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… the American-Arab Anti-Dis- crimination Committee, "It's not correct. They're giving terrorism a religion. Terrorism is a concept, you can't put a face or a religion on it." - Kamelya Youssef, co…

…-founder of the Arab Unity Movement he is worried about the effect this event will have on the public impression of Islam. "We can't take terrorists and put them through rehab and make them role models," Hamad…

… ENCOURAGING ENTREPRENEURS Public Health graduate student Nastassia Gurganus calls Bursley Hall res dents to rem od them aout the start of the M-FLU study yesterday. I BY THE NUMBERS T~H F R S NN THE PAPER…

… MASK Fl st [u prevention Anatomy extras as surgical facemasks and hand sanitiz- udy kicks off er were doled out yesterday afternoon. in dorms The students were prepar- ing for their first day in the k…

… students participat- tion, began when University ing in the M-FL study Health Services reported the season's first diagnosis of influenza. One group of stu- dent participants is required to wear masks in the…

…. The College of Engineering hosted an open forumon entrepreneurship last night for all engineering students interested in the business aspects ofttheir fields. The newly-created Committee on…

… Entrepreneurial Environment and Pro- grams for Students got feedback from students about how to incorporate busi- ness into the engineering curriculum. "It's about the marriageof technology and marketing…

… aims to transformstudent ideas and innovations into opportunities for busi- ness growth. "A lot of engineers have the good ideas but don't know what to do with them," Vicars said. Students proposed…

… meeting of their own. The swarm of protesters, most- ly students, made their way to the Michigan League Ballroom to dis- cuss the protest and the goals of the Arab and Muslim community. "The main purpose of…

… primarily intended to reintroduce America to the Arab world through the eyes of three students (from Egypt, Saudi Ara- bia and Lebanon) and a Palestinian woman who serves both as a pro- duction assistant and…

…. Ninety percent of the town's population is estimated to have illegally crossed the real border, Harpers reported. An American road trip through Arab eyes Department of Public Safety officers remove a…

… the event. Muslim Student Association Vice President Abdul-Rahman El Sayed, who spoke at the protester's counter event, said he was elated at the success of the walkout. "We've done something good today…

… caravan of young, good-looking Arabs crisscrossing America on a mission to educate themselves and the people they encounter along the way. In reality, its list of production credits reads more like the ros…

… of Layalina Productions, the nonprofit (and nonpartisan) group that made "On the Road in America" and licensed it to Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC), an Arab satellite TV network. (MBC is the…

… foundations and with- out government help, also seeks to counter the image of America often conveyed to the Arab world via Hollywood: that of an arrogant, self-absorbed, bellicose nation. Marc C. Ginsberg, the…

… East, to say nothing of the factions within the Middle East itself. In the first episode - set in Washington and broadcast on MBC on Jan. 18 - Ali Amr, 22, an Egyptian accounting student, dis- cusses his…

… episodes - the second takes the participants from Washington to New York City - about the long- frayed relations between Israel and many of its Arab neighbors. "Israelis, I hate Israelis," Lara Abou Saifan…

… of a coali- tion of student groups plan- ning a walkout during the event. "We all agreed that this event won't improve the cam- pus climate with regard to Arab and Muslim students," she said. The…

… statement that the administration acknowledged the American-Arab Anti-Dis- crimination Committee's con- cerns. "Both the (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Com- mittee ) and the University agreed on the…

… downplayed the degree to which he participated in ter- rorist activities. "I was in battlefields, not stopping people on streets like FLU From page 1 So far 1,152 students liv- ing in the residence halls are…

… participating in the study, said Rebecca Coulborn, the study's recruitment coordinator. Coulborn said she is still hoping to reach the original goal of 2,250 students. "That kind of sample size will allow for a…

… sentence in the Quran, and you give me five dollars for every hate sentence. You'll pay me a fortune'" That's the sort of message that students like Kamelya Youssef, co-founder of a new University student…

… group called the Arab Unity Move- ment, oppose. "It's not correct," she said. "They're giving terrorism a religion. Terrorism is a con- cept, you can't put a face or a .religion on it." Youssef is part…

… love every- body. It's the ideology we oppose." The protesters and the American-Arab Anti-Dis- crimination Committee said they respect the speakers' First Amendment rights. "The point is not to censor…

…," Hamad said. Another member of the Arab Unity Movement, Sirene Abou-Chakra, was also plan- ning to walk out of the event. "We obviously promote freedom of speech," she said. "But we feel that this event is…

… as a communal voice and nomis' nated the best," he said. "The- candidates are maximallf qualified." MAP is an offshoot of the.: once-dominant Students 4 Michigan party, which hand- ily won the last two…

… MSA presidential elections. Yost Li, Dar and Madoff are ali former members of S4M. Why the high interest? It's all about the Hamiltons. Students from the two halls receive $40 for answering a short…

… yesterday of the fallen dictator, resentm who in death has become a martyr and Iraq and hero of Arab nationalism for could fue some in the Middle East. insurgen Saddam's stature hasgrown since efforts t his…

… execution - when he answered efforts t insults and taunts with disdain Sunni an - overshadowing the memories in In larg much of the Arab world of the mas- scene at sacres and other atrocities commit- Saddam…

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… United States 's Shiite-led government. It el support for Iraq's Sunni cy and complicate U.S. o enlist Arab nations in o reconcile Iraq's warring d Shiite communities. ge part, it was the unruly the…

… to gravated the anger pro- the earlier video. m's iconic exeuction has, come to symbolize digni- b resistance in the face of ion at the hands of a Shiite ent. Arabs regard that govern- illegitimate…

… because it is by the U.S. military and lied to mainly Shiite Iran. media reports compared to another hero of Arab sm who opposed Western on: Omar al-Mokhtar, the resistance against Italy's occupation of…

…- dents with grade point averages or LSAT scores above a certain threshold. Students who scored below the threshold still could be admitted, though. Their chances would also be buoyed by coming from Detroit…

…." Billed as a lecture by three event promotes ex-terrorists, the event drew opposition from several stu- intolerance dent groups and the Michigan office of the American-Arab By LISA HAIDOSTIAN and Anti…

…-Discrimination Com- DANIEL TRUMP mittee. Daily StaffReporters A large crowd gathered outside of the Rackham Build- More than 300 people - ing an hour before the event's including both students and scheduled 7 p…

….m. start. Flash- non-students - protested an es of yellow shirts worn by the event last night organized by protesters showed through the University's chapter of the the winter coats of many in Young…

… simi gran a fe Auburn prof: lower similarity ratings. Students with high simi- System would larity rankings are grouped together. In this way, the pro- be legal, help gram divides the applicant pool…

… into several groups of admissions students who, as evaluated by the program, resemble each By JAKE HOLMES other. Daily StaffReporter The system only gives rec- ommendations and doesn't rhile lawyers and…

… sci- By picking applicants from professor from Auburn different groups, admissions versity thinks he may have officers can admit a diverse ad the solution. group of students. n 2003, Juan Gilbert saw…

… aps of students without said. ing on racial quotas or The software has a specific erences. set of rules for determining ilbert presented this soft- similarities and differences, e to a group of about 20…

… the Uni- 'ed attributes. Applica- versity to consider diversity sthatareentirelyidentical when admitting students. id be given a "100 percent Because admissions staffers lar" rating by the pro- wouldn…

… of the contro- versial senior society former- ly known as Michigamua. United Asian American Organizations, a network of 35 Asian/Pacific Islander student groups, passed an amendment last semester…

…'s deci- sion to issue 'demands' and 'deadlines,' while holding See UAAO, page 3A JUST FOR KICKS STUDENT WRITING New Hopwood winners honored By ABIGAIL B. COLODNER Daily Arts writer Some of the most…

…0 4A - Wednesday, January 24, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michiganclailycom EhoMc ligan :al'oly Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 413 E. Huron St. Ann Arbor…

…'s face ("The people of Michigan have spoken!") - the young conserva- tives hustled back to the front of the march. I left them to talk with some of the Detroit students. Some just seemed bewildered, like…

… Gaber's complaint of student activ- ism in opposition to Proposal 2 (Daily's advice to 'U'attempt to thwart will ofMichigan voters, 01/22/2007) misses two key elements of the democratic process upon which…

… the editorial is based. One is the right to dissent from popular tion" about Ryan Turner and that the tors actually allowed the article to be prir (Dental student dies at CCRB, 01/18/20 It would have…

… thousands of women and girls ch have been raped. In one of the world's ily worst human disasters, the Arab-led on Sudanese government and the Janja- ok weed - Arab militias allied with the ent Sudanese…

… government - have engaged ti- in genocide against non-Arabs over ily, the past three years. To date there have been many promises but little action by outside forces to implement peace in Darfur. Many people…

… agreements. An intervention by peacekeeping troops must take place now, at all costs, to stop the atrocities in Darfur. The majority of Darfur's 6 mil- lion citizens include African farmers and Arabic nomads…

… who have mixed easily in the past. But over the past two decades, persistent drought has forced the Arabs to move to less desir- able land, straining relations with the Africans. This caused the…

… tribes to crush the rebellion, initiating the formation of an Arab nomad group. Not only did this group attack Sudanese Liberation Army members but also innocent civilians. In consequence, the Janjaweed…

… currently in Beijing on a Fulbright Scholarship, studying Chinese society and working at legal aid centers. She was one of five students nominated by the University for the Rhodes and Marshall schol- arships…

… this year and was the only University student who won either award. This was the second time the University has nominat- ed Chen for the Rhodes andMar- shall scholarships. Gretchen Weir, assistant vice…

… felt rushed." Several students said they used the extra time to research proper- ties on the Internet before going to the fair. But student reliance on the Web created a problem for some smaller rental…

… ordinance has been a disservice to students and land- lords," he said. "It just limits the choice of students." Other rental companies said leasing is goingsmoothly. "Ourhousingmarketisfine,"said Doug Turner…

… yesterday, supporting Iraqi and American troops in a daylong fight that officials said killed 50 insurgents in a militant Sunni Arab stronghold. The battle raged on Haifa Street about 11/2 miles north of the…

… Iraqi army, al-Maliki again vowed to strike at the Shiite Muslim and Sunni Arab extremists behind the sectarian warfare that has bloodied the country over the past year.4 . Islamic group calls for…

… not confirm if the incidents the Arab American and Chaldean were hate crimes. She said police Council of Metropolitan Detroit will review security tapes to try to and publisher of the Arab Ameni…

…4A - Wednesday, January 31, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 54Michtig'an 4ai lj Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 413 E. Huron St. Ann Arbor, MI…

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… traditional Arab head- dress recently associated with former Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat and lately a sym- bol of solidarity with the intifada. No doubt the product was designed to…

… segment of our student population. If the comic novels of Wodehouse have any instructive value, it's in their derision of the idle rich whose blas6 attitude toward the world unfolding around them invariably…

…," Hollandsworth said. The only thing to do, she said, is try not to think about it. LETTERS FROM THE FRONT LINE LSA junior Kate Eshman-Wis- san and her boyfriend David Mor- land, a student at Central Michigan…

….S. media relations team in the United Arab Emirates, told Al-Ara- biya television that the helicopter was believed to have suffered tech- nical troubles before going down. The military initially said 13…

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… play: gling at the end of a rope. The unauthorized video, which anC ignited protests by Saddam's fel- low Sunni Arabs in various Iraqi cities, threatens to turn the ousted dictator into a martyr. Saddam…

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… war has angered many in the Middle East, University Islamic Studies Prof Alexan- der Knysh said. "I travel to the Arab coun- tries very frequently, and there is a great deal of indig- nation and anger…

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