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… significant change in the Palestinian mentality, until we see a significant change in the Palestinian leadership, I don’t think they deserve a state at this point.” The Arab Student Association and…

…-Islamophobia training for CSG members. The statement said the community needs public acknowledgment and administrative action in order to heal. “Ben Gerstein sat across the executive board of the Arab Student…

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, February 20, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM University of Michigan students are opting to take math classes at other…

… schools because of the reputation of the department’s classes being more difficult, students told The Daily. Students interviewed by The Daily said the University’s math classes pose a significant…

… at community colleges can be transferred for credit to fulfill graduation requirements or major prerequisites. Students need to receive a C or higher in the course for the credits to…

… transfer. The catch: the grade does not affect students’ GPA. Engineering sophomore Lauren McNamee, a prospective mechanical engineering major, opted to take the equivalent of Math 215: Multivariable…

… and Vector Calculus the summer after her freshman year at Pennsylvania State University’s Abington campus in Abington, Pennsylvania. Like McNamee, many students choose to take classes in the…

…, Michigan math is just the worst.” The College of Engineering Peer Mentor Program offers incoming students resources to encourage student involvement and development of academic, social and personal…

… interests. As an Engineering peer mentor, McNamee helps incoming College of Engineering students transition to college life. GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let…

… Athreya See STEM, Page 3 See EXXON, Page 3 JULIA SCHACHINGER/Daily University of Michigan Law students protest against the law firm that represents ExxonMobil at a recruitment event at Pizza House…

… Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE 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. ELIZABETH LAWRENCE Editor in Chief EMILY CONSIDINE AND MILES STEPHENSON Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the…

… administration’s framework to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. With the deal finally published in detail, a wide spectrum of responses arose into the discourse. Overall, there appeared to be approval from…

… no’s.” The use of the term “Arab-Israeli conflict” to refer to the tension that has lasted — in one way or another — for over a century, is purposeful. Arab states and their leaders have always…

… consequential 1967 Six-Day War into motion and the 2002 Saudi-led Arab Peace Initiative that conditioned the establishment of formal ties between Israel and Arab states on the premise that Israel withdraw…

… to the 1949 armistice lines, or as they have often been called, the “1967 Lines.” It is clear that the position taken by Arab leaders has proved influential in determining much of the discourse…

… surrounding the conflict, if not the facts on the ground themselves. With such context in mind, the response of many important Arab figures to the release of the Trump plan is quite notable. On Jan. 28…

…, when the details of the plan were put out in full, dignitaries from many Arab countries either came to Washington to show support for the deal or released statements encouraging the diplomatic…

… efforts and urging acceptance of the plan as a basis for ongoing talks. Such countries include Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Their support for the plan as a start…

… to future negotiations, and even support for the plan itself, is telling because it reveals the beginnings of a shift in the attitude of the Arab world towards the plight of Palestinian…

… complicit in the oppression of Palestinians through my past actions.” The statement from Arab Student Association and SAFE also called on CSG to recognize a resolution passed in 2017 supporting…

… work that I need to do.” CSG Communications Director Alex Johnson released a statement Wednesday night, acknowledging the harm done to the Palestinian, Muslim and Arab students on campus by…

… support Palestinian, Muslim and Arab students on campus,” Johnson wrote. “In the next several days, President Gerstein hopes to listen to the concerns and needs of impacted students and work…

…, associate vice provost for academic affairs and senior director of Academic Human Resources, said the University values graduate students and is working towards a fair agreement. “We recognize the…

… importance of graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants to the academic mission of the university and to the academic success of our students,” said Sascha Matish, associate…

… decades, the University has grown exponentially, adding thousands of students and faculty. GEO member Joseph Valle said the University had not adjusted to this growth. “Over the past several…

… decades, the University has continued to grow,” Valle said. “Tens of thousands of more students and employees … yet the University has built a total of a thousand new beds on campus in the past…

… University to drop its charges against the arrested climate advocacy protestors who sought a meeting with Schlissel at the Fleming Administrative Building on March 15, 2019. Rackham student Akash Shah…

… provide a platform where we can express our views.” According to Rackham student Juan Jhong Chung, who participated in the protests at COP 25, the movement was a peaceful demonstration led by…

… still a bit clunky,” Berg said. “It doesn’t open directly to the live map, which I think for students, that’s the feature they use most. It’s not terribly responsive, and the bus positions don…

… Berman, Temple University history professor and member of the JSAN coordinating committee, said the order specifically targets students who have origins tied to Israel, including Palestinian…

… and CSG’s collective commitment towards ensuring this campus is inclusive for our Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students,” Gerstein said. “We look forward to getting to work in the last four weeks…

…GEO President Emily Gauld, a Rackham student, spoke to The Daily before the grade-in and described GEO’s disappointment with the University’s rejection of proposals for promoting equitable and…

… a contract agreement addressing pay caps on mental health services, formation of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Graduate Student Student Assistant positions and greater protections for…

… international graduate students. This contract was the result of 27 bargaining sessions, multiple sit-ins and threats of a walk-out. Gauld said the purpose of the grade-in was both a response to HR…

…’s proposal rejections and its impact on the future of graduate student workers. “We see it really as an opportunity to make the labor that graduate students do visible,” Gauld said. “We’ve been asked…

… sure that it’s clear what exactly that labor is, how much we put into this University, and that our asks do not outweigh the work that we do.” Rackham student Sumeet Patwardhan, co-chair of the…

… GEO Bargaining Committee, attended the grade-in and spoke to The Daily about how GEO’s purpose and values impacted him. “When I first became a graduate student here, I didn’t even know what a…

… graduate student worker all by myself but that there is this union that would be collectively fighting for us.” The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, February 21, 2020 — 3 REGENTS From…

… Page 1 CLUB From Page 1 GRADE-IN From Page 1 ASL From Page 1 Read more at MichiganDaily.com “Due to this increase, fewer than 12 students from the waitlist (who have not studied ASL previously…

…) are able to begin the ASL sequence each year with the first-semester language course.” The ASL program was established in 1999 in response to a student-led initiative to bring ASL courses…