukmana photo 4th Wenley Front Row: Emily O ' Donnell, Kelly Schulz, Jennifer Wong, Anna Johnson. Katherine McMahan . Row 2: Danielle Joanette,Alla Epstein, LisaTrinh, Rebecca Adams, Brittany Nuccitelli. Caitlin Hool, Meghan DeSantis, Carrie Christensen, Katilyn Murtha, Lauren Hughes. Back Row: Meredith Cochran, Mindy Sedon, Megan Schmidt, Jennifer Vassil, Laura Ochoa,Anjanee Parmar, Stephanie Jackson. J. Neff photo 3rd 4th Williams Front Row: Sean O ' Brien, Benjamin Gottlieb, Eric Diemar, Josh Martens, Kyle Carpenter. Row 2: Anmar Stephens, Matthew Arnold, Eric Tannenbaum, Brandon Cusumano.Jeff Marsh, Cody Kangas, Love Phung, Michael Brackney. Row 3: Michael Keck, Cory Klein, Spencer Dowdall. Mike Wells, Adam Friedlander, David McNamara, Charlie Elbert, Matt Kolich, Colin Volek. Back Row: Jeff Niemiec, Ryan Turcotte.Jack Conroy. J. Neff photo Student Conflict Resolution Program 285

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H by robert fowler Over two-thirds of students lived in off-campus housing each year, making it difficult to sign a good lease and sometimes causing tense living situations. Frequent problems included tenant relations, roommate relations, paying bills, maintenance, and security. Fortunately, the University offered a Conflict Resolution Program specifically designed for off-campus housing. The program began in 1965 and now boasted over 500 registered landlord participants. If a landlord was registered, it meant that they use the University ' s Lease Agreement and had essentially agreed to cooperate with the conflict resolution program. The purpose of the program was to help parties resolve disputes by offering impartial information, advice and intervention. Off-Campus Housing Advisor and Mediator Melissa Goldstein acknowledged other advantages. Living with roommates and landlords is hard. Mediation helps in that a tenant will not go directly to court against a student, Goldstein said. When an initial conflict took place, the student or landlord was to contact the Conflict Resolution Office. A mediator talked with the student and referred to them to various legal services. Before any further steps, the program preferred students to work out problems themselves. If that failed, then they scheduled a formal mediation session. This required all parties involved in the dispute to meet face-to-face with an intermediary present. When they sit down and look at each other, it ' s always a bit different then, Goldstein said. Mediators ' duties included helping to generate movement towards a solution and enforcing the no interrupting, no fighting policy. Goldstein also stressed the fact that the conflict resolution program was neutral in all disputes. We also co-mediate with the student mediation services to balance it out. We try to get people similar to those involved in the conflicts, Goldstein said. Junior economics major and President of the Student Mediation Services, Kim Garelic also saw the importance of providing multiple perspectives for people involved in a mediation session. Garelic explained that two student mediators were present for each session. The work we do is effective and students leave better off than when they came in, Garelic said. The most common problems we help with include students learning to live with each other and dealing with each others ' personalities. At the end of the year, Garelic also dealt frequently with students ' monetary subletting issues. Student run and student trained, the Student Mediation Service was both free and confidential. Through all these means and procedures, the Conflict Resolution Program helped provide the University with a more student- friendly atmosphere. The Conflict Resolution Office, located conveniently in the basement of South Quad, opens its doors to any off-campus housing problems. Students utilized their services to avoid larger problems with landlords and roommates. Tedjasukmana photo 284 Housing

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Outside of Martha Cook Residence Hall, a statue of Eve stands alone in the middle of the courtyard. Sculpted in 1 969 by artist Paul Sutton, the simplicity of the statue actually concealed a quite complex subject matter. Tedjasukmana photo 286 H ousing