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… night. Hosted by the office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA), the event concluded a month of Arab cultural festivities featuring workshops, performances and guest speakers. The ceremony…

… began with Arabic food and people gathering around tables. MESA Program Manager Jesús Galvan greeted students and families as they walked into Trotter Center. Taubman freshman Lynn Samman…

…, the event coordinator for the closing ceremony, began by thanking MESA and the Arab Student Association for their support in empowering the Arab community on campus. She then recognized…

… YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Former music professor sentenced to prison for sex crimes In the mid-1980s, a North Carolina School of the Arts student took a brave step that affected the rest of her…

… high school career: she met with Robert Hickok, the school’s dean, to report that Stephen Shipps, her violin teacher, had attempted to kiss her during her lesson. The student requested anonymity…

…, the student remembered Hickok’s response. “(Shipps is) a very affectionate man: ‘Are you sure you didn’t misunderstand it?’” Meghan recalled Hickok saying. (Hickok is deceased; two students…

… reports. It is also unclear if the school communicated these complaints to the University of Michigan. In 2017, a former student of Shipps’s emailed the then-interim dean of the Music, Theatre & Dance…

… music, the chair of strings and the director of a youth music program through the Music, Theatre & Dance School. He had previously served as the school’s associate dean. The former student that…

… MichiganDaily.com Stephen Shipps receives five years after guilty verdict on exploitation of a minor The Arab Heritage Month Closing Ceremony took place at the Trotter Multicultural Center Thursday…

… each of the Arab Heritage Month committee members, thanking them for their work in putting on various events throughout the past month. “We would like to recognize all our committee members…

… significant change in the Palestinian mentality, until we see a significant change in the Palestinian leadership, I don’t think they deserve a state at this point.” The Arab Student Association and…

…-Islamophobia training for CSG members. The statement said the community needs public acknowledgment and administrative action in order to heal. “Ben Gerstein sat across the executive board of the Arab Student…

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, February 20, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM University of Michigan students are opting to take math classes at other…

… schools because of the reputation of the department’s classes being more difficult, students told The Daily. Students interviewed by The Daily said the University’s math classes pose a significant…

… at community colleges can be transferred for credit to fulfill graduation requirements or major prerequisites. Students need to receive a C or higher in the course for the credits to…

… transfer. The catch: the grade does not affect students’ GPA. Engineering sophomore Lauren McNamee, a prospective mechanical engineering major, opted to take the equivalent of Math 215: Multivariable…

… and Vector Calculus the summer after her freshman year at Pennsylvania State University’s Abington campus in Abington, Pennsylvania. Like McNamee, many students choose to take classes in the…

…, Michigan math is just the worst.” The College of Engineering Peer Mentor Program offers incoming students resources to encourage student involvement and development of academic, social and personal…

… interests. As an Engineering peer mentor, McNamee helps incoming College of Engineering students transition to college life. GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let…

… Athreya See STEM, Page 3 See EXXON, Page 3 JULIA SCHACHINGER/Daily University of Michigan Law students protest against the law firm that represents ExxonMobil at a recruitment event at Pizza House…

… complicit in the oppression of Palestinians through my past actions.” The statement from Arab Student Association and SAFE also called on CSG to recognize a resolution passed in 2017 supporting…

… work that I need to do.” CSG Communications Director Alex Johnson released a statement Wednesday night, acknowledging the harm done to the Palestinian, Muslim and Arab students on campus by…

… support Palestinian, Muslim and Arab students on campus,” Johnson wrote. “In the next several days, President Gerstein hopes to listen to the concerns and needs of impacted students and work…

…, associate vice provost for academic affairs and senior director of Academic Human Resources, said the University values graduate students and is working towards a fair agreement. “We recognize the…

… importance of graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants to the academic mission of the university and to the academic success of our students,” said Sascha Matish, associate…

… decades, the University has grown exponentially, adding thousands of students and faculty. GEO member Joseph Valle said the University had not adjusted to this growth. “Over the past several…

… decades, the University has continued to grow,” Valle said. “Tens of thousands of more students and employees … yet the University has built a total of a thousand new beds on campus in the past…

… Cabinet Member Eman Naga, LSA Student Government Vice President Zackariah Farah, SAFE, the Arab Student Association (ASA) and the Muslim Student Association (MSA). It was not approved as a resolution…

… Michigan Central Student Government (CSG), including its president and vice president, issued a statement via the CSG Instagram page on Monday condemning Israel’s recent actions in the ongoing…

… statement acknowledges that CSG has participated in pro-Israel events, such as funding yearly trips to Israel for Jewish students. “We also must recognize CSG’s prior complicity with Israel’s violence…

… on the University to divest from Israeli companies and by vowing to use their platform to uplift and represent Palestinian voices and work with Palestinian student groups, such as Students Allied…

… 2017 calling on the University to form a committee to look into divesting from said Israeli companies, but that resolution was ultimately rejected by the Board of Regents. Student reactions The…

…@michigandaily.com Advertising wmg-contact@umich.edu The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. One…

… importance of a liberated Palestine. Introduction Saturday, May 15 marked the annual commemoration of the Nakba (Nakba is the Arabic word for “catastrophe”). Since 1948, the ongoing Nakba has…

… such as the right to own property or vote — and relentless weaponization of international aid in support of Israel. Much of academia, from students to scholars, dismisses the oppression endured by…