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… night. Hosted by the office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA), the event concluded a month of Arab cultural festivities featuring workshops, performances and guest speakers. The ceremony…

… began with Arabic food and people gathering around tables. MESA Program Manager Jesús Galvan greeted students and families as they walked into Trotter Center. Taubman freshman Lynn Samman…

…, the event coordinator for the closing ceremony, began by thanking MESA and the Arab Student Association for their support in empowering the Arab community on campus. She then recognized…

… YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Former music professor sentenced to prison for sex crimes In the mid-1980s, a North Carolina School of the Arts student took a brave step that affected the rest of her…

… high school career: she met with Robert Hickok, the school’s dean, to report that Stephen Shipps, her violin teacher, had attempted to kiss her during her lesson. The student requested anonymity…

…, the student remembered Hickok’s response. “(Shipps is) a very affectionate man: ‘Are you sure you didn’t misunderstand it?’” Meghan recalled Hickok saying. (Hickok is deceased; two students…

… reports. It is also unclear if the school communicated these complaints to the University of Michigan. In 2017, a former student of Shipps’s emailed the then-interim dean of the Music, Theatre & Dance…

… music, the chair of strings and the director of a youth music program through the Music, Theatre & Dance School. He had previously served as the school’s associate dean. The former student that…

… MichiganDaily.com Stephen Shipps receives five years after guilty verdict on exploitation of a minor The Arab Heritage Month Closing Ceremony took place at the Trotter Multicultural Center Thursday…

… each of the Arab Heritage Month committee members, thanking them for their work in putting on various events throughout the past month. “We would like to recognize all our committee members…

… want, do what I want and I loved it. I championed the agenda to my Arab and Muslim family, who told me not to be like those Godless Amerkaan who showed their bodies and slept around and didn’t care…

… change everything about yourself that makes you “other.” Your Arab nose, your thick curly hair. We will eat up the parts of your culture we deem worthy. Your delicious food, your exotic dancing. We…

… applications are always equipped with stress, self-doubt and insecurity. I feel alone in academic and social settings at the University of Michigan, with about 55% of the student population being white and…

… the median family income being a staggering $154,000 for the Fall 2020 undergraduate population. I, as a minority student who does not have the privilege of wealth nor whiteness, have had to endure…

…, whiteness and years of enhanced feelings of being an imposter. Interacting with students in my sociology, political science and public policy classes has resulted in very interesting yet uncomfortable…

… conversations. It seems like almost every student has been interning for their local congressman since high school and have parents who own their own law firm. Comparing my background and experiences to…

… surrounding internships or any other professional opportunity, the number of white students who seem to have been handed positions because of their family’s privilege is honestly astounding. This past…

…. Some groups, like the student-led J Street U, think there should be Palestinian or Israeli Arab speakers in addition to Birthright’s slate of Jewish Israeli speakers. I see J Street’s efforts as…

… the state of Israel and its treatment of Palestinian people on this campus, much of it impassioned and heated. This February, the University of Michigan’s Central Student Government met to…

… espouses the doctrine that “Arabs are dogs” and endorses forced removal of any non- Jews in the country. Before he was a politician, Ben-Gvir was even convicted on charges of supporting a terrorist…

… American Jews, who are mostly Reformed, Conservative or Secular. Many American Jews, especially young ones like the estimated 6,500 in our student body, find themselves in a dilemma because they…

… number of American Jews who doubt the Israeli government is making a sincere effort to promote peace. One student who went on Birthright ended up leaving Israel with more doubts about the country…

… Editorial Board formally endorsed the MPower ticket for president and vice president of the University of Michigan’s Central Student Government. The Daily’s support for MPower’s candidates…

… demonstrates their apathy towards the 5,000 undergraduate and nearly 1,500 graduate Jewish students at the University. Given MPower’s insensitive rhetoric, The Daily must claim responsibility for their…

… included direct quotations from their platform below: (1) “We pledge to staunchly fight … antisemitism (and) Zionism …” (2) “End the Central Student Government’s trip/all University- sponsored trips to…

… the mention of adding Kosher options to campus and the commitment towards fighting antisemitism. However, MPower has yet to hold or attend events to engage with Jewish students and their…

… communities. Merely mentioning issues that “appeal” to a Jewish student body without engaging in discussion is tokenizing and disingenuous. How can you fight antisemitism without engaging in discussion…

… not being where I “need to be.” Coming from a high school that is composed of an overwhelmingly Arab stu- dent body, where most students are not met with the opportunity of moving away for col- lege…

… or even attending a university like the University of Michigan, I face a new struggle of assimilating into a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) as an underrepresented student of Color. Dealing…

… my sheltered, small town of predominantly Arabs and Mus- lims. I also held the fears of not being able to achieve my academic and personal goals, not only because of my own barriers but because of…

… room where the information session was being held. I caught the glances of all the other older students in the room and immediately felt my body shrivel up. There was a teacher at the front of the…

… classroom with a stack of papers on a desk, and a line of students in front of her. I quietly stood in line and twiddled my thumbs, avoiding eye contact with the other students before I eventually made…

… it to the teacher and her desk. “Hi there, what’s your name?” “Smarani.” The teacher immediately looked puz- zled. I could feel the students behind me in line becoming impatient as the teacher…

… sort, showing a list of a bunch of students’ first and last names. “The last name is Komanduri, K-O- M-A-N-D-U-R-I,” I added. I figured the roster was alphabetized by last name and hoped I could…

…, the teacher stopped me. “Oh, sweetie, could you hang back for a sec?” I slowly paced over to her desk as all the other students made their way out the door, taking a final quick glance in my…

…. A few months ago, I obtained a statement that was sent to the prosecutors working on Shipps’s criminal case. The statement came from a former North Carolina School of the Arts violin student. In…

…’ inappropriate sexual conduct,” the former student wrote, “and allowed it to continue for 30 more years at the University of Michigan … This could have all ended in 1986 if (he) had taken the appropriate…

… description that they actively address allegations of sexual misconduct that leave some of their students feeling unsafe. Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s (“The Law in These Parts”) “The Viewing Booth” is perhaps…

… surprising, and her occasional racist commentary is embarrassing: “They lie a lot,” she says, referring to Arabs. She watches the videos with a confusing mix of open-mindedness and disbelief…

…, acknowledging that these videos depict real events, but searching for the missing piece, the Arab instigation. At one point, Levy asks: “Why would I believe this?” In other words, if she believes the…

… to Levy that the reason he focuses the film entirely on her, despite interviewing other students, is because she represents the intended viewer of his past films. Levy’s steadfast skepticism is of…

…2 — Monday, April 6, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the…

… Kizziah, Brendan Roose, Kent Schwartz, Molly Shea Senior Video Editors: Joseph Sim Senior Social Media Editors: Jessie Norris, Mya Steir, Kristina Zheng Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building…

… willing to support.” Nguyen said stay-at-home orders and citywide shutdowns have led students and community members to feel powerless in the face of a looming economic crisis. Turning to…

…, plagiarism and unacceptable collaboration. The website also lists among other forms of misconduct “aiding and abetting dishonesty,” or when students deliberately or inadvertently provide…

… material or information to another person that allows for improper use. Though the students interviewed by The Daily mentioned their concerns regarding an increase in cheating in the digital…

… classroom, The Daily cannot verify the extent to which cheating is currently occurring. In Said Hannouchi’s Arabic 402 class, Hannouchi, the Arabic language program director, said he shares his…

… screen during in-class live quizzes to avoid having copies spread out and shared with students between class sections. He also said sharing the screen restricts students from consulting other…

… have the answers. They don’t have full sentences or the prompts that are given to them.” However, Hannouchi said he trusts his students and said he only wants to mirror in-class conditions…

…. “I know my students,” Hannouchi said. “I’m not worried, actually. When I did that, I’m not worried about cheating. (I’m just) trying to simulate what we’re doing in the class.” Prior to the…

… student. Though instructors may choose to handle simple cases on their own, the OAD requests a summary to be reported after the conclusion of the incident and for complex cases to be immediately…

… Saturday afternoon. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Winter 2022 semester by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to…

…, Mae Veidlinger, Kirti Aplash, Jacob Cohen Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily.com SPORTS…

…, which collected and disposed of unused or expired medications in an environmentally friendly way to protect the ecosystem. This event was led by two student organizations within the…

… College of Pharmacy: American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Student Pharmacists and Phi Delta Chi, a professional pharmacy fraternity founded in Ann Arbor. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic…

… Pharmacy worked together to efficiently sort and dispose of the waste. Pharmacy student Brendan Veit was among the student volunteers at the Ingalls Mall location. He said the goal of this event…

…@umich.edu. Iraqi Student Association invites UMich campus community to a night of Chai & Chobi RONI KANE Daily News Editor Over 100 attendees gather at Rackham in celebration of dance, food and culture…

… Light from the chandeliers in the Rackham Assembly Hall reflected off the bejeweled djellaba dresses worn by members of the Iraqi Student Association (ISA) as they hosted their third…

… Institute (BLI) — a student and faculty- run organization within LSA that awards funding to student projects that will benefit the campus community. LSA senior Diana Ramo, ISA treasurer, was…

… experience,” Ramo said. — pronounced “shay” and often transliterated to “chai” in English — is the Arabic word for tea. In Iraq, chai is often served at events and is one of the most important hot…

… entire life, I am not entirely fluent in Arabic. There has always been a twinge of shame underlying that fact, breeding a strange sense of inadequacy in me. No matter how much I’d like for…

… pronunciation of Arabic words, distinctly marking me as an imposter when communicating with my friends who spoke the language with ease. They watched as I struggled with the complex inflections that the…