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…, 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…

… 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…

…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…