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…UNDERGRADUATE, GRADUATE AND FACULTY COALITION FOR ETHNIC STUDIES | MICHIGAN IN COLOR On Monday, April 11, more than 100 students and faculty members gathered in the Michigan League for The…

… Future of Ethnic Studies, a teach-in organized by a broad coalition of graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Michigan. The goals of the event were to develop interest and…

… this campus diverse remain a central feature of the curriculum. The event on Monday was the product of several years of faculty and student activism. This vision for this event is shaped by the…

… graduate students in the Asian/ Pacific Islander American Studies Program in the department of American Culture. In the past few years, seven faculty members have left the A/PIA Studies Program, and…

… asks for our units to do the labor of educating a largely white and affluent student body of issues on race and ethnicity. The lack of support for ethnic studies is apparent both inside and outside…

… the classroom — faculty of color are departing this institution in droves; graduate students are continuously invalidated by their departments if their work addresses issues of race, gender…

…. The macro and the micro cannot be separated. The lack of institutional support for classes that address issues of difference and identity is reflected in the interactions between students and…

… faculty that leave people of color fearful and tired of every-day acts of racism. This is not the first time students have gathered out of concern for ethnic studies. In 2008, graduate and…

… undergraduate students organized the Campus Lockdown teach-in, an event protesting the lack of institutional support for recruiting and retaining a critical number of faculty in ethnic studies, women…

… Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. I attended Commencement to support the seniors in my life who’ve taught me…

… administrations now bow to pressure groups and shield students from these ideas through ‘safe spaces,’ ‘code words’ and ‘trigger warnings’ is, in my view, a terrible mistake,” Bloomberg stated after…

… from those who hold different views.” As an Arab-American on this campus, I’ve been to several and can attest to the difficult conversations that occur with individuals from all backgrounds…

… privileged groups’ comfort at the marginalized groups’ expense. While I was left with a bitter taste on my tongue, Bloomberg did have some positive messages in his speech — urging students to get…

… salient in Bloomberg’s discussion of safe spaces, which he characterized as serving to shield students from ideas which they find controversial. Myself, and many students within the social justice…

… nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching by force or incapacitation during their time at the University of Michigan. So there were definitely students who had firsthand experience in our 100-person…

… environment where we could earnestly listen and discuss one of our campus’ and nation’s most pressing issues. If a student were reliving past trauma, how could they be expected to engage in a class…

… discussion? Safe spaces allow for students to effectively engage with controversial ideas. Similarly, when students are taught to recognize how people of color are often tokenized in academic spaces and…

… students of all backgrounds on equal footing. There are, however, legitimate grievances against safe spaces. In the New Yorker article “The Trouble with Teaching Rape Law” Harvard Law Prof…