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… senior, took the floor to describe her own experiences as an Arab and Muslim student. She stated her support of the resolution, empathizing with the feelings Jewish students have experienced…

…, prompting cheers from pro-divest students. Lieberman teaches on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and spoke last year heavily against divestment. Then-LSA senior Devin Jones criticized Lieberman…

…Many argued this was beneficial for the safety of pro-Palestinian students from damaging blacklists. Another was the outpouring of support: CSG Vice President Nadine Jawad, a Public Policy…

… talking about this but we also have to recognize if we want equitable footing on this, we need to give all people an opportunity and a voice,” Jawad said. Public Health graduate student Dana Greene…

… suffers all of us suffer. … When I kneeled on that Diag in pain, I watched thousands of students walk past me. I ask you today to not be one of those people that walked past.” Tuesday morning, the…

… Black Student Union tweeted their endorsement of divestment. Members of the BSU executive board attended the meeting, following many other social- justice oriented organizations in supporting…

… Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, the group that first brought the resolution to CSG. This year, History professor Victor Lieberman was not approved to join the list of speakers…

…, but rather specific companies that are tied to allegations of human rights violations. Erzouki also emphasized the weeks divestment is discussed are consistently very well-attended by students, as…

… they use the meetings as a platform to express their views. “I’ve seen at this point thousands of students rally over leaders in support of divestment this issue and this request does not…

… exist in a vacuum. There is long standing and diverse support on this issue as you have seen.” She went on to list several institutions whose student governing bodies pass similar divestment…

… finally was able to join my parents and brother.” In 2011, the Arab Spring saw the end of two long-term administrations, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Egyptian President Hosni…

… Mubarak. Syria’s own protests developed into violence after the torture of 15 teenage boys who voiced support of the Arab Spring. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad continued an assault on his citizens…

… Schlissel said he would not turn over students’ immigration information. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, however, backed the order, insisting it was not a Muslim ban but “placing the security…

… wonderful glide path to be able to deploy what we learn in the real world very quickly,” Morton said. Hu also initiated a student Scholars Program through MCubed — which stimulates innovative…

… undergraduate participant for summer work. The graduate level program is similar but allocates $8,000 per student to those involved. “I’m very supportive of undergraduate research,” Hu said…

… us in the next year to continue to get a glimpse into the future.” One initiative that Morton said has improved the multidisciplinary dialogue between Mcity and law students was the…

….” The executive branch of Central Student Government has expressed its reservations for the proposed resolution because of its exclusivity and its lack of precise details regarding the time…

…, location, size and mediation of the discussion lunches. However Devin Jones, an LSA senior who identified as a Palestinian student, noted the privateness of the proposed lunches were due to…