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… hair, but whether they would kill their baby or not to kill their baby, I was verbally assaulted. In one case, I had water rcwn on me. I would like to ask University students the same question I asked…

…'m assuming that she means to say that Israel has adopted these foods as *opular delicacies because, in reali- ty, hummus and falafels are both Arabic, while kabobs are a dish that the Armenians picked up from…

… try to show a balanced view of the Arab-Israeli conflict are slammed with the misnomer "anti- Semite," but that's incorrect as well. Semites are, or were, convential- ly considered to be those of Arabic…

…, Aramean, Babylonian, Carthaginian, Ethiopian, Hebrew and Phoenician heritage. While most are pretty well out of the mix these days, we're still left with the Arabs, Ethiopians and Hebrews. So, when people…

… start slinging insults and names at each other, they might want to be a bit more careful. After all, since Pales- tinians are "Arabs," and "Arabs" are Semites, it's possible that we might find ourselves…

… closeness with our fellow Wolverines that we don't get with other students. As such, we trust the people who run the University. After all, we're all on the same team. Why would the administra- tion do…

… anything that won't make the Uni- versity a better place for students? However, unconditional trust in the admin- istration is a dangerous thing, and it is naive to count on them to always act in the…

… students' best interest. Much like we hold the politicians who run our country to a high standard of accountability, so too must we constantly question the legitima- cy and motives behind the decisions made…

… open and accessible to students. Coleman holds monthly "Fire- side Chats" where a number of randomly- selected students informally talk with the President about student issues. The Uni- versity Board of…

… Regents allows for any- one to make public comments before the. meetings begin. While giving students the ability to speak with the administration is admirable, idle listening isn't enough. Advisory…

… start becoming our own spokespersons. Black, Asian, Latino, Arab, Jewish, Mus- lim and all interested students need to take our own stake and define ourselves not as anything anti-BAMN, but rather as…

… waitress is probably smarter than you are. So don't treat her like a child or a sex object. Many waitresses are working their way through college or grad school. I once worked with a grad student who was…

… critique of.BAMN inority leaders on this campus dential ticket of BAMN, that his current have a tough challenge ahead. job would conflict with his running for AMN (under the auspices of student government…

… advocate true story with you. Imagine this. A the latter. We need to move on from member of the X-American community defining our aspirations in the terms of a decides to run for the student govern- few…

… students and some paid socialist ment with the Defend Affirmative activists from other cities and start Action Party, an arm of BAMN (of demarcating our own territory independ- course, you may insert Asian…

…, Arab, Lati- ent of BAMN. We need to stop blindly no, or whatever you like for "X"). This allowing cynical politicians like Jesse DAAP candidate expresses his concern Jackson (a man who has lost his moral…

…, Jor- danandSyria,the University became apolit- ical battleground for students campaigning for either Israel or the Arab states. Just like today, students took their arguments from the Diag to the pages…

… of the Daily. When the staff printed an article sympathetic toIsrael, students on the opposite side protested, call- ing the paper a propaganda piece for Israel. Likewise, when an article appeared…

… which criticized the Israeli position, pro-Israel stu- dents hurled similar accusations. The childish back-and-forth allegations led one student to an interesting conclusion. Joel Hencken, an alum from…

… protests were held against the paper by the Jewish community of south- eastern Michigan. Several years ago, many student groups took offense to errors made by the staff, attributing them to the lack of…

… that grossly oversimplified affirmative action, depicting a single white student being told that all of his classmates will have the benefit of affirmative action in admission to the University except…

… him. Despite a full column by then-Editor in Chief Jason Pesick arguing the rationale behind the decision to publish the cartoon, the result once again was charges of bias leveled by various student…

… that even though the news agency is committed to being fair, it has often failed - specifically in the Arab-Israeli conflict - to provide "a full and fair account" Whether or not President Bush can be…

… effects of the program will not be seen until the 2009-10 school year, the agreement reached between the nation's biggest soda producers and schools aims to make it difficult for 35 million students to…

… the only beverage choices available for younger students.The objective - developedby the WilliamJ. Clinton Foundation - is that by encouraging children to make smarter drink choices at school and…

… machines atschool will no longer carry their beloved bever- ages will only result in students buying their unhealthy drinks somewhere else. The agreement with soda companies and schools will have almost no…

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… labeled as a fight between Arabs and black Afri- cans. Yet the truth is more complicated because African and Arab identities are often indistin- guishable in Sudan. In fact, the true division in Darfur is…

… "African" or "Arab." Despite impossibility in any real distinctions between bloodlines, this three-year-old conflict is responsible for the deaths of at least 200,000 people and for causing more than 2…

… Michigan Student Assembly only make compromise more difficult and peace less likely. If Paul wants to contribute to a lasting peace, he should invest his energy in finding forward-looking solutions, rather…

… stuffing starving Palestinian Arabs into over-crowd- ed trains, sending them to camps to starve them to death, or, to make things easier, simply gassing them and incinerating their bodies? Thank God, no, no…

… he have smuggled himself into British-con- trolled Palestine and become part of the tiny minority that escaped the Nazis? And in 1948, after Palestin- ian Arabs rejected the United Nations proposal for…

… a sovereign Arab state next to the proposed Jewish one - when Israel declared statehood and was promptly attacked by Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq - would Paul have returned to Poland to…

… sentiment refracted across the Arab states, how could Paul still retain his starry-eyed political naivete? God bless America, where a Jew can become so cushioned by freedom and diversity that he becomes…

…- pelled - as an African-American, a writer and a University student - to think about diversity. To defend its admissions pro- gram, the administration has cited diversity as the main reason for such plans…

… appropriately. Sunday, I was part of the How, then, can someone over- Community Council's del- come the two greatest barriers to of high school students, understanding genocide - prop- students and Detroit…

…? ich lies in western Sudan, Addressing the problem of quan- e local Arab and non-Arab tifying large numbers was docu- vith the aid of the Sudanese mented in the 2004 film "Paper nent have collaborated in…

… of my parents' generation, but when I tried to think of similar assemblies in my years, I came up short. These days, it takes a great deal more to motivate a college student to march in pro- test…

….Political activismis no longer sexy. Even with the recent bout of nationwide marches, students have largely stayed home. For the 21st century's 20-somethings, the passion for political activism has been usurped by the…

… 2005 said they had done community service at least once a week in high school, according to an annual sur- vey by the University of California at Los Angeles. College students do everything from cleaning…

… step instead into service, will this help our generation make a bigger mark on the world than our parents? Don't get me wrong - the service efforts of students are much needed, and the new wave of…

… of concerned citizens. This is precisely why students' conspicu- ous absence from recent rallies is troubling. Political movements need young adultseto be loud,to prove to those in power that the resis…

…- tance won't go away in future generations. But it seems we students aren't even slightly interested. The same UCLA sur- vey showed that only one-third of entering freshmen feel it's important to even keep…

… students who dedi- cate their college careers to service are cer- tainly not wasting their time. But we cannot divorce ourselves from our political respon- sibilities, and we must not be naive when it comes…

… because of their belief that the student government should not consider resolutions dealing with international issues. This took place, unfortunately, } despite an overwhelming pres- ence of supporters of…

… behavior within my community. Many supporters of the state of Israel try to make their case by implicit- ly arguing that somehow Jews are superior to their Arab neighbors. There can be no denying that this…

… takes place, and anyone who tries to should take a look at the cam- pustmth.org advertisements that have run in the Daily. Jews study and play sports while Arabs teach their kids to blow peo- ple up is…

…- lowers. Instead, religions should attract supporters through the power of their ideas. Arab and Muslim leaders too often stress how evil Israel and the United States are, not the richness of their own…

… culture's history. Likewise, my congregation's presi- dent would better serve his faith by asking for funds by saying that Israel, despite its flaws, is a democracy, a country where more Arabs have the…

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… steadily increasing Ann Arbor rent rates, leaving students with only one campus pharmacy. Ethnic Creations is soon to follow as it wraps up sales and prepares to move to its new location in the Westgate…

…, which are sometimes put aside as they are often inconvenient. His kindness, along with donations from Northwest Airlines, the University and Arab charitable organizations have given this young girl the…

… hope for a better life. The University's efforts in bringing Shihab to the United States should be com- mended. The University trains its students to be leaders, and it is essential to teach tomor- row…

…'s leaders about compassion and kind- ness. By using its resources to assist the community, the University has set an exam- ple that its students should follow. The University is capable of providing a wide…

… urban planning, engineering and business. A greater effort should be made to make these resources more widely available. Perhaps students do not have the resources or influence that the University has…

… d outside Ann Arbor's Jewish Community Center t during an event commemorating May 14, 1948, the day Israel gained statehood and defended d itself against an attack by six Arab nations. e Members of…

…, saying that students must realize the impor- tance of universally protecting human rights. Livshiz also recognized that students might have power to impact the University's dealing with Israel. While there…

…LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Monday, May 13, 2002 - The Michigan Daily - 5 Luke Skywalker: 9/11-ing the Death Star LUKE SMITH CRIS IN THE H LAND More to student's campaign than mere University matters To…

… THE DAILY: In the article titled "Student seeks line on ballot for primary," (05/06/02) about my campaign for Congress in Michigan's 15th District, it seemingly said that my platform is solely about…

…- sions" and "supporting most Graduate Employees Organization and Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality efforts," and I believe I men- tioned "removing A. Alfred Taubman's name from buildings…

…. There are a lot of people who feel that fighting for human rights is a priori- ty, but don't know about Israeli poli- cy, Hamas' monopoly on social services in the occupied territories, or how Arab…

… reparations. Even those opposing reparations should at least admit the desirability of seriously investigating the issue before deciding on actual reparations. (Last year, the Michigan Student Assembly became…

… perhaps the first university student government in the country to endorse the drive for a reparations commission). I do not recall any great effort that anyone else in the 15th District race has made to…

… out of the areas with the heaviest student traffic show that the future of Ann Arbor may not mesh with the city's past. The celebrated era of Midwestern quirkiness and bohemianism could be abruptly…

… points commented negatively on progressive To TH DAtLY: activists heing vocal in the on- I am neither Jewish nor Arab yet going debate around the current I stand against the illegal and violent situation…

… students, faculty, staff and do I stand with Palestinian lead- administrators will be given priority ership. I support the struggle of over others. Letters must include the Palestinians for self…

….e. white students and residents) to use their privileged, oppressive history to benefit those they "subjugate." Another reading, entitled "Identity" teaches RAs that most students (i.e. their white residents…

… has been a bureaucratic barrier to positive change. The committee is composed of three students, three professors and four mem- bers of the University administration. Each member must apply for a…

… position and is then appointed by either the administration or the Michigan Student Assembly. The committee at its inception was charged with "advising the University concerning policies and practices to…

… with your degree, you must continue to work hard, and you must be resilient when facing the unexpected. Granholm finally told the truth that too many people are unwilling to tell students and graduates…

… Jason Pesick's diatribe (What does my religion have to offer?, 05/05/03). Pesick ridiculously charges that many Jewish sup- porters of Israel believe that Jews are superior to Arabs and that this…

…, will partner with Arabic language publishers to translate important works of Amer- ican political thought into Arabic and distribute them throughout the Middle East. Cole hopes that his project will help…

… from an intellectual standpoint but is also potentially dangerous. For example, there is not a single Arabic university that teaches American history in Arabic, Cole said. "The kind of anti…

… after purchas- ing land for a new facility, passions are heating up as Ann Arbor parents and students argue against proposals surrounding the school. But University students who graduated from local high…

…, said Liz Nowland- Margolis, communications director of Ann Arbor Public Schools. There are currently 2,200 students at Huron, M 450 at Community High and 2,300 students at Pioneer. The Board is building…

… halls were often so crowded that students had to push their peers out of the way to get to class. "It was like a fight for your life to get to class,' Darty said. She added that most of the classes…

… consisted of 3 or more students, despite the portable classrooms located on the tennis courts and behind the school. LSA sophomore Aaron Markel, a gradu- ate of Huron High School, said his classes were not…

… some University students said the current budget seems somewhat excessive, many others said they think designing an attractive building is important. See HIGH SCHOOL, Page 3 GRAPHIC BY BRIDGET O…

…S 8 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, May 30, 2006 HIGH-TECH HART AND SOUL IMMIGRATION Continued from Page 3 In Altar, the students visited the central plaza where many Mexicans intending to…

… immigrate to the United States gather. Students are often met with questions about themselves. This year, Robinson said, there were more questions than in the past. Robinson said a common question was, "Why…

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…: Southfield second-grader Alex Salloum interviews Michigan Public School Superintendent Tom Watkins after Bush's visit. Bush honors 'U' student dunngeducation lecture Lawsuit against TKE dropped By Jeremy…

… maintenance were al headquarters out of the $1,600 each See TKE, Page 2 Robinson awaits arrest for fondling student Online: Expanded coverage of the president's visit By Karen Schwartz Daily News Editor…

… she worked within a community, build- ing parks and assisting with landscape cleanup, in addition to attending workshops on diversity and problem-solving. She currently works in the Arabic Communi- ty…

… Center for Economic and Social Services, where she coordinates programs for immigrant students who need help with the English lan- guage. She also assists students who scored low on the Michigan Education…

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… enrollment at Flint and Dearborn campuses by up to 2,000 students per campus - a meas- ure that would not require any changes to the facilities. "We have the infrastructure, and that makes it economical to put…

… students in place," Coleman said. She added that, though the Ann Arbor campus has long reached maxi- mum capacity, the University will look into alternate ways in which it might aid the Cherry Commission in…

… its goals. Coleman also mentioned an increased awareness of higher educa- tion among high school students as a way to improve graduation rates in Michigan's adults. The commission will also work with…

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…Rosen Fsr the Daly Two survivors of the 1984 chemical disaster in Bhopal, India spoke to about 30 University students in the Michigan League on May 6. Organized to demand proper cleanup of one of the worst…

… industrial disasters of this century, the meeting was sponsored by the University student group Justice for Bhopal. "By showing the survivors, and what they have gone through, we hoped to put a human face on…

… survivors speak to students Members of Justice for Bhopal put up an image of a Bhopal survivor on Thursday in Midland. The group protested outside of the Midland Center for the Arts, where Dow Chemical held…

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