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… clear skies in the evening. 39 LOW: 26 Tomorrow www.michigandaily.com -H 11 Many int'l students find fitting in difficult By Tomislav Ladika Daily Staff Reporter While the University aims to encour…

…- age interaction among students of all races and ethnicities, several internation- al students say campus organizations are not sufficiently facilitating such interac- tion. Michigan ranks ninth in the…

… nation for the number of international students with 4,149 enrolled, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, but many of these students do not complete- ly integrate into the student body. Although…

… LSA junior Joy Kaung left Hong Kong three years ago to attend the University, she said she feels she has only partially succeeded in associating with American students. "In terms of integration, there…

…'s the part where people just don't personally reach out," Kaung said. "It's not really working that well because for most of the students I know that are international students, they don't mingle well…

… with the locals" But international students do not always avoid associating with American students by choice - they just have fewer opportunities to interact with American students, LSA sophomore Pragav…

… Jain said. "International students do feel left out," he said. "At orientation you only meet a few people. Initially in the first year, they don't hang out with American students." LSA sophomore Akshay…

… Bajpaee, who is an Indian from Hong Kong and a member of three international student groups, said the University needs to cre- ate "more programs promoting the mix- ing of international and American…

… students. "I don't think mentorship programs or other programs on campus have achieved that success of mixing yet," he said. The University is not entirely respon- sible for encouraging greater interaction…

… LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 3 THIS WEEK Dec. 11, 1967 Berkeley Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio and several other student leaders spoke before a crowd of…

… 2000 students on the Diag, asking them to join in their movement "to wrangle First Amendment freedoms from an unresponsive bureaucracy," and to ask the University president to endorse their goals. Dec…

… by the Soviet Union. Dec. 14, 1929 The Student Council passed a res- olution urging a tradition that stu- dents refrain from stepping on the University seal that was set in the floor of the library…

…. Council mem- bers said, "in the past few years, irreverence has been shown the Uni- versity by the students stepping on the seal." Members proposed posting a 24- hour guard to impress the tradition onto…

… undergraduate students. They also recommended changing the date on the seal from 1837 to 1817, which had been recognized as the official founding date of the Uni- versity the year before. Dec. 15, 1955 A team of…

… Greek events but would be a source of pride," Winston said. "It would bring us closer together." By Michael Gurovitsch and Karen Schwartz Daily Staff Reporters More than 50 students took a study break…

… last night to learn a lesson on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Political sci- ence Prof. Mark Tessler and the allure of free food drew students to the U-Club to hear about the current status of the…

… con- flict and how it came to be this way. Tessler, who teaches "The Arab- Israeli Conflict" addressed the history of the conflict, tracing it from 1967 until today. While he said there is "no intrin…

… side is right, one side is wrong" he said. Many students who attended the event said they appreciated the balanced view- point Tessler offered. While he felt Tessler went out of his way to give both…

… far as finding out more about the current situation, Tessler said it's impor- tant to be able to differentiate between fact and propaganda. He recommended students diversify their sources of information…

… 4A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, December 2, 2002 OP/ED cuer ffikbigau i749uUt 420 MAYNARD STREET ANN ARBOR, MI 48109 letters@michigandaily.com EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS AT THE…

… frustration. As an Indian American Student Association Executive Board member, I am appalled that the Daily would allow something like this to be print- ed. When IASA voted on the issue of boy- cotting the…

… the University's Indian American Student Association of the is too many times. I am proudly American and I am proudly Indian, but I am vehemently ashamed to acknowledge that a group representing my eth…

…- nic identity has stigmatized Indian students to such a disparaging extent. The fact that Indian- born students on this campus felt so uncom- fortable and alienated from their Indian American…

… counterparts that an Indian Student Association was formed, quite frankly makes me sick. Though no one is so audacious as to openly admit that the fissure of IASA and ISA was predominantly because of an inane…

…; it's not about nodding your head to Redman as he ardently raps away to "that Arabic chick;" and it's certainly not about being embarrassed to acknowledge that we share so much in com- mon with these so…

… weapons. Translating from Arabic may also cause delays. The U.N. agencies will compare the new Iraqi information with past Iraqi reports and with their own databases of past inspections and other infor…

… Rackham student Irfan Nooruddin said. "We will provide advice based on our experiences from bargaining with the University over the past 28 years as well as our help in organizing and mobilizing commu- nity…

… support for the HLs as they bargain their first contract." Ab*Bus triples servicesfor upcomig break AIRBUS Continued from Page 1A an e-mail from a first year student who said he couldn't imagine not using…

… this. service," Greenberg said. Although for this break MSA could not take reservations in residence halls, a major market for airBus, Greenberg said he hopes students hear about the service. "We haven…

… and it always draws a big crowd," he said. Though the Messiah Dinner has grown into a large event that requires many months of planning, it has very simple beginnings. Olive Chernou was a student living…

… spring as part of the Students First platform. Stu- dent First candidates have been campaign- ing this fall for working on projects to save student's money. "When I ran for president I went on this…

… also a former stu- dent. Marilyn Mason, who was also a student at the first dinner and is now a world- renowned organist, added, "It's a very his- toric tradition and a very good dinner!" big…

… universities offer some kind of bus service and we never had that. It's too expensive for students to face $40 for a taxi ride to the airport. It's definitely a goal of ours to find ways to make stu- dents…

…' (lives) more convenient." While MSA still encourages students to book in advance to guarantee seats on the bus, seats for walk-on customers, which proved popular during Thanksgiving, have been set aside…

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