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… in opposition to the ban. 3 ON THE WEB... michigandaily.com Going Abroad By ISOBEL FUTTER The number of University students going abroad has increased 15 percent, the University announced on…

… Monday. 2,719 students traveled overseas to study during the 2013-2014 school year, as compared to 2,365 students in the 2012-13 school year. NEWS 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www…

… more of this story online at michigandaily.com RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily LSA sophomore Nicholas Fadanelli, a student government candidate, campaigns at the LSA Student Government Candidate Forum in the…

… increasing diversity of the stu- dent body and and expanding mental health awareness in stu- dent government and on campus. Elections will be held Wednes- day. LSA Student Government consists of 19…

… Something Dancy,” is available on Amazon. Follow Dee on Twitter @deesimon666 and Instagram @mrdeesimon. ARTIST PROFILE IN COURTESY OF DEE SIMON Dee Simon went from University student to podcast veteran…

…- Arab from outside Haifa, who, as an 18-year-old, followed his two brothers to Ann Arbor to open this shop, even though none of them had any formal training. His two brothers have since married and…

… base. Israeli- Arabs and Palestinians make up just one part of the local Arab community, many of whom are from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. But Usman told me that Arabs actually are a minority of his…

… through Q4. These questions have been the focus of current debate because they are constant in surveys across campus. Q1 asks students to rate “Overall, this was an excellent course.” Q2 is “Overall…

…, the instructor was an excellent teacher.” Q3 asks students to evaluate the statement, “I learned a great deal from this course.” Q4 asks, “I had a strong desire to take this course.” Typically…

…,300 other questions — some are broad while others are dedicated to specific courses. Student governments and various departments and schools have sent in requests to include questions in the…

… catalogue over the years. The questions date back to 1996, and are sorted into different categories, such as “student development” or “instructor effectiveness,” according to the Office of the…

… it easy to draw comparisons. “Using the other questions may help you design your course better, but it’s not going to tell you very much about student satisfaction overall with your course…

… involved in the current redesign process, the focus isn’t only on the questions themselves, but on the climate the evaluations foster. Central Student Government president Cooper Charlton, an LSA…

… important part of each class … (and) make sure that it’s a shared enterprise to teach a class,” Weineck said. In particular, she cited questions about a student’s responsibility in the classroom…

…. Other universities, such as the University of Washington, use student-centric questions in their evaluations to assess how much effort a student put into the class and his or her interest in the…

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… the early precursors to the recent protests that are occurring across the nation. As a University alum, I fully understood what led the students in 2013 to speak up and express themselves through…

… occurred on campus, and held a Freeze Out on the Diag to address these issues. When the leadership of the Black Student Union came to me as their faculty adviser to strategize ways to express how they…

… originating from both faculty and other students who would assume my presence was due to affirmative action. I had actually won a prestigious scholarship from the Detroit Institute of Arts to study the…

… history of art. Constant remarks about being “well- spoken for someone from Detroit” led me to seek solace within the Black Student Union and to find safe spaces on campus which would affirm and…

… memories, I listened as the students described utilizing the traditional methods of mobilization, including wearing black as a sign of solidarity, attending the Freeze Out: Follow Up Forum to speak…

… out for social justice and papering the posting wall with statements about their experiences. Then it happened. One of the students contacted me and alerted me to sign on to Twitter and follow…

…. The use of social media as the method of communication within this brilliant campaign expanded the range of the participants. The tweets began with current students, then faculty, staff and even…

… considered our home. The academic in me started analyzing the tweets: some were angry, some staunch in their support of the students, while others stood firmly decrying any difference between treatment…

… between and among races. Others sent messages of support and solidarity. The numbers grew until even the students who began the campaign were astonished at the ongoing wave of responses. One thing…

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… shrouded in dialogues of reform recently. The collective feeling among students, particularly minority and marginalized students, is one of frustration and protest. For months, students have denounced…

… student athletes for granted. There should be no conflicting notion between encouraging students to speak their minds about important issues of race and equality and then labeling them as “coddled” or…

… a population too sensitive, too obsessed with being politically correct and too out of touch with the world need to stop operating under the presumption these students are blank slates without…

… any prior experience, who were entirely protected beforehand and are just suddenly rejecting the complexity and conflicts of the world. While some students are undoubtedly more privileged than…

… others, and this privilege certainly needs to be addressed, students, to varying degrees, have encountered their own experiences of sexism, racism, homophobia or classism earlier in their lives…

…. These experiences can’t be discounted. As Roxane Gay aptly states in a piece for the New Republic, “College students do, however, understand the real world because they aren’t just students. They do…

…, students are voicing these concerns because they’re aware of the injustice that needs to be remedied. A common critique of these groups is that these demonstrations are suppressing speech. Yet, those…

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… surrounding the importance of idleness. Though some University students are busy working full-time jobs out of financial neces- sity, others choose being busy as a way to set themselves apart from the…

… from all over the world, including the world’s second-largest Arab and Muslim population outside of the Middle East (after Paris) and a growing Latino community. Refu- gee children from Central…

… each attack. The student movement at the University has won recently impor- tant victories for immigrant stu- dents — in-state tuition and a small scholarship pilot program that allotted $450…

…,000 for undocument- ed undergraduate students for the 2014-2015 year. But the conditions for undocumented immigrant and international students are still far from equal. The University must increase the…

… number of undocu- mented students. The University of California, Berkeley has taken important steps to open access and support for undocumented students by creating an undocumented student center to…

… provide financial aid, free legal aid and cover the legal filing fees to apply for DACA. Since the creation of the program, the numbers of undocu- mented students at UC Berkeley has doubled. The…

… University should fol- low Berkeley’s example. The schol- arship for undocumented students must be increased, expanded to include graduate students, and publi- cized to prospective students. Over- all, the…

… University must guarantee the continuation of the program. Both educational access and the safety of immigrant students must be a priority for the University. This means the University must publicly…

… sexual assault and describing how the process creates challenges for all parties involved. The University’s approach is defined as a student disciplinary process instead of a criminal one, and in…

… Association of American Universities. The Uni- versity’s survey revealed 11.4 per- cent of students and 22.5 percent of undergraduate females at the University reported having experi- enced some sort of…

… nonconsensual sexual behavior at the University. Women were reported to be eight times more likely to be sexu- ally assaulted. Undergraduate students three times more likely, lesbian, gay or bisexual…

… students two and a half times, Greek stu- dents two and a half times, and underrepresented minorities two times more likely to be sexually assaulted then the general popu- lation. Out of the students who…

… Center and its his- tory of sexual misconduct preven- tion. “This isn’t a Michigan prob- lem, but a university-aged student problem,” he said. “The University has really been on the leading edge of…

… concern for students over sexual assault.” At the end of his lecture, Schlis- sel outlined how, going forward, the University needs to improve the investigation, adjudication and support processes…

… for sexual assault. Specifically, he said he wanted to increase the number of students coming forward, as well as support for survivors on cam- pus. The University is currently garnering input to…

… Habra reading WHAT: Arab-American author Hedy Habra will read from “Under Brushstrokes,” her new collection of poetry. There will be a book signing afterward. WHO: Hedy Habra WHEN: Today from 4 p…

…- Multicultural Initiatives WHEN: Today from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Student Activities Space policy WHAT: For the 2015 Nelson W. Spencer Lecture, Genene Fisher, the executive officer at National…

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… “other” has included people from Irish, Mexican, Japa- nese, African, Italian, Arab and a multitude of other backgrounds who have been subject to discrimi- nation, forced internment, deporta- tion…

… Save the Children. Last year, in a lecture given at Hill Auditorium, the acclaimed author and activist Alice Walker made a plea to thousands of students, faculty and community members hailing…

… Washington Post asked, “Are colleges coddling students or just leveling the playing field?” and the Atlantic bemoaned, “The Coddling of the American Mind.” In a recent Wall Street Journal…

… student at a large, liberal, public university, let me say that instances of racism and sexism, even in its subtlest forms that I may not understand, take a toll on my peers. Students and their ability…

… students, we probably have a good five to 10 years before we start to use the word “buy.” For now, most of us are renters. But we exist in that same world — demand for housing is demand for housing. A…

…-class residents are being pushed into the rental market. That means students and professionals are competing for the same type of apartments. That also means the average one- bedroom unit will cost $1,244 per…

… 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available…

… Auditorium Arabic movie night WHAT: The Arabic Language Club will host its first ever movie night. The movie will be Hassan wa Marcos. WHO: Arabic Club WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union…

…, Medical School and School of Education — in addition to the student who will head the Department of Public Safety and Security Oversight Com- mittee. Due to a tie of one vote each, no candidate from…

… from LSA and Rackham Graduate School due to an error in the online voting system. According to CSG elections director Benjamin Reese, a third-year law student, voting for each of these two schools…

… had 318. Public Policy senior Sloane Forbush won the representative seat with 37 votes over Public Policy junior Sara Dagher, who had 27. With 51 votes, second-year Medical student Alia Ahmed…

… won the Medical School rep- resentative position by a mar- gin of 11 votes over a write-in candidate, second-year Medi- cal student Benjamin D. Long. Education graduate student Michael Chrzan, a…

… elections director is not privy to the actual lists, because of laws under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act that protect students’ information from being released to other students. Write…

… months. They should be open before graduation, or that’s what they’re planning on. How many students work at the Campus Inn? There’s a lot. I wouldn’t say there’s that many Michigan…

… students. I don’t think I work with any Uni- versity of Michigan stu- dents, but there’s a lot of Eastern (University) stu- dents and a lot of Washt- enaw Community College students who work there. I…

…’d say at least 50 percent of the employees I work with are at least part-time or full-time students. How will this affect you? I will be out of a job, but they’ve been really nice to their…