Welcome to OLLI-UM This Week!

The OLLI-UM offices, located in the Turner Senior Resource Center, are open on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am - 5pm. Masks are required, regardless of vaccination status per University policy.

Contact: 734-998-9351 or [email protected] 

*Correction the TAASC event will be virtual and not in person at Huron Valley PACE*

* Over the next two months, Michigan Medicine will be updating and consolidating more than 200 individual department websites organized into four major categories. OLLI will be listed under the education and community tab. In addition, OLLI’s courses will be on a new platform, CampusCE. We will maintain continuous communication and offer tutorials for our members so the transfer to the new site is smooth. The OLLI staff has begun our training and we anticipate the new site will be open mid-late December. We have been listening to you, and we think you will love the ease, look of the new website, and class platform. 

* The Turner Senior Resource Center and the OLLI-UM offices will be closed November 24 and 25 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. 

* The Turner Senior Resource Center and the OLLI-UM offices will be closed from December 26, 2022 - January 1, 2023. The OLLI-UM staff will not be available to assist members during this time. 

The Hollow Parties: American Political Parties at the Precipice

Thursday, November 10

10:00 - 11:30AM

Towsley Auditorium and ONLINE

$10.00 at door (Membership Required)

*This speaker will be joining us via Zoom on the big screen at WCC. Regular Zoom viewers will not be affected, and we still welcome you to join us in the Towsley Auditorium at WCC!*

Modern democracy is unthinkable save in terms of parties,” wrote the political scientist E.E. Schattschneider in 1942. The partisan divide dominates contemporary American politics, yet parties prove inadequate to meet the core tasks under their purview: aggregating and integrating preferences and actors into ordered conflict, policing boundaries, and linking the governed with the government. These pathologies, emerging from developments in the 1960s and 1970s, have manifested asymmetrically in the Democratic and Republican parties.



Daniel Schlozman received his PhD in government and social policy from Harvard University and is currently the Joseph & Bertha Bernstein Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He also served on the faculty of the SNF Agora Institute.

His book, When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History, emphasized the crucial role in American party development of alliance between political parties and social movements. In particular, the ties between organized labor and the Democrats, and the Christian Right and the Republicans, have defined parties’ basic priorities, and the organisable alternatives in national politics. Schlozman's later book, The Hollow Parties, discussed US political party development since the Founding.

He is currently a member of the Scholars Strategy Network and a trustee of the Maryland Center for Economic Policy.

Lincoln Center, A West Side Story (online)

Friday, November 11

3:00 - 4:30pm

Cost: $15.00

Join us on this Road Scholar virtual travel program to New York City’s famed Lincoln Center. Marked for demolition as a slum which inspired the 1957 play “West Side Story”, scenes for the 1961 movie were filmed on this very site just as the district gave way to a glittering performing arts center and a new high-rise neighborhood. The real story includes ethnic and racial tensions, Urban Renewal, the Cold War, architectural and political rivalries played out as the consensus of the Fifties gives way to the tumult of the Sixties. Let’s explore this dramatic story that brought this iconic but controversial center into being in the middle of the 20th Century…and watch as it is reimagined for the 21st Century.

John Kriskiewicz with Explore New York is a native New Yorker with a professional degree in architecture from Pratt Institute. He has taught courses focusing on architectural and city planning history at Parsons School of Design, The Cooper Union, Fashion Institute of Technology, Stern College for Women, and Manhattan College. John has designed travel programs and lectures for many of New York City’s institutions and corporations including Road Scholar/Explore New York. He admits to a special affinity for New York’s extensive infrastructure as well as its Mid-Century Modern heritage.

What Happened on November 8, 2022?

Tuesday, November 22

10:00 - 11:30 AM

Towsley Auditorium and ONLINE

$10.00 at door (Membership Required)

Professor Traugott will summarize the results, the key voting patterns and voter rationale for the recent (11/8/2022) U.S. midterm elections.

Michael Traugott is a political scientist who studies campaigns and elections, voting behavior, political communication, the use of polls to construct news, and survey methodology. He has published extensively in all of these areas. He is active in the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), serving as president of both organizations. In 2010, he received the AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Service. He also served as president of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR). He is a frequent resource for journalists interested in discussing American political campaigns and government operations.

A Capitol Day in Lansing (in-person)

December 7, 2022

Cost:   $135

 *Only 3 spots remain*

*Note: The total number of registrants for this tour will be 30 based on the maximum number of participants allowed by the Michigan Supreme Court for its tours. To assure a seat on this tour, register early.

Enjoy a luxury bus tour from Ann Arbor to Lansing where you will spend the day in our State’s Capitol. Tour the Michigan Supreme Court Hall of Justice and Learning Center and observe oral arguments at the Michigan Supreme Court. After an included lunch, you will conclude the day with a guided tour of the Michigan State Capitol.

*Masks are highly recommended, but not required*

ITINERARY

7:45 a.m.      Depart from Meijer parking lot, Carpenter Rd

9:00 a.m.     Arrive at Michigan Supreme Court Hall of Justice

9:30 a.m.     Observe oral arguments at the Michigan Supreme Court

10:30 a.m.    Tour of Michigan Supreme Court's Learning Center

12:00 p.m.    Lunch at Bravo Italian Kitchen

2:00 p.m.     Guided tour of Michigan State Capitol (1 hour)

3:15 p.m.      Depart for Ann Arbor

4:15 p.m.      Arrive at Meijer Parking Lot, Carpenter Rd