Dozens filed in and out of
Seek Refuge’s first clothing
line launch party held in the
Michigan League’s Hussey
Room on Tuesday evening.
Seek Refuge is an organization,
founded by Dearborn native
Shazia Ijaz, committed to
bringing awareness to aid
refugees, empower women
and
represent
Muslims
through its clothing line. The
organization currently gives
a portion of its proceeds to a
refugee aid program and was
recently featured in Vogue
magazine.
In its mission statement,
Seek
Refuge
stresses
the
need to empower millennial
Muslim women, and says the
clothing line combines Islamic
messages and aesthetics with
American style to produce a
forward fashion choice for
millennial Muslim women.
The
mission
statement
continues
to
focus
on
how
Muslim
women
are
misrepresented
in
society
and how “in today’s social
and
political
climate,
it
is
crucial
to
accurately
represent American Muslims
in society.”
The mission statement was
echoed at the event, as a video
played on repeat showing
President
Donald
Trump
exclaiming,
“Islam
hates
us” and other Islamophobic
comments made by political
figures and other figures in
the media. The sequence was
then followed by a segment
with Seek Refuge founder
Shazia Ijaz, a University of
Michigan alum, who briefly
explained
Seek
Refuge’s
message.
Four models sported the
four clothing pieces currently
released by Seek Refuge as
the video, mentioned above,
played in the background, and
Ijaz spoke with event guests.
Ijaz
described
the
label
as,“the
world’s
first
streetwear clothing brand for
Muslim women.”
“What makes Seek Refuge
different as a brand is that
we focus on representing
Muslim
women
through
our Islamic designs and not
through enforcing a modesty
standard,”
she
said.
“We
design clothes that work for
Muslim women who practice
all levels of modesty … And
our American street style
combined with our Islamic
designs allow women who
Central Student Government
met on Tuesday evening to
discuss
the
University
of
Michigan’s
decision
to
end
Michigan time, the tradition of
starting classes 10 minutes after
the hour. Beginning on May 1,
classes will start on the hour and
end 10 minutes before the next to
allow for students to get to back-
to-back classes. The assembly also
passed resolutions support the
demands for more representation
by Latinx students, and increased
transparency in the Univeristy’s
endowment investments.
The
assembly
welcomed
Dean of Students Laura Blake
Jones,
who
explained
the
administration’s
reasoning
and answered representatives’
questions.
Jones
said
the
University’s professional schools,
such as the School of Nursing
and the Dental School, operate
on the hour. Classes that run on
Michigan time cannot use rooms
in these professional schools
because of the difference in start
times.
“Other
schools
could
use
those classrooms, but they’re
hindered from being able to do
that currently because if the
classes start at 10 after the hour
and that room needs to be ready
for transition at 10 until the hour,”
Jones said. “It’s not possible to
schedule them as efficiently as we
Michigan State University
is facing three new lawsuits
as of Saturday with regard
to the handling of the sexual
assault
allegations
against
Larry Nassar, a former USA
Gymnastics doctor and MSU
sports
medicine
doctor,
according to the State News on
Tuesday. Just days after these
lawsuits
were
announced,
Bob Noto, MSU vice president
for Legal Affairs and General
Counsel,
announced
his
retirement in a press release.
Former chief justice of the
Michigan
Supreme
Court,
Robert
Young
will
now
coordinate
the
legal
team
managing these lawsuits.
Katherine Gordon, one of
the victims of Nassar’s abuse,
spoke at Nassar’s trial in
Ingham County in January,
where he received 40 to 175
years for sexual assault. She is
now the first to sue MSU, the
university’s Board of Trustees
and various MSU officials and
members of the medical staff
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LSA senior Sahr Yazdani, Alum Sidra Kader, Ross senior Shaheda Islam and LSA senior Nazmun Nahar model at the
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Bret Stephens, a columnist at
the New York Times, spoke on
the importance of free speech
and disagreement Thursday at
the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
in a talk titled, “Free Speech and
the Necessity of Discomfort.”
The talk, presented by Wallace
House, was part of the “Speech
and
Inclusion:
Recognizing
Conflict
and
Building
Tools
for Engagement” series, which
previously brought speakers such
Joshua Johnson of NPR, and
was put on by the University of
Michigan’s Office of Diversity,
Equity & Inclusion.
Stephens
joined
the
New
York Times in April 2017, having
previously worked for The Wall
Street Journal and The Jerusalem
Post.
A
neoconservative
and
political commentator, he is a
member of the “Never Trump”
movement
of
conservatives
opposing
President
Donald
Trump.
Stephens
began
his
talk
speaking briefly about his past
journalism
experience.
He
discussed the effects of the 2016
election on free speech and went
on to say both sides of the political
spectrum
were
responsible
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Bret Stephens, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner, discusses the roles of free speech and personal discomfort in education in the League Tuesday.
Alum’s streetwear brand featuring
Muslim women launches at the League
Ijaz kicks off Seek Refuge clothing line, will donate proceeds to intl. refugee aid
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Ann
Arbor
City
Council
convened Tuesday evening to
discuss the Housing and Human
Services
Advisory
Board’s
financial constraints, including
cutbacks on housing vouchers
and the council’s vote to amend
the city’s zoning ordinance,
which
prohibits
front
yard
installments of solar panels.
According to Anne Bannister,
D-Ward 1, the Housing and
Human Services Advisory Board
discussed during their meeting
on Feb. 9 how funds from the
mental health millages—a new
tax approved in last November’s
midterm elections—will be spent
in the 2019 fiscal year to support
the Affordable Housing Fund.
The millage was projected to
raise $15 million in sum.
“That’s an eight-year millage
and we’re expecting a million
dollars
coming
from
the
40
percent
designated
(for)
affordable housing,” Bannister
said. “Of that money, we are
recommending to council 25
percent pass through supportive
services with a handful of
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Council to
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solar panel
guidelines
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spots,” health millages will
fund affordable housing
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