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…, Central Student Government’s vote for #UMDivest and more. The Michigan Daily: Starting with Richard Spencer — in the Regent’s Meeting called last week, safety seemed like a big topic of discussion…

…, that’s your top priority that you’re stating in your negotiations and that was a major concern for students. So, in the negotiation process, how are you defining safety? Obviously there are many…

… just our students but the people that will come here, or may come here, to protest for or against and the safety of the speaker, the physical safety of the speaker and then of Ann Arbor. You know…

… about 100 students, faculty and community members joined together in the Diag for the #StopSpencer Speak Out with one common message: Richard Spencer is not welcome at the University of Michigan…

…’s request to speak on campus. The event was organized by a coalition of student groups including Stop Spencer at the University of Michigan, Students4Justice and more. The goal of the Speak Out was to…

… with the University’s willingness to put the safety and comfort of minority students at risk in order to work with Spencer’s request. One of these individuals was LSA junior Alex Chow, who…

… explained by choosing not to deny Spencer’s request, the University was leaving students of color to fend for themselves. “The University and its administration has made it clear that they’re not…

… objections stemmed from a concern that Lieberman, who has taught on the Arab-Israeli conflict, would cause a power imbalance during the vote by expressing his anti-divestment views. While speaking to…

… the assembly, Lieberman took a historical approach to examining the Arab- Israeli conflict, citing examples of human rights violations by other countries, which he believes to be greater than…

… LIFE Push to add ME/NA box launches on social media Students, faculty sign onto #WeExist campaign to lobby for Arab category MATT HARMON Daily Staff Reporter Group gathered to reflect on those…

… Ann Arbor since 1974. “People who have to live beside it need benefits too. It should not just be for U of M students and employees. We want these areas developed, but we want to go about it in…

…,000 students in the past few years. Ackerman also noted 55 percent of people in Ann Arbor are renters. “Are they attractive? No,” Ackerman said about residential buildings. “But are they housing…

… and 75 percent of nontenured faculty reported they were satisfied or very satisfied with the climate — which is consistent with students and staff. However, white faculty members were more…

… face more bias ACADEMICS Senate Assembly reviews DEI climate survey results with tri-campus members ZOE BAXTER For The Daily Students, faculty gather for Transgender Day of Remembrance with…

… vigil, event MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily Students gather in rememberence of transgender people murdered in 2017 on the Diag Monday. See DEVELOPMENT, Page 3 After garnering support from students and…

… sample campus climate survey found ME/NA-identifying students to make up 2 percent of the student body. Resolutions in favor of creating a Middle Eastern/North African identity…

… category were passed by Central Student Government last February and by LSA Student Government last month — the CSG resolution passed unanimously. This lack of a Middle Eastern/North African…

… option on University documents from application forms to financial aid is mirrored by the U.S. Census documents sent out every 10 years. The Arab American Institute has been leading the charge on…

… of health, education and more. According to the Arab American Institute, adjusted for under-reporting, Michigan is ranked second in the nation for highest Arab- See ME/NA, Page 3 CAMPUS…

… senior, took the floor to describe her own experiences as an Arab and Muslim student. She stated her support of the resolution, empathizing with the feelings Jewish students have experienced…

…, prompting cheers from pro-divest students. Lieberman teaches on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and spoke last year heavily against divestment. Then-LSA senior Devin Jones criticized Lieberman…

…Many argued this was beneficial for the safety of pro-Palestinian students from damaging blacklists. Another was the outpouring of support: CSG Vice President Nadine Jawad, a Public Policy…

… talking about this but we also have to recognize if we want equitable footing on this, we need to give all people an opportunity and a voice,” Jawad said. Public Health graduate student Dana Greene…

… suffers all of us suffer. … When I kneeled on that Diag in pain, I watched thousands of students walk past me. I ask you today to not be one of those people that walked past.” Tuesday morning, the…

… Black Student Union tweeted their endorsement of divestment. Members of the BSU executive board attended the meeting, following many other social- justice oriented organizations in supporting…

… Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, the group that first brought the resolution to CSG. This year, History professor Victor Lieberman was not approved to join the list of speakers…

…, but rather specific companies that are tied to allegations of human rights violations. Erzouki also emphasized the weeks divestment is discussed are consistently very well-attended by students, as…

… they use the meetings as a platform to express their views. “I’ve seen at this point thousands of students rally over leaders in support of divestment this issue and this request does not…

… exist in a vacuum. There is long standing and diverse support on this issue as you have seen.” She went on to list several institutions whose student governing bodies pass similar divestment…

… proportion of Arab-American students at the Dearborn campus and surrounding cities cannot be accurately measured without a ME/NA identity checkbox. “We don’t want to count Arab Americans or…

… Fraser from University of Michigan at Dearborn and Laura Friesen from University of Michigan at Flint joined pharmacology professor John Traynor to speak about the difficulty of uniting students…

… from different backgrounds — especially considering the lack of diversity of the Ann Arbor campus. “Ten percent of your student population is in the top 1 percent economically,” Fraser pointed out…

…. “Most of our students here are students of privilege. So thinking of ways to help them empathize with other, they’ve never had to run against that before.” The members also discussed the Go Blue…

… Guarantee, acknowledging that even with financial aid, many eligible students do not apply to the University. “It is still difficult for people from that background to come to this Michigan…

…,” Traynor said. “I’m not saying they’re not trying.” Ultimately, the group agreed on the importance of students interacting with peers from different backgrounds. “How do we get to the place…

… University, approximately 1 percent of the student body identifies as transgender or gender nonconforming, according to results from the diversity, equity and inclusion campus climate survey. “Our…

….” Social Work student Alex Kime expressed the same sentiment. “Even though it’s incredibly important to honor those that we lose, more honor should be paid and recognized to the trans and…

… tell people that I don’t think I’ll make it out of my twenties without personally knowing a transgender woman who is murdered,” Kaufman said. Next to speak was Information student Vidhya…

… us while we’re still alive.” Aravind received laughter and support from attendees after her remarks. After Aravind spoke, two students and members of the LGBTQ community read the known…

… merely states its members were not living up to IFC’s standards. That’s putting it mildly if the lines crossed, in fact, endangered three students’ lives. The emails The Daily obtained reveal IFC…

… fraternities in the wake of the deaths of students who were pledging. The IFC’s entire public face regarding this self-suspension calls us to question whether the council is truly dedicated to…

… Student Government debate and subsequent vote over whether the University’s Board of Regents should create a committee to investigate companies in Israel accused of human rights violations against…

… Palestinians. Speeches from students and community leaders of all affiliations highlighted their personal narratives that shaped their outlook on the resolution. As we understood Tuesday evening, there…

… are too many sides not just in the Arab-Israeli conflict, but also concerning BDS. What exactly are the stakes of what’s being argued? In the end, these concerns reveal the emotions people invest…

… of the Balfour Declaration, which some historians view as ground zero of the “100 year war” between Jews and Arabs. Though the current situation in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank bears little in…

… divestment vote and the Balfour Declaration’s centennial could not be more fitting. In the midst of the centennial, academics are contemplating what the current status of the Arab-Israeli conflict…

… the words of the British Colonial Office, to both Arabs and Jews. While the Balfour Declaration became reified in 1917, Jewish immigration to Palestine had long been in place and would only…

… students that are worried about their safety; we have Muslim and Arab students that are worried about their safety,” Harper said. “So we have a pretty active Department of Public Safety right now…

… campus more welcoming for LGBTQ students. Specifically, they’ve opened an LGBTQ housing space that she said she assumes would be friendly to transgender students and their housing needs. “As…

… the undergraduate curriculum that includes a social justice component — something she is very pleased with. It would require students to take a certain number of classes pertaining to race and…

….” According to 2016 enrollment data for the class of 2020 at Northwestern, 8.5 percent of the student population is Black or African American, 13.6 percent is Hispanic or Latino, 20 percent is Asian and…

… students who believe in protecting Palestinian human rights,” Sarkar wrote. “The spirit of the resolution embodies the University of Michigan’s mission statement — to challenge the present — and the…

… chapter of SAFE met with E. Royster Harper, vice president for Student Life, and Laura Blake Jones, dean of students, for a dialogue and conversation. Approximately 20 students were in attendance to…

… the event. The Daily did not attend the meeting due to the personal nature of the event, but spoke to several student attendees afterwards. LSA senior Andrea Sahouri attended the dialogue, and…

… stated one of the most important aspects of the conversation was the way it exposed students to University officials that are open to hearing concerns, specifically for those students who may be…

… feeling the administration is not intimately connected to conversation among the student body. “I think the most important part of the meeting as a whole was letting the students of SAFE, and the…

… them or talk to them about anything that they’re there for us as students,” she said. Another main point of discussion was safety concerns among students following #UMDivest. While parts of…

… 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…

… targeted. “We have Jewish students that are worried about their safety; we have Muslim and Arab students that are worried about their safety,” she said. “So we have a pretty active Department of…

… believes the conference will inspire new dialogues among University community members. “All the speakers are affiliated with the University whether it’s professor, alumni, student,” Katz said…

…. “It’s cool to get people from the U of M community together sharing ideas. I think people are all so interested and keep coming back because the conversation it starts with other students in the…

… amount of cultural diversity at the University, she often encounters situations where she is the only student in a class wearing a headscarf. She said seeing this lack of representation in the…

… expected it to pass by the time I graduated.” Aqel, a Palestinian student who has visited Palestine five times, described the difficult experience she faced in 2015 when, during a visit to the nation…

… alleged human rights violations committed by companies to be investigated as outlined in the resolution. Students who opposed the resolution, however, left the meeting upset with the results. One…

… student stated, “I think it’s a really sad day for freedom of thought on this campus,” as she exited the auditorium. LSA senior Gaby Roth, a member of University of Michigan Hillel, an…

… organization providing programming for Jewish students on campus, and in opposition to the resolution, explained her reaction in an email interview with The Daily. “I am happy that members of SAFE…

…, Palestinian students and allies were given a platform for their concerns to be heard. However, I am deeply upset that the address of these concerns meant that Jewish students’ sentiments about…

… described her disappointment in CSG’s vote against approving Prof. Victor Lieberman, who teaches a class on the Arab-Israeli conflict, to be included in the lineup of speakers for CSG’s Tuesday…

…, drinks, tickets to movies and concerts, Ubers and dinners at Ann Arbor’s many fine restaurants are not kind to student budgets. However, the alternative is often staying in alone while your friends…

… of all incomes feel welcome, wealthier students should be more conscious of their peers’ ability to pay when making social plans. The median annual parental income is $154,000, three times…

… the Michigan average. A full two-thirds of students come from the top 20 percent of national incomes, while less than 4 percent come from the bottom 20 percent of incomes. Perhaps most…

… depressingly, the University ranks last out of all public universities in terms of economic mobility for students. The University’s predominance of wealthy students naturally breeds a campus culture in…

… which money is often taken for granted. And even if the University admitted more low- and middle- income students, would they even want to stay in an environment where social pressures encourage…

… encouraged the University to accept more out-of-state students who pay sky-high tuitions. Furthermore, Ann Arbor’s housing costs are a full 73 percent higher than the national average. Add…

… income. The University social scene shouldn’t require low- and middle-income students to shell out enormous amounts of cash on top of the already exorbitant costs of attendance. A number…

… Royale or Starbucks requires a few bucks for a latte. Students build their social lives around activities at these establishments; almost every date, get-together or night out with friends comes…

… with a high cash premium. Some institutional features of the campus social scene further exclude students of lower socioeconomic status. Institutions like Greek life and club sports charge…

…, the monetary barriers may still prove prohibitive to many students of lower socioeconomic status. Because financial barriers exclude many less wealthy students, these organizations help…

…Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum Unraveling the Arab Spring Egypt since 2011 Panelists: Samer Ali, CMENAS director, U-M; Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, U…

… wait another half-hour for the next one to arrive, meaning I only got home around 8 o’clock that night. Utterly exhausted, I did what most Michigan students do — I ordered Domino’s and settled into…

… that every other week, some coalition of students expresses its grievances toward University of Michigan President Schlissel. This academic year has been no different. In September there began more…

…. At the University, when students detect so much as a drop of blood shed by the University, you can say goodbye to nuance. Outrage and oppression take the wheel. I myself am not entirely…

… university really so broken that we must harp on its small shortcomings, rather than its years of triumph? Must the student body so frequently drive a wedge between itself and the University? On both…

…’s history helps us when we feel tempted to lash out at the University. For the students who feel bogged down by the stresses of University life and for those who feel the need to issue demands toward…

… President Schlissel, the Bicentennial reminds us that our most notable alumni worked with the University rather than in opposition. It does not invalidate our rights as students on campus. We deserve…

… supremacy surface above its daily institutional and cultural presence to interpersonal violence, pseudoscience fliers, a student-organized debate and more. On Aug. 11 and 12, white supremacists…