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Reports indicate an article will be coming out soon in the Ann Arbor Observer. Reports also indicate that the article may be trying to create controversy by playing up the NWS as an anti-homeowner organization, rather than as the pro-student/renter organization that we are. If this is the case, anticipate a reponse from the NWS. We believe that advocating for student issues can only improve the overall political landscape in Ann Arbor and the whole city will benefit from addressing our needs and concerns.
Viewpoint in the Michigan Daily (June 6, 2005):
About a year ago, a member of the Old Fourth Ward
Association (OFW) contacted members of the Ann Arbor city
council. He wanted to discuss some house fires in neighborhoods
near the Michigan campus. That email and subsequent discussions
over the next several months tried to make a specious connection
between couches on porches and house fires. Thus was born the
campaign to ban the porch couches that students love and homeowner
associations hate; the stakes were raised when couch opponents tried to
push the ban through city council before students got back to school
last fall...
A group of students living in Ann Arbor’s Fifth Ward has banded together to address community concerns for student renters, landlords and other tenants in an area not known for student involvement...
Editorial in the Daily (June 6, 2005):
Over the past year or so in Ann Arbor, local blogs have emerged as the most — and perhaps the only — effective entity in coordinating and promoting student interests in local politics. While the local homeowner-run neighborhood associations have continually pushed their anti-student agendas on the city — through the proposed porch couch ban, stiff resistance to the construction of North Quad and new restrictions on side-street parking, to name a few examples — the campus political groups that should be working to organize a student opposition have generally responded with apathy...
Contact us:
New West Side Association
106 W. Madison
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
(734) 717-6384
director[at]newwestside.org
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