“And more importantly, that I just felt sad that he had been in power for so long, and it took this for the regents to finally publicly say that he was a bad leader, even though they knew it for many years before that.”
University of Michigan community members hold mock renaming of Weiser Hall after regent’s controversial comments
Updated Apr 03, 5:31 PM;
Posted Apr 03, 5:31 PM
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ANN ARBOR, MI Students, faculty and staff at the University of Michigan gathered at Weiser Hall Saturday afternoon to hold a mock renaming of the building in response to inflammatory comments recently made by Regent Ron Weiser.
Community members renamed the building the “Weiser Center for Voter Suppression, Political Assassination and Witch Burning.” The ceremony included yard signs covering the original building sign and spray-painted stencils with the “new name.”
“When you have a regent who refers to Michigan’s leadership as ‘three witches,’ it’s disgusting and deplorable,” said UM junior Sam Burnstein. “We’re just organizing to call for his resignation because, obviously what they did at the regents meeting was the most that they could do.”
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University of Michigan regent Ron Weiser is facing pressure from students, faculty and staff at the university to resign due to his associations with the Michigan Republican Party and President Trump, as well as his lack of response to unsubstantiated claims about fraud in the 2020 election.
“The University of Michigan as the largest public university in the state of Michigan and one of the largest in the country does a lot of talk about how it supports students of color and how it acts as an important public institution,” said Amytess Girgis, a senior at Michigan who organized a petition calling for Weiser s removal. “For it to not take a stand against one of its top administrators being complicit in the absolutely unacceptable event that took place last week is unacceptable to the members of the U of M community.”