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… strengthening Ann Arbor’s don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy,” she said. “This resolution, I think, has actually become During Central Student Government’s Tuesday meeting, a resolution to support the…

… Lebanese, Jones said they were all technically classified as “white.” Jones argued the demographic surveys did not take Middle Eastern heritage into account. “In 1944, all Arabs were marked as…

… white in the United States because whiteness was a prerequisite for citizenship,” Jones said. “That changed in 1952, but the status for Arab Americans and others who are Middle East and North…

… Affordable Care Act on students at Weill Hall on Tuesday. RESEARCH Jessy Grizzle, in collaboration with those at Oregon State, will test the prototype RASHEED ABDULLAH Daily Staff Reporter Current…

… Michigan, also answered public questions to an audience of approximately 100 students, faculty and community members. Panelists began by laying out facts about the ACA itself, explaining…

… STUDENT GOVERNMENT Middle Eastern authors said they had to put ‘white’ on demographic forms RHEA CHEETI Daily Staff Reporter JOSHUA HAN/Daily Ann Arbor resident Kathy Griswold speaks about road…

… judge the annual Mock Rock charity talent show at the University of Michigan Power Center for the Performing Arts, where more than 200 students and community members came to watch student…

… athletes help raise money for the local mental health organization Fresh Start Clubhouse. Mock Rock is an annual fundraising event organized and led by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and…

… the Ginsberg Center where each year, the organizations determine a local beneficiary to donate the funds the show raises to a place they feel aligns with the students’ passions. Various…

… varsity student- athlete teams came together to create original talent acts to perform in front of their peers to help fundraise money. Last year, the organizations chose to donate all proceeds…

… citizens, green-card holders and visa holders in light of an executive order signed last Friday. The University of Michigan Muslim Graduate Student Association and Arab and Muslim American…

…A Haven Hall classroom was overflowed with University of Michigan students listening to a series of speakers who discussed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which may…

… policy on the part of Congress — protects undocumented students from deportation and allows them to obtain work permits. However, it does not provide a path to citizenship. Trump has repeatedly…

… University’s commitment to international students by reiterating its policy against releasing the immigration status of students. The announcement followed Trump’s signing of an executive action…

… have become a rallying point for many amid anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions from the White House. In recent months, the Central Student Government has been working toward making the University…

… candidate talks with students GOVERNMENT Gretchen Whitmer met with College Democrats to talk voter engagement CALEB CHADWELL Daily Staff Reporter CAROLYN GEARIG/Daily LSA professor Silvia Pedraza…

… Michigan League Ballroom on Thursday afternoon. About 75 students, faculty and Ann Arbor residents attended the event. Presidential Bicentennial Prof. Martha Jones gave the opening remarks at Monday…

…’s colloquium. The colloquium largely focused the University’s lack of diversity. On Monday, Sotomayor referenced the low number of African-American students at the University. As of October 2016, less…

… than 5 percent of students at the University are African American. “We are making large improvements towards a kind of equality but we are still far from it,” Sotomayor said. “When you look at…

… Daily Staff Reporter Office hours were held in the hallways of Haven Hall on Thursday as the Graduate Employees’ Organization — the labor union representing graduate student instructors and…

… finally was able to join my parents and brother.” In 2011, the Arab Spring saw the end of two long-term administrations, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Egyptian President Hosni…

… Mubarak. Syria’s own protests developed into violence after the torture of 15 teenage boys who voiced support of the Arab Spring. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad continued an assault on his citizens…

… Schlissel said he would not turn over students’ immigration information. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, however, backed the order, insisting it was not a Muslim ban but “placing the security…

… wonderful glide path to be able to deploy what we learn in the real world very quickly,” Morton said. Hu also initiated a student Scholars Program through MCubed — which stimulates innovative…

… undergraduate participant for summer work. The graduate level program is similar but allocates $8,000 per student to those involved. “I’m very supportive of undergraduate research,” Hu said…

… us in the next year to continue to get a glimpse into the future.” One initiative that Morton said has improved the multidisciplinary dialogue between Mcity and law students was the…

….” The executive branch of Central Student Government has expressed its reservations for the proposed resolution because of its exclusivity and its lack of precise details regarding the time…

…, location, size and mediation of the discussion lunches. However Devin Jones, an LSA senior who identified as a Palestinian student, noted the privateness of the proposed lunches were due to…

… humanity and address us-- Muslim, Jewish, Black, Arab, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized students on campus-- in person on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at the Michigan Union.” Several administrators…

… Michigan Union, organized by Students4Justice. As part of the protest, S4J wrote up a list of demands that it wants the administration to meet. The first demand reads as follows: “Acknowledge our…

… attracted students, faculty and administrators alike. I saw a video of Schlissel confronting protesters, who were angry about the spate of racist and anti-Semitic emails, and the subsequent lack of…

… helplessness that renders you silent, that kept you invisible on the night of a student protest and sitting in luxury seating at a classical musical concert on the very next night. Schlissel feels…

… “helpless” to the demands being made by activist groups on campus. President Schlissel, if I can address you here, you ought to know that you are not alone. Your students who make demands of you also…

… feel helpless. And it is not actually an option for you to feel helpless and then to subsequently refuse to meet with the very students who are calling for change. That’s like me, as a young boy…

…, crying because I’m hungry but then refusing to eat the food my parents give me. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot feel helpless and then refuse to engage your students, who know best what…

… supremacist United States government. Similarly, the idea that demands do not start a conversation presupposes that there are other options for these students to be taking up. It presupposes a sort of…

… absolute innocence on the part of the administration, as if it has done nothing to perpetrate the need for demands. Of course, these students understand that a demand is different from a request…

…, from setting up a meeting with the president like other students — those students, for example, who do not feel as if their lives are threatened and their humanity silenced — might do. These…

… allocate resources toward that community and reach out to members. “When something goes on on campus, if we want to connect with Arab American students, Middle Eastern students, or Middle Eastern…

… at University Health Service, stated that for students who obtain an illness that needs to be treated at an outside facility, health insurance is a requirement. She has found, however, that…

… many students at the University do not have their own health insurance and cannot receive this treatment. She continued by explaining that the portion of the ACA that allows young adults to…

… stay on their parent’s health insurance until age 26 is crucial for college students. Claire Fitzgerald, a senior majoring in political science, gender and health studies and business, was also a…

… member of the panel. She described her experiences as a college student and how the ACA has affected her and her classmates. “For college students in particular, the ACA gives us the ability to…

… individuals to advocate for the ACA. Panelist Michael Budros, a Rackham student, stressed the importance of outreach and education, especially toward those who may not understand the entirety of the…

… major effects from other health care plans. He explained the importance of students from this generation attending panels such as this one and educating themselves on issues that could change very…

…, they are still regarded as white. So basically, we don’t have a count on how many Arab Americans or Middle East Americans exist in the United States, we don’t know how many exist in the University…

… of Michigan.” Public Policy junior Nadine Jawad, who serves as senior policy adviser to CSG, stressed the importance of having a record of how many ME/NA students there are on campus to…

… and North African students and people identifying in this category, it’s very hard to reach out to a population of people that you don’t even know where they are, how many exist on this campus…

… derogatory. Moreover, LSA and the Division of Student Life, two of the largest units that deal directly with students, lack concrete efforts in their DEI plans to appeal to students with…

…. These oversights manifest in the infrastructure of our campus, as students with physical disabilities have identified seemingly simple issues that have just been ignored by the University…

…-compliant buildings may include accessible pieces of infrastructure such as ramps or wide hallways, these implementations often segregate students with physical disabilities, who consequently must use…

… students to see, hear or participate, especially in a large room. Some of these design oversights even endanger students with disabilities. For example, a significant number of West Quad’s “accessible…

…” rooms are located on the fifth floor, creating potentially life-threatening danger for students with physical disabilities in the event of a fire or other emergency restricting use of the elevator…

…. These design flaws send the message that students with physical disabilities are not wanted — or even safe — in our main spaces. In order to craft more inclusive building and service plans, it is…

… crucial the University consults with several students with disabilities, as each student has different experiences and personalized needs and can provide a nuanced understanding of what it means to…

…. “They only have aspirations to be stay-at-home moms.” While Makki acknowledges many students take Arabic with intentions of using the skill for political purposes, she believes there should be a…

…. Though no specific plan for the protection of students with refugee status has been released by the administration, as requested by a petition signed by more than 1,400 students, faculty and…

… staff, the International Center issued a statement with recommendations for students who may be impacted. Echoing sentiments from a statement made by University President Mark Schlissel…

… together and work together.” First-year MBA student Rachel DeLeon helped organize the event and told the Daily that the purpose of #OneRoss was to support fellow students affected by the…

… executive order. “We have classmates that are going to be affected by this,” Deleon said. “We want to represent love and support for (them).” In an email sent to the Ross student body, Won included…

… a personal statement from Business graduate student Banafsheh Bagheri, an Iranian- Canadian whose travel has been severely restricted. “If I left the country, I may have to say goodbye to…

… means that I won’t be able to see my family, that they won’t be able to visit me.” In the evening, the Ross Student Government Association organized an open panel to address concerns and…

… questions from the community. Approximately 100 people attended the panel which included immigration lawyers as well as University of Michigan officials and faculty. The panel advised students…

… an executive order and what this particular order means for University students. The panel discussed how the order essentially revokes existing visas and may have residual effects…

… vigilance regardless of where students are from. The panel advised travelers to have an immigration attorney on call and told students to carry all forms of documentation that they could — even a…

… of a female student forced to remove her hijab, provoking large student protests — though AAPD later determined the incident did not occur. A similar crime alert labeled as “ethnic intimidation…

…’t want to talk to anybody. The caring and support seemed unreal.” Ross sophomore Mariam Doudi, a first-generation Sudanese-American from Dearborn, said growing up as a Black-Arab Muslim, she…

… struggled to fit in with either Black or Arab communities. “My whole life I have been defined by my physical attributes, contributing to a lifetime of insecurity in terms of not belonging,” Doudi…

… said. “On top of all my struggles that I have as a Black Arab, comes the fact that I am a hijabi. I am fighting two battles.” Doudi said President Donald Trump’s recent immigration ban on seven…

… meaning of hijab, and to hear the stories of University students striving for social change through their activism. Hong said she was appreciative that the event coordinators were able to…

… night’s incident was followed by a robbery on Saturday night and two armed robberies on Jan. 25. Lige said the consistent pattern of the crimes should be worrisome to students. “They have all…

… occurred downtown near campus,” Lige said. “They all involve a U of M student. They all involve a student walking by himself or herself and in each case, a firearm has been produced with robbery being…

…. Lige echoed the victim and said no physical possessions you own are worth risking your life over. “If any student or member of the community is accosted in a way that we are seeing with these…

… sort of core coordination over that makes it so that whatever it is that we’re producing is going to have the greater potential of being useful.” Kristine Auwers, a Information master’s student…

… almost any school in the state. Ten LSA Student Government voted on a resolution Wednesday evening to change the current textbook used in Arabic classes at the University of Michigan. The…

… LSA SG, Page 3A LSA reps. approve textbook resolution STUDENT GOVERNMENT Proposal to change Arabic dept. materials passes unanimously MOLLY NORRIS For the Daily AMELIA CACCHIONE…

… the MichiGames arcade — has been installed and is now used to showcase student- made video games. Despite its appearance, the MichiGames arcade differs from traditional gaming units…

… annual competition where teams have 48 hours to create a complete video game. MichiGames arcade was first developed by Austin Yarger, an Engineering graduate student and EECS 494 instructor…

…. In December of 2007, the Pinellas County School Board of Pinellas County, Fla., discontinued its integration policy. Violence and a decline in student performance struck the school systems…

…, and in 2015, the Tampa Bay Times released “Failure Factories,” a five-part investigation of the effects on both students and the community. As part of The Livingston Lectures and the Martin…

… differences in test scores between students among local schools. Cara had previous experience with four other large districts in Florida before reporting for the Tampa Bay Times, and had noticed…

… that Black students in Pinellas had lower standardized test scores than those in the other school districts she had covered. “Simultaneously, Lisa, who had come from Washington, was interested in…

… their research, their data showed even more striking results. They found in the Pinellas school district, 84 percent of Black elementary students were failing state exams. As the schools…

… continued to become more segregated, the test scores of their students continued to decline. “Today they score worse than any school in the county,” LaForgia said. “They score worse than…

… Leija, UMS director of education and community engagement, spoke about wanting university and high- school students to start more conversation after the show. He reflected on his own education…

… more about their identities and their stories — it’s really important for us to keep the story going.” One of the five speakers, Amir Khafagy, is a Muslim of Arab and Puerto-Rican heritage. In the…

… a new way of seeing it, with tradition and culture and community, in a way that I haven’t seen in Hillel before.” In the workshop following the dinner, students answered prompts asking what…

… countries herself, event organizer Mina Jafari, a Rackham student, expressed her own confusion about how the ban inspired her to bring information to her peers. “I’m from one of those seven countries…

…,” Jafari said. “It’s not just international students from those seven countries; the entire international community is very worried about what’s going to happen next.” Panelists aimed to…

… satisfy this need for knowledge by speaking about the legal and administrative aspects of the executive order. Each stressed the complexity of the issue and encouraged students to reach out to any…

… collaboration aimed to advocate for students’ rights under the order. BAN From Page 1A Read more online at michigandaily.com Read more online at michigandaily.com space for them to speak, the media is…

… people don’t take it seriously and the University is becoming more accepting. I just wish it was faster.” Fourth-year medical student Harold Gomez saw the event on Facebook and felt his views…

…. “I think it’s important that those things are discussed in a more mainstream venue.” Taubman graduate student Phillip Redpath came to hear the talk because he’s using elements of Solnit’s work…

… up so that they feel more educated on the topic.” Cole started by explaining how the conflict began with peaceful protests in Syria in March 2011, around the time of the Arab Spring, in which…

… sources that many college students are exposed to. “I think it’s important for students to come to events like these if only to stay informed,” she said. “There’s not a whole lot we, as students…

… addition to funding increases, Snyder’s budget recommendation also includes a provision to limit any tuition increases to 3.8 percent or $475 per student in order for a university to…

… increases down and ultimately allow more students to pursue their educational dream,” LaSata said. Contradicting this idea, Rabhi said he believes this will have a vicious effect on higher education…

…. “Federal student aid only accounts for roughly 3% of Michigan’s higher education spending, the majority of the higher education budget actually goes to ‘University Operations,’ ” Zalamea wrote…

…. “Without more transparency, I personally wouldn’t want my taxpayer money going towards university sponsored partisan events or towards the discounted tuition rates of undocumented students.” In…

… students, we would strongly urge the legislature and Governor to support our students by increasing funding even more.” HIGHER ED From Page 1 threat to physical well-being. “Obviously the risks are…

… about what your story will change I think it’s important for students to come to events like these if only to stay informed RALLY From Page 1 He’s going to get away with half the things…

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… like everyone else. His first student film, “My Josephine” is a peek into that era. He tweeted that sharing the film was “a reminder to myself to channel this energy, to cre- ate.” Written and…

… directed shortly after 9/11, the film follows two Arab immigrants, Aadid and Adela, working in a laundro- mat, cleaning US flags for free in the wake of the attack. In a contemplative Arabic…

…The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government hosted a Twitter town hall Thursday afternoon, asking students and other CSG members to submit questions to Regents Shauna Ryder…

…. Currently, it costs lower- division students $7,037 for undergrad — an increase from the 2015-2016 school year’s $6,764 2014-2015’s $6,579. Many students asked how they could further play a role…

… in the University and connect with the Board of Regents. Last semester, many students felt the Regents lacked transparency. CSG hosted a similar town hall last semester, with Newman and…

… Regent Mark Bernstein (D). The student government has also taken steps to instating student voices on the board through the new Student Advisory Council. In early September, the board also…

…. WHO: Information and Technology Services WHEN: 11 a.m. to Noon WHERE: Michigan Union, Room G312 Middle Eastern Languages Fair WHAT: Guests from Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish and…

…:30 p.m. WHERE: Institute for Social Research, Room 6050 A Dangerous Experiment WHAT: Written and directed by LSA and RC students, this play follows the struggles of five women as they experience…

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…Between Two Worlds: BY NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT, SENIOR ARTS EDITOR Muslim Students’ Association Carves its Place on Campus Wednesday, February 8, 2017 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, February 8, 2017…

… interminable Qur’an reading les- sons. The faith is ingrained in me, even if I’m not particularly devout. Save for a blatantly Arabic first name, I am not out- wardly Muslim, nor do I go out of my way to…

…- lim student organization on campus — weekly jumuah, cross-legged, my left foot gradually falling asleep, listening to the imam. He is the Chaplain, Shaykh Mohammed Ishtiaq, and he’s a jolly, fully…

… carpet, the sisters sit, identical. In this post-election climate, the role of the Muslim student activist is in flux. There is an urgent immediacy to, well, do something. A few days after the…

… more evocative activism? What is the current state of Muslim student leader- ship in the face of a politically legitimized hatred and bigotry? For people like me — people who have, for some reason or…

… of MSA are fairly standardized. On Monday nights, the group holds a small event called “Mini-Qiyam.” A qiyam is a student-led lecture that ranges from religious educa- tion to application. Tuesday…

… out- door prayer on the Diag, planned as an impromptu act of solidarity for the Mus- lim women who were allegedly attacked and harassed earlier that week. More than 200 students and faculty members…

… look down as he mentions the num- ber of non-Muslim students who attend- ed, hoping he won’t ask if I was there. “We were very happy and pleasantly surprised by how many people showed up,” Shaikh…

… the better, and bring the light and the beauty of our faith into this society?” Elturk’s speech is peppered with Arabic phrases and snippets of the Qur’an. (I suffer the occasional PTSD- flashback…

… becoming a student activist when activism is sim- ply a social yoke? When you’re already an “other,” when you’re already the per- son who’s always described in the sec- ondhand as “some [insert ethnicity…

… Students Association, I tell myself; of course he’s part of the Muslim Student Association, they’ll say about me. Of course now I’m second-guessing myself. I make the journey to North Quad on a…

… shout Future lyrics while weirdly specific Arabic music plays from some kid’s speakers. They look like they’re having fun. I’m introduced to Mazen Oweiss. He’s a director, a junior like me, and…