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…, Central Student Government’s vote for #UMDivest and more. The Michigan Daily: Starting with Richard Spencer — in the Regent’s Meeting called last week, safety seemed like a big topic of discussion…

…, that’s your top priority that you’re stating in your negotiations and that was a major concern for students. So, in the negotiation process, how are you defining safety? Obviously there are many…

… just our students but the people that will come here, or may come here, to protest for or against and the safety of the speaker, the physical safety of the speaker and then of Ann Arbor. You know…

… about 100 students, faculty and community members joined together in the Diag for the #StopSpencer Speak Out with one common message: Richard Spencer is not welcome at the University of Michigan…

…’s request to speak on campus. The event was organized by a coalition of student groups including Stop Spencer at the University of Michigan, Students4Justice and more. The goal of the Speak Out was to…

… with the University’s willingness to put the safety and comfort of minority students at risk in order to work with Spencer’s request. One of these individuals was LSA junior Alex Chow, who…

… explained by choosing not to deny Spencer’s request, the University was leaving students of color to fend for themselves. “The University and its administration has made it clear that they’re not…

… objections stemmed from a concern that Lieberman, who has taught on the Arab-Israeli conflict, would cause a power imbalance during the vote by expressing his anti-divestment views. While speaking to…

… the assembly, Lieberman took a historical approach to examining the Arab- Israeli conflict, citing examples of human rights violations by other countries, which he believes to be greater than…

…Thursday marked undocumented immigrants’ last day to submit renewals to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — but undocumented students at the University of Michigan…

… students. After President Donald Trump’s successive travel ban orders in January, and again after the repeal of DACA in September, University President Mark Schlissel stated the University will not…

… disclose students’ immigration statuses voluntarily. Schlissel also formed an Immigration Working Group to monitor and analyze gaps in resources. Thursday’s rally, organized by the Student…

… central staff liaison between undocumented students and the University and improving accessibility for prospective students. In October 2016, the University of Michigan launched its five…

…-year Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plan — an extensive initiative designed to promote a more diverse and inclusive campus through increasing staff diversity, retention of underprivileged students and…

…. Two student panels, consisting of 25 undergraduate and graduate students each, convene every month to discuss new strategies and ideas with DEI leaders. Though the plan was created to…

… white supremacy to racial slurs written on students’ dorm room doors — the past year has weighed heavily upon both administrators and minority students. Diversity Peer Educators As part of the…

… traditional identity binaries, especially in the historical context of the Arab communities’ presence on campus. “I know that historically when efforts (target) this same issue, our needs are not…

… community and our historical presence on campus only further the severity of the issue and disempower the Arab The Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority approved $150,000 to install chain…

…LSA Student Government kicked off its Mental Health Week Monday afternoon by gathering student organizations focused on mental health for a Diag Day. At the far end of the Diag, LSA SG…

… representatives Eli Rachlin, an LSA junior, and Kristen Ball, an LSA senior, blew bubbles and blasted music as students walked by. Rachlin, spouting positive encouragement to passersby said the Diag Day is…

… an important part of the Awareness Week because of its ability to reach so many students. “You got to do something where you get exposure … everyone’s down this week, it’s right before fall…

… Follow @michigandaily JT @__JustJustin MSU students talk so much trash about UMich but forget that was their #1 choice before they got rejected 5th Year @5thYear Michigan’s student section…

… corrections@michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of…

… category include the 22 Arab countries and the three non- Arab countries that may identify because of regional purposes,” Elharake said. “That also includes communities that don’t have nationalities…

… … just so that we’re more inclusive and we’re not creating an Arab box.” CSG Vice President Nadine Jawad, a Public Policy senior, expressed her support of the initiative, one that has been promoted…

… LIFE Push to add ME/NA box launches on social media Students, faculty sign onto #WeExist campaign to lobby for Arab category MATT HARMON Daily Staff Reporter Group gathered to reflect on those…

… Ann Arbor since 1974. “People who have to live beside it need benefits too. It should not just be for U of M students and employees. We want these areas developed, but we want to go about it in…

…,000 students in the past few years. Ackerman also noted 55 percent of people in Ann Arbor are renters. “Are they attractive? No,” Ackerman said about residential buildings. “But are they housing…

… and 75 percent of nontenured faculty reported they were satisfied or very satisfied with the climate — which is consistent with students and staff. However, white faculty members were more…

… face more bias ACADEMICS Senate Assembly reviews DEI climate survey results with tri-campus members ZOE BAXTER For The Daily Students, faculty gather for Transgender Day of Remembrance with…

… vigil, event MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily Students gather in rememberence of transgender people murdered in 2017 on the Diag Monday. See DEVELOPMENT, Page 3 After garnering support from students and…

… sample campus climate survey found ME/NA-identifying students to make up 2 percent of the student body. Resolutions in favor of creating a Middle Eastern/North African identity…

… category were passed by Central Student Government last February and by LSA Student Government last month — the CSG resolution passed unanimously. This lack of a Middle Eastern/North African…

… option on University documents from application forms to financial aid is mirrored by the U.S. Census documents sent out every 10 years. The Arab American Institute has been leading the charge on…

… of health, education and more. According to the Arab American Institute, adjusted for under-reporting, Michigan is ranked second in the nation for highest Arab- See ME/NA, Page 3 CAMPUS…

… Program, a two- year internship and research program for undergraduate students, including those of other universities, who are otherwise inadequately represented in the environmental and…

… conservation field. This past year, the second- year students were taken to the U.S. Virgin Islands to learn about different ecosystems in a hands-on learning experience that combined the hard science of…

… strengthening Ann Arbor’s don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy,” she said. “This resolution, I think, has actually become During Central Student Government’s Tuesday meeting, a resolution to support the…

… Lebanese, Jones said they were all technically classified as “white.” Jones argued the demographic surveys did not take Middle Eastern heritage into account. “In 1944, all Arabs were marked as…

… white in the United States because whiteness was a prerequisite for citizenship,” Jones said. “That changed in 1952, but the status for Arab Americans and others who are Middle East and North…

… Affordable Care Act on students at Weill Hall on Tuesday. RESEARCH Jessy Grizzle, in collaboration with those at Oregon State, will test the prototype RASHEED ABDULLAH Daily Staff Reporter Current…

… Michigan, also answered public questions to an audience of approximately 100 students, faculty and community members. Panelists began by laying out facts about the ACA itself, explaining…

… STUDENT GOVERNMENT Middle Eastern authors said they had to put ‘white’ on demographic forms RHEA CHEETI Daily Staff Reporter JOSHUA HAN/Daily Ann Arbor resident Kathy Griswold speaks about road…

… judge the annual Mock Rock charity talent show at the University of Michigan Power Center for the Performing Arts, where more than 200 students and community members came to watch student…

… athletes help raise money for the local mental health organization Fresh Start Clubhouse. Mock Rock is an annual fundraising event organized and led by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and…

… the Ginsberg Center where each year, the organizations determine a local beneficiary to donate the funds the show raises to a place they feel aligns with the students’ passions. Various…

… varsity student- athlete teams came together to create original talent acts to perform in front of their peers to help fundraise money. Last year, the organizations chose to donate all proceeds…

…More than 50 University of Michigan students and community members gathered Tuesday night in the Diag as part of a vigil commemorating the deaths of civilians due to a U.S-led coalition of…

… believes it is important to represent his heritage at the University. “You know, I really feel like the Arabs here are very underrepresented, so whenever we have a chance to come out and show…

… who we are, it’s very important,” he said. “You have to show up. Otherwise, things like this Tuesday evening, Central Student Government held its last meeting for the 2016-17 school year. The…

… Wibbelman and Engineering sophomore Jason Comstock of Building a Better Michigan — a student advisory group involved with the development of University Unions and recreation centers — were…

… also included in the lineup of guest speakers. They discussed the renovation of the Michigan Union, which was founded in 1904 and is the third-oldest student union in the country. They explained…

… that last year, architects began gathering student input As course-backpacking season begins, University of Michigan students can now use ClassAI, a new web app that uses a model to analyze…

… the chances students have of getting into a class based on the date and time they register. The web app was co-founded and designed by Business senior Jordan Katz and Engineering junior Tyler…

… Laredo to save students an estimated five to 10 hours during backpacking for open courses. “The big thing about this is this doesn’t exist,” Katz said. “We had to create this from scratch. I wanted…

… to create something for all students to avoid having these problems in the future.” Katz said he has spent hours rearranging his schedules and searching for courses ever since he was a freshman…

…. The app gives students the percentage points of their chances of successfully enrolling for a course, as well as graphs on how quickly sections fill up. “I came in as a freshman with not the…

… senior, took the floor to describe her own experiences as an Arab and Muslim student. She stated her support of the resolution, empathizing with the feelings Jewish students have experienced…

…, prompting cheers from pro-divest students. Lieberman teaches on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and spoke last year heavily against divestment. Then-LSA senior Devin Jones criticized Lieberman…

…Many argued this was beneficial for the safety of pro-Palestinian students from damaging blacklists. Another was the outpouring of support: CSG Vice President Nadine Jawad, a Public Policy…

… talking about this but we also have to recognize if we want equitable footing on this, we need to give all people an opportunity and a voice,” Jawad said. Public Health graduate student Dana Greene…

… suffers all of us suffer. … When I kneeled on that Diag in pain, I watched thousands of students walk past me. I ask you today to not be one of those people that walked past.” Tuesday morning, the…

… Black Student Union tweeted their endorsement of divestment. Members of the BSU executive board attended the meeting, following many other social- justice oriented organizations in supporting…

… Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, the group that first brought the resolution to CSG. This year, History professor Victor Lieberman was not approved to join the list of speakers…

…, but rather specific companies that are tied to allegations of human rights violations. Erzouki also emphasized the weeks divestment is discussed are consistently very well-attended by students, as…

… they use the meetings as a platform to express their views. “I’ve seen at this point thousands of students rally over leaders in support of divestment this issue and this request does not…

… exist in a vacuum. There is long standing and diverse support on this issue as you have seen.” She went on to list several institutions whose student governing bodies pass similar divestment…

…,” he said. “U of M has a unique regional responsibility to implement the ME/NA identity category.” Engineering junior Bassel Salka, co-president of the Arab Student Association, echoed…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, December 8, 2017 — 3 safe. Safety is critical to students, and I’m thinking about the ones who came here for the first time, thinking they…

…,” Wilson said. “This is simply unsafe, and careless to have someone here who could, in reality, start a riot.” LSA senior Anushka Sarkar, president of Central Student Government, presented a petition…

… opposing a potential speech from Spencer, saying it received more than 5,000 signatures from students. She said a similar petition circulated among alumni had received more than 6…

…,200 signatures. “I echo thousands of students and community members when I say we will not be safe if he and his followers come to our campus,” Sarkar said. “Richard Spencer should not be accommodated…

….” Social Work student Lawrielle West said the issue was bigger than just Richard Spencer’s presence on campus, but extended to white supremacy at the University in general. “Some might say…

… torn between the First Amendment right — which is not and never has been equity-distributed to all — and student safety, which should not be limited to physical, but psychological and mental…

… students who feel that they are being left in the dark on a lot of issues circling around campus,” she said. According to a Thursday press release from attorney Kyle Bristow, a representative…

… for Georgia State University student Cameron Padgett who is making these requests on behalf of Spencer, the University had already offered four dates — Nov. 29 and 30 and Dec. 27 and 28 — as…

… to do something about it,” Birkowski said. “These are people with advanced degrees and often a lot of debt. … Lecturers bend over backwards for their students and you literally give them the…

… people about dabke — a traditional Arab folk dance performed at many weddings and other occasions. About 40 students attended the event that was co-run by Arabesque, a dance group on campus that…

… detailed account of bias investigations. He noted the importance of remaining transparent while these investigations occur to maintain trust with students. “I think one thing we are doing is…

… identify the perpetrators behind these crimes. He identified the Office of Student Conflict Resolution as an additional entity used to ensure students’ rights and responsibilities are upheld. “We…

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… work with planets outside the solar system JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter “So You Think You Can Dabke” event attracts 40 students to Union on Friday evening “So You Think You Can Dance” made…

… in-such as dabke, Arab folk dancing, or we may take them to a farm and let them experience why it’s like to try something new or live that lifestyle for a day.” French also noted the main…

… symposium on medical device innovation Friday. The goal of the event was to guide students from developing an idea for a medical device to receiving funding for their project and ultimately…

… project. Members of the FFMI team also used this opportunity to showcase posters that students submitted as proposals for new devices. Several of the projects have already received funding from FFMI…

… proportion of Arab-American students at the Dearborn campus and surrounding cities cannot be accurately measured without a ME/NA identity checkbox. “We don’t want to count Arab Americans or…

… Fraser from University of Michigan at Dearborn and Laura Friesen from University of Michigan at Flint joined pharmacology professor John Traynor to speak about the difficulty of uniting students…

… from different backgrounds — especially considering the lack of diversity of the Ann Arbor campus. “Ten percent of your student population is in the top 1 percent economically,” Fraser pointed out…

…. “Most of our students here are students of privilege. So thinking of ways to help them empathize with other, they’ve never had to run against that before.” The members also discussed the Go Blue…

… Guarantee, acknowledging that even with financial aid, many eligible students do not apply to the University. “It is still difficult for people from that background to come to this Michigan…

…,” Traynor said. “I’m not saying they’re not trying.” Ultimately, the group agreed on the importance of students interacting with peers from different backgrounds. “How do we get to the place…

… University, approximately 1 percent of the student body identifies as transgender or gender nonconforming, according to results from the diversity, equity and inclusion campus climate survey. “Our…

….” Social Work student Alex Kime expressed the same sentiment. “Even though it’s incredibly important to honor those that we lose, more honor should be paid and recognized to the trans and…

… tell people that I don’t think I’ll make it out of my twenties without personally knowing a transgender woman who is murdered,” Kaufman said. Next to speak was Information student Vidhya…

… us while we’re still alive.” Aravind received laughter and support from attendees after her remarks. After Aravind spoke, two students and members of the LGBTQ community read the known…

… citizens, green-card holders and visa holders in light of an executive order signed last Friday. The University of Michigan Muslim Graduate Student Association and Arab and Muslim American…

…A Haven Hall classroom was overflowed with University of Michigan students listening to a series of speakers who discussed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which may…

… policy on the part of Congress — protects undocumented students from deportation and allows them to obtain work permits. However, it does not provide a path to citizenship. Trump has repeatedly…

… University’s commitment to international students by reiterating its policy against releasing the immigration status of students. The announcement followed Trump’s signing of an executive action…

… have become a rallying point for many amid anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions from the White House. In recent months, the Central Student Government has been working toward making the University…

… candidate talks with students GOVERNMENT Gretchen Whitmer met with College Democrats to talk voter engagement CALEB CHADWELL Daily Staff Reporter CAROLYN GEARIG/Daily LSA professor Silvia Pedraza…

… Michigan League Ballroom on Thursday afternoon. About 75 students, faculty and Ann Arbor residents attended the event. Presidential Bicentennial Prof. Martha Jones gave the opening remarks at Monday…

…’s colloquium. The colloquium largely focused the University’s lack of diversity. On Monday, Sotomayor referenced the low number of African-American students at the University. As of October 2016, less…

… than 5 percent of students at the University are African American. “We are making large improvements towards a kind of equality but we are still far from it,” Sotomayor said. “When you look at…

… Daily Staff Reporter Office hours were held in the hallways of Haven Hall on Thursday as the Graduate Employees’ Organization — the labor union representing graduate student instructors and…

…:00 p.m. WHERE: Rackham Auditorium Arab Folk-Dance Workshop WHAT: As part of Arab Heritage Month, Karim Naji, an Egyptian dancer, percussionist, musician, DJ and composer, will host an Arab Folk…

… Michigan graduate student, will expand on the “safe” sex conversation for young women. WHO: Department of Psychology WHEN: Noon to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: East Hall, Room 4464 Feast of Ideas WHAT…

…’s founding to Ferguson, as part of the Brian Simpson lecture. WHO: UM Law School WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m. WHERE: South Hall, Room 1225 Tweets Follow @michigandaily Michigan Students @UMichStudents it…

…’s fair in war and Umich Engineering In an email sent to students, faculty and staff in the school, Dworkin announced that he has mixed emotions about his resignation. “It is necessary for me to…

… included so many successes on the part of so many students, faculty, and staff,” he wrote. Dworkin has spent some time at the University of Michigan, as he obtained a bachelor’s degree and master…

… of fine arts degree in violin performance from the University. “From my time as a student once upon a time to my role as dean, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance—which means the people who…

… and renovations in its laboratories, offices, conference rooms and collaboration rooms for students. Previously, the building housed the decommissioned Ford Nuclear Reactor, which shut down in…

… tell you where they’re coming from so they can characterize a whole field of radiation and where it comes from,” she said. For the students who will be doing research in the nuclear engineering…

… affect students who are investigating topics in nuclear engineering and writing their theses. “A lot of students will be affected by this lab,” she said. “Student doing on their thesis work…

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… aesthetic impression. “The North entry is the most heavily used entrance of the Union, in some ways, it’s a front door to the University for visitors, students, staff, faculty, alumni and currently is…

… student activities. He said the renovation catered to students over alumni, and eliminated elements of the Union he loves, such as the Billiards Room. “I was not happy with (the elimination of…

… the Billiards Room) and the alumni that were there were also not very happy about that,” he said. “From my perspective, the Office of Student Life does not belong in the Michigan Union…

… and secure,” Omar said. “Arabs and Iraqis also have culture and customs, like Americans … We are human.” Another speaker, Shihab, who also did not provide his last name due to his immigration…

… status, detailed the horrors that refugees encounter in Arab countries such as Egypt, then expressed his deep love and admiration for the United States. He said he hopes his voice will reach people…

… important than anything.” Students in attendance said hearing the refugees’ stories made them consider their privilege, and how immigrants can become part of U.S. society today. REFUGEES From Page 1…

… it’s racist,” Sarkar said. “Students are already qualified to be here. The problem is that they don’t want to be here.” Later in the debate, candidates were asked about their ideal commencement…

… about, address students. In another question regarding the drinking culture on campus, Wall highlighted alcohol’s common association with sexual assault and discussed the importance of…

… (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may…

… Haritos Tuesday evening, Central Student Government President Anushka Sarkar, an LSA senior, and CSG Vice President Nadine Jawad, a Public Policy senior, sent a school-wide email condemning…

… neo-Nazi and white supermacist Richard Spencer’s potential visit to the University of Michigan campus. Fearing an unsafe atmosphere on campus, Sarkar and Jawad asked students to sign a petition…

… statement reads. “We are looking to you to protect your constituents, your community, and your paying stakeholders against this violence.” Safety has been one of the biggest concerns for students…

… and professors on campus regarding Spencer. At last week’s CSG meeting, social justice group By Any Means Necessary asked the student assembly to condemn Spencer’s visit. Sarkar, however, said…

… looking for a fight.” 2A — Wednesday, December 6, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com CSG leaders send statement, push students to unite against Spencer CSG President Anushka Sarkar, VP…

… finally was able to join my parents and brother.” In 2011, the Arab Spring saw the end of two long-term administrations, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Egyptian President Hosni…

… Mubarak. Syria’s own protests developed into violence after the torture of 15 teenage boys who voiced support of the Arab Spring. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad continued an assault on his citizens…

… Schlissel said he would not turn over students’ immigration information. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, however, backed the order, insisting it was not a Muslim ban but “placing the security…

… wonderful glide path to be able to deploy what we learn in the real world very quickly,” Morton said. Hu also initiated a student Scholars Program through MCubed — which stimulates innovative…

… undergraduate participant for summer work. The graduate level program is similar but allocates $8,000 per student to those involved. “I’m very supportive of undergraduate research,” Hu said…

… us in the next year to continue to get a glimpse into the future.” One initiative that Morton said has improved the multidisciplinary dialogue between Mcity and law students was the…

….” The executive branch of Central Student Government has expressed its reservations for the proposed resolution because of its exclusivity and its lack of precise details regarding the time…

…, location, size and mediation of the discussion lunches. However Devin Jones, an LSA senior who identified as a Palestinian student, noted the privateness of the proposed lunches were due to…

… humanity and address us-- Muslim, Jewish, Black, Arab, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized students on campus-- in person on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at the Michigan Union.” Several administrators…

… Michigan Union, organized by Students4Justice. As part of the protest, S4J wrote up a list of demands that it wants the administration to meet. The first demand reads as follows: “Acknowledge our…

… attracted students, faculty and administrators alike. I saw a video of Schlissel confronting protesters, who were angry about the spate of racist and anti-Semitic emails, and the subsequent lack of…

… helplessness that renders you silent, that kept you invisible on the night of a student protest and sitting in luxury seating at a classical musical concert on the very next night. Schlissel feels…

… “helpless” to the demands being made by activist groups on campus. President Schlissel, if I can address you here, you ought to know that you are not alone. Your students who make demands of you also…

… feel helpless. And it is not actually an option for you to feel helpless and then to subsequently refuse to meet with the very students who are calling for change. That’s like me, as a young boy…

…, crying because I’m hungry but then refusing to eat the food my parents give me. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot feel helpless and then refuse to engage your students, who know best what…

… supremacist United States government. Similarly, the idea that demands do not start a conversation presupposes that there are other options for these students to be taking up. It presupposes a sort of…

… absolute innocence on the part of the administration, as if it has done nothing to perpetrate the need for demands. Of course, these students understand that a demand is different from a request…

…, from setting up a meeting with the president like other students — those students, for example, who do not feel as if their lives are threatened and their humanity silenced — might do. These…

… merely states its members were not living up to IFC’s standards. That’s putting it mildly if the lines crossed, in fact, endangered three students’ lives. The emails The Daily obtained reveal IFC…

… fraternities in the wake of the deaths of students who were pledging. The IFC’s entire public face regarding this self-suspension calls us to question whether the council is truly dedicated to…

… Student Government debate and subsequent vote over whether the University’s Board of Regents should create a committee to investigate companies in Israel accused of human rights violations against…

… Palestinians. Speeches from students and community leaders of all affiliations highlighted their personal narratives that shaped their outlook on the resolution. As we understood Tuesday evening, there…

… are too many sides not just in the Arab-Israeli conflict, but also concerning BDS. What exactly are the stakes of what’s being argued? In the end, these concerns reveal the emotions people invest…

… of the Balfour Declaration, which some historians view as ground zero of the “100 year war” between Jews and Arabs. Though the current situation in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank bears little in…

… divestment vote and the Balfour Declaration’s centennial could not be more fitting. In the midst of the centennial, academics are contemplating what the current status of the Arab-Israeli conflict…

… the words of the British Colonial Office, to both Arabs and Jews. While the Balfour Declaration became reified in 1917, Jewish immigration to Palestine had long been in place and would only…

… students that are worried about their safety; we have Muslim and Arab students that are worried about their safety,” Harper said. “So we have a pretty active Department of Public Safety right now…

… campus more welcoming for LGBTQ students. Specifically, they’ve opened an LGBTQ housing space that she said she assumes would be friendly to transgender students and their housing needs. “As…

… the undergraduate curriculum that includes a social justice component — something she is very pleased with. It would require students to take a certain number of classes pertaining to race and…

….” According to 2016 enrollment data for the class of 2020 at Northwestern, 8.5 percent of the student population is Black or African American, 13.6 percent is Hispanic or Latino, 20 percent is Asian and…

… students who believe in protecting Palestinian human rights,” Sarkar wrote. “The spirit of the resolution embodies the University of Michigan’s mission statement — to challenge the present — and the…

… chapter of SAFE met with E. Royster Harper, vice president for Student Life, and Laura Blake Jones, dean of students, for a dialogue and conversation. Approximately 20 students were in attendance to…

… the event. The Daily did not attend the meeting due to the personal nature of the event, but spoke to several student attendees afterwards. LSA senior Andrea Sahouri attended the dialogue, and…

… stated one of the most important aspects of the conversation was the way it exposed students to University officials that are open to hearing concerns, specifically for those students who may be…

… feeling the administration is not intimately connected to conversation among the student body. “I think the most important part of the meeting as a whole was letting the students of SAFE, and the…

… them or talk to them about anything that they’re there for us as students,” she said. Another main point of discussion was safety concerns among students following #UMDivest. While parts of…

… environmental challenges during each of their tenures as well as discuss the future of environmental policy in the Trump administration. Stephanie Campbell, a graduate student in the School for…

… worked hard to help University of Michigan students apply their unique language skills to a good cause in Washtenaw County. That “good cause” would be LingoMatch, a program created by three…

… students to connect bilingual and multilingual students with an immigrant or refugee in Washtenaw County struggling to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits due to a…

… significant because it allows students to put their language skills to work in a meaningful way, helping immigrants or refugees get their food stamps. “It provides bilingual and multilingual students…

… internment camps. Fast- forward 75 years, and Arab and Muslim Americans are facing discrimination in ways that resonate with the memories of Japanese-Americans. The internment of Japanese- Americans…

… Misconduct Program Manager in the Office of Student Conflict Resolution and became Assistant Director of Sexual Misconduct in 2016,” Harper wrote. “During that time, Nadia worked with close campus…

… — as well as Muslim, Arab and Sikh communities — this past winter. “This past December, Nadia was invited to a White House session that focused on the generational experiences of Asian Americans…

…, including Japanese-Americans placed in internment camps during World War II, as well as modern day challenges facing the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and Muslim, Arab, Sikh, and South…

… current course called ALA 105, and in it we do a segment on news to begin with, even just evaluating general websites that students find on the web,” Bradley said. “We just have seen over the past…

… different types of information, Bradley thinks the library system is the perfect place for the new course. She wants to use the class to teach students the skills librarians — and many other…

… part of that skill. “Teaching students to be critical consumers of news and information is part of a good liberal arts education,” Dillard said. “Students are learning this skill in all their…

… in the course don’t yet know what kind of response there will be to the course, but they’re hoping to attract many students. As a one-credit mini-course, the class will only last the…

… further integrated into other classes at the University. “I think from my standpoint as a comm student, this course seems to align with other coursework we’ve talked about, and even is a topic I…

…’m sure will be integrated into future courses,” Rothbart said. “I think if it becomes … a class (communication students) can get credit for, it would definitely be a worthwhile class to take…

… creating affordable housing for Ann Arborites with modest means. Hathaway contended that Core Spaces may be adding luxury student housing in the building to ease the parking issue, but suggested the…

… of Arabs, including young women marrying older male cousins with aspirations to be stay-at- home moms, college students not permitted to leave their homes and various arranged marriages. The…

…. However, in considering the context of “The Book” as a whole, after completing 15 credits of Arabic, students can say “my uncle is an army general,” but not “my uncle has green eyes.” Students can…

… portray an accurate representation of my culture, my family or myself. This concern is further exacerbated when considering that Arabic 101 may be many students’ first formal introduction to the…

… security. I am not oblivious to the fact that many students enroll in Arabic classes in pursuit of relevant professions at the UN, Department of State and any other number of synonymous assemblies. The…

… questions remain, however: Why does the Arabic program cater to these students, and why am I automatically subjected to this framework? It would be more appropriate for the Department of Near…

… Eastern Studies to adopt a different textbook and create a separate, advanced class for students proficient in Arabic who wish to expand their political vocabulary. I am aware that the majority of…

… representational diversity in the realm of political and social activism cannot be understated. The University of Michigan is home to many liberal-minded, politically active students, but these…

… students are overwhelmingly white, educated and upper-middle class. I do not intend to shame anyone for holding these identities, but it is imperative, now more than ever, to understand one’s ability…

… Arabic studies IBTIHAL MAKKI | OP-ED T he College of LSA language requirement asserts that, “informed respect for other cultures (and) tolerance … are the hallmarks of a liberal arts…

… of Michigan. Specifically, our Arabic program, which uses the problematic textbook, “al-Kitaab fii Ta’allum al-Arabiyya,” which translates to “The Book in the Learning of Arabic” (hereafter: “al…

…Citing modern and historical human rights crises, Sheri Fink, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and University alum, challenged an audience of over 100 students and community members gathered…

… pronounced in emergency due to the scarcity of medicine and intense need for health care. Fink concluded by asking students to consider what they would do if faced with such a situation — once again…

… Israeli diversion of water. WHO: Middle East and Arab Network WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League, Room D (3rd Floor) Intersex Bodies in Tosefta Bikkurim WHAT: The work of Tosefta…

… Showcase WHAT: This monthly performance will feature outstanding Music, Theatre & Dance students who were selected by faculty to perform. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: 3 p.m. WHERE…

…: Britton Recital Hall Schokoladenstunde WHAT: The Language Resource Center will host students for German games and chocolate eating. WHO: Germanic Languages & Literatures WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6 p…

… published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms 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…

… Haritos Managing Anxiety WHAT: A class on managing depression and anxiety will be offered to all U-M students. WHO: Depression Center WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Chrylser Center, Room 265 and…

… of Inclusion,” a part of National Bullying Prevention Month. The first lady urged the students she spoke with to make new friends through sitting with people they didn’t know and promoting an…

… allocate resources toward that community and reach out to members. “When something goes on on campus, if we want to connect with Arab American students, Middle Eastern students, or Middle Eastern…

… at University Health Service, stated that for students who obtain an illness that needs to be treated at an outside facility, health insurance is a requirement. She has found, however, that…

… many students at the University do not have their own health insurance and cannot receive this treatment. She continued by explaining that the portion of the ACA that allows young adults to…

… stay on their parent’s health insurance until age 26 is crucial for college students. Claire Fitzgerald, a senior majoring in political science, gender and health studies and business, was also a…

… member of the panel. She described her experiences as a college student and how the ACA has affected her and her classmates. “For college students in particular, the ACA gives us the ability to…

… individuals to advocate for the ACA. Panelist Michael Budros, a Rackham student, stressed the importance of outreach and education, especially toward those who may not understand the entirety of the…

… major effects from other health care plans. He explained the importance of students from this generation attending panels such as this one and educating themselves on issues that could change very…

…, they are still regarded as white. So basically, we don’t have a count on how many Arab Americans or Middle East Americans exist in the United States, we don’t know how many exist in the University…

… of Michigan.” Public Policy junior Nadine Jawad, who serves as senior policy adviser to CSG, stressed the importance of having a record of how many ME/NA students there are on campus to…

… and North African students and people identifying in this category, it’s very hard to reach out to a population of people that you don’t even know where they are, how many exist on this campus…

… Center for Arab American Studies at U-M Dearborn, revealed these students make up a significantly greater proportion at the University’s Dearborn campus. Michigan also has the second highest Arab…

… invited to speak at the school by a student organization. As the protesters left, they screamed, “No fascist USA!” I yelled back at them, “This protest is the most fascist thing I have seen at this…

…, yet important, way for the University to show that it is truly committed to inclusivity of all ethnicities on all three of its campuses. According to the Student Campus Climate Survey on Diversity…

…, Equity and Inclusion, ME/NA students currently make up about 2 percent of the student body at University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus, while email correspondence with Sally Howell, director of the…

…-American population in the country. Central Student Government and LSA Student Government unanimously passed resolutions in support of this addition. Moreover, the U.S. Census Bureau is proposing the ME…

…/NA category be added for the 2020 census. The University administration should therefore mirror student and national commitment to inclusivity and follow suit. Collecting this data will also allow…

… students who identify as ME/NA to be better represented on campus. Currently, the students who would identify as part of the ME/NA category have to grapple with being lumped into a “white” or “other…

…” box, effectively skewing the demographic statistics of the University. A more accurate depiction of the number of ME/NA students at the University could bring more lobbying power for ME…

…/NA student organizations. We understand there are concerns among some that adding the ME/NA category could increase targeting from the government, especially given the nation’s current…

… pose an issue to students’ safety on campus. Historically, the University has vowed to protect the personal information of its students that could potentially harm them. After the Deferred…

… targeted. “We have Jewish students that are worried about their safety; we have Muslim and Arab students that are worried about their safety,” she said. “So we have a pretty active Department of…

… believes the conference will inspire new dialogues among University community members. “All the speakers are affiliated with the University whether it’s professor, alumni, student,” Katz said…

…. “It’s cool to get people from the U of M community together sharing ideas. I think people are all so interested and keep coming back because the conversation it starts with other students in the…

… amount of cultural diversity at the University, she often encounters situations where she is the only student in a class wearing a headscarf. She said seeing this lack of representation in the…

… expected it to pass by the time I graduated.” Aqel, a Palestinian student who has visited Palestine five times, described the difficult experience she faced in 2015 when, during a visit to the nation…

… alleged human rights violations committed by companies to be investigated as outlined in the resolution. Students who opposed the resolution, however, left the meeting upset with the results. One…

… student stated, “I think it’s a really sad day for freedom of thought on this campus,” as she exited the auditorium. LSA senior Gaby Roth, a member of University of Michigan Hillel, an…

… organization providing programming for Jewish students on campus, and in opposition to the resolution, explained her reaction in an email interview with The Daily. “I am happy that members of SAFE…

…, Palestinian students and allies were given a platform for their concerns to be heard. However, I am deeply upset that the address of these concerns meant that Jewish students’ sentiments about…

… described her disappointment in CSG’s vote against approving Prof. Victor Lieberman, who teaches a class on the Arab-Israeli conflict, to be included in the lineup of speakers for CSG’s Tuesday…

… derogatory. Moreover, LSA and the Division of Student Life, two of the largest units that deal directly with students, lack concrete efforts in their DEI plans to appeal to students with…

…. These oversights manifest in the infrastructure of our campus, as students with physical disabilities have identified seemingly simple issues that have just been ignored by the University…

…-compliant buildings may include accessible pieces of infrastructure such as ramps or wide hallways, these implementations often segregate students with physical disabilities, who consequently must use…

… students to see, hear or participate, especially in a large room. Some of these design oversights even endanger students with disabilities. For example, a significant number of West Quad’s “accessible…

…” rooms are located on the fifth floor, creating potentially life-threatening danger for students with physical disabilities in the event of a fire or other emergency restricting use of the elevator…

…. These design flaws send the message that students with physical disabilities are not wanted — or even safe — in our main spaces. In order to craft more inclusive building and service plans, it is…

… crucial the University consults with several students with disabilities, as each student has different experiences and personalized needs and can provide a nuanced understanding of what it means to…

…Students blared various demands for accountability and administrative action after weeks of racist provocations on campus earlier this semester, but one question echoed throughout all the…

… protests. “What happens to racist students who get caught?” LSA senior Arlyn Reed asked at a de-stress event held by the Black Student Union last month to rounds of applause from the audience…

… Madison Peterson echoed at a protest the next day. Reed, a former Central Student Government representative, went on to propose a student sanctioning process — similar to one mandated by the…

… sexual misconduct policy — in the face of an uptick in bias-related incidents. The Dean of Student’s Bias Response Team has logged 52 bias incidents since this July, but students are correct to point…

… catch to Reed’s proposal is that the institutional process, in large part, already exists. The Office of Student Conflict Resolution is tasked with enforcing the Statement of Student Rights…

… than one case of bias this year. E. Royster Harper, the University’s vice president for student life, however, said in a September interview she was not aware of one bias investigation to her…

… knowledge addressed through OSCR. The statement’s language is ambiguous, and does not have a clause expressly sanctioning bias or discrimination. While the statement gives students the right “to be…

…, weight, or veteran status,” the document does not task students with the reciprocal responsibility. The only clause broaching bias Former Michigan House Rep. Jeff Irwin is launching his…

… Response team since July unknown number of bias cases resolved by OSCR cases of harassment resolved by OSCR in 2 years year until revision process begins OSCR & Bias DESIGN BY AVA WEINER Students…

… week, instead of four, and open full-time service to the public Oct. 30. The bus service, which used to serve only University of Michigan staff, faculty and students, will include stops at the…

… University’s Bicentennial means to them. “I hope what (the Bicentennial) could be is to mark a new chapter for many students of color on campus. As an Arab student, our identity can finally be…

… published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms 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…

… teaching concerns like how to actively involve students in discussion and work with disruptive students. WHO: Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering WHEN: 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p…

… recognized on campus. It’s been here for 200 years now — I think it’s about time that we are recognized on campus and with that so many doors can be open for us as students on campus.” LSA sophomore…

… Nour El-Hotaeidy ALEXIS RANKIN/Daily WOLVE RINE OF THE WE E K Trail linking North Campus and Botanical Gardens unveiled to public University aims to connect students to parks while reducing car…

… work toward a sense of fullness and fulfillment that reflects what it means to be fully myself, whatever the hell that may even mean. |Arab| |American| They ask, Are you Arab? Or American? Do they…

… not understand That heavy things break through light boxes? |Arab| My affinity for grape leaves And ability to roll my Rs Does not confine me between the letters |A and b|. |American| My…

… CRLT Players from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. I was not supposed to be there since they only perform for graduate students, faculty and staff. However, my participation in…

… right to devalue my feelings. So this is goodbye. And I am not sorry. |Arab| |American| How Dare You? TINA AL-KHERSAN Michigan in Color Contributor Vietnamese and Tchaikovsky: Finding fullness in…

… one’s culture Attention: Seniors! MiC is looking for seniors to write a personal statement about how your experience as a student of color on campus has been. Good? Bad? We want to hear. If…

…. “They only have aspirations to be stay-at-home moms.” While Makki acknowledges many students take Arabic with intentions of using the skill for political purposes, she believes there should be a…

…. Though no specific plan for the protection of students with refugee status has been released by the administration, as requested by a petition signed by more than 1,400 students, faculty and…

… staff, the International Center issued a statement with recommendations for students who may be impacted. Echoing sentiments from a statement made by University President Mark Schlissel…

… together and work together.” First-year MBA student Rachel DeLeon helped organize the event and told the Daily that the purpose of #OneRoss was to support fellow students affected by the…

… executive order. “We have classmates that are going to be affected by this,” Deleon said. “We want to represent love and support for (them).” In an email sent to the Ross student body, Won included…

… a personal statement from Business graduate student Banafsheh Bagheri, an Iranian- Canadian whose travel has been severely restricted. “If I left the country, I may have to say goodbye to…

… means that I won’t be able to see my family, that they won’t be able to visit me.” In the evening, the Ross Student Government Association organized an open panel to address concerns and…

… questions from the community. Approximately 100 people attended the panel which included immigration lawyers as well as University of Michigan officials and faculty. The panel advised students…

… an executive order and what this particular order means for University students. The panel discussed how the order essentially revokes existing visas and may have residual effects…

… vigilance regardless of where students are from. The panel advised travelers to have an immigration attorney on call and told students to carry all forms of documentation that they could — even a…

…, drinks, tickets to movies and concerts, Ubers and dinners at Ann Arbor’s many fine restaurants are not kind to student budgets. However, the alternative is often staying in alone while your friends…

… of all incomes feel welcome, wealthier students should be more conscious of their peers’ ability to pay when making social plans. The median annual parental income is $154,000, three times…

… the Michigan average. A full two-thirds of students come from the top 20 percent of national incomes, while less than 4 percent come from the bottom 20 percent of incomes. Perhaps most…

… depressingly, the University ranks last out of all public universities in terms of economic mobility for students. The University’s predominance of wealthy students naturally breeds a campus culture in…

… which money is often taken for granted. And even if the University admitted more low- and middle- income students, would they even want to stay in an environment where social pressures encourage…

… encouraged the University to accept more out-of-state students who pay sky-high tuitions. Furthermore, Ann Arbor’s housing costs are a full 73 percent higher than the national average. Add…

… income. The University social scene shouldn’t require low- and middle-income students to shell out enormous amounts of cash on top of the already exorbitant costs of attendance. A number…

… Royale or Starbucks requires a few bucks for a latte. Students build their social lives around activities at these establishments; almost every date, get-together or night out with friends comes…

… with a high cash premium. Some institutional features of the campus social scene further exclude students of lower socioeconomic status. Institutions like Greek life and club sports charge…

…, the monetary barriers may still prove prohibitive to many students of lower socioeconomic status. Because financial barriers exclude many less wealthy students, these organizations help…

… of a female student forced to remove her hijab, provoking large student protests — though AAPD later determined the incident did not occur. A similar crime alert labeled as “ethnic intimidation…

…’t want to talk to anybody. The caring and support seemed unreal.” Ross sophomore Mariam Doudi, a first-generation Sudanese-American from Dearborn, said growing up as a Black-Arab Muslim, she…

… struggled to fit in with either Black or Arab communities. “My whole life I have been defined by my physical attributes, contributing to a lifetime of insecurity in terms of not belonging,” Doudi…

… said. “On top of all my struggles that I have as a Black Arab, comes the fact that I am a hijabi. I am fighting two battles.” Doudi said President Donald Trump’s recent immigration ban on seven…

… meaning of hijab, and to hear the stories of University students striving for social change through their activism. Hong said she was appreciative that the event coordinators were able to…

… night’s incident was followed by a robbery on Saturday night and two armed robberies on Jan. 25. Lige said the consistent pattern of the crimes should be worrisome to students. “They have all…

… occurred downtown near campus,” Lige said. “They all involve a U of M student. They all involve a student walking by himself or herself and in each case, a firearm has been produced with robbery being…

…. Lige echoed the victim and said no physical possessions you own are worth risking your life over. “If any student or member of the community is accosted in a way that we are seeing with these…

… sort of core coordination over that makes it so that whatever it is that we’re producing is going to have the greater potential of being useful.” Kristine Auwers, a Information master’s student…

… to live that life yourself,” French said. The event began with an explanation of dabke’s origin and importance in Arab culture, and then participants had an opportunity to learn a…

…. Youness reflected on the history of dabke, and explained how it began long ago with everyday workers and today has spread to the larger Arab community. “Dabke started out a really long time ago…

… with the organization because it brought her friendship. “I joined because I really like dancing and I really like Arabic music, so it was a good mix of the two, and now I’m in it because all of…

… my best friends are in it,” Youness said. LSA sophomore Hala Abbas came to the event with the hope of getting more involved with the Arab community on campus. She also talked about how TEDx…

… shared these sentiments and explained it’s hard for some students to try something new, and hoped TEDx Adventures could help them do just that. “There aren’t a lot of opportunities to really…

… is farther from its star than Jupiter is from our sun. It is different from Jupiter but in the same class of planets of gas giant planets. Meyer worked with several students and postdoctoral…

… working with a graduate student and postdoctoral fellows to interpret data from the Magellan Observatory. They are looking for gas giant planets like Jupiter around one of the nearest stars to the…

… get to be a part of the next generation.” Felicity B. Hills, a Ph.D. student studying physics at the University, has a background in cosmology; she switched from working in a cosmology lab to…

…,” Hills said. Meyer said students in astronomy and those who take interest in the subject can take a lot away from his and similar discoveries. He said astronomy is a very valuable tool for…

… of students gain some insight into quantitative reasoning and look at the natural world differently and more quantitatively once they’ve studied science like astronomy in that context.” $5…

… General: $45 for the day, $15 per concert Student: $5 per concert FILE PHOTO/DAILY Amir ElSaffar to bring maqam to Power Center This Wednesday, Iraqi- American trumpeter, vocalist and…

… led — ElSaffar is expanding upon a concept that he explored in his preceding album: Combining Iraqi and Arabic maqam music with jazz. “This project is much more specific in terms…

… of combining these two elements,” ElSaffar said in an interview with The Michigan Daily. Maqam, an Arabic modal system used in traditional Iraqi music, has had influences and variations…

… and chordal structures called vertical structures that don’t exist in Arabic music, and there are some other pitches in Iraqi and Middle Eastern music that don’t exist in the Western…

…Saffar’s “River of Sound” Power Center Wednesday, October 18th General: $24 - $42 Student: $12 - $20 Day two of Edgefest will host a wide variety of jazz performances Read more online at…

… young adults collaborate on writing a thriller, guided by their moderately successful novelist instructor (Marina Foïs, “Irréprochable”). The film starts by following one of the students, Antoine…

… suggesting an Arab or black villain in their thriller novel, and then a casual invocation of the 2015 terrorist attacks at the Bataclan in Paris, which he weaponizes against an Arab classmate. We then…

… views. At the workshop, the students dance around the subject, but Antoine seems ready to play: he’s willing to talk about the genre’s fascination with killing, despite what he perceives to be…

… with a mixture of cheers and boos. As Murray began to speak, a student in the audience began playing the theme song for the introduction of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies. The audience raised…

… signs accusing Murray of being a white supremacist and a racist. Students in the back of the audience began to set off alarms on their phones to drown out the words of Murray. After only 10…

… Murray go away.” Students began taking turns to scramble up to the front of the room to interrupt Murray and read pre-written speeches of their own. After the first protester read off their speech…

… have become hostile to speakers, such as himself, can be attributed to the anger that has arisen from the election of President Trump. Murray also stated college students have become more…

… sensitive over the past decade and he believes this is primarily due to the rise of identity politics. Murray spent the next portion of the event debating with a student of color at the podium over…

…, Habibi WHAT: The first Chai Circle of the year will cover sex and relationships in the Middle Eastern and North African diaspora. WHO: Middle East and Arab Network WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Sophia…

… students to lead in increasingly multicultural workplaces and community environments.” He has since echoed those remarks, stating at a meeting with student leaders at the University of…

… antiquated next to those in the Ross School of Business and the Ford School of Public Policy. Advisory services and activities to promote a sense of community for students in LSA also lag behind the…

… intimate networks created by those schools. These deficiencies do not reflect a lack of commitment by the University staff and faculty. A student seeking help from a professor undoubtedly will…

… not seen as a luxury reserved for affluent students, either. One survey of 5,000 graduating seniors found that the students most likely to major in the humanities or social sciences were the first…

… solely for the liberal arts, albeit in the graduate program. 2. Invest in improved classrooms in liberal arts buildings. Students who view their classroom environments as supportive and positive…

… 2004. 3. Make cohorts and mentorship within LSA and liberal arts programs more visible. Peer mentorship lets students serve as advisers to one another and in turn tempers the scale of a school…

… as vast as LSA. While many departments have peer advisers, not many students know about these resources. The Business School has successfully adopted similar forms of peer mentorship. 4…

… have championed the values of a liberal arts education. Campus participation in a liberal arts education should extend past requirements typically completed in a student’s freshman year…

… almost any school in the state. Ten LSA Student Government voted on a resolution Wednesday evening to change the current textbook used in Arabic classes at the University of Michigan. The…

… LSA SG, Page 3A LSA reps. approve textbook resolution STUDENT GOVERNMENT Proposal to change Arabic dept. materials passes unanimously MOLLY NORRIS For the Daily AMELIA CACCHIONE…

… the MichiGames arcade — has been installed and is now used to showcase student- made video games. Despite its appearance, the MichiGames arcade differs from traditional gaming units…

… annual competition where teams have 48 hours to create a complete video game. MichiGames arcade was first developed by Austin Yarger, an Engineering graduate student and EECS 494 instructor…

…. In December of 2007, the Pinellas County School Board of Pinellas County, Fla., discontinued its integration policy. Violence and a decline in student performance struck the school systems…

…, and in 2015, the Tampa Bay Times released “Failure Factories,” a five-part investigation of the effects on both students and the community. As part of The Livingston Lectures and the Martin…

… differences in test scores between students among local schools. Cara had previous experience with four other large districts in Florida before reporting for the Tampa Bay Times, and had noticed…

… that Black students in Pinellas had lower standardized test scores than those in the other school districts she had covered. “Simultaneously, Lisa, who had come from Washington, was interested in…

… their research, their data showed even more striking results. They found in the Pinellas school district, 84 percent of Black elementary students were failing state exams. As the schools…

… continued to become more segregated, the test scores of their students continued to decline. “Today they score worse than any school in the county,” LaForgia said. “They score worse than…

… teacher would always encourage us to go home and ask our parents about the singers we learned in class. As a diligent student, I tried to ask my parents, but they never knew what I was talking about…

… he also felt a bond with me being one of the few Asian students. In his broken English, he would always try and ask me questions. Though I The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color…

… Community Scholars Program and one of the students who was targeted in the act of vandalism and racism that happened this past Sunday. Through our dialogue with Tyrice, Michigan in Color was able to…

… to be a part of drugs, Arabs are seen as terrorist — this is not an attack on Black Americans, this is an attack on people of color and the minority race as a whole.” Do you think this is an…

…. Despite him saying he will do everything in his power to address the issue, more must be done. My dialogue on this issue isn’t enough, other students also must work to build awareness on the issue…

… experiences. As a group that represents only 4 percent of the student body, we need white students to also speak up on our behalf. Only when assumptions are dropped and people defend one another can we…

… response to his run-in with blatant racism on campus. Michigan in Color recognizes the tremendous emotional toll that this event took on Tyrice, the two other students affected, MCSP and the larger…

… Leija, UMS director of education and community engagement, spoke about wanting university and high- school students to start more conversation after the show. He reflected on his own education…

… more about their identities and their stories — it’s really important for us to keep the story going.” One of the five speakers, Amir Khafagy, is a Muslim of Arab and Puerto-Rican heritage. In the…

… a new way of seeing it, with tradition and culture and community, in a way that I haven’t seen in Hillel before.” In the workshop following the dinner, students answered prompts asking what…

… countries herself, event organizer Mina Jafari, a Rackham student, expressed her own confusion about how the ban inspired her to bring information to her peers. “I’m from one of those seven countries…

…,” Jafari said. “It’s not just international students from those seven countries; the entire international community is very worried about what’s going to happen next.” Panelists aimed to…

… satisfy this need for knowledge by speaking about the legal and administrative aspects of the executive order. Each stressed the complexity of the issue and encouraged students to reach out to any…

… collaboration aimed to advocate for students’ rights under the order. BAN From Page 1A Read more online at michigandaily.com Read more online at michigandaily.com space for them to speak, the media is…

… people don’t take it seriously and the University is becoming more accepting. I just wish it was faster.” Fourth-year medical student Harold Gomez saw the event on Facebook and felt his views…

…. “I think it’s important that those things are discussed in a more mainstream venue.” Taubman graduate student Phillip Redpath came to hear the talk because he’s using elements of Solnit’s work…

… up so that they feel more educated on the topic.” Cole started by explaining how the conflict began with peaceful protests in Syria in March 2011, around the time of the Arab Spring, in which…

… sources that many college students are exposed to. “I think it’s important for students to come to events like these if only to stay informed,” she said. “There’s not a whole lot we, as students…

… addition to funding increases, Snyder’s budget recommendation also includes a provision to limit any tuition increases to 3.8 percent or $475 per student in order for a university to…

… increases down and ultimately allow more students to pursue their educational dream,” LaSata said. Contradicting this idea, Rabhi said he believes this will have a vicious effect on higher education…

…. “Federal student aid only accounts for roughly 3% of Michigan’s higher education spending, the majority of the higher education budget actually goes to ‘University Operations,’ ” Zalamea wrote…

…. “Without more transparency, I personally wouldn’t want my taxpayer money going towards university sponsored partisan events or towards the discounted tuition rates of undocumented students.” In…

… students, we would strongly urge the legislature and Governor to support our students by increasing funding even more.” HIGHER ED From Page 1 threat to physical well-being. “Obviously the risks are…

… about what your story will change I think it’s important for students to come to events like these if only to stay informed RALLY From Page 1 He’s going to get away with half the things…

… part of the Pulitzer Center’s collaboration with the Communication Studies Department. About 20 University of Michigan students and faculty attended the event, where Cohen especially…

… prevent the contraction of disease in people who have not yet been exposed. Business graduate student Julian Smyth echoed Cohen’s belief that more at-risk people should be taking PrEP drugs and…

… established at the University of Michigan, though it was not certifieduntil 1974, and was among the first graduate student unions in the United States. Silbertstein discussed how the era’s political…

… brought the conversation to the present by placing the current situation of the GEO in the broader labor movement and discussed the future of campus labor organizing. “When graduate students are…

… student Vidhya Aravind said in an earlier interview that she currently works part time on the University Library’s implementation team for the DEI initiative. Aravind said these positions…

… followed with a spoken word poem expressing her frustration at the lack of ethnicity checkbox for Arabs in the University application. “I don’t think you can limit my culture to the color of my…

…Former Eastern Michigan University student Eddie Curlin has been arrested as a suspect for the series of racist graffiti found on EMU’s campus last year. The suspect, while currently…

…. “The deeper and systemic issues that are behind these incidents continue to be a focus for our student leaders, our faculty, our administration and all who care about this institution and the…

… welfare of our students,” Smith said. “These incidents run counter to the values and mission of the Former EMU student charged in racist graffiti incident, police say Eddie Curlin has been arrested as…

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… Egyptian classic, The Night of Counting the Years. In Arabic with English subtitles. WHO: Islamic Studies Program WHEN: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. WHERE: Weiser Hall - 555 Daniil Trifonov, piano WHAT…

… Student Open House WHAT: The Department of English will give a presentation on the English major and minor and answer questions. WHO: Department of English Language and Literature WHEN: 4:00 p.m. to…

… WHEN: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. WHERE: Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building Navigating the US Job Search WHAT: A program designed to help international…

… matter expertise.” Speakers at the rally also addressed the recent student protests, as LEO recently released its own statement in opposition to allowing Spencer to speak on campus. Hoi An Pham, an…

… further shown support toward students regarding the recent campus climate,” Pham said. “Their call to student safety is one that the entire administration has ignored, and it says something that…

… the lecturers are willing to prioritize us as students when the administration, all of whom have job security, cannot.” LEO Ann Arbor co-chair Shelley Manis said LEO and the student…

… organizations that make up the Stop Spencer coalition agree white supremacy should not have a platform at the University. “It may seem like we have two separate purposes, LEO and the student orgs, and in…

… a way we do, and at the same time, we feel like it’s our job at LEO to keep white supremacy out of this campus,” she said. “We 100 percent support the student orgs who are doing everything they…

… can to be heard and we want to amplify them, and we very much appreciate them amplifying us.” Robinson emphasized the need ensure student safety. He also discussed how the Republican tax bill…

… student’s interests and talents. The bills, proposed by state Sens. Peter Macgregor, R-Rockford, and Ken Horn, R-Frankenmuth, were written following the Michigan Career Pathways Alliance…

… recommendations that were announced last summer. “Senate Bills 684 and 685 are the culmination of years of work and I’m proud to be a part of yet another step in getting students the resources they need…

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… like everyone else. His first student film, “My Josephine” is a peek into that era. He tweeted that sharing the film was “a reminder to myself to channel this energy, to cre- ate.” Written and…

… directed shortly after 9/11, the film follows two Arab immigrants, Aadid and Adela, working in a laundro- mat, cleaning US flags for free in the wake of the attack. In a contemplative Arabic…

…Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum Unraveling the Arab Spring Egypt since 2011 Panelists: Samer Ali, CMENAS director, U-M; Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, U…

… wait another half-hour for the next one to arrive, meaning I only got home around 8 o’clock that night. Utterly exhausted, I did what most Michigan students do — I ordered Domino’s and settled into…

…The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government hosted a Twitter town hall Thursday afternoon, asking students and other CSG members to submit questions to Regents Shauna Ryder…

…. Currently, it costs lower- division students $7,037 for undergrad — an increase from the 2015-2016 school year’s $6,764 2014-2015’s $6,579. Many students asked how they could further play a role…

… in the University and connect with the Board of Regents. Last semester, many students felt the Regents lacked transparency. CSG hosted a similar town hall last semester, with Newman and…

… Regent Mark Bernstein (D). The student government has also taken steps to instating student voices on the board through the new Student Advisory Council. In early September, the board also…

…. WHO: Information and Technology Services WHEN: 11 a.m. to Noon WHERE: Michigan Union, Room G312 Middle Eastern Languages Fair WHAT: Guests from Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish and…

…:30 p.m. WHERE: Institute for Social Research, Room 6050 A Dangerous Experiment WHAT: Written and directed by LSA and RC students, this play follows the struggles of five women as they experience…

… and winter terms 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. Subscriptions for…

… that every other week, some coalition of students expresses its grievances toward University of Michigan President Schlissel. This academic year has been no different. In September there began more…

…. At the University, when students detect so much as a drop of blood shed by the University, you can say goodbye to nuance. Outrage and oppression take the wheel. I myself am not entirely…

… university really so broken that we must harp on its small shortcomings, rather than its years of triumph? Must the student body so frequently drive a wedge between itself and the University? On both…

…’s history helps us when we feel tempted to lash out at the University. For the students who feel bogged down by the stresses of University life and for those who feel the need to issue demands toward…

… President Schlissel, the Bicentennial reminds us that our most notable alumni worked with the University rather than in opposition. It does not invalidate our rights as students on campus. We deserve…

… supremacy surface above its daily institutional and cultural presence to interpersonal violence, pseudoscience fliers, a student-organized debate and more. On Aug. 11 and 12, white supremacists…

…Between Two Worlds: BY NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT, SENIOR ARTS EDITOR Muslim Students’ Association Carves its Place on Campus Wednesday, February 8, 2017 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, February 8, 2017…

… interminable Qur’an reading les- sons. The faith is ingrained in me, even if I’m not particularly devout. Save for a blatantly Arabic first name, I am not out- wardly Muslim, nor do I go out of my way to…

…- lim student organization on campus — weekly jumuah, cross-legged, my left foot gradually falling asleep, listening to the imam. He is the Chaplain, Shaykh Mohammed Ishtiaq, and he’s a jolly, fully…

… carpet, the sisters sit, identical. In this post-election climate, the role of the Muslim student activist is in flux. There is an urgent immediacy to, well, do something. A few days after the…

… more evocative activism? What is the current state of Muslim student leader- ship in the face of a politically legitimized hatred and bigotry? For people like me — people who have, for some reason or…

… of MSA are fairly standardized. On Monday nights, the group holds a small event called “Mini-Qiyam.” A qiyam is a student-led lecture that ranges from religious educa- tion to application. Tuesday…

… out- door prayer on the Diag, planned as an impromptu act of solidarity for the Mus- lim women who were allegedly attacked and harassed earlier that week. More than 200 students and faculty members…

… look down as he mentions the num- ber of non-Muslim students who attend- ed, hoping he won’t ask if I was there. “We were very happy and pleasantly surprised by how many people showed up,” Shaikh…

… the better, and bring the light and the beauty of our faith into this society?” Elturk’s speech is peppered with Arabic phrases and snippets of the Qur’an. (I suffer the occasional PTSD- flashback…

… becoming a student activist when activism is sim- ply a social yoke? When you’re already an “other,” when you’re already the per- son who’s always described in the sec- ondhand as “some [insert ethnicity…

… Students Association, I tell myself; of course he’s part of the Muslim Student Association, they’ll say about me. Of course now I’m second-guessing myself. I make the journey to North Quad on a…

… shout Future lyrics while weirdly specific Arabic music plays from some kid’s speakers. They look like they’re having fun. I’m introduced to Mazen Oweiss. He’s a director, a junior like me, and…