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…4A- Monday, December 12, 2011 4 The Michigan Daily -michigandaily.com 4A MoaD e r 20T haDy mha ilycm i Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann…

… be essential in answering the question of what it is to be human. Kaan Avdan is an LSA freshman Over the pastcouple ofyears,therehas beenincreased curiosity and speculation about SAFE - Students…

… Allied for Freedom & Equality - and what it stands for. Simply put, SAFE is a diverse group of student activists at the University organized to promote justice, human rights, liberation and self…

… our campus. When Ishmael Khaldi, a top adviser to Israeli For- eign Minister Avigdor Lieberman came to campus, many student activists were offended by the fact that the University, which prides itself…

… Haaretz, Lieberman said that Palestin- ian prisoners should be drowned in the Dead Sea, and he would provide the buses to take them there. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Lieberman said Arabs and…

… Jews must be separated in order to achieve peace in the Middle East. "Israel's 1.25 million Arab minority was a 'problem' which required 'separation' from the Jewish state," according to an article in…

… spoke about Arabs in Israel and the greatprivileges they enjoy, yet the peo- ple who Khaldi claims to represent (Arab Bedouins) are being expelled from their land. Khaldi seems to travel as a mouthpiece…

…-determi- nation and freedom from a brutal occupation. Our mission statement emphasizes that we are a student organization contributing to the campus com- munity as social justice advocates. Nowhere within our…

… Palestinian people. In October, 30 SAFE members attended the first national Students for Justice in Palestine conference at Columbia University. The conference was endorsed by many national activists, including…

… Ali Abunimah, Noam Chomsky and Cornel West. Members from the more than 140 schools represented voted on points of unity: Students for Justice in Palestine is a student orga- nization that works in…

…4 - Friday, December 9, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4 - Friday, December 9, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom W I iigan Batil Edited and managed by students at the…

…- prepared students are for real life. In Marion Brady's Dec. 5 blog, "When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids," she writes about the experi- ence of one of her longtime friends, Rick Roach. Roach…

…. Similar to the Michigan Educational Assessment Program tests for the state of Michi- gan, the FCAT is used to determine schools' accountability while also assess student preparedness for the next grade…

… isn't_ that standardized tests are too hard or that students who do poorly are stupid or lazy, but the style of ques- tioning on the tests is obscure and abstract. The types of questions asked and the…

… criteria for passing or failing seems tobe arbitrary at best. And, as Roach says, much of the concepts - especially in the math portion - that students are tested on will not be applicable in most college…

… funding to schools? State tests don't accurately reflect academic ability. Standardized test scores play a large role in determining schools' reputations and in gauging wheth- er students are or aren…

… that standardized tests don't accurately reflect a students' true abilities. Roach's experiment shows that the tests don't relate to how the real world functions either. And yet, they continue to shape…

…, many Jewish students - including40 from the University -will depart on Birthright trips to Israel, celebrating their connection to a land that has been home to both Jews and Palestinians for thousands of…

… in East Jerusalem illustrates the challenge of aligning our experience with those values. The Sumarins are a Palestinian family living in Silwan, a predominantly Arab neighborhood in the Old City of…

… Thursday during a routine traffic stop in the coliseum's parking lot. A student at a nearby college who police said shot Crouse was found dead after- ward of a self-inflicted gunshot wound…

… five families from Dearborn, Mich., a Detroit suburb with a large Muslim and Arab-American population. A state senator from Southern California said Sunday he was considering calling for a boycott…

… SACUA last week - is i portant.sth e areZ entities on campus a empoy people who deal with minors - including high school students and small children - for day camps, day care, sports pro- grams and music…

… camps. Earlier in the meeting, Slot- tow mentioned that in Cole- man's e-mail regarding the Penn State scandal, which was sent to all students and faculty on Nov. 15, included was a link to an anonymous…

… educa- ra af rlyw1980s tden rrhr tion among low-income students. "One of the things that is an important difference is (the) gap in high-school graduation," Bai- r ley said. "You're not going to do fpmle…

… d w rddcom- well in college if you don't have ed tce < <arly200s a good education going into col- lege."2 While the number of students graduating from college has Thepercentmoreofhigh-income increased…

… among low-income female students who graduated com families and high-income fami- pared tomen in the ear ly1980s lies, Bailey and Dynarski found that growth in university gradu- same schools (and) they…

…-income college students in distribution goingto bad schools, the early 1980s with those in the so why is it that girls in those early 2000s, Bailey and Dynar- environments are doing so much ski found an 18-percent…

… increase better? This has to be something in the graduation rate. For about how girls respond to the low-income students assessed same environments differently, across the same time period, the or boys and…

… putting too much pres- Bailey said. sure on women to succeed and Bailey and Dynarsaki also holding men back. found that among incoming col- The study does not indicate lege students from high-income how the…