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Posted on Sun, Feb 13, 2011 : 7:59 p.m.

Here's what people were saying in the news this past week

By Steve Pepple

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Rebekah Warren

“I have nothing but love for Michigan. It makes me feel horrible I can never purchase tickets or technically be there on their property,” - U-M alumus Timothy Walbridge, who was banned for life from campus after he and other fans got into a shouting match over seating at a 2004 football game at Michigan Stadium.

“There’s a lot of concern that there’s too much power in one department or one person’s hands with no ability for citizens to appeal,” state Sen. Rebekah Warren, on U-M’s trespass policy, which gives every campus police officer the authority to ban people for life from the public institution’s campus.


"Yes, there should be a contact person, but you don't put a whole list of names on the wall for every junkie or robber to see.” - Ann Arbor medical marijuana advocate Chuck Ream, objecting to a proposal that would have required listing "lots of names in public view" on licenses that are posted on medical marijuana dispensary walls.


“Michigan has been Lake Woebegone -- right now 95 percent of our third-graders are labeled as proficient in math and under the new standards, it would become 34 percent.” - Susan Dynarski, associate professor of economics, education and public policy at the University of Michigan, on newly approved standards for the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) and Michigan Merit Exam (MME).