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Beginning Dec. 4, Nadia
Bazzy will begin her role
as director of the Office of
Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs,
replacing
former
director
Trelawny Boynton, who served
the University of Michigan
community
for
almost
20
years.
As a unit in the Office of
Student
Life,
MESA
staff
work
to
promote
student
development
and
cultural
opportunities,
while
also
empowering members of the
entire
campus
surrounding
issues of diversity, inclusion
and social justice work. Their
work is spread across four core
areas — consisting of programs
and
outreach,
student
engagement,
education
and
training, and leadership for
social change — and plays
a vital role in carrying out
the values delineated in the
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
plan.
In
an
email
interview,
E.
Royster
Harper,
the
University’s
vice
president
for student life, described
Bazzy’s
experience
in
fostering
inclusive
spaces
on campus as well as with
educating
and
supporting
students to fulfill their roles
as productive members of a
global community.
“It is with pleasure that
I share that Nadia Bazzy
will join the MESA team as
the new director beginning
December 4, 2017,” she said.
“Nadia’s passion for student
and community engagement
through education and support
to build inclusive spaces and
her past record of forging
innovative
advancements
that prepare our students to
be global citizens make her
an ideal fit for this important
role.”
Last year, Bazzy served
as interim director of the
University’s
Sexual
Assault
Prevention
and
Awareness
Center. Previously assistant
director
of
the
Office
of
Student Conflict Resolution,
she oversaw SAPAC through
the completion of the school
year as organization leaders
searched
for
a
permanent
director.
In a statement, La Casa
criticized the decision making
process, in which Bazzy was
chosen.
According
to
the
statement, the University had
informed La Casa that the
search for a new director had
not yet begun and had
implied La Casa would have
influence in the process as
a part to increase Latinx
representation
in
the
administration.
“Our
community
must express our deep
disatisfaction, not with the
individual
appointed
as
the new director, but in a
hiring process that denied
the Latinx voice and was
not conducted in an open
and transparent manner,”
the statement read.
Harper
emphasized
Bazzy’s
level
of
commitment
to
the
University
community,
as seen through her work
with organizations such
as SAPAC, the Michigan
Roundtable for Diversity
and Inclusion, and Student
Life’s
Intercultural
Development
Inventory.
Furthermore, Harper said
Bazzy’s unique expertise
in dealing with trauma
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Nadia Bazzy appointed as director
of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs
Bazzy will replace former director Trelawny Boynton starting Monday
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Federal tax reform:
proposals and
prospects
WHAT: Listen as notable tax
policy experts provide insight
on important federal policy
issues, including tax reform and
the impact of proposed policy
changes.
WHO: Gerald R. Ford School of
Public Policy
WHEN: 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Weill Hall, Annenberg
Beyond East and West
WHAT: Loyola University Chicago
professor Marcia Hermansen will
discuss the concepts of space and
simultaneity in post-millenial
Western Sufi autobiographies.
WHO: Department of Near
Eastern Studies
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE : 202 S. Thayer, Room
2022
Re:Union, What the
Union Renovation Means
to Student Orgs
WHAT: Students are invited to
attend and ask questions about
how the Union renovation will
affect their student organizations.
WHO: Center for Campus
Development
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
WHERE: Pendleton Room,
Michigan Union
Reflecting on Politics,
History and Half a
Century at Michigan
WHAT: Colleagues and former
students of Prof. Zvi Gitelmen
will talk about their research on
topics pertinent to Gitelmen’s
illustrious career.
WHO: Judaic Studies
WHEN: 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham Graduate
School, 4th Floor Assembly Hall
Power and Oppresion in
Groups
WHAT: Work with the Program
on Intergroup Relations to better
understand how group dynamics
can preference certain social
identities over others, and how to
reduce these damaging effects.
WHO: Rackham Graduate School
WHEN: Noon to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Rackhan Graduate
School, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd
Floor
RNA in Neuroscience
WHAT: Associate research
professors David Turner and
Robert Thompson will present
their research regarding RNA in
neuroscience.
WHO: Center for RNA
Biomedicine
WHEN: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Taubman Biomedical
Science Research, Seminar ABC
rooms
Author’s Forum
Presents: ‘The Book of
Wonders’
WHAT: Authors Douglas Trevor,
director of the Helen Zell
Writers’ Program, and Peter Ho
Davies will discuss Trevor’s novel
“The Book of Wonders.”
WHO: Institute for the
Humanities
WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher Graduate
Library, Room 100
Janus v. AFSCME and
the Future of Organized
Labor in America
WHAT: Join a discussion, led by
the MichiganImmigration and
Labor Law Association and local
labor leaders, as they discuss a
pertinent court case that would
elevate “right to work” laws to a
national level.
WHO: MILLA
WHEN: 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
WHERE: Hutchins Hall
Public Policy senior Nadine
Jawad,
Central
Student
Government vice president, has
been awarded the prestigious
Rhodes
Scholarship
after
competing against nominees
from across the country during
an intensive application and
interview process.
This year, four students
from
the
University
made
it to the finals — a number
that Henry Dyson, director
of the LSA Office of National
Scholarships and Fellowships,
said has been unmatched any
other year.
“All four of the students
we nominated this year were
invited to interviews: Nadine,
Yiran
Liu
and
Jonathan
Williams in Chicago, Lauren
Shepard in San Francisco,”
he said. “In my knowledge
at
least,
having
all
four
nominees make it to the finals
is unprecedented for U-M. It is
a tremendous accomplishment
even for those who didn’t win
the scholarship itself.”
The
Rhodes
Scholarship
— according to the ONSF —
funds two to three years of
graduate
study
at
Oxford
University across all fields
of discipline, during which
students are invited to pursue
either a research-based or
teaching-based
master’s
or
doctoral degree. Since the
scholarship’s
conception
in
1902, 25 University alumni
have won the scholarship — a
notable feat due to the fact only
32 scholars are selected from
across the country each year.
Jawad
described
the
emotions
she
experienced
immediately after learning of
her selection. She said she was
overwhelmed by the immense
opportunities
suddenly
becoming available to her due
to her new status as a Rhodes
scholar, especially as she has
worked so hard for her family
and community’s sake.
“In the moments leading
up to the announcement, they
began describing how hard
it was to pick the winners
from the group. My legs were
literally shaking and my name
was the first announced. I
started tearing up immediately,
but really was just too stunned
to think. I remember thinking,
‘I’m a Rhodes scholar’ then I
started thinking, ‘Oh my God,
I’m moving to England this
year.’ It all sort of happened
so fast. My mom was waiting
in the lobby downstairs and I
Community Conversation allows students to
debrief after #StopSpencer Week of Action
Last week, students held Week of Action to protest white supremacist Richard Spencer’s potential campus visit
JULIA FORD
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See #STOPSPENCER, Page 3A