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… of Arabs, including young women marrying older male cousins with aspirations to be stay-at- home moms, college students not permitted to leave their homes and various arranged marriages. The…

…. However, in considering the context of “The Book” as a whole, after completing 15 credits of Arabic, students can say “my uncle is an army general,” but not “my uncle has green eyes.” Students can…

… portray an accurate representation of my culture, my family or myself. This concern is further exacerbated when considering that Arabic 101 may be many students’ first formal introduction to the…

… security. I am not oblivious to the fact that many students enroll in Arabic classes in pursuit of relevant professions at the UN, Department of State and any other number of synonymous assemblies. The…

… questions remain, however: Why does the Arabic program cater to these students, and why am I automatically subjected to this framework? It would be more appropriate for the Department of Near…

… Eastern Studies to adopt a different textbook and create a separate, advanced class for students proficient in Arabic who wish to expand their political vocabulary. I am aware that the majority of…

… representational diversity in the realm of political and social activism cannot be understated. The University of Michigan is home to many liberal-minded, politically active students, but these…

… students are overwhelmingly white, educated and upper-middle class. I do not intend to shame anyone for holding these identities, but it is imperative, now more than ever, to understand one’s ability…

… Arabic studies IBTIHAL MAKKI | OP-ED T he College of LSA language requirement asserts that, “informed respect for other cultures (and) tolerance … are the hallmarks of a liberal arts…

… of Michigan. Specifically, our Arabic program, which uses the problematic textbook, “al-Kitaab fii Ta’allum al-Arabiyya,” which translates to “The Book in the Learning of Arabic” (hereafter: “al…

… Center for Arab American Studies at U-M Dearborn, revealed these students make up a significantly greater proportion at the University’s Dearborn campus. Michigan also has the second highest Arab…

… invited to speak at the school by a student organization. As the protesters left, they screamed, “No fascist USA!” I yelled back at them, “This protest is the most fascist thing I have seen at this…

…, yet important, way for the University to show that it is truly committed to inclusivity of all ethnicities on all three of its campuses. According to the Student Campus Climate Survey on Diversity…

…, Equity and Inclusion, ME/NA students currently make up about 2 percent of the student body at University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus, while email correspondence with Sally Howell, director of the…

…-American population in the country. Central Student Government and LSA Student Government unanimously passed resolutions in support of this addition. Moreover, the U.S. Census Bureau is proposing the ME…

…/NA category be added for the 2020 census. The University administration should therefore mirror student and national commitment to inclusivity and follow suit. Collecting this data will also allow…

… students who identify as ME/NA to be better represented on campus. Currently, the students who would identify as part of the ME/NA category have to grapple with being lumped into a “white” or “other…

…” box, effectively skewing the demographic statistics of the University. A more accurate depiction of the number of ME/NA students at the University could bring more lobbying power for ME…

…/NA student organizations. We understand there are concerns among some that adding the ME/NA category could increase targeting from the government, especially given the nation’s current…

… pose an issue to students’ safety on campus. Historically, the University has vowed to protect the personal information of its students that could potentially harm them. After the Deferred…

… students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com MEGAN MCDONALD PETER SHAHIN and DANIEL WANG KATIE BURKE EDITOR IN CHIEF EDITORIAL PAGE…

… off students For-profit colleges yield high student debt and low graduation rates Jn the past decade student debt has nearly tripled, rising to an alarming $1.2 trillion. A disproportionately high…

… percentage of this debt is owed by students at for-profit universities, which specifically market their education as a product to targeted students while also often charging more in tuition fees than…

… strategic policy for reducing student debt overall. Six words What memory or event is worthy enough to stand as your memoir, to be the sole represen- tation of who you are as a person? Oct. 20 was the…

… Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, 96 percent of for-profit university students hold education-related debt, compared with 48 and 57 percent of students at public and private nonprofit…

… colleges, respectively. Further, 22 percent of students at for-profit schools will default on a loan payment within the first three years, as compared with about 9 percent of students at a nonprofit college…

… deceptive practices to lure minority or low-income residents to their schools. In February, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued ITT Educational Services,Inc.,for predatorylendingto students…

…. Acceptance rates are comparatively high and tuition is about twice that of non-profit institutions.Meanwhile,only about31.5 percent of students in for-profit schools graduated compare to 57 percent for public…

… nonprofits and 66 percent for private nonprofits, according to a 2014 article. The University of Phoenix, which has a location in Ann Arbor, graduates only 16 percent of its students through campus learning…

…, and only 4 percent of its students who take courses online, according to a 2013 article. For those who do manage to graduate, students are less likely to receive callbacks from employers. This evidences…

…Page 4 - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Page 4 - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Edited and managed by students at the…

…. Still, there are plenty of labels I identify with, labels I carry proudly and unapologetically. Labels that don't define me, but rather encompass little parts of my existence. I'm a woman. I'm an Arab. I…

… metwith questions. Can you be a Muslim and a feminist? Can an Arab woman be a feminist? Yes. Hell, yes. People assume my identity mustbe in conflict with my feminist status, because there couldn't possibly…

… stadium with my bright maize and blue. When I was walkingback to North Campus from the Utah game, drenched, I won- dered whether I was a team member or a spot to fill on ESPN's shot of the student section…

… grain of truth to it. Our great- est and most common chal- lenges - a weak job market, student loan debt and climate change come to mind - imply that we are united in our need them. After all, who would…

… interestsas a constituency,. you haveto present yourself as such. Our generation isn't very good at that. For ERIC starters, only -the brightest (and luckiest) of us FERGUSON students and young professionals…

… and Johns Hopkins and a tradition of athletics doesn't exactly run through the veins of every student at those institutions. However, a president who studied at Michigan or another perennial athletics…

…, alumni and students want. If you do, you clearly don't care. We couldn't care less whether we get cell phone reception in the Big House or not. However, students do wantto be rewarded for their loyalty to…

… roughly a third of your student season ticket holders just to make a bit more money. You do deserve credit for one thing: for turning the Athletics Department into a very fat cash cow. While the two…

…? When there is no longer a waitlist for non-student season tickets because the price is so prohibitive and because you alienated several years of current students, how will you explain that? You seem to…

… the school's facilitates. On Sept. 7, students received an e-mail encouraging them to trade in their Mcards before Nov. 1. The notice also indicat- ed that extra locations to trade in Mcards would open…

… tempo- rarily to quicken the exchange process. Despite the Nov. 1 deadline, students, faculty and staff can still exchange their old Mcards for news ones, accordingto Brown. The Michigan Daily could not…

… said he will support. The transfer was deemed necessary by the Finance Com- mittee because student organi- zations requested more money than expected during the first and second cycles of funding this…

… semester. The current sys- tem has three cycles during which student organizations can apply for funding. The three funding applica- tion due dates for this year are Sept. 30, Oct. 28 and Dec. 2. Because so…

… much funding was allocated during the first two cycles, the Student Organiza- tion Funding Commission had less money than usual for the third cycle. However, this financing sys- tem for student…

… organizations won't be in place much longer. After Jan. 1, MSA will employ a new funding method in which student organizations won't need to wait for a new cycle to apply for funding, but can instead do so based…

… on need. This semester, Watson and MSA Vice President Brendan Campbell have been working independently of the Student Assembly to implement the new system. "Brendan and I actually ran on the promise…

… that we were (goingto) change funding, part- ly because it doesn't really work for student orgs," Watson said. Watson said many student organizations form at the end of cycles or don't plan far enough…

… Magdalena Mihaylova Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann…

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… salaries have gone down by over 11 percent since 2000. It’s much harder to convince people to come into education if they know the salaries are declining. There’s also the issue with student- faculty…

… ratios, which can greatly impact the quality of education students receive. In fact, a smaller student-faculty ratio is a great indicator of future academic achievement. To continue to pay…

…4A - Wednesday, October 30, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4A - Wednesday, October 3D, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom l e Iic[ igan wily Edited and managed by students at…

… Reid in 2005. Trash had become an issue in the Ann Arbor area near the University's campus - student housing - and the city council was determined to do something about it. Fines in associa- tion with…

… almost entirely student rentals isn't really a huge issue. The rental companies that own the houses aren't really worried about the resale value of the property, as students will rent the houses regardless…

… - not buy them - and these companies are going to hold onto their proper- ties for a long time. The lawmakers in Ann Arbor have denied that these ordinances are targeting students, but the vast majority…

… issued the citation said that she was tol d to go around during the football game on Oct. 5 and issue citations - conveniently when the majority of the students will be at the game and not be able to…

… going out during the football games and seek- ing out offenders causes citations to be dispro- portionately issued to students. The magistrate dealing with my ticket said that there was no timeframe for…

… the littering ordinance, meaning the ticket can be issued no matter how short of a time the trash has been on the property. The students and the University itself bring Ann Arbor a huge amount of…

… economic activ- ity. If this ordinance is centered on increasing revenue for the city, they shouldn't attempt to get that revenue from students. Students sup- port a huge amount of the business around the…

… other sourc- es. Ann Arbor has lower property taxes than Detroit and, should they need revenue, could raise those property taxes. Attempting to get revenue from students, who most likely don't have excess…

… ordinance, telling the residents to clean their property within 24 hours or otherwise receive a citation. The city should respect the students of the University and not specifically target them with punitive…

…, Rus- sia and China have cast vetoes to block those resolutions. "I'm embarrassed to be repeating the same thing: Syria is being destroyed," Lakhdar Brahimi, the joint U.N-Arab League envoy to Syria…

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… University of Michigan-Dearborn. Hosted by the Arab American Institute, a national nonprofit, the conference aimed to provide refugees from the Middle East the chance to engage with presi- dential…

… Wolfe EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS Asylum process needs attention T he student lifestyle requires a lot of time spent sitting down. We sit in lecture halls and libraries and on the bus to class…

… | VIEWPOINT Cleaner air equals better health TO THE DAILY: As a nursing student working in Univer- sity of Michigan Health System hospitals, I have witnessed firsthand how the health of Michigan…

… altogether. But violence is contagious … BDS is the most important global issue for thousands of students on the U-M campus. This nonviolent movement is part of who they are. BDS is not against any…

… and downgraded Arabic from its official language status. Abulhawa then talked about the history of Palestine and Zionism. Seventy years ago, she said, Palestine was a thriving, pluralistic…

… then I’m confident you will also sign on.” In November 2017, for the first time in the school’s history after years of attempts, Central Student Government passed a divestment resolution…

… calling for the University to investigate several companies it had investments in which have contracts with the Israeli military. The Board of Regents later rejected the resolution. One student…

… had originally agreed to write the letters before learning they wanted to study in Israel. “I don’t believe the professors were discriminating against the students,” Abulhawa said. “The…

… those students, but when they learned that these students were applying to a colonial institution, they exercised their conscience not to be party to that.” After these recommendation letter…

… touch by much of the student body. Students responded negatively to the Guide, calling it “out of touch.” Public Policy senior Lauren Schandevel and LSA senior Griffin St. Onge, in collaboration…

… with other student groups, wrote an abridged guide called Being Not-Rich at UM which improved the advice from “So in terms of next steps, where we go from here, I remain determined to provide…

… ST GE N WE E K NATALIE STEPHENS/Daily Students attend the First Gen? First Year? community gathering in a series of 2018 First Gen Week events in Couzens Hall Monday evening. First Gen Week…

… into his chair, and I would cap off my Arabic studies with a quick revi- sion of my Great Books paper. But these summer months off have taught me something I couldn't have learned if I hadn't put the…

… students, decades of research indicate that play is essential for the cognitive, physical and emo- tional development of individuals. I have always operated under the assumption that if I'm not working I…

… learn- ing readiness. But as initiatives like No Child Left Behind continue to force American schools to prioritize and as manic college students anx- iously prepare for the rest of their lives, the value…

… complements what school does not give, what we parents are unable to give our chil- dren." The human brain needs a chance to recover. According to school principals in Azerbaijan, student attendance increased…

… important to me. He later got back to me, saying his boss was hesitant about the print, that the Arabic was controversial and would exclude many customers, which I honestly found laughable and ironic…

…. The text reads ‘assalam ‘alaykum’ which literally means ‘peace be with you’ and is used as a formal greeting. Still, someone found the fact of the Arabic language inherently uncomfortable and…

… halls are buzzing per usual and I sense an ordinary day in the making. My lecture hall is lively and there are busy, moving students all around me as the professor prepares his notes for the class…

…. The projector luminates the wall in front of the room with the introductory slide to his PowerPoint. What seems to be the last group of students enter through the doors dispersing as they…

… on the other side of them. This is where the problem lies. We’ve always seen diversity in terms of numbers — specifically, the percentage of each racial group in the student body. What we…

… attempts to look as repulsed as you do. A diverse school and one with tens of thousands of students, yet again, I feel so alone. Every day. Every class. Every bus ride. The only progress being made is…

… biased toward Morsi and the Brotherhood. But police largely targeted its Arabic service and its Egyp- tian affiliate, which remained one of the few TV stations to provide a platform for the Brotherhood…

…- uments, and handwritten notes including "students on strike during exams," and "the most important trials of December." Student supporters of Morsi were on strike and held protests that frequently turned…