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… me different … I didn’t expect it at college and I didn’t expect it at Michigan.” Dagher learned about the Arab Student Association through a group chat she created with members of her Dearborn…

…Daily.com Read more at MichiganDaily.com CARTER FOX/Daily Students perform “Wil3it Dabke,” choreographed by Sally Kafelghazal and Nicola Nunu, during the Arab Xpressions event at the Power Center Saturday evening…

…Ann Arbor residents and University of Michigan students gathered Friday Night in the tea room of Crazy Wisdom Bookstore to discuss ways to protest conservative author and commentator Ben…

… Michigan this past fall hoping to find a close-knit Arab community similar to the one she had at home in Dearborn. But initially, Dagher didn’t see this community on campus. She recalled how she didn…

… Arab community. After attending events and meeting people with similar backgrounds to her own, Dagher became more involved in the Arabesque Dance Troupe and ASA. This past Saturday, Dagher took…

… part in Arab Xpressions, a celebration of Arab heritage. Xpressions is an annual performance partnered with Arabesque and ASA that showcases Arab culture through aspects such as music…

…, poetry, dance and song. The theme of year’s performance was “Ajyal,” Arabic for “generations.” Dagher found herself involved with many different parts of Xpressions this year. She had a role in a…

… conclusion of the show. “You see Xpressions and you see, ‘Oh, this is a way that my culture’s never been portrayed to me before,’” Dagher said. “It’s Arabs who are holding the narrative in their hands…

… preparations began in October. He said the implemented theme, generations, demonstrates the changing Arab identity over time and works to navigate the idea of what it means to be an Arab American on campus…

… ANN ARBOR Ann Arbor residents and ‘U’ students organize against conservative author ALYSSA MCMURTRY Daily Staff Reporter Presentations center around theme ‘absolute zero,’ discuss challenging…

… supporting Palestinian youth in Lebanon, along with the Lebanese Student Association, Arab Student Association and Students Allied for Freedom and Equality. LSA sophomore Nada Eldawy, who is a…

… the auto industry and can contaminate drinking water. In light of the continuing Palestinian refugee crisis, leaders from various Arab culture organizations convened for a teach-in Tuesday…

… copy editor and Michigan in Color editor for The Daily, and Jenna, a LEAP volunteer who asked to be identified by only her first name, led the presentation to a group of more than 30 students…

…. Since the adoption of United Nations Resolution 181, which partitioned the Palestinian territory into Jewish and Arab states in 1947, around 5 million refugees qualify for aid from the United…

… Nations Relief and Works Agency, a UN program that assists Palestinians displaced by the Arab-Israeli conflict. Most of these displaced people settle in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza…

… schools fail,” Jenna said. “A lot of the kids don’t want to go, a lot of them work in the middle of the day, and it’s one teacher with 50 students. They were recently criticized because the kids…

… Minority Floor Leader Yousef Rabhi introduces bill to discontinue session BEN ROSENFELD Daily Staff Reporter DARBY STIPE/ DAILY LSA student Jenna speaks to her experiences volunteering in a Palestinian…

… refugee camp in Lebanon and the difficul- ties Palestinians face in East Quad Tuesday. LEAP volunteers talk experience of Palestinian refugees in camps Students review time spent preparing children in…

… Maiman Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ali Safawi Ashley Zhang Sam Weinberger FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications…

… Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. MAYA GOLDMAN Editor in Chief MAGDALENA MIHAYLOVA…

… for discriminating against Israel’s minorities — allows Palestinian Arabs to sue Israel in a court of law. Neither the terror victim nor his family held Israeli citizenship or residency…

… continues to move through the courts, it may be heard by many Arab judges of Christian and Muslim faith in the Israeli circuit, including George Karra, an Arab justice on the Supreme Court of…

… Israel. This reality is a stark contrast to the widespread claims of mistreatment of Arabs in Israeli courts, and the insistence of groups such as the Palestinian Authority that, because…

… Israel is a Jewish nation, it is institutionally racist or discriminatory toward its minority Arab population. The Times of Israel also reported that the Jewish Agency for Israel, an…

… academia still continue to perpetuate the myth that Israel is an apartheid state that is only concerned with the fortunes of Jewish citizens, and regard Arabs as second-class citizens. In…

… ongoing case proves these claims to be falsehoods. After a rocket attack by Gazan-Palestinians, a family of Muslim Arabs, citizens under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, received the…

… the only country in the Middle East with a tolerant and equal society for minorities. A December 2017 study by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel found Israeli-Arabs had the…

… highest life expectancy among Arab populations from all countries in the Muslim world, at 79 years (though this is low compared to the Jewish population at 82.7 years and the OECD average of…

… Asian American Organization, the panel was a coalition of four POC orga- nizations on campus: UAAO, Black Student Union, La Casa and Arab Student Association. The panel featured faculty advisors and…

…During the winter months many students can face the pos- sibility of seasonal affective dis- order, a mood disorder causing depression to occur at the same time every year. While most people…

… an increase in students with SAD during the winter months, CAPS does not keep track of SAD-specific changes. “I can tell you that about 22 percent of our students report depression as their…

… students go to CAPS for help, with anxiety being the first. Hays could not confirm if there is an increase in students going to CAPS during the winter. “I don’t think so,” Hays said. “I have to say we…

…’re fortunate that the students find us to be helpful and we have tons of stu- dents who come in. So we don’t necessarily track that data.” Dolan also stressed the importance of understanding the…

… stories and coverage, visit CAMPUS LIFE ATTICUS RAASCH Daily Staff Reporter Campus resources help students combat seasonal affective disorder Employees at CAPS work to mitigate negative consequences…

… of SAD ‘U’ student caters to cosmetic demands CAMPUS LIFE Undergraduate provides threading services to others out of her house JULIETTE SIBLEY Daily Staff Reporter See JOURNALISM, Page 3A…

….com At the “Empowering Survivors: A Forum on Sexual Misconduct Policy” panel Wednesday night about 100 students gathered at the Ford School to discuss the new sexual misconduct policy at the…

… University of Michigan. The panel was held by Central Student Government and guests from the Office for Institutional Equity, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, the Office of Student…

… LSA junior, highlighted the findings from the campus climate survey on sexual misconduct, which found 11.4 percent of students, 22.5 percent of undergraduate females and 6.8 percent of…

… Maiman Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ali Safawi Ashley Zhang Sam Weinberger Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student…

… Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. MAYA GOLDMAN Editor in Chief MAGDALENA…

… views of their authors. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS T he University of Michigan has a rich and storied history of student activism. One vivid example is student activism against the…

… horrors of South African apartheid. But today, students have lost sight of that history, instead now organizing against the only stable democracy in the Middle East and resorting to anti-Semitism to…

… have picked up his mission to spread the light of freedom wherever darkness may exist. Students right here at the University of Michigan have an especially storied history of carrying on King…

…’s eternal struggle against injustice. When confronted with the menace of apartheid in South Africa, University students led the movement to tear down such an unjust system. In 1977, students launched…

… a divestment campaign against apartheid South Africa with the formation of the South Africa Liberation Committee. Through these organizations, students pressed University leadership to divest…

… Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. MAYA GOLDMAN Editor in Chief…

… solely the views of their authors. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS I t’s a Friday night in Ann Arbor and the promise of the weekend has students flocking to Main Street bars and clubs to engage in the…

… to the social scene of Ann Arbor, I set off across campus to talk to students. First, I wanted to learn more about fake IDs and how they texture the experiences of students at the University…

… and templates can run up to $2000 alone.” I spoke to some students on campus to see if these popular anecdotes were consistent with their experiences. First, I interviewed a student who had just…

…’s drinking water in the fall of 2018 showed a rise in PFAS levels since 2016, prompting responses from local elected representatives. Public Health student Andrea Winne, who attended Park’s talk…

…. Public Health students and other attendees said they hope to use Park’s seminar to advance their own research and discover exactly how PFAS in its different forms affects people’s health. Public…

… Health student Jarrod Eaton is conducting a capstone project on PFAS’s relation to metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. Eaton said the seminar presented by Park spurred ideas to apply to…

… day.” During a student panel portion of the event, when student couples engaged with Jones and Kempster on ideas surrounding relation- ships, LSA Junior Mike Zlonchev- ich discussed how his…

… cultural sites and lesson planning. Jenna said while her students were passionate about their future careers, they knew Palestinian refugees are barred from working in about 20 professions and…

… both Palestinians and Lebanese identify as Arabs. “To see inside of Lebanon is so different than inside of the West Bank,” Alabed said. “It was really surprising to me to see how Palestinians…

… were treated inside of Lebanon. I thought that, ‘Oh, Arabs would be there for each other,’ but I feel like it’s just as bad as in the West Bank.” LSA sophomore Maya Chamra said hearing about the…

…-doctoral students, graduate students and undergraduates, totaling about 40 members altogether. Each of these members stem from an array of different fields, including history, linguistics, literature…

… Magazine, which aims to increase discussion about mental health by provid- ing a platform for students to share their mental health experiences through writ- ing. “I have quite a few friends or…

… Michigan, I think it’s hard for students to get out of that slump.” As a result, CAPS has established Wellness Zones on campus. Wellness Zones come equipped with mas- sage chairs, yoga mats with…

… coming soon to North Cam- pus in collaboration with the Engineering Student Government, but has not yet opened. Graduate students can use the Wellness Zone in the Munger Graduate Resi- dences. For…

… outside in her advice to students. “Spend time outside, regardless of how cold it is,” Hays said. “Even if it’s cloudy, the rays seem to come through in a way that lifts the spirits. Trying to main…

… CAPS provides a multitude of resources for students on campus, some, like Learis, still bring up the issue of long waiting times for appointments. Learis said the issue of long waiting times can be…

… to see about 2,500 students this semester, con- tinuing a trend of substan- tial increases each semester for the past several years. However, the CAPS staff is at full capacity for their bud- get…

…, and I’ll be honest as the clin- ical director, it’s very chal- lenging right now to meet the needs of all the students who come to CAPS.” LSA senior Jordan Laza- rus is the executive direc- tor of…

… resources and I wish there was more,” Lazarus said. “I don’t run CAPS, but they exist to serve students. And I know that compared to a lot of campuses that I do inter- face with, CAPS here is real- ly 50…

… on duty every day for walk-in meet- ings. “Now that (walk-in meet- ings) is a first-come, first- served service, so sometimes students might have to wait to see the counselor on duty, but we have…

…. This is my tiger mom. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. New Latinx student magazine creates a revolutionary place in history for itself An Arab bazaar Tiger Mom: Deconstructed NA’KIA CHANNEY…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, February 4, 2018— 3A Photo courtesy of the author Photo courtesy of the author Founded on the mission for Latinx students to…

… students have contributed immensely to crafting the legacy of the University of Michigan, they also knew that evidence of these efforts were not as largely celebrated or recognized. Most of these…

… pick up the initiative in molding a space for Latinx students to preserve and culminate their experiences. Latinidad released their first issue, “On the Border of Humanity,” in December 2018…

… involvement have struggled due to lack of institutional support. However, Latinidad is the accumulation of generations worth of student, faculty and community efforts to archive, preserve and uplift the…

…. Dearborn is like an Arab Bazaar, filled with people from all walks of life. There are people from Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Syria and more. However, every bazaar has its issues. Sometimes…

… that’s really frightening about this policy is that it has frightened so many of the people that care about you as students on campus,” Lucas said. “So, the only reason that I’m here tonight is to…

… support the student voice … but I’m also here to represent the people that told me they were too frightened to speak.” CSG Vice President Isabel Baer said she heard that the new policy was partially…

… to the group’s presentation, the median family income for University students in Ann Arbor is $154,000, compared to $84,000 in Dearborn and $77,000 in Flint. In addition, there is a large gap…

… in the percentage of students eligible to receive the Federal Pell Grant at each campus, a grant in which the government provides funding for students in need of financial support for college…

…. According to the presenters, in Ann Arbor, 15 percent of students are eligible for the grant, compared to the 39 percent eligible in Flint, and 42 percent in Dearborn. To resolve these issues, LSA…

… dedicated toward Dearborn or Flint, according to Krabti. “I think there’s a duty for Ann Arbor students here on this campus who are closest to the administration to really speak up the loudest about this…

… the group to spread awareness of these disparities among the student body. Grand said the new amendment would allow temporary city employees such as election workers to be able to sit on…

… Margo Dickstein, who plans to volunteer in Israel this summer, told The Daily after the event that she hopes to gain a better understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict, echoing Reynold’s point…

… Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. MAYA GOLDMAN Editor…

… Arabic language and culture, they never wanted their kids to feel the same isolation and alienation they once felt. Out of love and protection, they gave me and my three siblings “hybrid” names…

… inconvenience, what my parents once did to safeguard me from discrimination, inevitably served as the erasure of my Arab identity that I proudly carry. The concoction of my fair skin, my…

… behind this facade. Throughout middle school and high school, I switched between the “white” version of my name and the “Arab” version. Should I settle for the ease of a quick introduction or…

… from young people, especially students. Contrary to talking points from some conservatives, youth support for single-payer health care isn’t the result of our gen- eration’s laziness and desire for…

… percent of those under 35 have had trouble paying for health care. As a result, young people are forced to choose between taking care of their health, paying back student loans and covering basic new…

… Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. MAYA GOLDMAN Editor in Chief…

… his opposition. For example, protests erupted in Bahrain in 2011 as part of the Arab Spring. The country’s Shia majority wanted equality and greater political freedom. In response to the…

… part of the Arab Spring in 2011. Assad refused to back down and responded with incredible violence against his own citizens, leading to a civil war that has killed and displaced hundreds of…