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…14 — Thursday, August 5, 2021 MiC The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com DEAN OF STUDENTS OFFICE 3100 Michigan Union 530 S. State St Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1308 deanofstudents@umich.edu 734…

…-764-7420 Need Help? The Dean of Students Office is a great place to start. WE CAN HELP YOU ADDRESS: • Crisis/Emergency Situations • Campus Climate Concerns • Academic Difficulties • Financial Hardship…

… SOMETHING NOT LISTED HERE? Reach out anyway. We will work with students, faculty, staff, and parents/families to find the best resources and services to support student success and wellbeing…

…. Explore the season lineup at ums.org. Student tickets go on sale Thursday, September 2 at ums.org/students. 734.764.2538 — UMS.ORG Right here on campus for just $12 or $20! 2021/22 Looking Forward…

…-Ann Arbor. I identify as a Mus- lim Palestinian American woman, and I am currently studying on a pre-law track with hopes of majoring in public policy and minoring in Arab and Muslim Ameri- can…

… our first reading. I Intersectional feminism is real and alive REEM HASSAN MiC Columnist explicitly remember feeling as though you had taken my thoughts on the intersection of my Arab identity…

… BOWMAN Editorial Page Editor We, the Black Student Union, the United Asian American Organizations Executive Board, La Casa and the Arab Student Association E-Board are call- ing for an end to the…

… for racial jus- tice in our country and across the world. Articles chosen to best represent the special edi- tion are centralized here on a Magnify website. Our mission statement: As students at…

… discuss issues of education, policing, consumerism, slack- tivism, proper allyship, protests, abolition and privilege. This collection serves as a reminder to the student body, the Univer- sity…

… Michigan Ambassadors program. We demand an intentional, genu- ine inclusion of our organiza- tions prior to future Student Life decisions. BSU, UAAO, La Casa and ASA believe the rea- sons listed below…

… justify an end to the Michigan Ambassadors program. Student Life did not consult BSU, UAAO, La Casa and ASA in the creation and imple- mentation of the Michigan Ambassadors program. While the…

… community and disproportion- ately affect Black and Brown students. On July 1 and July 21, 2020, Central Student Govern- ment invited BSU, UAAO, La Casa and ASA to discuss polic- ing on campus. CSG used…

… public health concerns to justify their plans to increase police pres- ence on campus and informed our organizations of their flawed plan to protect students of color. This culminated in the…

… our own program, on Aug. 17, 2020, Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones presented the Wolverine Culture of Care Ambassador program to the Ann Arbor City Council. Dean Jones gave the Ann Arbor City…

… the formation of canvassing teams, omitting the program’s formal name. Two hours later, The Michigan Daily published an article detail- ing AAPD and Student Life’s ambassador program. On Aug. 21…

…, Student Life sent out a news- letter that mentioned the launch of the Michigan Ambassadors program and the opt-in registry. We were blindsided by the University’s announcement of the Michigan…

…6 — Wednesday, September 14, 2022 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Within the first two minutes of “Mo,” our titular character has hopped from Spanish to English to Arabic in the span…

…” pipeline, which hasn’t really been all that fresh since the days of sitcom classics like “Seinfeld” or “Everybody Loves Raymond.” Co-created by Ramy Youssef (“Ramy”), that other Arab comedian your…

… white friends might have heard of, “Mo” tackles the complexities of navigating life in America as a Muslim, an Arab and a refugee with an insightful story and plenty of self-deprecating laughs to…

… his family seek asylum and citizenship in America. Even on the relatively small spectrum of Arab-American representation in mainstream Western media, “Mo” could not be more different from its…

… privileged, millennial cousin “Ramy” — which makes sense, as it is wholly unrealistic for a single show, or even two shows, to be in any way representative of the experiences of Arab and Muslim…

… Americans as a whole. And yet, the niche of Arabic culture that much of the show’s best comedic material resides in is so incredibly nice to see on screen, because aside from a small ring of films and…

… shows, it hasn’t really been done before. For once, Arabs aren’t the butt of the joke: Instead, the way that the world blatantly misperceives and disregards us is. In fact, what I enjoy most about…

… “Mo” is that the show never fails to make an Arab viewer feel like they’re somehow in on the joke, not bothering to stop and explain to a presumably non-Arab audience. It’s all in the details, like…

… Joe’s, you will pay for your crimes). It’s the way that on numerous occasions, his mom (Farah Bsieso, “Daughters of Abdul-Rahman”) becomes every Arab mom I know and randomly starts speaking in…

… Arabic when she’s around white people and doesn’t want them to understand. And although the subtitles translate all of the Arabic dialogue into English, there’s an inherent cultural context that…

… Asian American Organizations, La Casa, Arab Student Association and Students Allied for Freedom and Education. Though the University did not satisfy the group’s original demands, in their…

… and make recommendations about policing. The task force will have representation from both the GEO and Students of Color Liberation Front, which is a coalition of the Black Student Union, United…

… because of the relationship between policing and student health. At a press conference on Wednesday, GEO Vice President Erin Markiewitz spoke to this sentiment. “Policing, even when it…

… I think addressed feelings that Black and Brown students had of not feeling safe with armed police officers around campus,” White said. “Safety doesn’t look the same for all people, and we…

… modifications of the program by the University. Some students questioned whether GEO’s initial anti- policing demands were pragmatic. Engineering senior Yilin Yang said while he supported the group…

… with police would worsen the spread of COVID- 19 by weakening the Michigan Ambassadors’ power to keep student gatherings in check. “It seemed to me like these demands would have the effect of…

… and Brown students — who are the ones hurt by these problems existing in the first place — but also is used to wrap up progress in bureaucratic hurdles,” Soberano said. “But I think the fact that…

… they even allowed us a seat at the table is a big step. And we had to listen to especially the Black students in our community who were telling us, ‘look, we’re afraid of what the University will…

… Fall 2020 semester by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. If you would like a…

… Senior Social Media Editors: Kristina Zheng, Ria Dubey, Ryan Postman, Haley Johnson, Atticus Raasch, Asha Lewis Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109…

…- on who’s the man of the yard,” Bates said. “You might have one guy that was a law clerk, a parale- gal in a law library, you got anoth- er guy and he’s a 4.0 student in Jackson college, the only…

… performative activism, imploring University students, white allies and those from wealthy, Eurocentric-based backgrounds to invest in their communities and engage in on- the-ground, tangible support in…

…- tors. College students need to reach out to some of my partici- pants and help them get navi- gated.” For college students looking to help returning citizens, Kinzel is constantly looking for…

…- cracies and are just trying to make a buck off of us.” In positions of privilege, such as our own — being the University student body — we must confront and actively work to uplift these communities…

… need Hispan- ics, and Arab Americans — every- body’s gotta be sitting at this table. But, when I say we’re hold- ing hands, it’s gotta be equal. But help us, those who have lived the oppressed…

… the emotional fragility of a pinecone.” “‘Health informed’ is a lie, they don’t care if students die!” 09/10/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: 11 Home of Thule U.S. Air Force’s 12 In great…

…Wednesday, September 23, 2020 — 7 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan In Color Twitter has always been my social media drug of choice. My timeline — essentially Arab twit- ter, Muslim…

… Michigan’s School of Public Health. “It spreads through the air. So if you have students who are drinking, laughing, and sing- ing, plus they’re drunk so their inhibitions are down, that’s a virus…

… being over- whelmingly impacted by COVID- 19 extremely relevant. The demographics of the gatherings in question are mainly young, middle to upper-class white uni- versity students. This population…

… disconnected from the impact to care. With the societally-pro- moted desire to care only about oneself, this leaves many of these students without a visible reason to care. Since this is a problem that lies…

… plans for COVID-19 and monkeypox on campus: Free rapid tests, vaccination headline prevention strategies Read more at MichiganDaily.com Festifall brings crowds and success to student organizations…

…/Daily Festifall returned to the University of Michigan this week with student organizations lining the streets of campus hoping to recruit the next class of promising students. Festifall began Tuesday on…

…-person student org recruitment event since classes were canceled due to the COVID- 19 pandemic in March 2020. Last year, Festifall was conducted fully in person while Winterfest, the winter semester…

… 750 student organizations, community vendors and campus departments seeking to engage and recruit students. Devon Vaughn, program manager for student development in CCI, estimated that about 9…

… at Festifall. “I think just playing some good Arabic music, Syrian music, teaching people about our culture, and who we are,” Baalbaki said. “Just being ourselves, showing what our culture is…

…, outreach chair of the Neuroscience Student Association (NSA),, explained that while his organization is conducting many in-person events this year, the NSA is still using a hybrid format. KATE HUA…

… needs, consistent with pedagogical and programmatic needs.” It is expected that some courses will continue to be fully remote. Why are vaccine-exempt students no longer required to test weekly…