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… michigandaily.com Students draft race & ethnicity proposals LILY ANiELL/da iy History Prof. Victor Lieberman was surprised with the Golden Apple Award during his lecture on the Arab-Israeli Conflict Tuesday…

…. History prof award Student-driven Golden Apple award given to Victor Lieberman By STEPHANIE SHENOUDA Daily News Editor It was business as usual in History Prof. Victor Lieber- man's Arab-Israeli Conflict…

… lecture on Tuesday afternoon until an unfamiliar face asked if he liked apples. Though the question was more than a bit out of place, the answer soon came when a parade of students entered the auditorium…

… winner, Lieberman will have the oppor- tunity to address students and colleagues at the Golden Apple Award Ceremony on April 2 at Rackham Auditorium at 6 p.m. Dubbed "The Last Lecture," it is an invitation…

… University and attention across the nation, one student began working behind the scenes to tackle diver- sity from inside the classroom. Public Policy junior Carly Manes, an LSA representative on the CSG…

… Assembly and current CSG presidential candidate for FORUM, has met with University administrators since October to reform LSA's Race and Ethnicity requirement, gathering a coali- tion of student activists…

… Committee held a conference call Tuesday for student newspaper reporters at colleges and univer- sities to highlight its new Voter Expansion Project - an initiative aimed at increasing student voter turnout…

… Central Student Gov- an organization dedicated to follow a format similar to last ernment unanimously passed helping improve the health of year'seventbut willbe expand- a resolution to allocate funds…

… worthwhile and fur- ther stimulates my interest in teaching." Though Lieberman teaches a class about the Arab-Israeli con- flict, his specialty is Southeast Asian history. Lieberman said he is unsure if he…

… will deliver a lec- ture regarding his own research or one related to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Business senior Jake Levey, Golden Apple co-president, said the committee had taken mea- sures throughout…

… the year to increase student awareness of the award. Their efforts resulted in more than 600 nominations, a record high inthe award's 24-year existence. After reading every nomination, the commit- tee…

… to a sometimes difficult audience" and remain unbiased, allowing students to objectively form an opinion regarding the topic for themselves. LSA senior Amalia Zimmer- man, Golden Apple co-chair, is…

… currently in Lieberman's Arab-Israeli Conflict class, and said she relates to the views expressed in the nomi- nations. "As a Jew growing up with a lot of knowledge of the Israeli side of things ... it was…

… teaching." Levey said while the large number of nominations made it difficult to choose a winner, he is glad students demonstrated a passion for their teachers, and is happy to see the Golden Apple Award…

… them, they throw out obstacles - whether it be AfricarAmericans, whether it be Latinas, whether it's women, whether it's young people or college students." A representative from the Uni- versity…

… and another moderator on the conference call, cited the recent North Caro- linavoter lawpassed by a Repub- lican legislature that prevents college students from using their school IDs as identification…

… said the clinic will be a way for the student body to make a difference beyond cam- pus. "The student body has a lot of potential to make an impact in people's lives, and if you have the opportunity to…

… do so, you should do whatever you can," Fernandez said. Pidgeon said students often forget that Ann Arbor goes on outside the campus community, adding that upcoming clinic is an important way to give…

… culture kids. Collectively, these students have at some point called Zambia, France, the United Arab Emirates, China, Norway, Turkey, Nigeria Switzerland and vw- the U.S. their home. It's a bit gimmicky too…

… there. it's just harder for us to see." Change and instability is a defining theme in the lives of many "third culture" kids, a small but increasingly more visible subset of the University's student body…

… to the term "global nomad," though this usually refers to a per- son who typically has loosened their ties to their home country and work abroad. I talked to seven students who identify as third…

…. You grow more reli- fests ant on them. They're itself the most constant part subtly of your life." - mostly Many of the students by the said their relationships moments with their parents flour- third…

… cul- ished when they came to ture kids college. At the University, mentioned there's a dearth of ways when Ithat international students asked them - no matter their back- about what ground - can bond…

…'s and C's. These cultural differences, among the students I interviewed, helped develop their familial relationships or hindered Dupuy --the French student who grew up in Washington, D.C. - said this was…

… especially shocking considering the diverse nature of the student body. It has the eighth largest international student population out of all U.S. universities and represents 130 countries. Meredith said he…

… bonds most quickly with third culture kids, even those who are neither Chinese nor American. Half-white and half-Chinese, hedoesn't fit in with international Chinese students, who see him as white. But he…