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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan hockey
team opened Big Ten
play over the weekend,
beating Wisconsin, 6-4, on
Friday and following it up
with a 7-6 shootout win on
Saturday.
Justin
Selman
scored three goals on the
weekend.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Free movie
screening
WHAT: A screening of the
movie, “Autism in Love.”
WHO: The Trotter
Multicultural Center
WHEN: Today 6 p.m. to
10 p.m.
WHERE: The Trotter
Multicultural Center
Caribbean
symposium
WHAT: A panel
and performance
on the potential of
Caribbean studies and
the sugar industry.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today from
4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: 100 Hatcher
Graduate Library
Student
quartet recital
WHAT: Students will
perform songs from
a variety of different
composers in this
quartet recital.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Walgreen
Drama Center, Stamps
Auditorium
Former
President
Jimmy
Carter
announced to a Sunday
School that his cancer is now
gone, the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution reported. In
August, melanoma lesions
were discovered on his brain
and they are now gone.
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Mental health
presentation
WHAT: The latest findings
regarding mental health
symptoms and services
in college populations
from the Healthy Minds
Network will be presented.
WHO: Population Studies
Center
WHEN: Today from 12
p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: 6050 Institute
for Social Research
After yelling, “This
is for Syria,” a man
attacked
three
people with a knife
at a London underground
station
Saturday,
BBC
News reported. Police are
investigating the incident
as an act of terrorism. All
victims survived the attack.
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GRANT HARDY/Daily
LSA sophomore Franny MeLampy demonstrats how a clovis
arrow head scored a rib bone at the University of Michigan
Natural Science Museum on Sunday.
Positive links
speaker
WHAT: Justin Berg will
speak about improving
the selection and
rejection of novel ideas in
organizations.
WHO: Michigan Ross
Center for Positive
Organizations
WHEN: Today 4:30
p.m.to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Ross School
of Business, 6th floor
TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
15 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (DEC. 14, 2000)
Judge upholds admissions policy
DINO DIGS
U.S. District Judge Patrick
Duggan ruled that the Uni-
versity’s policy of using race as
a contributing factor in under-
graduate admissions was con-
stitutional.
The lawsuit upheld the
use of affirmative action,
but made the grid system of
admissions — in which an
applicant’s grades and test
scores were plotted on a graph
and are assigned a number
denoted whether they should
be admitted or not — uncon-
stitutional. That’s because
a minority student with the
same grid scores as a white
student could make the cut
due solely to race.
The
grid
system
had
already been replaced in 1998
in favor of a point selection
index. The selection index
system awarded applicants
points based on a variety of
criteria, including race. When
a student earned more points,
their chances of admissions
increased.
The case was brought
before the court by the Cen-
ter for Individual Rights on
behalf of Jennifer Gratz, a
white in-state undergradu-
ate applicant who was denied
admission to the University.
“In regards to the plaintiffs,
it’s a total victory. In regards
to the case, it’s a partial vic-
tory,” Curt Levy, CIR director
of legal and public affairs, said
after the ruling.
Then-University
Provost
Nancy Cantor called the rul-
ing “an unequivocal victory
for (the University).”
The case, Gratz v. Bollinger,
was eventually appealed to
the U.S. Supreme Court. In
a controversial 6-3 ruling in
2003, the court decided that
the point selection index sys-
tem’s automatic awarding of
20 extra points to underrep-
resented minority applicants
was unconstitutional. In a
separate case, the court ruled
the University Law School’s
narrow use of race as one of
many factors in selecting a
class of students. But by 2006,
Michigan residents voted to
ban the use of affirmative
action in admissions.
— TIMOTHY COHN
Student
holiday art
show
WHAT: Student prints,
drawings, ceramics and
metal work will be for sale.
WHO: University Library
WHEN: Today from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: Duderstadt
Center, Gallery
Community
partnerships
workshop
WHAT: Through
activities with Ann Arbor
organization leaders,
participants will learn how
to prepare for community
or social justice work.
WHO: Ginsberg Center
WHEN: Today from 6:30
p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Ginsberg Center
Economics
seminar
WHAT: Kyle Hyndman
of the University of Texas
will present a seminar on
risk in economics.
WHO: Department
of Economics
WHEN: Today at 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: North Quad
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ANDREW COHEN/Daily
Interarts juniors Sophie Goldberg, Emma Bergman, Mia Massimino and Eliza Cadoux perform an art piece as part of
the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition at the Stamps School of Art and Design’s Slusser Gallery on Friday.
LIVE IT, BRE ATHE IT
KRISTINA PERKINS/Daily
Ann Arbor resident Karen Moore browses for gifts at the annual Ann Arbor Potters Guild Winter Sale on Saturday.
PICKING OUT POTS
Guest speaker discusses
Arab, Zionist identities
Egyptian activist,
imprisoned during
Arab Spring, talks
Israel advocacy
By RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter
About 30 students gathered
in the Trotter Multicultural
Center on Sunday to hear from
Hussein
Aboubakr
Mansour,
an Arab Zionist who discussed
his experience living in Egypt
during the Arab Spring.
Mansour, now an assistant
professor of Hebrew Studies at
the Defense Language Institute
Foreign Language Institute in
Monterey, Calif., delivered a
talk titled “Surviving Tahrir
Square: An Egyptian’s Story
of
the
Revolution.”
Though
Mansour’s remarks touched on
his imprisonment during the
Arab Spring, a large portion of
his speech was also dedicated
to advocating for Zionism —
broadly defined as a movement
supporting the existence of a
Jewish state — and condemning
radical Muslim movements.
Mansour was born into an
Arab Muslim family. He said, as
a Zionist, he has very different
political views from the majority
of those who identify as Muslims.
He
said
he
felt
constantly
threatened
while
living
in
Egypt, due to the conflicting
nature of his Arab Muslim and
Zionist identities. During the
Egyptian Revolution, Mansour
said he was imprisoned for his
pro-Israel views. He sought
asylum in the United States in
2012, where he now resides.
“I started to learn Hebrew and
learn about the Jewish people
and their history,” he said.
“For the first time, I started to
expose myself to resources and
historical sources way different
than the sources I had been
exposed to as a child. And these
stories made much more sense
than the ones I had heard about
Jews being a ‘super-villain.’ The
first time I heard the definition
of anti-Semitism, I immediately
recognized it because it was
everywhere around me. I read
for the first time about Jews
not as Zionist soldier pigs, but
as mothers and fathers. These
stories made much more sense
and explained reality better.”
Mansour
repeatedly
emphasized
the
importance
of
discussion
and
education
about Israeli causes on college
campuses. He specifically called
out the Boycott, Divest and
Sanctions movement as anti-
Semitic.
“I wish that things like BDS
can be called out for what they
are, which is bigotry,” Mansour
said. “And American campuses,
because of their diversity, should
be the places where this dialogue
starts.”
The
divestment
movement,
set in motion on the University’s
campus
by
the
organization
Students Allied for Freedom and
Equality, has gained widespread
attention in the last two years,
particularly as resolutions —
which would have called on
the University to divest from
companies that some say facilitate
human rights violations in Israel
— were proposed in Central
Student Government.
Mansour said though many
American Muslims as moderate,
he
wants
to
see
American
Muslims take more responsibility
for those who subscribe to more
radical interpretations of Islam,
particularly in light of the recent
shooting in San Bernardino —
the Dec. 2 attack in which two
shooters who were potentially
inspired by ISIS killed 14 people
during an employee holiday party.
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“What we think important, both on campus and nationally,
is that whatever the terrorist threat ISIS poses, it can never
justify discrimination against Muslim Americans.”
Statement from the University’s Chapter of the College Democrats after President
Obama’s address from the Oval Office on combating terrorism
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