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 13 Facebook Share 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.”