Quote:

---

As Washtenaw County’s youngest commissioner, 22-year old Yousef Rabhi is excited to forge strong relationships with the University of Michigan, his alma mater.

He just can’t do so at Fleming Administration Building. University police can arrest Rabhi there. That’s because campus police arrested Rabhi and banned him from the building after he and others staged a sit-in in Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman’s office there in April 2007 over the school’s purported use of sweatshop labor for U-M apparel.

The protesters wore suits. Rabhi, a freshman at the time, said police were respectful and friendly, and that, despite the ban, his subsequent interactions with Coleman have remained cordial. He said neither side was threatening or upset that day.

---