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

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

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

… story: a few cliché sentiments about being down on his luck and needing students to stop by so he can pay the bills. What I got instead was a chance to gain new insights on laissez-faire parenting…

…’s it.” The restaurant is a two- person operation. Last year, they employed a couple U-M students part-time, but now, since business is slower than usual, it’s just Choe and his wife, Yoon, running the…

… small business, we feel inspired by that.” Choe tells me he hopes that students will be smart and healthy during the pandemic, and empathize with one another. “Every student must… think (of) other…

… person first. Not ‘me,’” he says. *** When Choe describes his love of connecting with the students who eat at his restaurant, the skeptic in me thinks he might be trying to score some good press…

… for my story. But the student testimonies I’ve heard are enough to quell any suspicions I may have had. Engineering sophomore Webber Qu says, “Korean cuisine has always been one of my favorites so…

… Arabs and Muslims. The Bush Administration signed the Patriot Act, enabling heavy surveillance of Arab and Muslim populations in America. The Obama administration aided in the Yemen Civil War, which…

… the well- being of Arab and Muslims communities both in America and the Middle East. On Thursday, Feb. 25 the Biden administration ordered a military air- strike on Syria in retaliation for a recent…

…’ relentless and bipartisan militant involvement. Before a new COVID-19 relief bill was passed, before student loan forgiveness was issued, before minimum wage legislation, the United States made an attack…

…, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Read more at michigandaily.com “Dear Susan Muaddi Darraj, My name is Reem Hassan, and I am a first-year undergraduate student at the…

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

… our first reading. I explicitly remember feeling as though you had taken my thoughts on the intersection of my Arab identity on my feminist experience straight out of my head and put it on paper. I…

… felt heard. Your short piece had the ability to influence my work for the rest of that semester and inspired me to take my understanding to new and deeper levels and enroll in our Arab American…

… excerpt taken from one of the first “Feminist Love Letters” I wrote last semester while taking an Arab American Feminists course with Professor Charlotte Karem Albrecht — an absolute icon in the…

… Darraj, who authored “It’s Not an Oxymoron: The Search for an Arab Feminism.” **** Although I have always considered my feminist awakening as something deeply personal, I have come to learn that…

… many other Arab American women empower themselves in a similar experience. It is an experience where we constantly question the grounds upon which we are allowed to call ourselves feminists, where…

… have the right to articulate. In all truth, “Middle Eastern” (in quotations because the phrase is a colonial invention that I am not exactly fond of) or Arab women are not exactly regarded as the…

… a vast difference between the backgrounds of the students who were enrolled in the course and how that influenced the ways in which they absorbed and comprehended the course material. I…

… found myself engaged in productive conversation with students of color more than I did with the white students in the course. During the weekly discussion sections where we would share individual…

… made up of the Black Student Union, United Asian American Organizations, La Casa, Arab Student Association, Native American Student Association, the Student Community of Progressive…

… as offering other sustainable funding models particularly for Arab Student Association. The statement also asks that student leaders from SoC LF member organizations be able to recommend…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, February 10, 2021 — 3 Activist, scholar LaTosha Brown hosts Black History Month kickoff event Speaker encourages students to “reimagine how we…

… Student Affairs, the event marked the start of a month dedicated to honoring, informing and recognizing the important role that Black people play in American history. Brown not only spoke on…

… Walker, vice president of LSA student government, asked Brown about the influence that Black college students have on the future of democracy. Brown responded by posing a question of her own…

… want, do what I want and I loved it. I championed the agenda to my Arab and Muslim family, who told me not to be like those Godless Amerkaan who showed their bodies and slept around and didn’t care…

… change everything about yourself that makes you “other.” Your Arab nose, your thick curly hair. We will eat up the parts of your culture we deem worthy. Your delicious food, your exotic dancing. We…

… applications are always equipped with stress, self-doubt and insecurity. I feel alone in academic and social settings at the University of Michigan, with about 55% of the student population being white and…

… the median family income being a staggering $154,000 for the Fall 2020 undergraduate population. I, as a minority student who does not have the privilege of wealth nor whiteness, have had to endure…

…, whiteness and years of enhanced feelings of being an imposter. Interacting with students in my sociology, political science and public policy classes has resulted in very interesting yet uncomfortable…

… conversations. It seems like almost every student has been interning for their local congressman since high school and have parents who own their own law firm. Comparing my background and experiences to…

… surrounding internships or any other professional opportunity, the number of white students who seem to have been handed positions because of their family’s privilege is honestly astounding. This past…

… Cabinet Member Eman Naga, LSA Student Government Vice President Zackariah Farah, SAFE, the Arab Student Association (ASA) and the Muslim Student Association (MSA). It was not approved as a resolution…

… Michigan Central Student Government (CSG), including its president and vice president, issued a statement via the CSG Instagram page on Monday condemning Israel’s recent actions in the ongoing…

… statement acknowledges that CSG has participated in pro-Israel events, such as funding yearly trips to Israel for Jewish students. “We also must recognize CSG’s prior complicity with Israel’s violence…

… on the University to divest from Israeli companies and by vowing to use their platform to uplift and represent Palestinian voices and work with Palestinian student groups, such as Students Allied…

… 2017 calling on the University to form a committee to look into divesting from said Israeli companies, but that resolution was ultimately rejected by the Board of Regents. Student reactions The…

…@michigandaily.com Advertising wmg-contact@umich.edu 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…

… restricted Chinese immigration to the US. In Fall 2019, racial justice groups at the University — including the United Asian American Organizations, La Casa and the Arab Student Association…

… creating something new with the present. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Winter 2021 semester by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available…

… Media Editors: Kirti Aplash, Natalie Knight, Ria Dubey, Ryan Postman, Evan DeLorenzo, Atticus Raasch, Bella Morreale Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109…

… by the current Phoenix class obtained by The Daily March 1. The society, which formerly went by the name Adara, has been in existence since 1979. Senior Phoenix members usually “tap” students…

… protestors from the Students of Color Coalition occupied the seventh floor of the Union, the organization’s former meeting place, for more than a month. According to The Daily’s reporting at the time…

…. “Adara/Phoenix has helped the leadership path of many underserved and underrepresented constituencies at the University of Michigan,” Hecker wrote. “The current classes of students on…

… students, leaders, and community.” Daily Staff Reporter Brooke Van Horne can be reached at brookevh@ umich.edu. RYAN LITTLE/Daily The secret society Pheonix has reportedly voted to discontinue the…

…. A few months ago, I obtained a statement that was sent to the prosecutors working on Shipps’s criminal case. The statement came from a former North Carolina School of the Arts violin student. In…

…’ inappropriate sexual conduct,” the former student wrote, “and allowed it to continue for 30 more years at the University of Michigan … This could have all ended in 1986 if (he) had taken the appropriate…

… description that they actively address allegations of sexual misconduct that leave some of their students feeling unsafe. Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s (“The Law in These Parts”) “The Viewing Booth” is perhaps…

… surprising, and her occasional racist commentary is embarrassing: “They lie a lot,” she says, referring to Arabs. She watches the videos with a confusing mix of open-mindedness and disbelief…

…, acknowledging that these videos depict real events, but searching for the missing piece, the Arab instigation. At one point, Levy asks: “Why would I believe this?” In other words, if she believes the…

… to Levy that the reason he focuses the film entirely on her, despite interviewing other students, is because she represents the intended viewer of his past films. Levy’s steadfast skepticism is of…

… culture and its elitism. These groups — including the United Asian American Organizations, La Casa and the Arab Student Association — announced policies that bar students who accept membership in…

… rituals, language and artifacts. The organization, previously named Michigamua, had exclusive access to the tower of the Michigan Union, a privilege unlike those given to any other student group…

…. Since at least the 1970s, some U-M students have pushed back against Michigamua’s appropriation of Indigenous culture, and in 1989, the group agreed to eliminate all references to Indigenous…

… culture except in its name. But in 2000, activists in the Students of Color Coalition occupied Michigamua’s tower space for 37 days, finding that Michigamua’s meeting space had a “wigwam…

… protest, the University’s administration removed Michigamua from the Union tower. In 2007, Michigamua went through a series of reforms: it registered as an official student organization through the…

… recognizes that Michigan in Color, a section within The Daily by and for students of color, was the first entity within The Daily to condemn Order and “all other secret societies,” doing so in 2019. On…

… minimum wage. Wilhelm said his business has thirteen employees making less than $15 per hour with approximately half of them as high school or college students. He said business has changed…

…, February 24, 2021 — 3 U-M students detail experiences living through snowstorms across the country Some lost power, struggled to complete assignments due to extreme weather CAMPUS LIFE Local…

… Reporter With snowstorms raging across the country, University of Michigan students are grappling with bad weather conditions while taking virtual classes from across the country. LSA junior…

… — a side-effect of me setting my profile to national to avoid only seeing people from our Muslim Students’ Association. One guy accused me of friend-zoning myself right off the bat (he wasn’t wrong…

… exploring your feelings. In another world where I was a bit more emotionally ready, who knows? I could’ve found my naseeb on Minder. Maya Moka *Looking for my Arabic ting *If this doesn’t work out it…

… could someday come to experience a love of my own, catapulted by a quirky meet-cute and followed by love letters and dancing in the rain. I blame Taylor Swift for a large portion of this. Being Arab…

… metal musician and university student studying Arabic, he’s an enigmatic figure, and online videos showing him emphatically reading the affirmations only add to his mystique. Over video chat, he…

… to take part in ironic positivity The affirmations are so specific to their cam- pus that they don’t make sense to non-students. “The rats in Ldub are my friends,” reads a post from a @yale…

… entire life, I am not entirely fluent in Arabic. There has always been a twinge of shame underlying that fact, breeding a strange sense of inadequacy in me. No matter how much I’d like for…

… pronunciation of Arabic words, distinctly marking me as an imposter when communicating with my friends who spoke the language with ease. They watched as I struggled with the complex inflections that the…

… importance of a liberated Palestine. Introduction Saturday, May 15 marked the annual commemoration of the Nakba (Nakba is the Arabic word for “catastrophe”). Since 1948, the ongoing Nakba has…

… such as the right to own property or vote — and relentless weaponization of international aid in support of Israel. Much of academia, from students to scholars, dismisses the oppression endured by…

… sisters blasted Nancy Ajram (only one of the most iconic Arabic singers) in the living room while my brothers played video games and my mother tried to remain ahead of of the disaster the kitchen…

… things that puzzled me is how students behaved in the classroom. The Ominous Red Button The Power of Storytelling From Boxed Cakes to Confections REEM HASSAN MiC Columnist ANDY NAKAMURA Mi…