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…LSA Student Government kicked off its Mental Health Week Monday afternoon by gathering student organizations focused on mental health for a Diag Day. At the far end of the Diag, LSA SG…

… representatives Eli Rachlin, an LSA junior, and Kristen Ball, an LSA senior, blew bubbles and blasted music as students walked by. Rachlin, spouting positive encouragement to passersby said the Diag Day is…

… an important part of the Awareness Week because of its ability to reach so many students. “You got to do something where you get exposure … everyone’s down this week, it’s right before fall…

… Follow @michigandaily JT @__JustJustin MSU students talk so much trash about UMich but forget that was their #1 choice before they got rejected 5th Year @5thYear Michigan’s student section…

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… category include the 22 Arab countries and the three non- Arab countries that may identify because of regional purposes,” Elharake said. “That also includes communities that don’t have nationalities…

… … just so that we’re more inclusive and we’re not creating an Arab box.” CSG Vice President Nadine Jawad, a Public Policy senior, expressed her support of the initiative, one that has been promoted…

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… patriarchal society who is significant enoughto have my ownnarrative and cantake the spotlight. Let's see that on TV. Michigan in Color is the Daily's opinion section designated as a space for and by students…

…. In fact, 24 percent of Israeli citizens are considered to be Arab, and many of these Arabs serve in the country's legislature. Arabs are cared for by Israeli hospitals and learn in Arab-Israeli schools…

… Middle Eastern/ North African community was not included on any University of Michigan documents. Arab students marked themselves as white or other. Kedra Ishop, vice provost for enrollment…

… in an email interview with The Daily. LSA junior Silan Fadlal- lah, who is currently the group coordinator for the IWG, believes the inclusion of a ME/NA identity helps Arab students feel…

… students accountable, much like Alpha Sigma Phi did, and not use a chapter of 150+ members as a scapegoat or a mechanism to retaliate against because the chap- ter voluntarily surrendered campus…

… manage- ment, oversees key offices within the University that supervise the collection and reporting of student data. Ishop said input from the Islamophobia Working Group, the organization in…

… response to input from groups, such as the Islamophobia Working Group and student organi- zations including CSG, that sought better reflection of MENA identities in Univer- sity statistics,” Ishop wrote…

… race and ethnicity categories for reports to them.” However, many Arab stu- dents feel including the Middle Eastern and North African identities under the white racial category is sim- ply…

… different cultures and customs from the ME/NA region. If you go by the Cen- sus, yes it says we are white, but try turning on the news and listening to them talk about any Arab and/or ME/ NA country…

…- ties between the Latinx and Arab communities. “The Latinx and Hispanic category is very similar in that you have racially Black identifying Latinx individ- uals, or racially white iden- tifying, or…

… its own separate ethnic identi- fier.” Brammer empathized with Middle Eastern and North African students who feel their identities are not accurately represented under a white racial cat…

… issuing statements asking Jews not to sell property to non-Jews, to the wives of certain rabbis telling Jewish girls not to date Arab boys, from expulsion of its only Arab student by a school in Sulam…

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… surprising, but rather the way in which the infor- mation was presented. It was odd that SI gave a few anecdotes about students who had committed crimes and then generalized that information to the entire…

… they're presented as alarming, the statistics are less than shocking. When comparedto Oregon State University's Daily Barometer study about crimes committed by all college students, they're downright…

… placid. About 3.5 percent of all col- lege students - and I'm rounding up from 3.45 percent, a liberty that echoes throughout SI's study - have previously committed a crime. When considering the sample…

… size of SI's study compared to that of the Daily Barometer's, it becomes apparent that this 0.05 percent difference in convictions between football play- ers and other students isn't all that significant…

… wasn't able to access because juvenile records aren't publicly available - stating that none of the 25 teams require a background check on their pro- spective student-athletes. Some of the coaches were…

… couple of malevolent anecdotes. Crime study of student-athletes is misleading. If anyone should be upset, it's the players. Though they're often ste- reotyped as thuggish brutes, the vast majority are…

… library, sitting by yourself in the cafeteria, and above all, being united with 40,000 students by a single phenomenon - bacne. Erm, wait - I mean stress. Partially due to a physics experi- ment gone…

…. 26 article titled "Record Level of Stress Found in College Freshmen," the emotional health of incoming students has dropped to the lowest level in the last 25 years. What's really concerning isn't the…

…- tion, along with options for applicants to identify as European or other. The move follows requests from Arab students, staff and faculty for the University to officially recognize their…

…Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones called out the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity at the University of Michi- gan in a message to MLive published Dec. 17. Blake Jones said “several gen- erations…

… infractions with opportunity for recoloni- zation after five calendar years. The IFC released a statement saying the Coun- cil supported the Univer- sity’s decision following the Student Organization…

… Life and assistant dean of students, did not respond to The Dai- ly’s request for comment. Kim Broekhuizen, associate director of the University’s Office of Public Affairs, said in an email that…

… disaf- filiation does not mean the chapter will not be held accountable. “The general practice of a minimum suspension for five years allows time for the current students to matriculate from U…

…’ backs during the chapter’s “Hell Week.” The fraternity brothers described the event taking place and a student being injured. “We had people run our backs during our hell week,” an Alpha Sigma…

… included in Rackham 2019 apps Inside: The Best of 2018 B-Side University Towers, a student apartment building on South Forest Avenue, was received a noncompliance notice from the city early this…

… Think at the Washtenaw County Administration Building Wednesday evening. Student apartment building issued warning for disobeying regulations OLIVIA TAUBER Daily Staff Reporter Democrats control…

… Student Govern- ment vice president Nadine Jawad had conversations about what the Diversi- ty, Equity and Inclusion …

…, discrimination, harassment. They’re usually detained for hours and hours, even if you are an American citizen.” The member explained how students of Palestinian or Arab heritage who go on study…

… harassment. The member also spoke about international political blacklists, highlighting the fears many Palestinian, Arab and Pro-Palestinian students have of being placed on a blacklist…

… said they were in favor of extending smoking codes and regulations to products such as vapes and e-cigarettes. “Per CDC data, the number of high school students that used e-cigarettes in the…

…. Central Student Government passed a #UMDivest resolution for the first time in the University’s history in 2017, which was also the first time the body allowed for a secret ballot, which members…

… approved to protect pro-Palestinian students from blacklists. “If you are put on that list and you go through these checkpoints, they’ll pull you out and you’re going to be interrogated, you…

…’ll probably be deported, not allowed in,” the student said. “That’s something that the University has ignored time after time and has not released any statements about, and that’s another thing we…

… result of the walls. She also highlighted the demonstration’s aim to raise awareness of struggles faced by minority students on campus and how the walls are affecting their lives at the University…

… investing in American companies that are profiting off these border walls,” the student said. “We’re still pushing for the University to form a committee to investigate our investments in these…

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… views of their authors. Ree valuatingevaluation~s Centralizing course information has benefits for professors and students s the fall semester comes to a close, it's open season for course evaluations…

…. An obvious disconnect exists between stu- dents and faculty about of the importance of these evaluations. Professors and graduate student instructors need to make it explic- itly clear how essential…

… students' feedback is to improving the course. Professors should set aside time at the end of the final class to give students the opportunity to complete the evaluation, which would highlight the impor…

…- tance of student opinions. Faculty should also ensure that stu- dents can ,see how their feedback may affect instruction changes in the future. For instance, professors should e-mail students after…

… responses have been read, acknowledg- ing common criticisms and praises for the course, and describing planned improve- ments. Providing students with informa- tion about how their evaluations are utilized…

…. Evaluations also need to be documented in an online database that is easily accessible to students. A consolidated resource would allows students to consider the evaluation of their peers when they navigate…

… in. This car with three white dudes pulled up, they lowered their window, and they screamed the ‘n-word’ at me.” Other students expressed experiences with teachers or friends making…

… any negative thing to worry about.” For these students especially and coming from places with large Black communities entering the University, with only 4.96 percent of the student body being…

… Black, can be a shock. McKinney said entering the University freshman year, there’s always some sort of incident making Black students feel isolated. “What’s funny is that as a Black person…

… welcoming. Gilbert wrote an article detailing racism she experienced as soon as she entered the University. At her first football game, she and her friends asked a group of white students to pet their…

… the street, and I feel so relieved after an entire semester of being under that pressure.” In Classrooms and Conversation “Being one of the only Black students in the classroom has happened…

… to me probably every semester,” Doss said. This was an experience shared by all of the Black students interviewed. LSA sophomore Pascal Casimier said when this happens with him, he feels…

… feel on the outside of a group.” But, even if their Blackness wasn’t explicitly addressed, many students felt the effect of their race on teachers’ and students’ interactions with them. Gilbert…

… white person whose hand was raised. LSA sophomore Sydni Warner said she was once rejected by students when she asked to join their group project. “We were supposed to do a group work, and I…

… asked to join a group and they just straight up told me no,” Warner said. “Didn’t give me a reason, didn’t give me any type of explanation.” Toombs attributes this avoidance of Black students to…

… to do with Black people, they feel like it’s cool to come up to me and tell me about how it is being Black,” Hicks said. Another assumption people feel comfortable making is that Black students…

… the com- mittee, including those from the Arab Student Association, University of Michigan Hil- lel, Residence Halls Association, National Panhellenic Council, Rackham Student Government, Dance Marathon…

… transparent and will develop cross-department strategies. Working with multiple units, including departments in the Division of Student Affairs, Washington said there's oppor- tunity for a more consortium…

… sur- veillance. Currently, the University employs relatively few surveil- lance cameras. In the past, student and civic groups have rallied around the idea of limit- ing surveillance at the University…

… a Presidential Search Commission under the execu- tive branch of CSG, but that order was not passed. Monday night's resolution brought forth the student com- mittee as an alternative that would extend…

… the push for stu- dent input beyond the boundar- ies of student government. The University Council reso- lution says the new student com- mittee would presenta recorded report of student input during…

… public forums and continue to provide input throughout the year until the president was selected. Ten student leaders from student governing bodies and organizations throughout the University will sit on…

…, Interfraterni- ty Council, Black Student Union and Graduate Employees' Orga- nization. "We tailored (the resolution) to make sure that we canbe most effective as a student body," Dishell said after the meeting…

…. "While student government represents the student voices, it's also important to really get down to the grassroots parts of these communities and not just take from the top." Dishell will sit onthe commit…

…- tee and Proppe will serve as an ex-officio, non-voting member. In an interview at the meet- ing, LSA Student Government President Sagar Lathia said LSA-SG will actively work to culminate input from its…

… school by surveys and other outreach mechanisms. While he said he believed that the student committee was the "closest we can get" to hav- ing students personally sit on the PSAC, Lathia was optimistic…

… anti-Arab, he took it upon himself to arrange for all the logistics for the first meet- ing, which was to gather major student leaders on campus in one room. I had the misfortune of par- ticipating in…

… game Dear Students: This Saturday, on October 11th, our football team will play Penn State at home under the lights. Families from the greater Ann Arbor area will come to campus to support our school…

…, alumni from across the country will venture here, to their home, to show their continued support, and we, the students, will recognize and cele- brate the unparalleled community we have here at Michigan…

… continue to follow long after we've left. Earlier this week, on the MGoBlog message board, several Michigan students made posts about a protest that would take place th4is Saturday. The origi- nslpoer…

…< believes that students should "unite" against Dave Brandon, and that they should strive to "dispatch" him while doing everything in their power to make him feel "embarrassed" on the sideline. The protest…

… orga- nizers hope to achieve these goals by encouraging students to wait outside the section gates before and during kickoff, essentially aiming to construct the image of an empty Big House, a massive no…

… circumstance, make it our mission to disrespect, isolate, and otherwise harm our team, its leaders, and those who players. They play for Michigan. help it develop - that is how we We, as students, are Michigan…

… players off time to respond and speak out in a the field, but also on the field. respectful and constructive man- In this time of division, confu- ner. Students will be able to find sion, and uncertainty…

… true, makes .theesport. thrivi:n fans- nature of;Michiga. Gommunity,. and players completely in-tune, unity, fellowship - we strive for ready to negotiate challenges these ideals as students. We find…

… categorized high school students into the category of jocks (the rapists), the cheerleaders (the stereo- typically "catty" girls who bully the survivor), the survivor and her friend, and the punk emo goth (the…

…Dearborn is my safe haven, a city with the highest concentration of Arabs in all of America, a place for people who are just like me. Growing up, I had the best of both worlds. I was able…

… to connect with my Middle Eastern roots and culture in a city that has the best Mediterranean food around. I could speak Arabic and not feel out of place. My days would be filled with visiting…

… “khaltos” (Arabic word for aunts) and potlucks where we would eat our days away while playing tag outside with the neighborhood kids who were more like family than friends. However, my city was never…

… fighting against the status quo. And despite all of this, now that I am in Ann Arbor, I yearn for my town. I become retrospective and think back to the now defunct Arab-American festival on Warren…

… University of Michigan, my pampered taste buds found the dining hall food bland, unappetizing and incredibly foreign. I saw students carrying plates filled to the brim with food I had never before…

… back home to Dearborn for the day if she did. Now, as I sit in my dorm room, my supply of Arab food is dwindling and I am once again venturing out into the dining hall hoping for the best. They say…

… the courses provided to students. One simple search of "sex" in the Fall 2012 LSA Course Guide produces 167 results, with the departments offering these courses ranging from Arabic, Armenian, Persian…

… expert on South American freshwater fishes, asex therapist and a classroom of 230 under- graduate students shouting "penis" and "vagina" have in common? Last winter, they were all part ofthe Biology 116…

… partnering with a special- ist in human sex and biology could create a unique experi- ence for non-science students. "For me," Fink said, "it's an evolutionary biology course and a biodiversity course, but it…

… also is a course that helps people in their late teens and early 20s try to understand what's going on in their minds and their bodies." For many of his students, Fink said the idea of sex biology and…

… and a woman - for an optional demonstration for students. The woman undresses in front of an audience of about 100 students, and the two speakers engage in a sex toy demon- stration. The woman lets the…

… demonstration to students, as his course focuses on "controversial and unusual aspects of sexuality." To show or not to show? That is the question The expanse of sex education at the University is evi- dent in…

… Fink's biological approach to sex for a political framework. Rackham student Rostom Mesli teaches this first-year writing requirement course, which he said offers a view of how sex is considered…

… revolutionary. Mesli guides his students in analyzing the role of sex duringthe AIDS epidemic, civil rights movement and other key political moments in history. With a full class of 18 stu- dents, mostly…

… masochist prac- tices or coprophilia (a sexual fetish involving feces), I need to think twice about what I'm doing," Mesli said. "Students' feelings might be offended, and that's something I need to take into…

…, we have to be extremely care- ful," Mesli said. "If the goal is to show people getting off on stage, then that doesn't belong to the academia.Now, if the goal is to talk to students about female…

… the Protestant pects were students at a nearby Cemetery of Mount Zion, one of Jewish seminary known for its Jerusalem's most important his- ultranationalist views. toric graveyards, has struck a par…

…, they say ies. Clergymen often speak of attacks continue unabated. Some being spat at by ultra-Orthodox activists say not enough is being religious students while walk- done to stop them. ing around…

… human would agree three-quarters of them are Arabs, with this." and the others arrived during a Police arrested four young wave of immigration from former Israeli settlers from the West Soviet Union…

… Israeli police recently set up a task force to combat "nationalistic" motivat- ed crimes, and last week arrest- ed 14 youths in connection with attacks on Arabs. He said police are carrying out more patrols…

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… level, and #UMMockEviction drew attention to Pal- estinians being forcibly removed from their homes, raising awareness about the Arab- Israeli conflict. Although knowledge of these events and…

…. democracy cannot function with Think about how many interna- this type of mentality. tional students you are Facebook As the debate over the NSA's data friends with. Think about how collection program is sure…

… to contin- many e-mails you have gotten from ue in the coming weeks and months, the University that have also been students must to remain engaged sent out to thousands of other peo- in the political…

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… between a col- lege student and his friend's mother. As McGonigal puts it, "If you haven't pwned your Mom, you're clearly missing out." Another useful piece of research shows that people who play games…

…-American sentiments. Tom Malinowski, Washington Director for Human Rights Watch and an expert in U.S. foreign policy, writes on foreignpolicy.com that WikiLeaks "did more for Arab democracy than decades of backstage U…

… Violin ending 55 Cuckoopints, e.g. 56 Merge 57 “Well now!” 58 Bar offerings 59 It’s a stunner 60 Reject DOWN 1 They may be noble 2 __ Reader 3 Holiday rate, perhaps 4 Loser-to-be? 5 Stray 6 Arab potentate…

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…The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government hosted a Twitter town hall Thursday afternoon, asking students and other CSG members to submit questions to Regents Shauna Ryder…

…. Currently, it costs lower- division students $7,037 for undergrad — an increase from the 2015-2016 school year’s $6,764 2014-2015’s $6,579. Many students asked how they could further play a role…

… in the University and connect with the Board of Regents. Last semester, many students felt the Regents lacked transparency. CSG hosted a similar town hall last semester, with Newman and…

… Regent Mark Bernstein (D). The student government has also taken steps to instating student voices on the board through the new Student Advisory Council. In early September, the board also…

…. WHO: Information and Technology Services WHEN: 11 a.m. to Noon WHERE: Michigan Union, Room G312 Middle Eastern Languages Fair WHAT: Guests from Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish and…

…:30 p.m. WHERE: Institute for Social Research, Room 6050 A Dangerous Experiment WHAT: Written and directed by LSA and RC students, this play follows the struggles of five women as they experience…

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…: Students are invited to attend this by- appointment resume work- shop, where mentors will be offering helpful tips on how to make your resume stand out. WHO: Career Center WHEN: Today from 7 p.m. to 8 p…

….m. WHERE: Student Activities Building Market WHAT: Local produce will be available, as will sam- ples, creative recipes and healthy-eating tips. WHO: CSG and University Unions WHEN: Today from 11 a.m. to 3…

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