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November 30, 1999 (vol. 110, iss. 43) • Page Image 4

…4 -- The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 30, 1999 420 Maynard Street HEATHER KAMINS Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Editor in Chief daily.letters@umich.edu Edited and managec by students at the University…

… articles, letters and cartoons do not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Michigan Dailv. FRO THE AILY Givw us a break .Students would benefit from a fall vacation Formula One for A s. l ish orging…

September 30, 1996 (vol. 107, iss. 1) • Page Image 1

… Israelis and Palestinians clashed violently on holy ground in the Middle . East Jewish and Arab American students clashed emotionally on campus. While both groups expressed oppos- ing views on roots of the…

… up" About 100 people converged in West uad's Wedge Room to kick off Filipino American Heritage Month - five weeks designed to expose students to Filipino culture through a series of Thursday evening…

… workshops. The theme of Friday's celebration, which featured Filipino singers and a comedy troupe, along with Gonzalez, was "Who we are and where we are going." Groups including the Filipino American Student

… Association, the 1ilippines Study Group and the nglish department came together to sponsor the event. "(I came) to learn more about my heritage," said LSA first-year student Mara Luna. "I kind of wapted to be a…

… travel, residence halls and the Nectarine Ballroom by his American cousins. Traditional Filipino songs were sung byRackham student Karl Soliz and his friend Jason Baluyut, who had not seen each other since…

… their sophomore year in a Philippine high school. Gonzalez, 81, said it is important for Filipinos, especially college students, to know about their heritage because he awareness of our sense of a nation…

… hold Mideast peace talks A aletitna omn anda childpass a ine of Israeli border police near the disputed tunnel in Jerusalem's old town yester- day that turns along the Al Aqsa Mosque compound. Students

… hope f'or peaceful settlement 0 Tunnel near Muslim holy shrines reopened despite Arab outcry The Washington Post WASHINGTON President Clinton intervened directly in the bloody crisis in the Middle East…

January 30, 1995 (vol. 105, iss. 66) • Page Image 4

…4 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 30, 1995 hIe *irbipn Daligu JAES R.C"HO BENEATH THE PALIMPSEST 420 Maynard Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Edited and managed by f students at the University of…

… some long-ago student: "He must have written for the Daily." Such is the legacy of the student newspa- per on this campus. In its 104 years at the University, the Daily has been many things to many…

… people. To some students, it has been a voice for their opinions and questions, while to others it has been "that Commie rag." To administrators, it has been a persistent nui- sance, encouraging resistance…

… to restrictive policies that might otherwise have slipped by unchallenged. To local politicians, it has been a reminder that student concerns are their concerns also, that they cannot dismiss stu…

… equal rights and equal op- portunities. But more than any of these things, we will continue to be a voice for students. Now as in the past, students are finding their freedoms under attack from a Univer…

March 30, 1994 (vol. 104, iss. 106) • Page Image 1

… promise to change the way the Michigan Student Assembly funds the Ann Arbor Tenants' Union (AATU). But on the way to completing this pledge, the assembly may face a lawsuit for the cuts. At last night…

… amendment passed in September held $11,000 on the condition that AATU needed to provide the assembly with an internal review of the organization and a track of students' use of it, within 180 days after the…

… committee, for use by student groups. The motion passed in a 14-13 vote. The day before the assembly's deadline for the report, Maurer said there was a meeting of AATU's board of directors, which Stern serves…

… Bank. The West Bank military govern- ment said Arab schools would be closed for two days in an effort to prevent further rioting. Six members of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Libera…

… he lay wounded. Fatah supporters vowed to attack Israeli soldiers in reprisal. Before the shootings Monday, Is- rael and the PLO were expected to JONATHAN LU A student on State Street braving the…

… head, Arab reports said. The soldiers opened fire, fatally wounding Omar Kabani, 17, and wounding four oth- ers, including a 9-year-old, officials at Ahli Arab hospital said. Elsewhere in Gaza, 20…

…, assistant to the vice president for research, said through individual arrangements be- tween students and professors, and programs like the Undergraduate Re- search Opportunities Program (i T~flP) _ nit 7…

September 30, 1996 (vol. 107, iss. 1) • Page Image 7

…'VL-- r%-!@-. &A---J-- oft^ A^Aft^ -VA I NATON/IORLD The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 30, 199 -A Israel bans Arab travel in West Bank The Washington Post BET EL, West Bank - Israel staged a…

… growing show of force yesterday in the West Bank, deploying tanks and troops and imposing a strict ban on Arab travel between cities and towns that substantially shut down Palestinian civil life. The broad…

… tunnel adjacent. to Muslim holy shrines. r. The completion on Tuesday of an exit from the tun- 0P PHOTOnel, which traces a path underneath the hill known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Arabs as Haram…

… interview in Jerusalem that the plan is to ring "all cities" and "all villages" of the Arabs with Israeli- troops, preventing people from entering or leaving except for some urgent humanitarian reason. A…

… against tanyahu and the Israeli government, d by their example they have led oth- ers into protests." Muslim students said the excavation near the Al-Aqs4 mosque and the Dome of the Rock was an insult. "I…

… rsphomore and football player Clarence 11iams, who was not able to make the event because of team obligations. Most students were generally under- stnding of the event's purpose. -If it dosen't cost extra…

… money that could've been used for other students d if that's what it takes to get people to 'yrticipate, I'm all for it,' said School of Art and Design junior Senghor Reid. Organizers said they were happy…

… evidence.that Jerusalem is the capital of the Israeli kingdom. (Palestinians) want to minimize or eliminate the Jewish claim to the capi- tal,' he said. Students shared a hope for the possi- bility of peace…

…." Most agreed that compromise would be the only solution. "lt's'really a warning for both sides to continue with dialogue and negotia- tions' said Rackham student Daniel Rosen. "There's only one path that…

…'s going to bring any solution and that's the path of peace." Students said they expected violence to erupt again and agreed that an end was hard to envision. "I always expected unrest. There's a lot -of…

January 30, 1992 (vol. 102, iss. 67) • Page Image 7

Arab, Israeli and Western delegates set to hold a series of meetings around the world this spring and explore the nuts and bolts of peace in the region. Although marred by a Palestinian boycott and the…

… absence of Syria and Lebanon, the meeting added a sense of substance and continuity to the fragile U.S.-brokered peace process. It drew an impressive cross-section of the Arab world, the United States and…

… abstractions, delegates spoke of water-sharing, the environment, and the need to cut crippling defense spending. After the talks ended, Israeli delegation heads praised the Arabs' business-like approach and the…

… care they took to avoid political point-scoring. The Israelis, who have long craved acceptance by their Arab neighbors, claimed a diplomatic victory simply in getting the Arabs to sit with them…

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March 30, 1992 (vol. 102, iss. 103) • Page Image 2

… Douglas Ginsburg with- drew his Supreme Court nomination after disclosing he had smoked mari- juana with his students at Harvard University. The disclosures had little impact on the campaign, but it marked…

…'s support of capital punishment. ELECTION Continued from page 1 grievances regarding campus police. Two-hundred students will be manning poll sites and counting bal- lots during the election. Carrie Pittman…

…, MSA election di- rector, said about 14 percent of the student body voted in last winter's election and she is expecting a simi- lar turn-out this year. Ten-thousand ballots have been printed for the…

… workers will verify that all voters are students as the ballots come in. The ballots will be tallied on Tuesday, and official results should be available April 1. MO.LLY.SI ...V.ilyPAUL AY ..LO Dily…

… University students celebrate the basketball team's 75-71 victory over Ohio State yesterday. A jubilant crowd of 2,000 students poured on to South University Avenue after the game. CELEBRATE Continued from…

…," LSA sophomore Brian Gunn said. "Shit, it's not like they didn't watch the game too." One student, LSA sophomore Joe Durrance, said he came outside hoping to find a riot. "I missed the big one in '89…

… a great thing for the school to get together as a union," LSA junior Anthony squad wins its semi-final round. Around 400 students gathered Friday night after the regional final 'I just think its a…

… communication and more people working together on finding solutions, "some of these other issues will begin to fall away, " King said. One example he cited was the tension between students and their neighbors…

…. King said, based on experience he gained as dean of students at the college of Wooster in Ohio, he thought the city could help facilitate better relations. "I think the city ought to be working very…

… carefully with stu- dents and the dean of students to begin to get a thoughtful resolution to some of this," he said. "I don't think there needs to be this kind of tension." "As the dean of students (at…

January 30, 1991 (vol. 101, iss. 85) • Page Image 1

… also called for a "meaningful peace process" to deal with the Arab-Is- raeli conflict once' the war was over. Bush also paid tribute to the democratic aspirations of the peo- ple of the Soviet Baltic…

… Fleming Administration Building on Nov. 15 appeared before Judge Pieter Thomassen yesterday. It was their second pre-trial hearing at the Ann Arbor 15th dis- trict court. The remaining two students are out…

… of the country, and are not contesting the charges. County Prosecutor Kirk Tabbey has of- fered the students a plea bargain agreement 0 0 lal hearing - forcing them to accept a fine and com- munity…

… a misdemeanor. See PROTESTERS, Page 2 .Student pressures mark history of Black student enrollment by Sarah Schweitzer Daily Staff Reporter In the three decades affirmative action policies have…

…- marily through student initiative and persistence followed by ad- *ministration capitulation. Affirmative action originated in at the Univesity in 1970, when a coalition of Black students orga- nized the…

… Black Action Movement (BAM). This group was outraged by the three percent enrollment of Black students, the lack of support services for Black students, and the small number of Black faculty members. When…

…- creasing Black enrollment to at least 10 percent and implementing a series of programs designed to recruit Black and other minority students. Throughout the 1970s, aggres- sive recruiting and support pro…

…- grams were implemented which doubled Black enrollment. From 1970 to 1976, Black student en- rollment increased from three to seven percent. These results pleased adminis- trators and students, but they…

… charged that after Black students applied, little followup took place. So the admissions of- fice began to refine the recruit- ment process to make it more per- sonalized. Black students called Black In…

… 1988 University President James Duderstadt released the Michigan Mandate, proclaiming a University commitment to achieve a multi-cultural" and "diverse" student body. increased. The administration's and…

March 30, 1994 (vol. 104, iss. 106) • Page Image 4

… happen.' -'U' President James J. Duderstadt, on why the University will not release records pertaining to the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities Notes 420 Maynard Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Edited…

… and managed by students at the University of Michigan JEssIE HALLADAY Editor in Chief SAM GooDsThN FLINT WAIESS Editorial Page Editors Unless otherwise noted, unsigned editorials reflect the opinion…

… embarrassing truth has been re- vealed concerning the search for president of the University: few minorities or women were "considered," the students' list of can- didates roundly ignored and the regents were…

…, set up quasi- advisory committees of faculty and students and don't give any - repeat - any infor- mation to the public or the press. When the public asks who is in the running and whether we are…

… revealed was the presidential search committee's decision-making style, namely the lack of attention payed to student input. Duderstadt was not even on the student list. He received the absolute lowest…

… rating from students due to fears that he would be a technocrat, unsympathetic to needs of stu- dents. But most glaring about the search papers was the fact that a phone call from Regent Deane Baker (R…

… and compromise - toward peace. Since then, Caroline retracted one of his insulting generalizations about Arabs. But what of moving forward? I just completed a fact filled, well supported paragraph…

Arabs. The families of Akram Joulani (whose name I carried during the vigil for those killed at Hebron) or Arafat Mahmoud Bayid (whose name my Jewish roommate carried), in the face of ongoing…

… - given that their comic strip meant something to us students. Bill Waterson would have been great. Gary Larson, Charles Shultz, Berk Brethed or Gary Trudeau would all have been great. But CATHY? How did…

November 30, 1993 (vol. 104, iss. 43) • Page Image 3

… American Movement for Is- rael, meeting, at Hillel, 7 p.m. O Anthropology Club, meeting, LS&A Building, Room 2553, 7 p.m. U Arab-American Students As- sociation, Arabic conversation hour, Arabic House…

…." Agee said. "It will be a reform for all students." But two Democratic committee members, Reps. Robert DeMars of Lincoln Park and Justine Barns of Westland, voted against the charter school proposal. "It…

… be a total of 210 days. Construction worker Paul Pinard measures the landing as Pizza House prepares to move next door while they renovate the current store. MARK FRIEDMAN/Daily Student groups U…

…, Oxford, 7 p.m. U 'Association for Computing uArn:~t = aIL s1'k iir iii I~U'I pus, Room 2027, 7 p.m. Q Indian American Student As- sociation, board meeting, Michigan Union, Room 4202, 9 p.m. Q Queer Action…

…, meeting, Michi- gan Union, Room 3116, 8 p.m. U Saint Mary Student Parish, workshop on the Sacrament of Reconciliation, 7 p.m., 331 Th- ompson St. 1950's and 60's, speaker: Qicheng Jing, Lane Hall, Com…

September 30, 1997 (vol. 108, iss. 2) • Page Image 7

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…!" in Arabic. As details of the final conversation emerged Monday, weeping relatives threw flowers into a mass grave of 48 bodies mutilated beyond recognition. The transcript shows Rachmo and the…

October 30, 1995 (vol. 106, iss. 22) • Page Image 2

… and swore revenge for the assassination of Dr. Fathi $hakaki, the leader of the radical Is- lamic Jihad and a top architect of terror attacks against Israel. Students at the Islamic University in Gaza…

… elections set for November 1996, without a terror attack that could scuttle the peace process. Islamic Jihad-"jihad" means "holy war" in Arabic - opposes the Israel- PLO peace agreements and has claimed…

…- acclaimed show, Sin Fronteras". CONFERENCE LI'I'LT TeUTC. Tie iciga Di l(ISSN 10745 I'f-967I) IisIbished Mornday throughFlriidy durig the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan…

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