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October 17, 1982 (vol. 93, iss. 34) • Page Image 3

… Committee Concerned with World Hunger, efforts to organize a fast in University dormitories that day are under way. Students will donate money for the meals they skip while fasting, Greg said. "Of the money…

…, because it "raises the awareness of the people" and because "I find that addressing students is refreshing." Congressman William Broomfield (R-Birmingham), a supporter 'of Cyprus, was unable to make his…

… speeches and discussion for the Cyprus Day event, sponsored by the American Hellenic Congress and the LSA Student Government. Daily Photo by JON SNOW Stooping crane John Barashol paints the second floor…

… - Any Palestine Liberation Organization representative among an Arab League delegation due here next week will not be welcomed by U.S. officials, the State Department said yesterday. According to reports…

… from Rabat, Morocco, a PLO representative will be among seven Arab diplomats who will journey to Washington next Friday for talks with President Reagan. "WE WOULD not welcome any member of the PLO as…

…, says ta must accept United Nations Resolution 242 calling for Arab countries to recognize the right of Israel to exist and to have safe borders. Until the PLO ac- cepts this, the United States will…

… refuse to hold direct talks with its leaders. Miss Pittman declined to discuss what action the United States might take if the Arab League delegation in- cludes a PLO representative other than te Dept…

…, 4 p.m.; Sir Nicholas Jackson performs early Spanish music and works by Walther, Bach, Tournemire and Jackson, 8p.m., Hill Aud. Canterbury Loft-"Bent," 8p.m., 322 S. State. Free China Student Assoc…

…. Films CFT-Straw Dogs, 5 & 9:30p.m.; The Wild Bunch, 7p.m., Michigan. Cinema Guild-The Bad Sleep Well, 7 p.m., Lorch. Performances Int'l Organ Week-Graduate students, 4 p.m., 423 S. Fourth; Robert Glasgow…

April 05, 1989 (vol. 99, iss. 127) • Page Image 4

… homeland. -Palestine Solidarity Committee General Union of Palestinian Students Palestine Aid Society Palestine Democratic Youth Organization El-Birah Palestine Society Arab Student League American-Arab Anti…

… mine com- mented that the police could do nothing, but if the ethnic char- acteristics of the students in- volved had been darker (ie., Black, Hispanic, Arab, etc.) than the normative standard for…

…4 OPINION Page 4 Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan 420 Maynard St. Vol. IC, No. 127 Ann Arbor MI 48109 Unsigned editorials represent a majority of the Daily's Editorial…

…-Discrimination Committee Muslim Student Association *Latin American Solidarity Committee Lesbian and Gay Rights Organizing Committee Free South Africa Coordinating Committee Student Organizations United for Peace People…

…. Locally, the boycott is being spon- sored by the Black Law Students Al- liance, Hispanic Law Students Associ- ation, Asian American Law Students Association, National Lawyers Guild and Women Law Students

…- fessors, explaining the nature of the problem and why it must be addressed. Students who must attend should wear a black armband to show solidarity, and tell their teachers and classmates that business as…

… Duderstadt has repeatedly stressed the need for long-term, gradual goal shaping rather than immediate action, in an attempt to slow the progressive movement of activist students on cam- pus. In adopting such a…

… school student, con- sider joining the boycott or taking up the issue in class. The more reluctant your professor and classmates are to discuss racism, classism, sexism, ho- mophobia and other forms of…

… to commemorate the anniversary of Palestinian Land Day, vandals broke into the Student Pub- ications Building and spray-painted "Long Live Israel," "Jew Haters Will Pay," and "PLO Daily" on the walls…

… issued a report to Student Body President, Mike Phillips, denoting eight inci- dents in which there was sub- stantial evidence to implicate Kittrie. The report by the Ethics Committee found that the evi…

February 01, 1988 (vol. 98, iss. 84) • Page Image 2

…'s Jewish- and Arab- Americans whose heritage ties them to the re- gion. The recent upsurge of violence in the Israeli- occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip troubles mapy area Jews, torn between anger at…

… than beat- ing them. He said area Jews are unanimous in their sup- port for negotiations to end the conflict. Many local Arab-Americans say that their work on Mideast issues has led to contact from the…

… out the window" if he had been. Arabs riot near holy shrine JERUSALEM - Dozens of Arabs were hurt in clashes and a Jewish settler was badly burned in a car firebombing in the occupied territories…

… yesterday. In Jerusalem, riot police fought Arabs near one of Christianity's holiest shrines. The army clamped a curfew on Nablus, the West Bank's largest city with 100,000 people, after lengthy street…

… Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates: January through April -$15 in Ann Arbor, $22…

… outside the city. 1988 spring, summer, and fall term rates not yet available. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and the National Student News Service. Editor in Chief…

January 17, 1984 (vol. 94, iss. 88) • Page Image 2

… broken off.. . and soon the whole area is cleaned out." This month, Jaeger says he found three fresh fire sites, after one night of traying. Jaeger says he supports students right to have fun, but not at…

…? Read the Michigan Daily 764-0558 ------ Daily Photo by DAN HABIB A sign at the Arboretum's Geddes Rd. entrance warns visitors against traying, but students say they haven't seen the message or that they…

… formation of the deposits, known as plaques. Hussein calls return of Egypt to Arab world a must for unity AMMAN, Jordan-King Hussein told Parliament yesterday that the Palestine issue was "the first and…

… foremost preoccupation" of his new government and that a return of Egypt to the Arab fold was indispensable to Arab unity. - Hussein asked the Palestine Liberation Organization to help enable Jor- dan to do…

… its duty to "Palestine and its people." In his speech, the king mentioned no political leaders by name, but he has invited Arafat to join him in talks on solving the Palestinian problem. "Arab Egypt…

… cannot be left out of the ranks of the Arab Nation, which is indispensable to Egypt, while Egypt is indispensable to the Arab'Nation," Hussein said. Druse gunners shell east Beirut BEIRUT, Lebanon…

… Levy. Tim Makinen. Adorn Martin, Mike McGraw, . News Editor......................GEORGE ADAMS Scott McKinley, Barb McQuade Lisa Nofen, Phil Student Affairs Editor ... ...............BETH ALLEN Nussell…

March 22, 1988 (vol. 98, iss. 115) • Page Image 4

… that events sponsored by either the Arab or Jewish handicapped education. Only a handful of U of M students are wheel-chair users. Why? Because prospec- tive students handicapped stu- dents learn quickly…

… and managed by situdents at The University of Michigan LETTERS: Group supports Arab- American Week 4 Vol. XCVIII, No. 115 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Unsigned editorials represent a…

… Is- rael currently occupies: the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. One of the largest obstacles to solving the conflict in the CU, unfair to To the Daily: As a "physically challenged" student, I found…

student association. MCC rep- resents the 200,000 students from Michigan's 15 state uni- versities on the state and federal level. MCC has done signifi- cant work, but also has big plans. State student

… lobby organi- zations from around the nation have had tremendous success. For instance, United Council, Wisconsin's student associa- tion, saved its 200,000 con- Middle East peacefully lies in the…

… misconception each side has about the other: Jews think of Arabs as terrorists; Arabs think of Jews as occupiers. Both within Israel and around the world, these views must be changed. Governor Blanchard has de…

…- clared the week of March 21-25 to be Arab-American Aware- ness Week. Look for posters around campus and in the List for more information regarding this week's events. This week's events afford the Uni…

…- versity of Michigan commu- nity the opportunity to increase our knowledge of the Arab- American community as well as to increase understanding between the Arab and Jewish communities. In the future, we hope…

… terminology to discuss the issue. Maybe the Daily staff could use some sensitivity training of their own. -Blame Waterman March 7 Question 5 Berkeley, saving students al- most $ 50,000. MCC's most successful ef…

… to higher education. Every one percent saved from a proposed tuition increase, saves the students of the University of Michigan about 2 million dollars. The way to ensure a strong, pro-student voice in…

November 29, 1988 (vol. 99, iss. 57) • Page Image 1

… UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Arab nations said yesterday the General Assembly session will move to Geneva so PLO chief Yasser Arafat can address it, unless the United States reverses itself within 48 hours and…

… committee took no action. Arab diplomats called the U.S. visa denial a "slap in the face." The Soviet Union and China, and U.S. allies Britain and France, said Arafat should be allowed to speak. Most nations…

…-trial hearing was scheduled for Dec. 7. MSA resurrects student court BY KRISTIN HOFFMAN The Central Student Judiciary, the judicial branch of the Michigan Student Assembly, is a little-known campus entity…

… out, until virtually no one knew of its existence. Sotiroff said the administration was ignor- ing students' complaints, and that a strong CSJ was needed to give legitimacy to student decisions. "If the…

…. Current MSA Parliamentarian Jeff Gau- thier, a Rackham graduate student, took charge of resurrecting CSJ last spring. He and Lauren Isenberg, a former CSJ member, in- terviewed students for the 10 open…

… positions. Sotiroff, who was appointed last spring, was the only student still interested in serving this fall. Nine new members were interviewed and approved by MSA. The court is composed of five women and…

… five men. The student court, which encompasses two other judicial panels, does not normally re- view decisions made by University officials, but will hear a case if students claim their right to due…

…-aca- demic student disputes, conflicts between student groups, as well as student complaints with MSA. This body is currently defunct, but CSJ members are conducting a search for the five open seats. The most…

… little the DAVID LUBLINER/Dolly Opening d ay CRISP worker Larry McBride hands out a computer printout to a newly-registered student. Registration for winter term classes began yesterday. SACUA debates…

November 01, 1988 (vol. 99, iss. 39) • Page Image 1

student governments have passed a proposal to reconvene the panel that writes student conduct rules. The faculty's Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs voted unanimously yesterday to reconvene…

… the University Council, a nine-member committee of students, faculty, and administrators. The Michigan Student Assembly, during its meeting last week, passed the proposal which will now head to the…

… have called the council ineffective because students would not compromise their position against a code of non-academic conduct. But student activists criticized the administration for not listening to…

… the student body, which has consistently voted against the code in MSA-conducted polls. In the past, council members have left meetings in frustration because neither side was willing to compromise. But…

… against the Arab uprising in the occupied lands. "There's no question it will help Likud," said Daniel Elazar, a political analyst of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. "For most voters this will only…

Arab-oriented parties whose strong support of the Palestine Liberation Organ- ization make them unacceptable in either major party's coalitions. The recent killings have prompted calls for revenge by…

… piece of legislation the University and its graduate student teaching assistants had waited ten months to see. But there was one problem. Nobody at the University was quite sure what it meant. This…

… morning, after almost a week of deliberations, University lawyers and top ad- ministrators plan to answer publicly the ques- tion that some say last week's federal tax bill didn't: do graduate student

July 23, 1981 (vol. 91, iss. 46) • Page Image 1

….S.-made Israeli warplanes struck plies. twice across the border yesterday, ISRAEL SAID its jets returned safely bombing Lebanon's main oil pipeline from hitting trails the guerrillas cut and hitting Arab guerrilla…

…. For stories on students in the Art Fair, and a local potter, see Page 3. CEis1PULTER come into classroom BY JOHN ADAM Daily staff writer Everyone knows engineers use com- puters, but imagine a history…

… uses will be an "ordinary" resource in the future. Aid scholars in Latin, history, even English "We should be anticipating a time when nearly all college students and faculty members do computing and…

… handle information in a familiar and personal way." But the replacement of a teacher with a computer is "not a likely outcome," said Zinn. STUDENTS ARE motivated to learn using media other than the…

student. "Students will need a teacher, but less as a source of factual and organized knowledge than as a mentor in the processing of information and the forming of value judgements," said Stanford…

… Ericksen, founder of CRLT, in his memo to Faculty. STUDENTS OF all disciplines will be able to work with computers. There is already a University English course en- titled "Literary Uses of the Computer…

…: * Teachers must guide students in scanning and selecting from multiple sources of information which will be in the computer's memory. They must advise the students "which buttons to push." r The value…

…-solving will continue to be a difficult topic of teacher instruction. Students must comprehend the logic behind specific procedures and to learn See COMPUTERS, Page 9 …

March 22, 1988 (vol. 98, iss. 115) • Page Image 2

… on many issues, but disagree on the priority of the issues. Common Sense party members say the as- sembly must listen to "ordinary" student interests before focusing on controversial and national is…

… parties are opposed to Interim President Robben Fleming's code for discriminatory acts. But Nemeroff said he would inform students about the positive and negative parts of Flem- ing's policy before he…

… decides to make a state- ment about it. Phillips said Students First will plan on organizing student opposition to the code when elections are over. STUDENTS FIRST party members want to steer the assembly…

July 24, 1980 (vol. 90, iss. 45) • Page Image 9

… controversial bill making Jerusalem, including the annexed Arab sector, Israel's capital. Prime Minister Menachem Begin left his sickbed to appear for the vote and lead a 65-12 majority. The bill now goes to a…

… committee for final preparation for enactment. THE BILL HAS drawn strong criticism from Arab countries and other nations that maintain Israel has no right to claim sovereignty over predominantly Arab East…

… form of autonomy for Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied Arab territory. EGYPT REGARDS East Jerusalem as part of the West Bank of the Jordan River, and wants the city's 100,000 Arabs to vote in…

…. ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE members cited what they alleged to be Marwil's frequently intemperate behavior, as well as questionable scholarly production and worsening student evaluations, as reasons for the denial of…

October 04, 1988 (vol. 99, iss. 19) • Page Image 4

…4 OPINION Page 4 Tuesday, October 4, 1988 The Michigan Daily Ube Midiga I Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Baker plays last card 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109…

… took his place at the long wooden table in the Fleming build- ing. He has been in the same seat setting priorities and establishing rules since be- fore most students arrived at the Univer- sity. He has…

… stum- bling block for lower income and student representation on the regental board. Also, some regents are nominated based on cronyism within their respective political parties. And there are no real…

…,000 students and a slightly smaller number of faculty and staff. (However, pork barreling and nepo- tism also occur.) While estimating the in- come of the regents is difficult, one also should note that three…

… there was a stumbling block. In 1972, during the Vietnam War, student and community outrage over weapons re- search conducted at Michigan led to the creation of the End Use Clause. The clause prohibited…

… Information (ACSI), appeared on the last page accusing Arabs and Muslims of anti-Semitism. The ad also claimed that "the traditional attitudes of Islam toward Jews, not territorial disputes, are the real roots…

… of the Arab-Israeli conflict." First, it is very important to note that anti-Semitism is an entirely European phenomenon that goes back to the period of the Roman Empire, and that Arabs and Islam has…

… nothing to do with it. As a matter of fact, Arabs are themselves Semites. Historic- ally, the term "semitic" refers to the language group which includes Hebrew, Arabic, As- syrian, Babylonian and Phoen…

January 12, 1989 (vol. 99, iss. 73) • Page Image 1

…," said Jeff Allen, an RC senior on the search committee, which consists of nine faculty and three students. "Blake has awakened in us the original visions the founders of the RC had," said Marty Richardson…

…, a sophomore on the search committee. "He was motivational and exemplary and uplifted the people who heard him speak." When Blake visited the RC last month, several University graduate students who had…

… teach even the most non-traditional student." In a six-hour meeting on Dec. 18, the search committee read all of the evaluations and rankings before de- ciding upon Blake. "We talked a lot about Blake ver…

… Cynthia Halse. The sculpture is part of an exhi- bition in the Hospital courtyard. MLK Day celebrations BY VERA SONGWE When classes are cancelled Mon- day, University students will be able to choose…

… from a long list of activi- ties planned by the administration and students to honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday. But many students across the country don't have the day off, while others find few…

… opportunities to cel- ebrate on campus. "That is the difference between Michigan State and the University of Michigan," said MSU student Joe Lamport, who must attend class on Monday. "University of Michigan…

February 03, 1989 (vol. 99, iss. 89) • Page Image 1

…- tioned the scholarly competence of LSA Dean Peter Steiner and Associ- ate Dean John Cross. On Monday, three University economics doctoral students dis- closed published articles challenging the legitimacy…

… Daniel Fusfeld defended both Cross and Steiner. The doctoral students, requesting anonymity because of fear of aca- demic reprisals, had said Cross uses an economics theory that has since been discredited…

… After more than a week of confu- sion and delays; members of the Michigan Student Assembly and the Student Organization Development Center met and began to develop strategies to improve MSA's rela- tions…

… with the University's Board of Regents. The board, at its January meeting, threatened to cut MSA's funding if it did not improve working relations with different University student or- ganizations…

… for Student Services Roselle Wilson and Director of the Union Frank Cianci- ola, MSA Rep. Heidi Hayes sug- gested three strategies that the two organizations could use in order to improve their rapport…

… shipping 35 Abrams tanks, considered the world's best, to Saudi Arabia and 40 sophis- ticated FA-18 jet fighters to the United Arab Emirates, congressional and other sources said Thursday. Other Arab states…

… receive no American weapons under the proposed sale. Since1985, Congress has prohibited military aid to the Arab kingdom until it agrees to peace terms with Israel. With the plan now being dis- cussed…

January 26, 1983 (vol. 93, iss. 95) • Page Image 7

… list are motivated toward peace. He said he thought there was no distinct Arab per- spective on the Mideast situation. "What do people mean as an Arab point of view," he said. "I think (the conference…

… coor- dinators) did a good jol representing different points of view," Davis said, adding the assembly should have n-in- terest in perpetuating the Arab stereotype. Assembly members also argued that in…

…-classified research. Critics of the decision charge that the Students protest research demand public forum (Continued from Page 1) GAMOTA, A former research direc- tor for the Pentagon, called to cancel on Friday…

… information on defense research projects is available. But graduate student Vicki Shapiro countered: "There are a lot of mem- bers of the student body who have not had a chance to speak to you in- dividually…

…, and find out what's going on." Marx, one of the student members of the Research Policies Committee, said the idea of informal meetings with in- terested people is not practical, and does not provide…

… on the part of the Progressive Students Network, which organized the meeting. "We are tired and frustrated with the administration snowballing us like they did today.. . we are going to take a lit- tle…

… the Michigan Student Assembly. MEDICAL SCHOOL Prof. Daniel Ringler said the majority of the com- mittee's members do not think that cer- tain projects in question violate the University guidelines…

Student Union Ticket Office Michigan Trailways-Ann Arbor Agent 995-8899 Reservations deadlineFeb 4 1983 INDUSTRIAL ARTS/VOC ED . You're Needed All Over the World. Ask Peace Corps Industrial Arts/Voc Ed…

January 26, 1989 (vol. 99, iss. 83) • Page Image 8

… American Lecture Series in con- junctipn with the Asian American Law Students Association. While the Tony is Hwang's most prestigious award, it is not his first. In 1980, he won off- Broadway's Obie award…

… Author voices conflict of Arab in Israel BY JAY PINKA AUTHOR Anton Shammas leaves behind him a type of Dead Sea Scroll turned modernist in his latest novel Arabesques. Bridging the gap between two…

… conflicting cultures, and crossing to our continent, Shammas rivals James Michener in his saga of his family's fortunes from the 1830s to the 1980s. Shammas, a Christian and an Arab, lyrically interweaves his…

… experiences in an Arab village with fiction in the biblically allusive He- brew of Arabesques. The book be- came a best-seller after its 1986 de- but in Israel. Shammas' sardonic tone, reflec- tive of his…

… the terrorism of Arabs by Jews to the 1948 Declaration of In- dependence, which claims "the Jew- ish State in the Land of Israel... will maintain the complete social and political equality for all its…

… mononational Jewish State will result in destruc- tion of democracy. But through his mastery of both Arabic and Hebrew, Shammas demonstrates his desire to integrate the two cultures. He has published several…

… performances. Tickets are $5 each, Two-for-one (2 tickets for $5) for Thursday performances. Group rates are available. A WANTED: STUDENT PHONATHON CALLERS Part Time Employment The School of Education will…

… interview students by phone who will be hired to call alumni nationwide for an alumni fundraising phonathon. . Phonathon held Sunday through Thursday, February 14 - March 24, excluding Spring Break . Callers…

January 28, 1984 (vol. 94, iss. 98) • Page Image 1

… MATTSON A speaker at Rackham Amphitheatre last night blamed most of the problems of the Middle East on American politics, America's inability to com- prehend the Arab world, and the in- fluence of the pro…

… the Arab people . as becoming communistic or becoming allied with the Soviet Union," he said. But Bassiouni added that unless the United States makes more overtures towards Arab nations, the Soviet…

students for jobs, the company never asked for or wanted security protection. But that was exactly what they got from "Nuclear Security Agents," a group sarcastically protesting the company's production of…

… tiny room at the career planning and placement office in East Engineering, fourteen students met behind a paper covered window with the company's personnel manager, Daniel McCullen. Outside the door…

May 18, 1984 (vol. 94, iss. 7) • Page Image 3

… software institute being built in Ann Arbor drew criticism from mem- bers of the community, faculty and student body yesterday at the monthly meeting of the University regents. At the public comments session…

… allocated for Eric Goldstein, a former University student. "I'D LIKE TO voice my opposition to the proposed Department of Defense (software institute)," said Goldstein. Others echoed Goldstein's opinion. "I…

… assistance to Gulf nations WASHINGTON (UPI) - The United States would send jet fighters to the Persian Gulf to protect oil shipments if Arab states made a request and agreed to base the aircraft on their…

… territory, State Depar- tment officials said yesterday. There has been no such request from any Arab state in the gulf for help nor any specific offer from the United States, the officials said. A STATEMENT…

… Gulf. Arab governments would have political problems if they allowed American fighters to be based on their territory because the United States has such close ' relations with Israel. SINICE MURPHY…

September 26, 1988 (vol. 99, iss. 13) • Page Image 5

…The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 26, 1988 - Page 51 Interns r summer BY NOELLE SHAD WICK Tensions were high on the fourth floor of Rackham yesterday as one student after another remarked: "Do…

… important to you and your mentors," he said. The students were gathered to share the results of their summer internships as participants in the Sum- mer Opportunity Research Program for minority stu- dents…

… have a bridge," she said. "As an art student, I wanted to express my culture which hasn't been done before." Her project included many large paintings and sketches of Asian-American woman doing unusual…

… does... well," he shrugged. The program works, he said. "It opened my eyes up; I'm now considering a joint degree," said LSA junior Antoinette Hall. The program has 250 students on 13 campuses, in…

…- cluding the 55 from the University. Rackham received over 100 applications for the program. To apply, students must submit a preliminary pro- posal, then find a sponsoring professor. Sophomore and junior…

… Palestinians in the region. Israel has occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the 1967 war with the United Arab Republic. Hauert, a human rights activist, lived for three weeks with Pales- tinian families…

… as part of a program sponsored by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. The Israeli Army regularly im- poses 24-hour curfews for entire refugee camps and in many cases they have shut off…

… Internships Business Government Non-Profit Organizations Applications Available: LS&A Counseling Office R oam 1 1.2 nn - Nal TIM HARROD JIM McCLAIN and BRENT CUSHMAN With Student Comedians Jeff Goad and Tom…

October 04, 1989 (vol. 100, iss. 20) • Page Image 4

…*1 OPINION Page 4 Wednesday, October 4, 1989 The Mhihgan Daily Wbe £kihwua ?&d1y Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan 420 Maynard St. Vol. C, No. 20 Ann Arbor, MI 48109…

… office (NYT 9/24/89). He has never hidden his desire to have Jews immigrate to Israel alone. Jews now leave Israel at the rate of 20,000 a year, while the Arab population inside its borders is growing…

…. Arabs promise to become a majority in the Jewish state within a generation unless Shamir is able to swell the Jewish population. So the American Israeli Public Affairs Com- mittee spent $800,000 lobbying…

…" I mean exactly the common use of the word. In a given neighborhood, usually quite a big neigh- borhood, all of a sudden, all the flats or houses or rooms rented by Arabs were vandalized and burned…

…. The Arabs were beaten and expelled from the neighbor- hoods. I mean all the Arabs - both from the Palestinian territories and Israeli Arabs. The police did not give any protec- tion, and the…

… neighborhoods became free of Arabs. The Hebrew press at the time in- vented, or re-invented, using Hebrew char- acters, a German word, Arabien, which means in German, "clean of Arabs," from the German word…

… in the plan, and chastises Israel for "refus[ing] to define its own (borders)." The reason Israel does not have le- gally recognized "borders" is that no Arab country, with the exception of Egypt, has…

… the case today. It is the Arab countries who have in the past refused to recognize Israel and her borders, and it was the Arab coun- tries, who, following the 1967 Mid-East War in which Israel gained…

… only way out of the problem. The Daily must abandon its unreal- istic and simplistic notion that the Arab- Israeli conflict is a black and white issue. It must abandon its dream that the way to solve…

October 06, 1988 (vol. 99, iss. 21) • Page Image 4

…q4 OPINIoN Thursday, October 6, 1988 Page 4 The Michigan Daily Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan 420 Maynard St. ILo ter i IIL2 Mazrui's views challenged Vol. !C…

… is likely that Arab oil exports to South Africa are even more extensive than these statistics show. In fact, if we assume that the proportions of untraced oil corresponds to those of the known amounts…

…, then Arab oil exports to South Africa would reach almost 2.5 Billion a year. These figures would make Arab trade with South Africa larger than that of Germany 2.0 Bil- lion, Japan 1.4 Billion, Britain 1…

… in Israeli-occupied territory. It is difficult to figure out whether Dr. Mazrui wishes to belittle the plight of the South African Blacks, or if he simply does not understand the Arab- Israeli conflict…

…. Under apartheid, South African Blacks are denied the basic human rights which are guaranteed to whites. Mazrui seems familiar with the fact that Arabs living within Israel have the same rights as Israeli…

… Jews (except that Arabs cannot fight in Israel's military). But instead of using this fact as evidence that unlike South Africa, Israel is fair and demo- cratic, Mazrui suggests that Arabs only have…

… or a combination of Islamic law and Arab nationalism (NYT May 6, 1988). Mazrui's most appalling suggestion, however, was that Israel is comparable toNazi Germany. The precise term in the September 23…

… Report: "Israel has never acted to negate the very existence of the Palestinian people - while the Palestini- ans and many other Arabs have sworn death to Israel." -William R. Horwitz September 25 Mazrui…

… prejudice or he wouldn't have resorted to using the Daily to defend himself against students and then lying to make his points. It's absurd that a man who has kept close company with notorious killer, Idi…

February 05, 1988 (vol. 98, iss. 88) • Page Image 2

…Page 2-The Michigan.Daily-Friday, February 5, 1988 Pollack criticizes Pursell's vote IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press reports funding. Several students, including LSA senior Debbie Buchholtz…

… and did not back down to local pressures for certain groups," Klukoff said. However, a Democratic candidate for Pursell's seat in November's elections and several University students criticized his…

… interest in supporting the war in Nicaragua." Rackham graduate student Dean Baker, who unsuccesfully ran for Pursell's seat in 1986, was unavailable for comment. Baker has participated in protests against…

… run against Pursell. A spokesperson for Pursell yesterday refused to comment. Thea Lee, a member of the Latin American Solidarity Committee and a Rackham graduate student, stresses that" it's a…

… :':.:: " ::'.::: :"::" : :".::::::: ::L ::"..::: :".L :::::.::::" :".".:::: : S : . Prof. calls the term ;JAP ' sexist anti-Semitic ,Continued from Page 1) Spencer said most students told him that being a "JAP" had nothing to do with…

… being Jewish. But when he asked them to rank the dorms or sorority/fraternity houses in order of "JAPpiness", students consistantly ranked the dorm or sorority/fraternity with the highest Jewish…

… population as number one. When he asked students where to find a "JAP", they told him "JAP havens", or places where "JAPS" supposedly hung out. Spencer also described "anti-JAP zones" on the Syracuse campus…

… where you are not supposed go if you are a "JAP" because you may be harassed. One of these "zones" was a retaining wall where students would sit and study - the words "ANTI-JAP ZONE" were sprayed across…

November 25, 1987 (vol. 98, iss. 55) • Page Image 4

…OPINION Page 4 Wednesday, November 25, 1987 The Michigan Daily LETTERS Ei t d m bstnyichig an Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan 4 TA union is not suing the 'U…

… plan calls for students, beginning in the eighth grade, to sign a contract that states that if they graduate from a Detroit public high school with good attendance records and good grades, they will…

… a promising way to keep kids out of trouble and in the classroom. If a child is in jail, the student's attendance prerequisite may be in grave jeopardy, as will the student's chances of fulfilling the…

…" is a positive way to get Detroit students off the street, give them a better education within the Detroit schools, and provide an opportunity for further success in the future. Fighting homophobia…

… confronted several times by student protesters. It is a rather odd time for the CIA to decide to show its face. The organization's reputation has not improved any in the last two years. To the contrary, in the…

… Contragate hearings this summer, many of the terrorist activities recently engaged in by the CIA in Central America, had the spotlight cast upon them. Students and faculty members must once again express their…

…." Since many students are being billed for something that they do not support, PIRGIM should take it upon themselves to make the refund as easy as possible. One box placed moderately close to the exit door…

November 14, 1988 (vol. 99, iss. 48) • Page Image 1

… the 1967, it implicitly recognizes Israel by refer- ring to the right of all states in the area to live within secure and recog- nized borders. Resolution 338, passed in 1973 during the Arab-Israeli war…

… Resolution 242 and, most importnant, calls for negotiations between Arabs and Israel toward "a just and durable peace in the Middle East." In the closed-door committee meetings among PLO leaders, there was…

…. Messner jumped and paced the sidelines ecting father. The rest of See Roses, Page 12 Students protest minority report DAVID LUBLINt Senior flanker John Kolesar strikes a classic pose every Wolverine…

… playing without four and two reserve running backs, the See illin', Page 12 BY ANNA SENKEVITCH An aide to University President James Duderstadt promised minority student group representatives a meet- ing…

… today with Duderstadt, following a protest Friday in which they de- manded the 1987-88 minority affairs report be recalled for factual inaccuracies. Students gathered on Regents Plaza Friday at noon to…

… protest the report, released in August by the of- fices of the President, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Vice Provost for Minority Af- fairs. Student protesters said they only became…

… aware of the report last week. Duderstadt was in Detroit Friday during the protest, but his assistant Robin Jacoby arranged the meeting for 11:30 today. The document has been attacked by student groups…

…-Bailey; -No mention of programs or groups available on campus to Na- tive American students, and further omissions of events and scholarships given by Latino student organiza- tions; -No mention of the…

… the So- cially Active Latino Student Association, met last Monday with Charles Moody, vice provost for mi- nority affairs, to discuss their com- plaints with the report. At that time, Moody told them he…

… would take their concerns to Duder- stadt. The students have filed com- plaints about the report with Duder- stadt's office for about a week. Moody, who said he will attend today's meeting, has promised…

November 04, 1988 (vol. 99, iss. 42) • Page Image 3

…The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 4, 1988 -Page 3 Students Write to aid ,prisoners IY TARA GRUZEN It began at noon yesterday, and when noon comes . pfround today, students will still be sitting…

… Arbor bubble," she said. "Everyone has the right to their basic human rights. % This has got to stop," said Cathy Markle, a first-year LSA student, who was writing a letter to the president of Burma…

… of Arabs living in the occupied territories to other Arab lands. The meeting was part of coalition talks in Jerusalem yesterday. i re demands JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir refused de…

… settle- ments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip an obstacle to peace between Israel and its Arab neigh-bors. Israeli soldiers blew up four houses yester- day and nine Pal-estinians were reported wounded by…

… Labor campaign focused too closely on the leader's personality and his support for an international conference on Middle East peace, an Arab demand that stirs controversy in Israel. Shamir's right…

…?. Get it checked out J' protesters to face' Y DAVID SCHWARTZ Three of four University students who were Arrested at a protest during the Oct. 6 inaugura- 2ipn of University President James Duderstadt…

… Appeared in 15th District Court yesterday for a pre-trial examination. A jury trial was set for Jan. 5. - LSA senior Rollie Hudson and Rackham raduate student Sandra Steingraber have each een charged with…

… Judge Pieter Thomassen. Standing nute results in a not guilty plea. Rackham graduate student Michael Fischer, ;the fourth defendant in the case, was delivering a lcture in St. Louis and will face his pre…

… have or- jury trial ganized this to discourage student protest," he said. Student Legal Services attorney Gary Roth- berger, who is representing all four defendants, called the inauguration "a…

… being heard." Rackham Student Government has offered a $1,000 reward to any police or campus security officer who provides information leading to the conviction of a co-officer. Steingraber defended the…

November 17, 1987 (vol. 98, iss. 49) • Page Image 4

…OPINION Page 4 Tuesday, November 17, 1987 The Michigan Daily 0'ie 5icI'igau BE:atlU Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Shapiro responds to racism 4 Vol. XCVIII, No…

… inhumane treatment of occupied terrritories. The Arabs living Nlestinians in the West Bank and in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are a6za Strip ("Lawyers accuse Israelis not offered Israeli citizenship, and f…

… mistreating Arabs," Daily, therefore cannot receive welfare and -:r112/87). Both Rishmawi and Qubty unemployment benefits. In addition, :e Arab lawyers who defend Pales- the government maintains strict con…

…. The supply, though they form a minority recent Landau Commision report on of the population. T he Arabs cannot Israel's secret service, the Shin-Beth, remedy this situation because they are found that…

… reinvigorated various existing programs to address better the problems faced by minority students, faculty, and staff at The University o f Michigan. These efforts include: - The creation of the position of Vice…

… Provost for Minority Affairs and the appointment to it of Charles Moody, a distinguished educator and scholar on the status of minority students. As V ice Provost, Dr. Moody has assumed leadership for our…

… efforts to increase the the recruitment and retention of minority students and faculty, and he is working vigorously with students, staff, faculty and Deans to develop plans and programs in this regard…

… them clearly to students. The Financial Aid Appeals Board will supplement the efforts of the Ombudsman's Office and will function with due regard for the need to protect student privacy. -The development…

… by the Housing Division, in coordination with the Orientation Program, of a series of programs for first-year students that will address issues of racism, sexism, and the nature and 'I believe, however…

… resources of the University. -The establishment of a special task force to develop a program on multi-culturalism, diversity, and racism for all incoming students. A pilot version of this program will be…

April 15, 1980 (vol. 90, iss. 155) • Page Image 4

students. The College has thus threatened academic freedom; its new policies raise the specter of repression within the University community. The Women's Studies Program underwent a standard academic review…

… in the fall of 1979. The review testified to the program's distin- ction, and in fact declared that the graduate' student teaching assistants are "of the highest quality," "have a sincere and…

…, that the programs should change over to faculty-taught courses, and that graduate students should be shifted to administrative duties around the program's publication series, Occasional Papers in Women…

… has been built on graduate student participation because there were no faculty members available to teach in the program. The dearth of interested and com- mitted scholars is a manifestation of the per…

…'s review committee, stated that the graduate students in Women's Studies "guaranteed its calibre as a truly innovative field o fendeavor, wherein successful teaching is immediately associated with new and…

… scholarship' has developed in ways that will be lost if we return to 'women in history,' 'women in sociology,' and so. on. Historians interested in women (and students interested in women's history) have…

… interdepartmental crevices. FURTHERMORE, graduate students are more likely to be in touch with emerging social tendencies than are established faculty. Sup- pression of interdisciplinary programs and of graduate…

January 27, 1988 (vol. 98, iss. 81) • Page Image 2

… most vital to one's dental welfare.- But while teachers fight tooth and nail to get their students to the dentist, they do not realize that drinking fluoridated water and using sealants are more…

… University of Minnesota. Lang's study is only a beginning step to help people brush up on dental health awareness, he said. The research team plans on interviewing elementary school students about their…

… run some tests on it," Faja said. Student (Contnued fropPage 1) read at a "ridiculously young age," though Davis will not reveal the ex- act age. When Davis was four years old, she was a member of…

… - Israeli border police in the West Bank opened fire on Palestinian protesters yesterday, wounding one, and Arabs hurled firebombs at soldiers in the Gaza Strip. Defense Minister Yitzhak Shamir said the…

… policy of using beatings to quell protest applies only during violent demonstrations. Border policemen shot a Palestinian in the leg when dozens of protesters, many covering their faces with checkered Arab

… headdresses, surrounded a patrol in the Jenin refugee camp, an army spokesman said. He said the patrol used tear gas and rubber bullets first, then fired because their lives were in danger. The Arab

…-run Palestine Press Service said Israeli gunfire wounded two Arabs, one 12 years old, during protests at the West Bank town of El Bireh and the Jalazoon refugee camp near Nablus. Photographers saw 15 Arabs

… her office have reflected subtle forms of bias against other Black staff members and Ferris State students, she claimed. 4 What's )h( Happening Recreational Sports " FOUL SHOOTING TOURNAMENT ENTRIES…

…." r. /'a , A' *4 % ';/ Vol. XCVIII-. No. 81 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan…

… National Student News Service. Editor in Chief ................... ROB EARLE Film................. JOHN SHEA Managing Editor ..........................AMY MINDELL Theater ................JENNIFER KOHN News…

February 07, 1984 (vol. 94, iss. 106) • Page Image 4

… of Antioch to non- Arab, but Sunni Muslim Turkey, as con- trasted with the generation-long refusal to make peace with the transformation of Palestine into a Jewish State. For the Alawites, secular Arab

… government. Arabs lay in the n In order for the Alawites to stay in to show their an power, they had to demonstrate the Sunni masses. T] Arab "greatness" by outdoing their Lebanon can par competitors in Arab

…, Christians, Druzes, Kurds and probably a homeland for the Palestinian refugees. For as long as Assad is ruling, radicalism will always prevail and spill over. Nassif is a doctoral student in the University…

…'s political science depar- tment. Assad ... resented by Sunni Muslims die sItudetsahnfig an t Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Vol. XCIV-No. 106 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI…

…'S UP," asked University President Harold Shapiro as he encountered members of the Progressive Student Network who were sitting-in at his office last week. Well, what's up is that in response to the PSN…

… November's sit-in. Many students and faculty at this University, however, feel quite dif- ferently. The actions of PSN and the faculty senate's proposal for a forum on military research prove that not…

… examined by the regents, faculty, and students-not hidden un- der the guise of academic freedom. The issue remains important. And in the actions of PSN, President Shapiro, and many faculty members, is seen a…

… unselfishness? I'll gladly wait (and wait) for an answer. Steve Angelotti -February 4 Angelotti is a Rackham graduate student. \, .± 1 r r V y 4 Sa - r A7,, ,t I WOOWt IMAGINE, 8(NKI6Y, IN EVERY MAN'S LIFE…

January 16, 1981 (vol. 91, iss. 91) • Page Image 4

… Bank including attacks on Jewis students in Hebron, riots after the car bombings of three West Bank mayors, and the assassinations of pro-peace Arabs in the West Bank and in Gaza. You also fail to note…

… club. Christopher Potter is a Daily staff writer. His column appears every Friday. ~5 -Tise li stditganrty tig Edited and managed by students at The University 'of Michigan Feiffer Vol. XCI, No. 91…

… events. a For two reasons, I authored the motion to postpone-NOT REJECT-until next week the recognition of the Student Association of the United Friends of the Islamic Republic of Iran. First, it has been…

… alleged by the FBI that Iranian student associations in the United States have formal ties with the Khomeini government. It is believed that Iranian student associations are taking money and orders from…

… Iran. If this is the case with the local association, then it is not a legitimate student organization and under the MSA constitution can be denied recognition. Second, what is the purpose of this group…

… David accords? Never before has an Arab country been at peace with Israel. In fact, before Begin and the Likud party came to power in May, 1977, no single Arab leader had ever even offered to negotiate…

… peace with Israel since its independence in 1948. In those twenty nine years, only one Arab leader, a prince from Jordan, had the integrity to speak out publicly for peace with Israel. He was promptly…

… that since Israel took control of the area, the holy sites in the Old City of Jerusalem are available to all Third, you claim that Begin ha$ "allowed the military to clamp repressive measures on Arab

February 23, 1980 (vol. 90, iss. 119) • Page Image 4

…01 Page 4-Saturday, February 23, 180-The Michigan Daily Feiffer 01T zrI'td!an IOatIIQ Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. XC, No. 119 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at…

… the tists, who have been particularly out- democratic Arab state. spoken in their condemnation of Indications are that Sadat may t Egypt's peace treaty with Isael. .down from his law of shame. I The…

… the closed Michigan students for Brown is caucus, one must obtain formal sponsoring a Democratic Party membership in the Michigan Membership Drive in the lobby of Democratic Party by February the…

… petitions to encourage the state Democratic party to, return to the primary system. We need your help regardless of whether you endorse our can- didate or not. Since this is an electionin which students are…

… going todlay an important role, we encousge the students of the Universit~of Michigan to get ire volved al make their voic. heard. -Roi Laxa Micigan Students for Lown Feb. 1 ully, , one e out f the pose…

… upon us. I ask that you investigate carefully the claim quoted, and report whether or not it is credible. I ask further that you ask knowledgeable students to prepare a lucid, well documented…

… he may choose to make his home? This question, deserving of a resounding NO, is answered af- firmatively by some, claiming that Hebron is an Arab city. These responses reflect an ignorance of Jewish…

…. What, though, of the Arab citizens? How can Arabs and Jews be expected to live as neighbors? One only has to look throughout the remainder of Israel to see again and again con- firmation that Jews and…

Arabs can peacefully coexist. In fact, settlement of Jews in Hebron could even result in a lessening of and Jews can mix, evn on the West Bank. Not a mov towards hawkishness, but a move towards rational…

April 08, 1988 (vol. 98, iss. 128) • Page Image 2

… than a more "masculine" student. "I think once in a while (during rush), we'll focus more on someone (who seems effeminate) to see what their attitudes are," said Trent Tappe, Michigan Advertising…

… settlers vowed revenge yesterday and shouted "Expel the Arabs" as they buried an Israeli girl stoned to death by Palestinians. Troops killed a man in the town where she was slain. And soldiers arrested…

… hundreds of Arabs and blew up five homes in Beita. Israeli settlers attacked tow nearby Arab villagers, beating residents, breaking windows and firing further revenge raids by vigilante groups. An army…

… statement said the Palestinian fatally shot in Beita was a suspect in the attack on a group of Israeli teen-agers Wednesday in which Tirza Porat was killed. Few Arabs expressed regret about the death of Porat…

…. "The Jews won't be convinced to make peace with us until they see lots of bloodshed," said, an Arab grocer in Nablus who would not reveal his name. Opposition to Noriega splits PANAMA CITY, Panama - A…

… Authentic Panamanian Party, the largest opposition political party. Hijacked jet to leave Iran today NICOSIA, Cyprus - Airport workers in northeast Iran refueled a Kuwaiti jetliner yesterday, and its Arab

… the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates for May through August - $6 in Ann Arbor; $8 outside the city. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated…

… Press and the National Student News Service. " BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN CATALOG - THE BEATLES CATALOG - DIRE STRAITS CATALOG " MOODY BLUES CATALOG - THE POLICE CATALOG + THE TALKING HEADS CATALOG - U2 CATALOG…

January 23, 1986 (vol. 96, iss. 80) • Page Image 4

…4 OPINION Poge 4 Thursday, January 23, 1986 The Michigan Daily 0 te n tna n Michig an Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Directors pave Vol. XCVI, No. 8o 420…

… with the temperature. Reminiscent of spring fervor, students have organized outdoor events to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and the thirteenth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision…

…. Student activity should continue indoors when the wind starts biting again. Beware that cold comes to Ann Arbor without warning. This un- seasonable warmth has been a tease, a delightful diversion. Later…

… (O 507-VP~Y - TOis Gl-r-rIAG ,. f ! f f J,/f; a ;f !rf ,' ; I LETTERS: ,4/ 1' Arab leaders don't help Palestinians ,'i : /. r"' ! i . , jjf ,,, i /II" i 1 yni. /, l1:. '1 Ni ,,,, To the…

… bring about any peaceful solutions in the region. There have also been the deterioration of the Middle East and Palestinian peoples. From Nasser to Khaddafy who vowed to bring together all Arabs in…

… promise of a "never-ending Armed Struggle" has only compounded the misery of the Palestinians and Arabs living on Israel's bor- ders. whereas Israel donates more than a number of Arab countries. Why have…

… Palestinians continue to suffer. that Arab and Jew can in fact live in peace. Let someone convince the PLO and the Arab leaders of today that their past policies have and only will lead to war. Fawaz Turki, a…

December 06, 1983 (vol. 94, iss. 74) • Page Image 2

…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, December 6, 1983 Soies Arabs condemn rai~d From AP and UPI The Soviet Union yesterday condemned U.S. retaliatory strikes on Syrian anti-aircraft positions in…

… Lebanon and said it will aid Arab forces battling U.S. and Israeli troops in the Middle East. The denunciation came during a news conference on nuclear missiles in Europe. THE KREMLIN'S chief spokesman…

…, Leonid Zamyatin, said the U.S. bombing was a "new factor of aggression" in the" Middle East. Moscow "censures and condemns this actof aggression," Zamyatin said. "Arab countries will take the measures…

… the Israeli and American aggression in this district," he said. THE U.S. AIR strike also drew reaction from Arab nations ranging from calls for restraint on further military interven- tion to…

… letters to all Arab leaders and a number of foreign heads of state "pledging he is determined to confront any aggression...The man remains prisoner in Syria American intervention in Lebanon has turned…

… into the stage of direct military aggression against Syria, Lebanon and the Arab nation," requiring "serious confrontation." Premier.Bettino Craxi hinted yester- day that Italy might pull its 2…

… alarming and tragic." Hearing delayed in 'U' student's draft registration case '(Continued from Page 1). According to American Civil Liber- ties Union attorneys James Lafferty, who is representing Rutt…

…, December 6, 1983 (ISSN 0745-967X) The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420…

…Graw, Scott News Editor .......... .........GEORGE ADAMS McKinlay, BarbMcQuade. Lisa Noferi. Phil Nussel, Rob Student Affairs Editor .................. BETH ALLEN Pollard, Mike Redstone, Scott Solowich, Paula…

July 29, 1988 (vol. 98, iss. 11) • Page Image 5

… Libyan government to support anti-American ac- tivities and send "minority activists" to Libya. The outrageousness of such charges has been met with quiet anxiety by many Arab students who fear they will…

…PERSPECTIVES k I- The Michigan Daily Friday, July 29, 1988 Page 5 Fleming's inferno BY COREY DOLGAN This is the story of how some wide-eyed optimistic students and faculty tried to apply…

… came to the University to commemorate the Peace Corp's 25th Anniversary. Many students, realizing the irony of Bush honoring the Peace Corp, protested his appearance. Campus security responded by…

… harassing students, confiscating signs, and squelching the protestors' right to free speech. Libyan students arrested: Forgotten Rights Suppose a university student is taken from her/his home by govern- ment…

… dragnet apprehension of eight Libyan students around the country, FBI agents arrested University student Salem Zubeidy at his home on North Campus. He is accused of conspiring to divert funds from the…

… become targets of government frame-ups or harass- ment if they speak out. Some say they have good reason for such fear. As one student ex- plained, "The men with black shiny shoes have come around. They…

… through "unnamed" sources that some of the Libyan students under arrest were part of a plot to assassi- nate Lt. Col. Oliver North. What is the evidence? Why is more journalistic skepticism not brought to…

… bear on validity of these charges? Even high-ranking State Department officials have expressed doubts about these allegations. A fellow student has been arrested on political grounds. Until the above…

… broadcast and CIA recruitment followed and so did security's ha- rassment of demonstrators. As the University intensified its crushing of protest with physical force and violence, students claimed the need to…

… after a whirling standard" From the beginning of the CLB's romp through the satanic rings of composing guidelines on free speech and protest, student mem- bers thought that such a policy could be…

January 16, 1987 (vol. 97, iss. 76) • Page Image 4

…O1PINION Page 4 Friday, January 16, 1987 The Michigan Do Lucas f1 Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Vol.. XCVII, No. 76 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, M1 48109 L…

… request for "creative" ileas toward this goal. In re - sponse, students should not allow t opportunity to directly influence JWiversity decisions slip through ioir fingers. . pi ..:.. . . ~ :.Interim…

… positions .rbomising to represent student onstituencies such as MSA, BSU, IA, and the elected officials of bth Greek systems, should offer carefully prepared, thoughtful &proposals which will be difficult for…

… a University committee, and ultimately Duderstadt, to justifiably reject. U.S. takes advantage of ; sweepstakes Indications are that student leaders are already moving in this direction. The Student

March 11, 1984 (vol. 94, iss. 127) • Page Image 2

…4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, March 11, 1984 By CLAUD While student a protests to figh bureaucracy, the running the Mic trying to revive an servative voice. The student le spotlight more…

… number organized, vocal, a visible. THROUGH THE says he's trying problem by encou students to speak ou "Eighty percent people who have views, -but if yo Review, they'd agr But showing stu also a problem…

… the paper has shifted its emphasis to It the University campus issues such as whether the group of students University should divest its holdings in higan Review are companies operating in South Africa…

… to often neglected con- criticizing the Michigan Student Assembly. ft may be in the SIMILAR TO national right leaning en than their right- publications such as William Buckley's , but Review Editor…

… campus group has been to ER universities the Progressive Student Network, that on, Barnett says blockaded Engineering Prof. Thomas sweptabyeaconser-Seniors's lab last November to protest d the Review aem…

September 26, 1988 (vol. 99, iss. 13) • Page Image 4

… Solidarity Committee (the sponsors of this event along with Rack- ham Student Government), and the Arab states are not only hypocrites but are also only using the Israel-South Africa "alliance" to further…

Arabs, making negotiations for peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict more dif- ficult. I urge all students on campus to be aware of and protest anti-Semitism on campus, be it open or under the shadow of anti…

…4 OPINION Monday, September 26, 1988 Page 4 The Michigan Daily Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Vol. IC No.13 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Unsigned editorials…

… Africa is dwarfed by that of Europe, Arab states, and Black African states, and that South Africa re- ceives over 75 percent of its oil from Arab states. This demonstrates that Mazrui, the Palestine…

Students for Israel. prominently, and in a typically misleading fashion printed as the title of the inter- view) were completely unsubstantiated. Mazrui produced no concrete evidence of such an association…

…'s current role in the Arab-Israeli conflict is becoming a parallel to Nazi Germany. "Judeo-Naziism is no longer a contradiction in terms," he proclaimed, continuing that the "German picture is becoming part…

…-Israel propaganda. I understand that not all who are anti-Is- rael are anti-Semitic, however, Mazrui and his supporters certainly are both. :m. M 4 , H " 6'U, cheats students By Jon Zimring "There is no…

… tried." Professor Peterson did try, but the University failed to honor his request. The result was that many students were turned away from a class in which they were genuinely interested, and were forced…

…. Every year students receive a letter from the University apologizing for tuition which is "undesirably high." Every year undergraduates are required to pay hefty tuition increases or tack-on fees so that…

… there- fore more than peculiar that the University seems to have such a difficult time ac- commodating its undergraduates due to monetary deficiencies. If the average Michigan student were to stop and…

September 04, 1980 (vol. 91, iss. 1) • Page Image 104

… twice monthly meetings and activities. Similar groups in existence during the past school year include Polish, Chicano, and African students, plus Asian American, Native Americans, Chinese, Indian, Arab

… ideal collegiate lifestyle, don't panic. There are over 300 student groups on campus in which you can spend your spare time doing anything from protesting against apartheid to skydiving, or simply…

… spending time with others who share your ethnic background, religious beliefs, or academic interests. Most student organizations register with the University's student government, the Michigan Student

…, last year's MSA coordinator of student organizations. ANOTHER REASON student groups register with MSA More said, is to have access to student-appropriated funds that MSA has reserved for student

… organizations. Many groups combine extracurricular activities and scholarly or professional interests. The Michigan Economic Society, for example, offers get-togethers for economics students and professors, free…

… tutoring services, and a wide array of distinguished guest speakers. Students of music, forestry, engineering, history, political science, and anthropology, among others, have also banded together to mix…

… studies and social life. The purpose of most of these organizations is to "enhance the student's experience in the department," explained Linda Wolk, president of the Undergrad Art History Association…

…. OTHER CAMPUS GROUPS draw students with similar academic or career interests, but are not affiliated with particular departments. The Michigan Daily, WCBN, and Women in Communications, for example, attract…

… many students interested in journalism, but do not require par- ticipants to be majoring in that field. Besides shared academic interests, similar ethnic backgrounds bring many students together. No…

… matter how small a minority on campus,.there is probably a campus- based group oriented to people within that minority. George Rostenko, president of the Ukranian Students' Association, says he knows of…

February 20, 1987 (vol. 97, iss. 101) • Page Image 1

… intended to initial plans a unveils project grams, rather than Petoskey). y at problems that Kurt Muenchow, president of the ;m to retention. Michigan Student Assembly, said, step in the right "As I see…

… the University becoming that we are getting more aware of the evident racism of this problem," here, I just hope that we just keep Paul Brown (D- See STUDENTS, Page 5 erracedemise BLUMENSTEIN ceful…

… University mnminent, Medical Center master plan. The ten-year-old plan mandates eventual destruction of the Uni - versity Terrace graduate student housing to make way for the hospital's growth, but Terrace…

… residents say they never knew of the plan. "All of the regents have been sympathetic to the students in the University Terrace, but our invest - ment in the hospital is just too See HOUSING, Page 5 Doily…

… Photo by Inteflex junior Anthony Varasis, a member of the United Coalition Against Racism, speaks yestei public comments at the Board of Regents meeting. About 200 students attended the meeting at t…

September 12, 1986 (vol. 97, iss. 7) • Page Image 1

… with students on the council that the subject could be eliminated from a final draft of the code. "It might be that distinguishing the category of civil dissent will have us do nothing about it at all…

…," said councilmember Shaw Livermore, a professor of history. Stuent councilmembers have argued that any code governing student behavior outside the classroom should not allow the University to crack down…

… on political dissent. The issue helped raise student opposition to previous drafts of the code. cil tackle The council-composed of students, faculty, and administrators-has been working on writing a…

… controversial issue of political dissent, but student members of the council still question the.need for any code. "Our mistake has been assuming that there are problems that can't be adequately dealt with using…

… political mediation or other alternatives," said student member Ken Weine. "No one has ever proven that this University needs a code," added student member Jennifer Faigel. Such ambivalance has contributed to…

… President Harold Shapiro last fall threatened to bypass the council and propose the administration's code proposal- which has been rejected by the Michigan Student Assembly- to the Board of Regents because he…

… between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. Moslem extremists assassinated Sadat two months later.. Egypt is the only Arab nation with diplomatic relations with Israel, and any overture to the…

… lens BylHampton Dellinger. its never been this bad." said 14 minutes. We're having to cut Victor Impink, a senior in the time off our lunch and coffee Many students traveling to College of Engineering…

… body- Hoekstra. changed. Right now, they're to-body rides in overcrowded To accommadate the increase sacrificing safety," said Buckley, buses. in students, ,officials in the who added that the delays…

… from the C.C. Little stop to only- be identified as students who have classes in the North Campus every 7 minutes "Kevin,"said "the schedule's all new Electrical Engineering and instead of every 12. But…

October 05, 1984 (vol. 95, iss. 26) • Page Image 2

…Ieg 764-0558 which drafted the survey, RAs are in- structed not to force anyone to com- plete the survey and are given a list of counseling services where they can refer students with problems. "RAs are…

… beginning oc- curred when the University president issued a statement condemning sexual harassment. As time went on, however, concern about harrassment spread from strictly faculty-student relationships to…

student-student relationships. A poll at a large, urban university in the south during the fall of 1981 showed that 15 percent of men and 21 percent of women reported they had been abused by a "courtship…

…" partner. 19 percent of men and 38 percent of women reported that they had been abused. LAST SPRING, the Task Force on Sexual Harrassment created a sub- committee on student relations to write a first draft…

… Parnes. "It was personally offensive, we rip- ped it apart," said Pat DeKeyser, a summer orientation leader who reviewed the survey. "We knew we wanted student input for what would be an appropriate level…

… that the two sensitive surveys should probably not have been conduc- ted at the same time. "There are ways that we can better coordinate the way we survey students. . . It would be better to pace these…

… things." ____j MICHIGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY NEEDS YOU! Positions are now available on the following Regental and University Committees: STUDENT LEGAL SERVICES RESEARCH POLICIES - One grad student needed…

… blast. Officials reported no casualties and said the explosion caused little"- damage. Police said one Arab was detained for questioning and another, identified only as an Algerian who rented the Honda…

… Civic in Nicosia on Saturday, was.. being sought. Police refused to give the Arabs' names. A communique issued in Damascus, Syria, by Col Sased Moussa, head of the Fatah faction opposed to PLO chairman…

… the Fall and Winter terms apd Tuesday through Saturday during the Spring and Summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. Sub- scription rates: September through April - $16.50 in Ann Arbor…

November 19, 1981 (vol. 92, iss. 61) • Page Image 4

…4 " } OPINION Page 4 Thursday, November 19, 1981 The Michigan Daily Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Wasserman Vol. XCII, No.61 420 Mynaord St. Ann Arbor, Mt…

… Israeli citizens-including Arabs and Jews-have the right to vote. Policies on the West Bank, even if the Daily deems them ex- cessive, do not change these characteristics of the Israeli political system…

…. Whether the Daily likes it or not, the West Bank is a disputed territory considered to be a war zone by all parties in the Arab- Israeli conflict. From its ivory tower on Maynard Street, the Daily chose to…

… perceptive analysis of Israel's overall policy toward the Palestinians. However undesirable the Israeli be brought about if represep-O tatives of the Palestinians and the relevant Arab states are willing to…

… negotiate with Israel. To think, as the Daily does, that Israel can unilaterally grant self- rule to the Palestinians is to show ignorance of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and traditional…

… procedures of conflict- resolution. The Egyptians and a few Palestinians knocked off ty the PLO for the moderate views, are the only Arabs to date willing to resolve the Palestinian problem through negotiation…

… oppressing the Palestinian Arabs. \ By doing so, the Daily has sunk to the moral level of those who prefer to perpetuate this myth as a propaganda device against Israel rather than to settle the root problems…

… of the Arab- Israeli conflict. If the Daily dislikes some of Israel's policies and believes Israel should be more forth- coming in resolving the Palestinian problem, why does it not just say so? By…

November 01, 1988 (vol. 99, iss. 39) • Page Image 4

…OPINION Page 4 be augesdesaenai Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Tuesday, November 1, 1988 The Michigan Daily I Rape regardless of race 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI…

… with students from the United Coalition Against Racism (UCAR), the course would provide an analysis of race and racism, as well as cultural achievements of people of color. Racism is a significant…

… phenomena in society and at the University, and the course will increase student under- standing of this issue. The course is essential to any liberal arts education. To its credit, the curriculum commit- tee…

… ineffective token gesture. The course must be mandatory. If the course is optional, it is unlikely that students who most need to be educated about racism will choose to take it. Students should not have the…

… luxury of choosing whether or not to be edu- cated about racism and other cultures. The University does not give students the choice about whether or not to learn a foreign language, or to achieve a cer…

… alternative to the mandatory course is to create a new distribution requirement focusing on the experi- ences or contributions of minorities in different fields. Students would fulfill the requirement by…

… achieve through distribution re- quirements. The proposed course is also designed to encourage students to examine their own actions and attitudes. This would be lost if education on racism was rele- gated…

… the land of their forefathers. And as such it has nothing to say about whether or not there should be an independent Arab- ruled state on the West Bank, as some have advocated. That is a political…

… made seems to have been lost. The Jewish people do not constitute a "persuasion." The Jews are not merely a religious body, as so many Arab leaders have mis- takenly stated, and they are not a race, as…

… their faith. One can either be born into the Jewish family, or adopted into it. Deymar, the Jews are a nation. Concerning the issue of the Arab refugees, I would remind Deymar Jamil that if the Arab

March 08, 1989 (vol. 99, iss. 107) • Page Image 3

… Meese "is not welcome anywhere' around me." Richardson said the concern about Meese's visit to Ann Arbor was echoed by a law student who said, "Oh no, I just replaced all the win- dows because of the last…

… - Page 3 MSA announces executive candidates LINDSAY MORRIS/Daily Interview LSA student Ducky Warmouth is interviewed by LSA senior Julie Fingersh of B-Side News Magazine, who was asking how students

… president and vice presi- dent of the Michigan Student Assem- bly will be elected by students on March 21 and 22. This year's race features four candidates for the presi- dent: Rob Bell, Zachary Kittrie…

…, Julie Murray, and Aaron Williams. All four candidates currently serve on the as- sembly. LSA rep. Bell, who is currently the Communications Committee Chair, is running under theparty Student's Choice. In…

… addi- tiontoBell,andhis k vice presidential candidate James , McBain, Student's Choice is listing 17 other candidates Kittrie for the 24 vacant MSA representa- tive posts. Calling for MSA to take "a…

January 20, 1989 (vol. 99, iss. 79) • Page Image 1

… Ann Arbor, Michigan.- Friday, January 20, 1989 Copyright 1989, The Michigan Daily Regents may cut MSA funds ROBIN LOZNAK/Daily Students demand more University AIDS research in front of the…

…'task force to study costs BY FRAN OBEID The Michigan Student Assembly will lose its University funds if work relations do not improve be- tween MSA officers and the administration consultant, members of the…

… University's Board of Regents said yesterday during their monthly meeting. Last spring, the regents passed an amendment in response to what Re- gent Thomas Roach (D-Saline) called "student criticism of MSA…

…" requiring that the assembly "engage in a consultative way with Student Organization Development Center (SODC)," and decreased MSA funds by 37 cents per student. But yesterday, Vice President for Student

… their annual fee request in June. MSA holds student-wide elections for officers in March. But MSA officials say the SODC criticism is undue. "I believe it's in- appropriate for MSA to rely on someone from…

… the administration to provide input or advice," said Vice President Susan Overdorf, an LSA junior. "I don't feel that SODC knows as much as the students working at MSA. MSA is a student organization…

… - we're supposed to be autonomous from the administra- tion." Overdorf said SODC officials wanted to meet with the student leaders on a weekly basis and the student officers, who are volunteers, simply…

… think. I'm a volunteer student. The SODC is 4 useless administrative branch. The regents don't know what's going on." During yesterday's meeting, Roach suggested that Student Legal Services, ADVICE…

November 07, 1981 (vol. 92, iss. 51) • Page Image 3

…The Michigan Daily--Saturday, November 7, 1981-Page 3 MSA president urges state plan Michigan Student Assembly President Jon Feiger and presidents of 2 other state colleges and universities…

… educatin which currently does not exist in the state, the student government leaders said. Among the officials the students met with, Feiger said, were state Senate Higher Educatin Appropriations Chairman…

… programs. "The quality of higher education op- portunities in Michigan is directly af- fected by decreased revenues ap- propriated to institutins of higher lear- ning," the students wrote in a policy…

… both nations are considering the move, a PLO source said yesterday. "Without doubt, it is in the interest of the Palestinians and the Arabs as a whole that the Arab states, particularly Saudi Arabia…

…-The Four Seasons, Lorch Hall Aud., 7 & 9:05 p.m. AAFC-Ordinary People, MLB 4,7 & 9:10 p.m. MEETINGS Graduate Christian Fellowship-Mtg., Student/Faculty Potluck, Al Girod's home, 3645 Charter Place, 6 p…

October 03, 1980 (vol. 91, iss. 26) • Page Image 3

… ordered a general mobilization of civilians in vital Khuzistan province, while Iraq admit- ted its forces have gone on the defen- sive, "preserving" past gains. In Tehran, the Iranian Parliament Arab oil…

…'s two major battlefronts-the Shatt-al-Arab waterway to the Persian Gulf and in the Iranian oil province of Khuzistan fur- ther north. But there were signs that the way was settling down to a long and…

… the north. MS A contiues work on security By DAVID MEYER Members of the Michigan Student Assembly Security Task Force took another step last night toward developing concrete plans for improving campus…

… security. Students at the meeting, representing five "action groups" formed at last week's mass meeting, reported on the research they had conducted on their individual topics and discussed future directions…

… for action. AMONG THE POSSIBLE improvements discussed by the students was a night-time, off-campus ride program similar to the present "Night-Owl" bus service. MSA member Bruce Brumberg, coordinator of…

… the un- dergraduate library was postponed after students ex- pressed concern over the danger of pairing up women with unfamiliar escorts. "We've done the ground work, . , . now -it's time to for- mulate…

…. MISCELLANEOUS Guild House-Luncheon Lecture, Molly Reno, "Landlord-Tenant Law and the Office of Student Legal Services," 12 p.m., 802 Monroe. Campus Chapel-Dr. Gordon Spykman, "Christians in Politics," 7:30 p…

August 06, 1980 (vol. 90, iss. 54) • Page Image 6

… held here, 168 mosque in New York City's borough of Authorities took 172 men and 20 were students with legal visas, two Israel affirms Jerusalem stance 4 freed were legal permanent residents and one…

… was a legal visitor. Of the women in New York City, he said, 19 were studen- ts and one was a wife of a student. One of the men, a student, is subject to deportation proceedings because of a previous…

… said. "These students, quite unlike the hostages in Iran, are beipg handled strictly in accordancewith the law." JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel said yesterday it was prepared to discuss' Jerusalem with Egypt…

… STATEMENT authorized by the Israeli government, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yoram Ben-Zeev said Israel was not backing down from its position that Jerusalem's 100,000 Arab residents are not involved in an…

…: autonomy plan and would be barred from voting for a Palestinian council that would represent West Bank and Gaza Arabs. ¢ "Jerusalem is not part of the autonomy," Ben-Zeev said, but he ad- ded, "all issues on…

… try to place them in an area they have had a very hard time collec- corresponding to their career interest," ting on them." As a result, the VA has Wild explained. "The pre-med students get lab jobs…

July 19, 1980 (vol. 90, iss. 42) • Page Image 14

… Khomeini's revolutionary regime, was unharmed in the attack, which he blamed on "professionals that the government in Tehran sent to France." Police said the captured trio all claimed to be Arabs - but they…

… could not be immediately identified. The Iranian revolutionaries have established close relations with some Arab militants. In Tehran, a group calling itself the Guards of Islam said in a statement read…

… told the Regents they doubted the University's high quality programs could be maintained without a substantial increase in the student portion of support for the University. Michigan Student Assembly…

… President Marc Breakstone said in a telephone interview yesterday he was upset by the tuition hike: "The thing I object to most is that students are bearing the greatest burden. It seems ironic that students

… are bearing the brunt of hard times but aren't being compensated proportionally in terms of quality of education. "It's just not fair that students are paying so much, and the money is going to some…

May 10, 1980 (vol. 90, iss. 3) • Page Image 18

… Libyan Student Union, the Arab Student, "ncniatnad ,c Afrian -Stu t4 Khadafy ... thinking of oil cutoff A T R SERVICE,. . . Billing 764-0550 t Circulation 764-0558 Classifieds 764-0557 Display 764…

… reportedly discovered a JANA said. The value of those assets ie of 4:30 p.m. had been set for "hit list" of two dozen Libyan students could not be immediately determined. the Libyans to comply with the…

… Libya had agreed to recall the four and they would leave tomorrow., The four claimed they were students, not diplomats, and they could be kicked out of the country only through legal deportaton…

… for two months and discovered a "hit list" of about two dozen Libyan students whom the" Libyan government was attempting to force to return home. Zbedi assailed the FBI for conducting investigations of…

… Libyan students. He said that he has recently received calls at the embassy from University studen- ts complaining that they are being harassed by the FBI. "It's not us," he said. "They can't- accuse us of…

…, who said he has been working as a committeemember in the Libyan em- bassy since last September when Libyan students converted it into a "People's Bureau," said the State Department revoked his student

… visa. "I'm a student, not a diplomat and I've always carried a student visa," he said. He explained that none of the embassy personnel are registered as diplomats because "in a People's Bureau, all…

… decisions are made by a committee." He maintained that as a student, he has a right to a fair deportation trial to con- test the expulsion order. However, the State Department considers all embassy petsonnel…

… my will. On the tenth anniversay of the Libyan revolution our leader (Col. Moammar Khadafy) called on the students of nine countries to take over the embassies and change operations into an electing…

… received a masters degree in linguistics from the University in 1974. He said that while he was in Ann Arbor (up until last September), he participated in student and social organizations, including the…

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