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… strengthening Ann Arbor’s don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy,” she said. “This resolution, I think, has actually become During Central Student Government’s Tuesday meeting, a resolution to support the…

… Lebanese, Jones said they were all technically classified as “white.” Jones argued the demographic surveys did not take Middle Eastern heritage into account. “In 1944, all Arabs were marked as…

… white in the United States because whiteness was a prerequisite for citizenship,” Jones said. “That changed in 1952, but the status for Arab Americans and others who are Middle East and North…

… Affordable Care Act on students at Weill Hall on Tuesday. RESEARCH Jessy Grizzle, in collaboration with those at Oregon State, will test the prototype RASHEED ABDULLAH Daily Staff Reporter Current…

… Michigan, also answered public questions to an audience of approximately 100 students, faculty and community members. Panelists began by laying out facts about the ACA itself, explaining…

… STUDENT GOVERNMENT Middle Eastern authors said they had to put ‘white’ on demographic forms RHEA CHEETI Daily Staff Reporter JOSHUA HAN/Daily Ann Arbor resident Kathy Griswold speaks about road…

… judge the annual Mock Rock charity talent show at the University of Michigan Power Center for the Performing Arts, where more than 200 students and community members came to watch student…

… athletes help raise money for the local mental health organization Fresh Start Clubhouse. Mock Rock is an annual fundraising event organized and led by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and…

… the Ginsberg Center where each year, the organizations determine a local beneficiary to donate the funds the show raises to a place they feel aligns with the students’ passions. Various…

… varsity student- athlete teams came together to create original talent acts to perform in front of their peers to help fundraise money. Last year, the organizations chose to donate all proceeds…

… humanity and address us-- Muslim, Jewish, Black, Arab, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized students on campus-- in person on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at the Michigan Union.” Several administrators…

… Michigan Union, organized by Students4Justice. As part of the protest, S4J wrote up a list of demands that it wants the administration to meet. The first demand reads as follows: “Acknowledge our…

… attracted students, faculty and administrators alike. I saw a video of Schlissel confronting protesters, who were angry about the spate of racist and anti-Semitic emails, and the subsequent lack of…

… helplessness that renders you silent, that kept you invisible on the night of a student protest and sitting in luxury seating at a classical musical concert on the very next night. Schlissel feels…

… “helpless” to the demands being made by activist groups on campus. President Schlissel, if I can address you here, you ought to know that you are not alone. Your students who make demands of you also…

… feel helpless. And it is not actually an option for you to feel helpless and then to subsequently refuse to meet with the very students who are calling for change. That’s like me, as a young boy…

…, crying because I’m hungry but then refusing to eat the food my parents give me. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot feel helpless and then refuse to engage your students, who know best what…

… supremacist United States government. Similarly, the idea that demands do not start a conversation presupposes that there are other options for these students to be taking up. It presupposes a sort of…

… absolute innocence on the part of the administration, as if it has done nothing to perpetrate the need for demands. Of course, these students understand that a demand is different from a request…

…, from setting up a meeting with the president like other students — those students, for example, who do not feel as if their lives are threatened and their humanity silenced — might do. These…

… students that are worried about their safety; we have Muslim and Arab students that are worried about their safety,” Harper said. “So we have a pretty active Department of Public Safety right now…

… campus more welcoming for LGBTQ students. Specifically, they’ve opened an LGBTQ housing space that she said she assumes would be friendly to transgender students and their housing needs. “As…

… the undergraduate curriculum that includes a social justice component — something she is very pleased with. It would require students to take a certain number of classes pertaining to race and…

….” According to 2016 enrollment data for the class of 2020 at Northwestern, 8.5 percent of the student population is Black or African American, 13.6 percent is Hispanic or Latino, 20 percent is Asian and…

… students who believe in protecting Palestinian human rights,” Sarkar wrote. “The spirit of the resolution embodies the University of Michigan’s mission statement — to challenge the present — and the…

… chapter of SAFE met with E. Royster Harper, vice president for Student Life, and Laura Blake Jones, dean of students, for a dialogue and conversation. Approximately 20 students were in attendance to…

… the event. The Daily did not attend the meeting due to the personal nature of the event, but spoke to several student attendees afterwards. LSA senior Andrea Sahouri attended the dialogue, and…

… stated one of the most important aspects of the conversation was the way it exposed students to University officials that are open to hearing concerns, specifically for those students who may be…

… feeling the administration is not intimately connected to conversation among the student body. “I think the most important part of the meeting as a whole was letting the students of SAFE, and the…

… them or talk to them about anything that they’re there for us as students,” she said. Another main point of discussion was safety concerns among students following #UMDivest. While parts of…

… allocate resources toward that community and reach out to members. “When something goes on on campus, if we want to connect with Arab American students, Middle Eastern students, or Middle Eastern…

… at University Health Service, stated that for students who obtain an illness that needs to be treated at an outside facility, health insurance is a requirement. She has found, however, that…

… many students at the University do not have their own health insurance and cannot receive this treatment. She continued by explaining that the portion of the ACA that allows young adults to…

… stay on their parent’s health insurance until age 26 is crucial for college students. Claire Fitzgerald, a senior majoring in political science, gender and health studies and business, was also a…

… member of the panel. She described her experiences as a college student and how the ACA has affected her and her classmates. “For college students in particular, the ACA gives us the ability to…

… individuals to advocate for the ACA. Panelist Michael Budros, a Rackham student, stressed the importance of outreach and education, especially toward those who may not understand the entirety of the…

… major effects from other health care plans. He explained the importance of students from this generation attending panels such as this one and educating themselves on issues that could change very…

…, they are still regarded as white. So basically, we don’t have a count on how many Arab Americans or Middle East Americans exist in the United States, we don’t know how many exist in the University…

… of Michigan.” Public Policy junior Nadine Jawad, who serves as senior policy adviser to CSG, stressed the importance of having a record of how many ME/NA students there are on campus to…

… and North African students and people identifying in this category, it’s very hard to reach out to a population of people that you don’t even know where they are, how many exist on this campus…