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… Whitney ElIott Daily Staff Reporter June Gin is currently a graduate student instructor for Communication Studies 102 and a second-year SNRE doctoral student. Although she has been a Comm 102 GSI several…

… bottom line budgeting doesn't give the commu- nications department enough money to hire me." The new budget only gives departments enough money to hire LSA graduate students or graduate students whose…

… tuition is comparable to that of an LSA graduate student. Departments keep whatever money that remains after they fin- ish hiring GSIs. University officials are keeping tight-lipped about the new policy…

…- sion of LSA, said students have been hired from outside the department in the past, but the budget leaves little room for that next year. "We now have a budget only to provide a tuiti who an L M Emp…

… answered. See BUDGETING, Page 7A Arab American center opens at ~U' Dearborn By Efzabeth Kassab Daily Staff Reporter The newly-established Center for American Studies on the Universi- Dearborn campus seeks…

… to appeal to southeastern Michigan's sizeable Arab American population. "There's nothing like this," said the center's interim director, Robert Stock- ton. The center is unprecedented in its effort to…

… The Michigan Daily - Monday, April 2, 2001_- A &BUDGETING Continued from Page1A ,You feel like you re being ignored,' he said. 'No one told us' Sociology doctoral student ('edic deLeon said he is…

… experi- encing another problem related to LSA budgeting. The sociol- ogy department has decided to only give fellowships to raduate 'students who reach candidacy by the end of their third year, deLcon sad…

…. This will 110 into effect for current second-year graduate studetnts and all students after that group. "They're comingt up vv ith acompromise for third-year students for a half-year fellowship and a…

… half-year GSI-ship;" deLeon said. But deLeon said third-year students who were countingI on - a full fellowship are still worried. "The people in my year are terrified because they didn't know this would…

… happen. No one told us. It just came at us. We're scrambling," deLeon said. Gin said when she was hired in previous years, the depart- ments did not consider what collcge she was a student in. "Ihey were…

… doinut tuition-blind hiing back then. Now the * departments in LSA are constricted by this bottom line bud- cetinm, (il said. Gin said departments need to hire graduate students from schools outside of LSA…

… free talk will be held in the Art and Architecture auditorium on North Campus. U' students design, present exhibit A panel of University student cura- tors of the African Art of Dual Worlds e4iibit will…

… speak at "Gallery Talk," sponsored by the University Museum of Art at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. The students will discuss their exhibit, which is a project of their African art class taught by University art…

… researcher Dana Rush. Student speakers include Rebecca George, Sandra Hockey, Jennifer Lamping, Jcn Pirch, Joanne Navaar and Steve Roach. -Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter * Whitney Elliott. Poet, author…

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… for students and members of the Muslim community at the Perspectives on the Muslim World conference held on Saturday. "Since the media is often one- sided we wanted to give students the opportunity to…

… educate on issues in the Muslim world that are often ignored," Abdelall said. The keynote speaker was Dr. James Zogby, the founder and president of the Arab American Institute, who gave a lecture on the…

… stereotypes of the Arab world created by the media. "The bottom line is that while we have come to view Jews as people like us we still do not view Arabs as people like us," Zogby said. "The failure to…

… understand this Arab experience is the problem." He presented examples of the media's coverage of attacks on refugee camps in Beirut where he said the Lebanese and Palestinian victims remained "faceless." "No…

… names were given. No personal stories where told. As a result, the deaths of so many were never under- stood as personal tragedies of people like us," Zogby said. He said students at the University could…

… overcome stereotypes of the Arab world by experiencing the diverse community surrounding them. "Take advantage of these four years that enable you to learn the world," Zogby said. "I think that one of the…

… DAILY: RlAHlEL r vIEMA L/dualy Pro-Palestinian activists hold a rally outside the Federal Center in Ann Arbor last October. Simultaneously, the Arab student commu- nity will affirm that I am merely…

… same time I was standing in The Diag holding a pro-Israel flyer in my hand. A fellow student, who appeared to be of Arab descent, approached me. As he leaned down to view the flyer in my hand, he spit on…

… HORN HORNOGRAPHY EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIGHIAN SINCE 1890 GEOFFREY GAGNON Editor in Chief MICHAEL GRASS NICHOLAS WOOMER Editorial Page Editors Unless otherwise noted…

…: The Arab-Israeli dialogue on campus is not a dialogue - it's a screaming match between two equally passionate, and neglectful, children. The voices are loud, the phrases are catchy, and the claims are…

… exaggerated. It makes me sick. However, more than making me sick, it makes me apathetic. I am a student who has spent time living and studying in the Middle East and I think that the dialogue on campus is not…

… under the impression that a university exists to facili- tate growth, perhaps I am wrong. Could we try to sit down together and talk, as opposed to rallying our fellow students against one another? What…

…-oriented program concerning the Middle East, I'll stay in my room. BRIAN LOBEL LSA first-year student exhibited the same type of disruptive behavior Wulwick accuses Palestinian sup- porters of, and indeed the same…

… establishment in 1948: That Zionists must cleanse "their" homeland of Arabs and non- Jews and that any opposition to the Zionist state is tantamount to anti-Semitism and must be put down by any means necessary…

… the flyer and my hand. While others around me were in outrage, I calmly questioned his motives. The Arab stu- dent responded with taunts and cusses, refus- ing to even tell me his first name…

… PROGRESSIVE PEN " , - EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SINCE 1890 GEOFFREY GAGNON Editor in Chief MICHAEL GRASS NICHOLAS WOOMER Editorial Page Editors Unless otherwise noted…

… process," because of her history in treating Arab nations, and her seeming unwillingness to admit her Jewish heritage until after news agencies broke it following her confirmation as secretary of state. Who…

… the day for classes. While it is true that the rest of the student body must coordinate their schedules around extra-curricular activities and work, most of us do not have to coordinate our schedule…

… of Student Conduct, visit www.michigandaily.com/code Drop the charges against Ryan Hughes Unpopular speech should not be countered with violence VIEWPOINT VIEWPOINT On April 3, the University Office…

… of Stu- dent Conflict Resolution hauled Ryan Hugh- es, an LSA junior and an openly bisexual political activist, into a kangaroo court pro- ceeding. Hughes' case is being adjudicated under the Student…

… persons from assault. DPS did not lift a finger to pro- tect the lesbian/gay demonstration. Instead, they arrested Hughes and then charged him under the Code of Student Conduct. Appar- ently, DPS and the…

… all fundamental d process rights, from the right to legal couns to the right to exclude hearsay evidence the right to obtain a jury trial, and despite t veneer of student and faculty participatio the…

… University's Student Code of Con- ty duct. li- The Office of Student Conflict and nd Resolution alleges that Hughes spray- si- painted the sign of a member of the West- to boro Baptist Church who was…

… protesting the rally and Kiss-In, activities that were ue the final events of Queer Visibility Week. sel However, the Student Code of Con- to duct, which this summer will uselessly be he renamed the Statement…

… of Student Rights n, and Responsibilities, by no means allows of for a fair hearing. h- Under the Code, hearsay is admissible its and attorneys are not allowed to speak on nt; behalf of the "accused…

… is confident they will prevail in the higher court. "We think we've made a great case for a stay," she said. Student reports sexual assault Clowning around Albright to spend 2 years at William…

… possible match in min," she said. "We have one possible sus- pect who is not a student." One suspect has been questioned, BAwn said. He is not an Ann Arbor r dent and has outstanding warrants against him…

…," he said. Ross added that until a few years ago it was unbelievable that Israel would have diplomatic relations with eight member nations of the Arab League. During his speech Ross described the several…

… did before, he added. Although most members of the audi- ence seemed to respond favorably to what Ross said, LSA sophomore and Arab Student Association member Brenda Abdellall said she considered Ross…

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… grounds that they are neces- sary to achieve "diversity," which, in the absence of credible evidence, they claim enhances student learn- ing. But these same university pres- idents don't give preference in…

… either student admissions or faculty hiring to applicants who are conser- vative or Republican, both of which are woefully underrepresented on college campuses. Surely their pres- ence in numbers…

… approximating their percentage of the general pop- ulation would diversify the intellec- tual climate at universities far more than the recruitment of students who are told on their arrival on campus that…

… intellectual diversity at all. Instead, they seek a student body and faculty that is racially het- erogeneous but on political issues believes the same things, including and especially that racial prefer- ences…

…" minority. Shouldn't there be "diversity" in.a the Presidency of the University of Michigan as well as in its faculty and student body? Perhaps it is churlish to expect academics - university presidents in…

… standard? Is it just because the Western world is Christian and we are expected to discriminately treat Muslims and Arabs in a different way? Are we not as afraid to call Muslims "fun- damentalists" as we…

… Israeli-Palestinian vio- lence. Jordan's foreign minister presented Israel yesterday with an Arab peace ini- tiative to end fighting in the West Bank and Gaza. But Israel indicated it would reject the plan…

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