April 01, 1994
(vol. 104, iss. 108)
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… 76-GUIDE, peer counseling phone line, 7 p.m.-8 a.m. Q Alpha Phi Omega, Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room, pledge meeting, 7 p.m.; chapter meet- ing, 8 p.m. Q Arab-American Students' As- sociation, Michigan…
… March 24 letter to state Medicaid directors, the federal government repeated the position that they must conform to the new rule. KNOWLEDGE IS NOT ENOUGH Hmong high school students learn about 'U…
… description of one Detroit school from a teacher who accompa- nied 14 of his 8th grade students on a daylong workshop at the University. A workshop that hoped to bridge the gap between the promise of a univer…
…- sity education and the pitfalls of grow- ing up poor in a city. But the ethnic identity of these urban middle school students might be surprising: Asian American, more specifically Hmong. Originally from…
… groups of kids around campus but rarely would I see any Asian Americans. I wanted to do something for them," said Ting quickly adding, "It's the kids and the student leaders who make the program." One of…
… those student leaders, Timothy Chu, spoke to the question of what, if any, responsibility he felt as a Chinese American from the sub- urbs to a culturally and ethnically distinct group of kids from…
… yesterday was to try to reduce that awe and replace it with confidence. "If you want to go to college you. can find a way," was a message rel1 peated over and over by student lead- ers as the young students…
… the Angell Hall corn' puter lab learning about word pro- cessing and e-mail. One student, with an oversized Michigan hat pulled down low on his head, admitted to preferring basket-, ball to computers…
… felt. Truancy is reportly down among those who have visited, the University. Project coordinators hope to expand the program by gef- ting University students into th& Hmong community to further help the…
… young students follow through oi their determination to go to college'' "I would like to go there and see their side of it," said Chu. "My view isp pretty one-sided. I rarely go to Detroit.' Watching over…