April 20, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 73) • Page Image 1
… 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…