mlIE Midigan Bail ONE.HND.ED.EIGT11 EEN A .YEAS O ITO dI \ I. I Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, April 10, 2008 COURSE REGISTRATION Faced with early class, B-schoolers get crafty Students have bribed and begged classmates to swap for their morning classes By SUZY VULJEVIC Daily StaffReporter Most students will go to great lengths to avoid early- morning classes, but faced with a Ross School of Busi- ness policy that automatically assigns students to the program's required courses, Business School students have grown particularly crafty. In order to avoid missing sleep for core courses like accounting and economics, some Business School undergraduates have resorted to bribing fellow stu- dents to swap for later class times. "People have offered cookies to unconditional love to monetary compensation for switching classes," Business School junior John Lu said. "The funniest is when people are honest and they tell you straight up that they don't want to wake up at 8:30 a.m." A newsletter sent to students last week warned See REGISTRATION, Page SA A TANGO TO REMEMBER UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS Students push for new race option Students of North African, Middle Eastern descent ask for own check box on applications By ANDY KROLL Daily NewsEditor Project: Check It, a group of current and former students, is pushing the University to add the category "North African/Middle Eastern" to the race and eth- nicity section of admissions applications for all Uni- versity programs, departments, schools and colleges. The group, which is lobbying for a similar addition to the University of Minnesota Law School's appli- cation, won the unanimous support of the Michigan Student Assembly Tuesday night, recommending that "North African/Middle Eastern" be added to any application questions regarding racial or ethnic back- ground. Sirene Abou-Chakra, a University alum, said she and Mahmoud Fadlallah, another alum, started the group because they didn't think Arab-Americans or students of North African descent could identify with any of the existing choices on the University's applica- tion. She said adding a "North African/Middle Eastern" category would offer Arab and North African students - who often check the "Caucasian/White" or "Race not included above" box - a more accurate category with which to identify. Currently, the University's undergraduate admissions application allows stu- dents to choose between "African-American/Black," See APPLICATIONS, Page SA Aleric Soans and Rackham student Solveig Heinz tango at Indefnidos Pero Unidos, the 8th Annual Latin oC at the Mendelssohn Theater yesterday night. Both dancers are part of the University's Argentine Tango Clk ACADEMIA'S LIBERAL SLANT Horowitz: Students not exposed to diverse viewpoints in college U' gymnast at the head of her class (of high schoolers) Small crowd, no protest as author decries radical Islam in lecture on campus By ESHWAR THIRUNAVUKKARASU Daily StaffReporter Controversial author and outspo- ken critic of Islam David Horowitz denounced both radical Islam and what he called a liberal bias in col- lege classrooms during an on-cam- pus lecture last night. Horowitz's appearance, spon- sored by the University's chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, drew a crowd of about 40 support- ers and a handful of critics to an auditorium in the Modern Lan- guage Building. Horowitz is the editor of the conservative web publication FrontPage Magazine and speaks regularly about the Israeli-Pales- tinian conflict and issues of aca- demic freedom. His visit to campus was a part of National Radical Islam Awareness Week, an event Horowitz created to spread the view against what he calls "Islamo- fascism." Young Americans for Freedom is hosting several on- campus events in conjunction with the week. Six police officers and a per- sonal bodyguard stood alert throughout Horowitz's lecture, but the event proceeded without disturbance. Horowitzdenounced the Univer- sity's Muslim Students' Association and the Council on American- Islamic Relations, calling them arms of jihadist movements that have fueled militant groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas. "The Muslim Students' Asso- ciation is not an ethnic group," he said. "It is not a religious group. It is not a cultural group. It is a political organization created by the Muslim brotherhood. LSA sophomore Salimah Mohamed, outreach chair of the See HOROWITZ, Page 5A All-American Bruck, an education major, in training as gym teacher at Pioneer By NICOLE AUERBACH Daily Sports Writer Twenty-two high schoolers lay down on the gym floor intwo equal rows, heads touching toes. At the end of a line, one girl passed a vol- leyball from her feet to the feet of the boy next to her. Then an orange cone. Then a baseball. The kids laughed when the baseball dropped and rolled all the way across the gym. Miss Bruck smiled and told them to try again, but this time they weren't allowed to swivel their bodies around to face each other. Twenty minutes later, after more sweat and frustration, the bell rang, signaling the end of first hour. The kids went off to the locker rooms to change and attend other classes. For the teacher, Michigan gym- nast Lindsey Bruck, it's also just the first class of the day. To fufill the student-teaching requirements for her physical education major, the fifth-year senior teaches sever- al high-school physical education classes every week at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor. Bruck is currently working with two classes of students tak- ing a required fitness class. Twice a week, the students work in the GENDER-NEUTRAL HOUSING As schools reform dorms 'U' holds out Nine schools started offering gender-blind housing this year By JILLIAN BERMAN Daily StaffReporter Finding the right roommate can be a difficult task. A night owl and an early riser might not be the best fit, while a studious person prob- ably wouldn't want to live with an aspiring rock star. But can students of the opposite sex live together in harmony? In recent years, more and more colleges across the country have tried to make it work. This year, top schools like Stan- ford University and Dartmouth College have joined a list of about 20 colleges nationwide offering gen- der-neutral housing, which allows students to room with each other regardless of their gender. Nine schools have changed their policies within the last year to include gen- der-neutral housing, and another 12 colleges have said they plan to in the near future. In the past, the specialized housing plans were mainly geared toward students who identified as transgender. Joan Giblin, director of residen- tial life and housing at Clark Uni- versity in Massachusetts, said the change, made last fall, was well received by students. Giblin, who credited students with pressuring the school onthe policy change, said it was a freshman who spearheaded the effort to alter the original policy in the first place. The change took less than two years to implement, See HOUSING, Page SA SAM WOLSON/bail Fifth-year senior Lindsey Bruck, a two-time All American gymnast, teaches physi cal educatiun at Ann Arhur's Pioneer High Schuol. weight room, and the remaining days are spent in the classroom, regular gym or the gymnastics room at the school. From 7:40 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Bruck organizes cooperative games and teaches personal fitness at the high school. Then she drives to gymnastics practice for the Wol- verines, which usually lasts until 5:30 p.m. After that, she prepares for the next day's classes. "I'm usually in bed by 9:30," Bruck said with a laugh. At5-foot-3,Bruckis shorter than many of the students she teaches. She has been stopped and asked to show a hall pass, like a regular high schooler. She had to convince the teacher that she was a student- teacher - and 23 years old. But the second she walks into the gym, Bruck -immediately assumes control her class. 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