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…-generation college student and an Arab- Muslim woman, I quickly realized that, as I sank into my seat in the corner of that auditorium in the Chemistry Building, the odds weren’t really in my favor…

… Safawi Ashley Zhang Sam Weinberger FINN STORER Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since…

… signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS What the Empowered Arab Sisterhood has done for me MARIA ULAYYET | COLUMN C ulture shock. For…

… school, a moment I had been waiting for for years, had been so discreetly stolen away from me. As both the oldest child and oldest girl in my Arab immigrant family, going away for college had…

… been out of the question until my junior year. My parents told me if I could get into a good school, I could move out for college. Seeing my hard work as a student go to waste was my greatest…

… — better known as the Empowered Arab Sisterhood — the first and only nationally recognized predominantly- Arab sorority. Nearly a year and a half later, with my 14 sisters by my side, I can…

… the space I never knew I needed, but in reality, I was drowning without it. As Arab women, many of us the daughters of immigrants, our presence of simply being at the University of Michigan…

… is stigmatized. For me, a lot of Arab women from my hometown either didn’t go to college or went to local schools. Going away was almost always out of the question. Simply being at Michigan…

…: the network. One of EAS’s many purposes is to fill this gap. By bringing together the most ambitious and passionate Arab women leaders on campus, it is creating a network of young…

… other up and helping each other reach their academic and professional goals. We want to break the stigma against Arab women in leadership roles. Throughout my life as an Arab woman, I…

… Middle Eastern/ North African community was not included on any University of Michigan documents. Arab students marked themselves as white or other. Kedra Ishop, vice provost for enrollment…

… in an email interview with The Daily. LSA junior Silan Fadlal- lah, who is currently the group coordinator for the IWG, believes the inclusion of a ME/NA identity helps Arab students feel…

… students accountable, much like Alpha Sigma Phi did, and not use a chapter of 150+ members as a scapegoat or a mechanism to retaliate against because the chap- ter voluntarily surrendered campus…

… manage- ment, oversees key offices within the University that supervise the collection and reporting of student data. Ishop said input from the Islamophobia Working Group, the organization in…

… response to input from groups, such as the Islamophobia Working Group and student organi- zations including CSG, that sought better reflection of MENA identities in Univer- sity statistics,” Ishop wrote…

… race and ethnicity categories for reports to them.” However, many Arab stu- dents feel including the Middle Eastern and North African identities under the white racial category is sim- ply…

… different cultures and customs from the ME/NA region. If you go by the Cen- sus, yes it says we are white, but try turning on the news and listening to them talk about any Arab and/or ME/ NA country…

…- ties between the Latinx and Arab communities. “The Latinx and Hispanic category is very similar in that you have racially Black identifying Latinx individ- uals, or racially white iden- tifying, or…

… its own separate ethnic identi- fier.” Brammer empathized with Middle Eastern and North African students who feel their identities are not accurately represented under a white racial cat…

…- tion, along with options for applicants to identify as European or other. The move follows requests from Arab students, staff and faculty for the University to officially recognize their…

…Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones called out the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity at the University of Michi- gan in a message to MLive published Dec. 17. Blake Jones said “several gen- erations…

… infractions with opportunity for recoloni- zation after five calendar years. The IFC released a statement saying the Coun- cil supported the Univer- sity’s decision following the Student Organization…

… Life and assistant dean of students, did not respond to The Dai- ly’s request for comment. Kim Broekhuizen, associate director of the University’s Office of Public Affairs, said in an email that…

… disaf- filiation does not mean the chapter will not be held accountable. “The general practice of a minimum suspension for five years allows time for the current students to matriculate from U…

…’ backs during the chapter’s “Hell Week.” The fraternity brothers described the event taking place and a student being injured. “We had people run our backs during our hell week,” an Alpha Sigma…

… included in Rackham 2019 apps Inside: The Best of 2018 B-Side University Towers, a student apartment building on South Forest Avenue, was received a noncompliance notice from the city early this…

… Think at the Washtenaw County Administration Building Wednesday evening. Student apartment building issued warning for disobeying regulations OLIVIA TAUBER Daily Staff Reporter Democrats control…

… Student Govern- ment vice president Nadine Jawad had conversations about what the Diversi- ty, Equity and Inclusion …