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… model for funding AUSTEN HUPFORD/Daily LEFT: A crowd applauds Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkul Karman who spoke in Rackham Auditorium yesterday. Nobel Prize winnerhighlights womens rolei Arab Spin…

…. She cited the University's educational programs and stu- dent body of more than 27,000 undergraduates and 15,000 grad- uate students as well as the Uni- versity's $1.24 billion research expenditures in…

… Daily Sounds of the Arab Spring reverberated off the walls of lrn c full Rarkhva i winner Tawakkul Karman led the audience through chants promoting women and peace. Karman, a journalist and senior member…

… of Al-Islah political party in Yemen, is the first Arab woman, the second Muslim and the first Yemeni person to win a Nobel Prize for her work with women's rights. Karman discussed the sweep- ing…

… changes in the Arab Spring, particularly women's roles in nnrcino hi-mvmn Thi man to speak on campus as part of the program's curriculum. Karman began her talk by making it clear that she is a…

… justice prevails. She emphasized the new role of Arab women in leading protest- ers in the revolutions for demo- cratic principles. "Women have become at the forefront of these demonstra- tions and lines in…

… semeni, torium yesterday, as 2011 co- University's Arabic Language and every Arab, and every recipient Nobel Peace Prize Flagship Program invited Kar- human being and every woman CAMPUS CRIME Man arrested…

… students SOUTH KOREA 687students TAIWAN 287students INDIA 752 students CHINA 1,747 students GRAPHIC BY H ELEN LIUEBLICH The countries with the most number of students who studied at the University in 2010…

…-2011. 'U' ranks eighth in number MICHIGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY MSA seeks to fill rep. vacancies in election of international students Only one Rackham student running with 10 open seats By GIACOMO BOLOGNA…

… Daily StaffReporter With the polls for Michi- gan Student Assembly elec- tions open tonight at midnight, assembly members say they hope to fill current vacancies in the student government. The vacant…

…(I! INII 16F1V ININ I I Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, November 17, 2011 michigandaily.com FEDERAL LEGiSLATION Tom Daschle discusses changes to health care Students prepare for a vigil on the…

… Diag last night in honor of those who have lost their lives during the protests in Syria over the past few months. The event was organized by campus group Students Allied for Freedom and Equality. SAFE…

… moment of silence in remembrance, while individu- als shared personal views and experiences with the uprising. The Syrian uprising began in March as part of the larger Arab Spring movement across the…

… 3,500 people have been killed since the uprising started, but many more may be unaccounted for. The Arab League suspended Syria's membership on Nov. 12, See VIGIL, Page 5A STATE LEGISLATION Second…

…- See BRIDGE, Page SA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH University professor, student discover two dwarf galaxies TERESA MATHEW/Daily Jim Saborio, owner of Comet Coffee in Nickels Arcade, works during his morning…

… Androm- eda. He quickly downloaded Associate Astronomy Prof. the data and began his search. fell tried to get his restless Within a week, he and Rackham r old to sleep late one night student Colin Slater…

…-418-4115 or e-mail Med School students push for free health clinic news@michigandaily.com and let us know. MICHIGANDAILY.COM/BLOGS/THE WIRE INDEX Vol. CXXII, No. 51 d011 The Michigan Daily michigandoily…

… about 10:30 a.m. when a student left it briefly unat- tended in a second-floor lounge, University Police reported. The laptop hasn't been recoverd, and there are currently no suspects. available…

… depression screen- ings and treatment. 20 years ago this week (Nov. 12, 1991): University Police cracked down on stu- dents throwing marshmal- lows in the student section at Michigan football games. "It is…

… illegal to throw anything at anybody in the stadium, and students are ejected for doing so," Department of Public Safety Sgt. Paul Vaughan told The Michigan Daily at the time. Many students, like then- LSA…

… them, and they don't say you'll be kicked out for throwing them," Libkuman told the Daily at the time. However, DPS stepped up the enforcement of the policy by charging some students with assault for…

… Advice for pre- Obesity lecture A new study found that med students WHAT: A lecture on the sleep paralysis is more increasing rate of childhood common in students, WHAT: A presentation by obesity in…

… America given by MSNBC.com reported. The three pre-health advisers Elsie Taveras, a pediatri- condition affects 8 percent to aid students with medi- cian and health researcher. of the population and occurs…

… Rooney Layout Manager Connor Byrd Finance Manager QUy Vo Circulation Manager The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during thetfall and wintterms by students at the…

… internationalization and of our engagement globally - having so many international students here means we have a terrific reputation for academic excellence around the world," Greisberger said. "Students come here. They…

… want to get a great education." China is the largest source of international students for the U.S. and the University. Chinese students currently make up 31.2 percent - or 1,747 students- of the total…

… number of interna- tional students at the Univer- sity, followed by India with 752, South Korea with 687, Taiwan with 287 and Canada with 244 students. , according to a Uni- versity press release made pub…

… the increasingly difficult prospect of paying student loan debt and finding jobs after graduation. The current economic situation has furthered the steady privatization of education, causingthe economic…

… bur- den of college to be shifted more and more onto the backs of students. Recent statistics show that the net costs of college are rising, the aver- age student's credit card debt has hit record…

… levels and asa result, students are graduating with exorbitant amounts of debt that could take decades to repay. Students at the University are no exception. The University is known for having one of the…

… highest out-of-state tuition rates among public universi- ties in the United States, which was increased by 4.9 percent this year, and the price of student housing in Ann Arbor isn't cheap either. A…

… comfort. Is this the next Arab Spring or more of a Spring Break? I decided to skip most of the movement's planned 5 p.m. convergence on Times Square. Instead, I spent a few hours at Father Demo Square, a…

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… powerfully communicated to the students, faculty and Ann Arbor residents who attended and it was an honor to have her as a campus speaker. Karman - the first Yemeni to win a Nobel Prize - is an inspiration to…

… University's Arabic Language Flagship Pro- gram. Her speech discussed the changes in the Arab Spring, which is a series of recent demo- cratic uprisings against governments across the Middle East. As…

… commended for bringingKarman to Ann Arbor and promoting the event. Rackham Auditorium was packed with an attentive audience. The speech cre- ated a forum for students to think about race, religion and gender…

… in different ways, and fos- tered more open and receptive thoughts. After her speech, there was an intelligent dialogue between Karman and students who asked questions. Karman suggested that people are…

… citizens of theword and stressed a general loyalty to humanity. She discussed her belief in peaceful protests, which is a message that should reso- nate with students. In the wake of the protests of House…

… Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) who spoke on campus last month and the riots at Pennsylvania State University, students should take notice that the most powerful way to get their message across is…

… progress. In an interview after the event, Karman told The Michigan Daily that students also have a positive impact on the world. "Student-led movements have always been a part in chang- ing history and…

… kill 11 despite peace plan b Arab League I Killings occured on the first day of Feast of the Sacrifice BEIRUT (AP) - Syrians in the restive region of Homs 'per- formed special prayers for a major…

… the first day of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice, added to fears that a peace plan brokered by the Arab League last week was unravel- ing and prompted Qatar's prime minister to call for an…

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… hostage ordeal came amid an uprising against the 30-year reign of President Ali Abdullah Saleh that has unraveled security in Yemen, the Arab world's poor- est country. Al-Qaida-linked militants have taken…

… three-time Big Ten champion under for- mer Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, took the stage, he was welcomed by the famil- iar sound of applause. More than 200 students and University…

… closed with a ques- tion-and-answer session in which students expressed their concerns and interests about the University's apparel spon- sorship switch from Nike to Adidas, the use of Michigan Sta- dium…

… of concerns that the crowd had," Shah said. "I think a lot of the students got their questions answered about pressing issues on campus." Tepatti added that the speak- ers spoke well to issues that…

… affect the student body. "We wanted to pursue a topic that would touch on current issues, and we want to promote an interest in economics to the rest of the student body at Mich- igan," Tepatti said. "We…

…-foot residence hall. In a communication to the regents, E. Royster Harper, vice president for student affairs, and Timothy Slottow, executive vice president and chief financial offi- cer, wrote that the…

… New- man. MSA From Page 1 ter relationship with graduate students. Watson also said he would like to see more involve- ment from graduate students. "There is this self-perpet- uating dilemma where…

… gradu- ate students look at MSA and say we don't address gradu- ate student issues, but part of the reason why that percep- tion exists ... is because we don't have graduate student representation to…

… to entice graduate students who may be too busy to act as MSA representatives. He added that graduate students should have "more flexibility" in their involvement in the student gov- ernment. However…

…, the idea has not been addressed during an assembly meeting. There are 10 open Rackham student seats on the assembly for this election. Watson said he expects the two current Rackham representatives 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…

… coffee. Saborio said Ann Arbor is the perfect city for Comet Coffee, and many of his regular cus- tomers are University students and faculty. "It's a lot of graduate stu- dents (and) professors - not a lot…

… of younger students, but some," he said. "We're very closely tied to the University." Comet Coffee does not cur- rently have plans to expand to other locations, and Saborio said he is satisfied with…

… (Hafez) has died?' I had seen so many pictures of (Hafez) that I thought he was a prophet." Alawieh said SAFE has been mainly focused on Palestine, but in light of the Arab Spring, they have broadened…

…. 'LIKE' THE DAILY ON FACEBOOK Approximately 40 percent of every incoming PharmD class consists ofnformer LSA students. So. You want one good reason to earn a pharmacy degree from the Universitof…

…, Arabic, Armenian and Turkish remain popular among students. Outside of academics, students and professionals work to create a safe and hospitable environment for religion to be practiced and investigated…

… student body exceeded University Hall chapel's 500-per- son capacity. Tappan's policies followed the changing con- temporary attitudes in higher education around the country. "I would say the University was…

… the curriculum, Tappan and his successors still wanted theology schools to be established in and around Ann Arbor for students to keep up with religious studies outside of the University. Once the…

… faculty had expanded to 31 members and the student body to 652 students by 1863, religion and theology were combined with other areas of study - notably philosophy - and theol- ogy was no longer taught on…

… its own. Fast-forward to 2011. The study of religion still resembles Tappan's model of the 1860s. Students wishing to study reli- gion can do so in departments such as psychology or English. Over the…

… academic perspective Scholars from different departments came together to head a Program on Studies in Religion, making the study of religion a concentration readily available to students. According to Ralph…

… students to take, the standard give-and-take among peers is lost. "It's enormously useful to have others who are following something of the same curriculum in classes with you, so you can discuss areas of…

… interest, be in seminars together and do courses in methodology together," Williams said. "Students can do Independent Concentration Projects, but indepen- dence is often accompanied by isolation and it…

… takes very great effort on the part of the student and faculty adviser for the ICP to overcome that isolation." The program was halted because faculty members could not afford to split time between the…

… for the well-being of any university. On the other end of the spectrum, external parties have raised questions about the liberal approach in classroom ped- agogy. Relying heavily on students' freedom…

… students to evacuate house Authorities say they had to break down doors and rouse drunken students during fires at a fraternity near Michigan State University. No one was injured early Friday after a party…

… erupted in cheers. It was joined by Ireland, Austria and the Arab states. The "no" votes included the United States, Israel, Sweden, the Neth- erlands and Germany, while many American allies abstained…

… NYPD's intelligence tactics since an Associated Press investiga- tion revealed widespread spy- ing programs that documented every aspect of Muslim life in New York. Police infiltrated mosques and student…

… groups. Plainclothes officers catalogued Middle Eastern restaurants and their clientele. Analysts built databases on Arab cab drivers and monitored Muslims who changed their names. "Had this been happening…

… circulation Manager The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is pubished Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all…

… Mus- lim Arab-led Sudan in July. The outcome of the meetings - and the extent of Israel's moves to ally with the Africans - remains murky. Kenya's leader went so far as to say Israel promised to provide…

…'s news magazine, distributed every Wednesday during the academic year. To contact The Statement e-mail klarecki@michigandaily.com. THEJUNKDRAWER random student interview by kaitlin williams Welcome to…

… the random student interview, where the official lan- guage is English. So Molly, what are you study- ing? I'm undecided right now. I've got to figure that out. No kidding. You're a freshman. Get on…

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… program for high school graduates of the Kalama- zoo Public Schools that was launched six years ago has spent more than $30 million on higher education for more than 2,300 students. Data provided by The…

… Kalama- zoo Promise program show that about one-third of the students who started college on Promise scholarships have dropped out, at least temporarily, and another 10 percent of eligible students didn…

… Gadhafi regime. -Compiled from Daily wire reports GM to offer loaner cars to Volt owners TAREK FAWZY/AP Egyptian women walk past a banner and poster in Arabic that both read, "Nour Party," on the first…