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…,” he said. “U of M has a unique regional responsibility to implement the ME/NA identity category.” Engineering junior Bassel Salka, co-president of the Arab Student Association, echoed…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, December 8, 2017 — 3 safe. Safety is critical to students, and I’m thinking about the ones who came here for the first time, thinking they…

…,” Wilson said. “This is simply unsafe, and careless to have someone here who could, in reality, start a riot.” LSA senior Anushka Sarkar, president of Central Student Government, presented a petition…

… opposing a potential speech from Spencer, saying it received more than 5,000 signatures from students. She said a similar petition circulated among alumni had received more than 6…

…,200 signatures. “I echo thousands of students and community members when I say we will not be safe if he and his followers come to our campus,” Sarkar said. “Richard Spencer should not be accommodated…

….” Social Work student Lawrielle West said the issue was bigger than just Richard Spencer’s presence on campus, but extended to white supremacy at the University in general. “Some might say…

… torn between the First Amendment right — which is not and never has been equity-distributed to all — and student safety, which should not be limited to physical, but psychological and mental…

… students who feel that they are being left in the dark on a lot of issues circling around campus,” she said. According to a Thursday press release from attorney Kyle Bristow, a representative…

… for Georgia State University student Cameron Padgett who is making these requests on behalf of Spencer, the University had already offered four dates — Nov. 29 and 30 and Dec. 27 and 28 — as…

… to do something about it,” Birkowski said. “These are people with advanced degrees and often a lot of debt. … Lecturers bend over backwards for their students and you literally give them the…

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… Haritos Tuesday evening, Central Student Government President Anushka Sarkar, an LSA senior, and CSG Vice President Nadine Jawad, a Public Policy senior, sent a school-wide email condemning…

… neo-Nazi and white supermacist Richard Spencer’s potential visit to the University of Michigan campus. Fearing an unsafe atmosphere on campus, Sarkar and Jawad asked students to sign a petition…

… statement reads. “We are looking to you to protect your constituents, your community, and your paying stakeholders against this violence.” Safety has been one of the biggest concerns for students…

… and professors on campus regarding Spencer. At last week’s CSG meeting, social justice group By Any Means Necessary asked the student assembly to condemn Spencer’s visit. Sarkar, however, said…

… looking for a fight.” 2A — Wednesday, December 6, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com CSG leaders send statement, push students to unite against Spencer CSG President Anushka Sarkar, VP…

… matter expertise.” Speakers at the rally also addressed the recent student protests, as LEO recently released its own statement in opposition to allowing Spencer to speak on campus. Hoi An Pham, an…

… further shown support toward students regarding the recent campus climate,” Pham said. “Their call to student safety is one that the entire administration has ignored, and it says something that…

… the lecturers are willing to prioritize us as students when the administration, all of whom have job security, cannot.” LEO Ann Arbor co-chair Shelley Manis said LEO and the student…

… organizations that make up the Stop Spencer coalition agree white supremacy should not have a platform at the University. “It may seem like we have two separate purposes, LEO and the student orgs, and in…

… a way we do, and at the same time, we feel like it’s our job at LEO to keep white supremacy out of this campus,” she said. “We 100 percent support the student orgs who are doing everything they…

… can to be heard and we want to amplify them, and we very much appreciate them amplifying us.” Robinson emphasized the need ensure student safety. He also discussed how the Republican tax bill…

… student’s interests and talents. The bills, proposed by state Sens. Peter Macgregor, R-Rockford, and Ken Horn, R-Frankenmuth, were written following the Michigan Career Pathways Alliance…

… recommendations that were announced last summer. “Senate Bills 684 and 685 are the culmination of years of work and I’m proud to be a part of yet another step in getting students the resources they need…