skin color, nationality or religious
beliefs. This is what continues to
divides us as a nation, as a world,
as a species.
However, today we can live with
the freedom of loving anyone we
want to love and believing what
we want to believe.
UM-D graduate student Prajakta
Pimple, had this to say: “As a
native of India, I came to the
United States with some preset
beliefs about the American way of
life. That changed when I started
talking to people here and making
new friends from different parts of
the world. The world would be a
happier place if we stop typecast-
ing people on the basis of their
place of birth, race, gender or any
other grounds.”
We should learn from the strife
of the millions of Europeans during
the 1930s and ’40s and live in their
honor by accepting and cherishing
others’ differences, advocating for
the people who can’t, and celebrat-
She said shows are ready to go
live when they flow nicely and
don’t have many errors.
Trocea has heard positive
responses to “Bike of Life” and
said the show has an energetic
vibe.
The show underlines the hosts’
Chabad philosophy — everyone
can do something to make the
world a better place, Roetter
said.
“I just know that my sister is
smiling down when it plays,” he
said.
Roetter goes to synagogue
at the Woodward Avenue
Shul and was valedictorian
in 2012 at Yeshivas Nishmas
Shlomo in New Jersey. He is
president of the Jewish Student
Organization and vice president
of Students for Israel at Oakland
University; both organizations
are branches of Hillel of Metro
Detroit. @
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is Orthodox. She was a guest on
his show and became a co-host
in September.
“The show has gotten so much
more life-like since then,” Roetter
said. Roszko brought new ideas,
music styles and poetry.
Through co-hosting, Roszko
said she has learned more about
her faith. She often spends
Shabbat with Roetter and his
family and does her best to keep
kosher at the dorm cafeterias.
She also started to dress differ-
ently.
“I felt different actually dress-
ing modestly,” she said, adding
that she feels more pure. “I’m
doing my best with what I have
right now.”
Roetter said WXOU is a great
station because it saw that the
show’s messages apply to more
than just Jews.
The station also thought
highly of “Bike of Life,” helping
Roetter and Roszko go live for
the first time on Dec. 15.
Sylvia Trocea, assistant pro-
gram director at WXOU and
a junior studying psychology,
keeps up with the prerecorded
radio shows to check content
and offer constructive criticism.
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Catch “Bike of Life” every Thursday
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4274. Senior Grace Turner of Berkley is
managing editor of the Oakland Post,
OU’s campus newspaper.
ing every day for the men and
women who were stripped of that
right.
As I remember how difficult
it was for me to get out of bed
that Friday morning, I realize how
fortunate I am to simply have the
opportunity to do so. I would like
to thank the staff at the University
of Michigan-Dearborn Office of
Student Engagement for coordi-
nating our trip with the Jewish
Student Organization, and to the
hospitable staff at the Holocaust
Memorial Center for helping
me find inspiration when I least
expected it.
We will not only never forget,
but we also will forever live for
those who were not given a chance
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Jordan Wohl of Danvers, Mass., is a freshman
at University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is vice-
president of the UM-Dearborn Jewish Student
Organization.
Strength.
As a Laker, you’re in with the smallest big university in the country.
We’re large enough to have the impact of a major university, and small
enough to respond nimbly to you. That’s the Laker Effect. And we can’t
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