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… the struggles with other students, that’s what I’ll miss the most,” Elharake said. Being of an Arab-Muslim background, as well as being a first-generation student, Elharake has spent much of his…

… come from my communities,” he said. “That drive of changing this institution and changing campus for it to best fit my communities.” Elharake was the host of Arab Xpressions, the Arab Student…

… students and faculty members, formed the Islamophobia Working Group, a group of students, faculty and administrators who meet monthly to address anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sentiments on campus. Elharake…

… like to see.” With this goal in mind, Travioli threw numerous cultural and educational events in Martha Cook throughout November — Native American history month. She educated students on traditional…

… speech into something wholly new. May its sound always evolve but its color stain forever. Bless it despite its ugliness. Bless it anyway. Every year, the Arab Students Association…

…, United Asian American Organizations, the umbrella organization for several A/PIA- interest organizations on campus, partners with the Office of Multi- Ethnic Students Affairs to plan this month of…

… events. Last year, A/PIA Heritage Month featured many large- scale events like the Generation Asian Pacific American Cultural Show (GenAPA) and the Midwest Asian American Student Union 2017 Spring…

… Brown Show, and Chroma — a show exhibiting artwork by people of color. Finally, every year Heritage Month is ended by a closing ceremony to recognize the achievements of A/PIA students on…

… campus. Below are some photos from different events that happened during A/PIA Heritage Month last year. This year, UAAO and Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs are looking for people to work on…

… hosts Arab Xpressions — a cultural show dedicated to featuring the beauty of Arab culture. Join us Feb. 17 to enjoy traditional Arab dances, music, clothing, poetry and more. As we explore the…

… unique experiences of Arab Americans through detailed displays and hilarious skits, we hope to provide a powerful and entertaining night for you and your family. The following spoken words were…

… presented at Arab Xpressions 2017: Who am I? A Bearded face, A Handsome face Brown Eyes, Caring Eyes Dark Hair, Silky Hair Tanned Skin, Exotic Skin Child’s thoughts, Loving Thoughts Pause Who…

… look in the mirror. And within me, I see my grandmothers. My sito marrying into the Arab culture, choosing to embody both worlds. My tata, raising five children within a civil war. And within me I…

…. These Arab women. Defying the stereotype unrightfully placed upon them every day. They have inspired me. They have inspired me to redefine what being an Arab means to me. They are my role models…

…, Muslim American, Latina, I had access to Latino studies classes that were meaningful to me, but in order to learn about Arabs or Muslims, a student — which is common at many universities — would take…

… help students thrive in the very difficult world that we’re living in, and also an academic home for Arab and Muslim students on campus, and it’s also been very rewarding to work with them on…

… am also proud to leave with the Arab and Muslim American studies program in such a strong position and to have contributed something to this campus that some students find meaningful and who will…

…by Islamophobia and Islamophobic incidents on campus. Alsultany is also known for her book “Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11,” published in 2012, and for…

… her work co-editing “Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging” and “Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora.” At an event celebrating…

… the scholarship of Alsultany last Thursday, several students, colleagues and faculty members spoke about their experiences working with Alsultany. Aside from her academic accolades, the…

… panelists spoke of Alsultany’s work to expand and improve campus prayer rooms, her role in arranging a closed town hall meeting for Middle Eastern, North African and Muslim students following the murder…

… of three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in February 2015, her advocacy for the ME/NA box to be included on all University forms that require demographic…

… community and nationally, and most importantly, to our students individually and collectively,” Horton said. Law student Areeba Jibril said through Alsultany’s course, “From Harems to Terrorists,” she…

… imagined it would be this way, and what has been the most rewarding? The seed was planted when I was an undergraduate student here in the early 1990s and it was planted through the classes that I took…

… Performing Arts to attend Arab Xpressions — the University’s annual showcase of Arabic culture. Xpressions is organized by the Arab Student Association, and featured Arab dances, skits, poetry and…

… student talent to celebrate the beginning of Arab Heritage Month. It is the only Arab culture show produced on such a large scale at the University of Michigan. LSA seniors Jad Elharake and Haleemah…

…-start built into most undergraduate classes at the University. Michigan time is a MAYA GOLDMAN Daily News Editors Event Arab Xpressions showcases dance, skits CAMPUS LIFE Event by Arab Student…

… had similar stories to her, and that it doesn’t have to be a stigma.” On Saturday night, close to 1,400 students, faculty and community members flocked to the Power Center for the…

… Aqel were the hosts of the event. On stage, they described how Arab Xpressions had transformed in terms of attendance and venue, year by year. Starting in the dorms, it was later moved to the…

… one of the only Arab women in the Ross School of Business.” In honor of World AIDS Day, the National Council for Negro Women, the Black Student Union and Creatives of Color presented the HIV…

…, Michigan Monday, December 3, 2018 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM First Arab sorority EAS forms ‘U’ chapter Students, community remember victims of California shooting HANNAH…

…Around 8:12 p.m. Friday, the Epsilon Alpha Sigma Sorority, is the University of Michigan’s first Arab sorority, dubbed the Empowered Arab Sisterhood, revealed its first class of new…

… recruits. The seven girls recruited, the “Al-Afdal line,” marched into Auditorium D in Angell Hall, yelling “We’re the girls of Arab countries!” in Arabic. As the girls were revealed, a founding…

… member of the sorority’s chapter at the University removed a pink bandana from each girl’s eyes and wrapped a flag from their country of origin around her shoulders. Arab music blared as…

… Monologues Sunday night to teach students and faculty about the disease that affects millions of people around the world. The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and the University of Michigan…

… night continued with various performances from students and faculty. Michigan state Senate Republicans voted to scale back minimum wage and paid sick leave laws, S.B. 1171 and 1175 last…

… SIEGEL/Daily Students gather on the Diag for a vigil to remember the victims of the Borderline shooting Saturday afternoon. CAMPUS LIFE Epsilon Alpha Sigma, reveals new class of recruits Friday…

… Borderline” and “Never Again”, approximately 20 University of Michigan students, faculty and community members congregated on the Diag for a vigil Saturday afternoon in honor of those lost to gun…

… National Council for Negro Women, the Black Student Union and Creatives of Color Sunday night. HIV Monologues aims to educate, erase stigmas surrounding diagnosis University Black Student Union and…

… opportunity at the University of Southern California in just a few days. Alsultany has played a prominent role on campus since her days as a student in the 1990s. Alsultany attended the University…

… as an undergrad, attended Stanford University as a graduate student and returned to the University of Michigan as a faculty member in 2005. Now an Arthur F. Thurnau professor and an…

… associate professor in the Department of American Culture, Alsultany’s most significant role has been as co-founder and outgoing director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies program…

…. Alsultany has taught courses in the department including “From Harems to Terrorists: Representing the Middle East in Hollywood Cinema,” “Introduction to Arab American Studies,” “Islamophobia” and…

… “Why Do They Hate US?: Perspectives on 9/11”. Throughout her tenure, Alsultany has been a leader in establishing AMAS — one of only three programs in the country to focus on Arab- American…

… identity — and collaborating with others to create the Islamophobia Working Group — a group of students, faculty and staff dedicated to advising the University administration on how to make campus…

…’ second highest in hate crimes of universities surveyed CHRISTINE MONTALBANO/Daily Longtime Arab and Muslim mentor leaving the ‘U’ for new position at USC ALEXA ST. JOHN Editor-in-Chief FBI, UMPD…

… Overton, the upsurge in reported hate crimes could also indicate that more students are familiar with and willing to report hate crimes. “As with most other jurisdictions, especially college…

… community,” Overton said. “I cannot speak on comparison to other schools.” ZAYNA SYED Daily Staff Reporter The University of Michigan released revisions to its policies on student sexual…

… that the University has to help them succeed.” The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs and the Arab Student Association also hosted an event called SALAM — Successful Arab Leaders at…

… Michigan. SALAM is a two- day program that aims to introduce incoming Arab students to campus resources, support networks and the Arab community. They met with current students and faculty, and as…

… building the social and emotional wellbeing of incoming students. “I know that we’ve done programs like Arab and Latinx Wolverine Day where we’re trying to show new admitted students all the…

…. As students make their way back into classrooms this week, multiple departments and professors include clauses on free speech and dialogue in their syllabi. “Now as interim dean, I plan…

… to champion some fundamental values of a liberal arts and sciences education — citizenship, engagement, and true dialogue,” LSA interim dean Elizabeth Cole wrote in an email to students Thursday…

…. Education senior Camyrea Barnes, BSU secretary, said Umoja and other Black Welcome Week events can be crucial programming for incoming students. “The Black community, when I was a freshman…

… with microaggressions, when they deal with bias incidents that happen to them, or just being a student here — that they know that they have the Black community here to lean on.” Music, Theatre…

… support for incoming Black students,” Levy said. “You can sign up to be a big sib or a little sib. So for freshmen, I’m a little sib so you’ll get a mentor ... at the event, they gave us soul food…

… have instilled me with anger, moved me with passion and inspired me to become an active part of the stories around me. Being a part of the Michigan Community Scholars Program and the Arab Student…

… through college as an Arab-American, Muslim woman. Coming to the University from my predominantly Arab/Muslim city of Dearborn has been an awakening experience. I have been challenged and changed…

… more confident in doing so. Hopes of learning the stories and struggles of other brave and bright students of color, all with unique experiences and stories waiting to be heard. Hopes of helping to…

…. Shows like “Family Matters” proved there was a market for loving a non-white history. However, it never seemed like Arab history was profitable enough to make the cut. Though my family went…

… was never white, so I still faced problems with being a person of color. Growing up, I felt that being Arab or American were two mutually exclusive concepts because we act like they are. That is…

… what lead me to Michigan in Color. The Arab culture that I have been surrounded by my entire life is important to me, and I wanted to express its significance while helping others do the…

… same. This is my first step to creating my own quilt which I lost many years ago, or maybe it’s finding the blanket I never knew existed. For me, I may not be actively involved in the Arab…

… community, but I am still Arab and American. Every day, I used to watch Nick at Nite and see people of varied skin tones, but none of those skin tones were mine. Even today, I don’t think I have any…

… Arab-American idols that are represented in media. It’s easy to sell your culture in exchange for a job, to buy that fancy VCR or social acceptance. However, it starts with me to pick up the thread…

… doubts about the ability of Central Student Government to accomplish anything meaningful or substantial, or if it could, then I had doubts as to whether Arab and Muslim voices would matter at all…

… student experiences whether we are aware or not, so it’s important that we understand the consequences of our votes. It’s time for Arabs and Muslims to keep the MomentUM going. The importance of…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, March 21, 2018 To the Arabs and Muslims on campus, keep the MomentUM going REEMA KAAKARLI | OP-ED I wasn’t able to put a name to…

… can stay just where I am. I f you’re anything like me, you think Central Student Government election season at the University of Michigan is a nuisance at best. As a freshman, I had serious…

… in that setting. Just a few years ago, the Arab community on campus seemed fractured and invisible with no clear central authority to which we could address our concerns and aspirations, and…

… no clear institutional support for improving student life in ways that narrowly affected our community. The Muslim community seemed only slightly better in these regards but was still…

… conversations, as so few Arabs or Muslims were represented in CSG, and the ones that were present were known to have faced discriminatory remarks and subtle racism to get there. Now, as a graduating senior…

… that administrations, including CSG, have begun to take our collective concerns seriously. In the past two years, CSG has uplifted the voices of historically marginalized Palestinian students…

…, responded to ugly incidences of Islamophobia in reflection rooms, administered reforms and, crucially, has made the broader Arab community on campus more visible with the support for the implementation…

… Week for their new peers. Students groups such as Black Student Union, the African Student Association, the Caribbean Student Association, Arab Student Association and Assisting…

…’s multicultural student organizations often play an critical role in creating communities for minority students. This year, multiple student organizations made strides to create a more inclusive Welcome…

… Latin@s to Maximize Achievement all held events during this year’s Welcome Week to welcome students back to campus. The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs assisted in a number of events as…

… well. While this year’s enrollment report has yet to be released, underrepresented minorities make up 12.8 percent of the undergraduate student body, according to last fall’s figures…

…. Students participate in events for Black Welcome Week on the Diag Monday. Buy this photo Sarah Kunkel/Daily The second annual Umoja Festival was one of the many events organized by the Black…

… Welcome Week committee this year. “Umoja” is a Swahili word for unity, and the BSU, African Student Association and the Caribbean Student Association all planned the event. The festival, held on…

… be publishing recaps of the summer’s breaking news. This past summer, the University of Michigan Board of Regents weighed decisions involving student fees, tuition rates, investment…

… committee MATT HARMON Daily News Editor Multicultural student orgs welcome new students with community events Events emphasize belonging, offer support for incoming minority freshmen CATHERINE NOUHAN…

… in Nov. CARLY RYAN Daily News Editor SARAH KUNKEL/Daily Students participate in events for Black Welcome Week on the Diag Monday. GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news…

… a work stoppage. U-M nurses’ union to vote on potential work strike Symposium highlights LGBTQ inclusion, mentorship in research CAT MYKOLAJTCHUK/Daily Students, faculty and staff attend the…

… moment of silence, and then proceeded to silence all debate on gun reform. Finally, after last month’s shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 high school students were murdered in one of…

… actors who are not part of the gun industry, including themselves. Republican leaders blamed the police, the FBI, the school’s administration and even the students in Parkland, Fla. To a certain…

… Authority’s Bureau of Statistics. According to numerous scholars, including Yoram Ettinger and Caroline Glick, the population of Arabs living in the Palestinian territories has been greatly…

… inflated. In particular, Ettinger identifies almost 400,000 Palestinians living abroad, 300,000 Jerusalem Arabs with dual ID cards who have been double counted by Israelis and…

… Palestinians, and an overexaggerated Arab birth rate. This, among other disparities, contributes to a total of almost 1.15 million “invisible” Arabs who aren’t counted in the census. The importance of…

… this apparent miscalculation cannot be overstated. This existence or absence of 1.15 million Arabs can very well determine which group (Jews or Arabs) will be the majority demographic in the…

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… recent statement criticizing the University of Michigan’s decision to discipline Prof. John Cheney-Lippold for refusing to support a student who wanted to study in Israel framed the issue solely…

… in terms of freedom of speech. In fact, two principles were in contention: a professor’s right to express his views and a student’s right to study at an institution of her choosing. Since the…

… University believes its primary commitment must be to students, and since Cheney-Lippold’s freedom in other contexts is unaffected, the University chose to support the undergraduate. The signatories…

…, however, ignored the student entirely. Their statement mentioned the professor’s free speech rights four times — the young woman’s thwarted academic aspirations, not once. I suspect, moreover, that…

… science. Or suppose he refused to write for a student seeking to attend a Muslim university because, in his view, Muslims are terrorists. Or if no letter were provided for an African university because…

… Sanctions movement. If the political claims of the BDS movement are central to the entire debate, what then can be said about their credibility? In all my classes, and especially my course on the Arab…

… has the world’s worst human rights record. To be sure, within Israel, which defines itself as an expressly Jewish state, Arabs are second- class citizens, with lower per capita funding and a…

… nor Gaza under Hamas offers any semblance of free elections, freedom of the press or tolerated dissent. By contrast, Arab citizens of Israel have exactly the same civic and political rights as Jews…

…. An Arab party is the third largest in parliament. Arabs serve on the Israeli Supreme Court, in the cabinet and in the army high command. They have equal access to all public institutions…

… it at least once a day.” Rackham student Yahya Alami Hafez, a graduate student instructor for Introduction to Arab-American Studies, said Offendum’s presentation showed how current artistic…

… mediums such as rap actually trace back to a long and rich Arab history. Hafez said before each discussion, he shows the class a music video from an Arab region to highlight this connection. “I think…

… culture is a really good entry point to engage student learning,” Hafez said. “Cultural production is political, it’s something that shapes discourse. When folks are studying history, they…

… poems and raps, often prompting the audience to participate by motioning to sing portions of the lyrics. Offendum opened the lecture by rapping “Damascus,” an Arabic poem he strongly identifies…

… student members of the BSU, working on a history of the Black Action movements, asked if those records could be made more available through digitization,” McDonald said. “We prepared a digital edition…

… conversation on Twitter around the experiences of Black students in higher education. The movement staged protests on campus to bring further attention to their cause. According to the…

… 1969 to 1995. The entire collection can be accessed digitally by all University students, researchers, faculty and staff, and to the public in person at the Bentley Historical Library…

… and available online to students, scholars and community members,” Countryman said. LSA senior Kayla McKinney, speaker of BSU, said the group called for digitization of the Bentley records…

… to increase the accessibility of these materials. In addition, McKinney said the project grew out of the group’s desire to call attention to the relations between Black students and the…

… records digitized is important because student activism is often erased in U-M’s diversity effort.” The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, October 19, 2018 — 3A MADELINE HINKLEY…

…?” So a lot of the work I’ve done on campus has been through students asking me to accompany them to meetings that they are having. I see myself as an advocate for Arab, Muslim students, ME…

… in some way, because students pointed out that it is orientalist and militaristic and Arabic language is not taught in the same way as other languages. … Students have been working on this…

… is extraordinary.” Office for Institutional Equity investigator, a case manager from the Office for Student Conflict Resolution will be present when meeting with either one of the students…

… itself. The changes will be put into place beginning Jan. 9. In order to comply with the Sixth Circuit’s decision, the new policy also includes an option for students to question both each other…

… to convince the accuser to back down and drop the charges, because after that happens, a lot of people are already in an emotionally distressed state.” Students will additionally no longer be…

… difficult job, but did it well. He did, however, also say he was worried about how the new Sixth Circuit driven changes to the misconduct policy would impact students going forward. “I think the…

… of this legal limitation to support students that come forward with claims of misconduct to hopefully make sure they still feel comfortable.” In conjunction with changes to the sexual…

… misconduct policy, the University has also updated its policy on faculty and student relationships. advocating for a multicultural lounge. Can you come with us to a meeting with V.P. Harper?” And I say…

…, sure I’ll come to the meeting. Or, students came to me and said, “We’re receiving hate mail because of this American Sniper controversy. We’re having a meeting with President Schlissel — will…

…/NA-identified students, who are often not part of diversity, equity and inclusion conversations. So my motivation has been to help create an environment at the University for marginalized students to thrive and…

… all students affected by Islamophobia — most of the panelists focused on issues faced by Arab students. Alsultany then shifted the event to a panel of four current and former members of the…

… two original songs from School of Music, Theatre & Dance students, which were written after talking to families that had been directly affected by the opioid crisis. After the performance…

… their overdose rates … How’d they do it? They did it through collaboration and partnerships.” supervisors at Victors cafe, University Housing and the Dean of Students Office’s BRT. The University…

… representatives from Counseling and Psychological Services, who provided information about CAPS availability to all students, and the importance of utilizing these mental health resources in any situation…

… in which a student feels necessary. Brooke Harris, a BRT coordinator, first distinguished bias incidents from hate crimes. Harris outlined how the Division of Public Safety and…

… Quad Residence Hall rooms of LSA sophomore Travon Stearns and other students last fall as an example of an occurrence handled by the BRT. Evelyn Galvan, a BRT coordinator, explained the…

… logistical case management of bias incidents and the hands- on role of the team to help students feel that they are part of a supportive community on campus. Galvan highlighted the team’s goal to talk to…

… ensure transparency, the bias response team updates a weekly log of incidents and response actions. “We want U-M to be a place for students to grow and thrive where they are,” Galvan said. Later…

…, Thomas Dickens, manager for the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plan program, highlighted CAPS and bias incident data, citing the fact that 39.5 percent of the 4,446 student CAPS requests were…

… submitted by students of color in relation to bias incidents. He explained how students have an expressed need to have a safe space to learn without being targeted for having visible…

… radical column to bona fide Daily section, MiC continues to grow to meet the needs of communities of color across campus. Along with sharing the narratives of the lives of students of color, we are…

…. She said: “Take us for exam- ple. Someone could write a book about being an Arab American from Dearborn and just walk us through their every-day lives. It doesn’t even have to be heavy! It could…

… as your founding editors, we want you to keep MiC’s history in mind as you invest in its future. R ima: I grew up in Dear- born, Michigan — home to the largest concentration of Arabs in one city…

… outside of the Middle East. Ironically, I didn’t realize how “Arab” I was until I came to Michigan, a school that is 72 percent white. I spent my first three years trying to understand why I felt…

…’s publica- tion should make room for a space like this if it was going to claim to be rep- resentative of all students on campus. I first approached the Daily expressing interest in one of their columnist…

… applications for that position and, no offense, but we usually only offer those positions to really important people. Like students who are really heavily involved on campus. You can still join edit…

… biting my tongue was something I would have to get used to doing while in the student publication building. After all, that’s what the other two POCs in the room did — even when [white] people on…

…meeting, the board, led by University President Mark Schlissel, voted to increase student tuition rates for the third year in a row. In-state tuition increased by 2.9 percent and out…

…-of-state student tuition went from $47,452 to $49,326. The board voted 7-1 to approve the tuition hike. Regent Andrea Newman, R, was the only board member to oppose the hike. In the meeting, she said she…

… voted against the motion in an effort to keep University costs affordable for students. “I’ve said this before, and I feel this is the real opportunity to make this statement,” Newman…

… regents pointed to recent initiatives such as the Go Blue Guarantee — a full-tuition financial aid package for all in-state students whose families make less than $65,000 a year — as worthwhile…

…, including Stephen Ross, Sandy Robertson and more. After the Detroit Free Press report, student organizations such as Roosevelt Institute and College Democrats published public callsfor…

… every summer to visit family. These visits ceased in 2011 when the area became too dangerous due to the violence and riots of the Arab Spring against the Bashar al-Assad regime. “After the summer of…

… Yusuf Ahmed saw how perceptions of safety and the Syrian crisis overall command a very large presence in the news. Since the conflict’s inception during the 2011 Arab Spring in response to…

… in the death of one woman. This rejection was met with a lawsuit against MSU by Cameron Padgett, a Georgia State University student and Spencer’s booking agent and legal advocate. Padgett…

… speak was organized during the school’s spring break in order to ensure the safety of the student’s on campus. “This agreement was based on the university’s requirement that the event occur on a…

… enforcement officers to the Afro-American Lounge in South Quad Residence Hall Monday evening to discuss prominent social and legal issues facing African Americans on campus. Students…

… non-minorities aren’t subjected to. LSA senior Isaiah Land, president of the University’s chapter of the NAACP, felt it was important to give students a chance to educate themselves and have…

… impart to their children on dealing with law enforcement. Students agreed they were implored to be extra respectful and extra careful in order to avoid ending up another fatal statistic. Eddie…

… reported in the state of Michigan in 2016. However, 82,000 African Americans were arrested in Michigan during the same year. Students told stories of being pulled over by police and having a…

… on community partnership, students worry knowing rights isn’t enough CHETALI JAIN Daily Staff Reporter See NAACP, Page 3 See COUNCIL, Page 3 See SYRIA, Page 3 See MICHIGAN, Page 7A See SCHLISSEL…

… and first-generation students, La Casa hosted its first joint cultural event with the Arab Student Association, providing their own unique cultural perspectives for prospective…

… underneath, so you can’t really have one single food for it, so we kind of let (the Arab Students Association) run that kind of stuff for us, because their food is really good anyway.” LSA junior Dim…

… students visiting the University. Public Policy junior Arwa Gayar, the director of community action for ASA, said the bond formed between the two organizations at that event was the impetus for…

… “Cultural Crossroads,” which grew to include the Muslim Students’ Association and United Asian American Organizations. “Ever since (the La Casa and ASA event), our communities have been really…

… with other organizations and cultural groups on campus.’” Previous collaborative events between student cultural organizations only involved two different groups, Sandoval said, and La Casa…

… really important, and it was hard, I’ll tell you that right now,” Shaukat said. “The Muslim Student Association, it’s kind of like an umbrella group, and there’s so many different ethnicities…

… Mang, co-external chair for UAAO, agreed solidarity was an important function of the event, saying students of color often become isolated within their own communities. “I would hope that…

… Through Better Partnerships” — a nod to what Adams has called his top priority as surgeon general. Before the talk, Adams met with University students for a roundtable discussion. Medical…

… student Raymond Strobel told The Daily in an email interview he enjoyed the opportunity to talk with Adams. The surgeon general’s thoughts resonated with him. “The roundtable was a terrific…

… inclusive and diplomatic when seeking common ground on health priorities with others – and remember our role as servant leaders in healthcare. His thoughts on students’ roles in advocacy were also…

… timely; he urged not to think of ourselves (students) as the future, but the now.” Following a morning of meetings and discussions with campus leaders, Adams began his lecture in conversation…

… community, students see gradual progress on certain demands but encounter an overall lack of urgency in support of institutional change. The Latinx community is the University’s fastest- growing…

… student minority group, growing from 4.75 percent to 6 percent between 2012 and 2016. The majority of La Casa’s demands called for more Latinx representation in University staff, faculty and…

…Four years ago, the Black Student Union launched the online campaign #BBUM, or Being Black at the University of Michigan, and gave the University seven days to respond to seven demands…

…. About 200 University of Michigan students, faculty and Ann Arbor residents came to hear Poor speak about her work within San Quentin State Prison, a men’s detention facility in California. At San…

… meeting in Flint. Eucharia Ganda, president of the U-M Flint student body, and Izzy Baer, vice president of U-M Ann Arbor’s Central Student Government, also addressed their student government…

…, documents digitized Bentley Historical Library converts over 66,000 documents from DAAS RACHEL LEUNG Daily Staff Reporter See REGENTS, Page 3A See SYRIA, Page 3A In a blended mix of English, Arabic…

…, spoken word and rap, musician and activist Omar Offendum presented to a group of over 200 students and faculty on Thursday about his experiences as a Syrian-American hip-hop artist. Offendum…

…, which took place during a lecture of the Introduction to Arab-American Studies course at the University of Michigan, touched on themes of loss, political activism and rising xenophobia. Offendum…

… ambiguous dude named Omar prior to 9/11 on campus — people didn’t really necessarily Offendum highlights importance of culture Syrian American rapper performs for more than 200 students and staff…

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… Arab media community that contributed to the suspected motives behind his disappearance. The column comments on the misinformation and lack of information available for Arab citizens due to the…

… caution the world about the free reign afforded to Arab countries when journalists are unable to safely report on their experiences. It’s easy to feel helpless when confronted with issues of…

… presented with an opportunity to effect real change. Khashoggi’s final published paragraph imparted the need for more Arab voices to be elevated in publications through the creation of an…

… independent international forum, aimed at addressing the structural problems affecting Arab societies today. We as an editorial board, wholeheartedly support the creation of such an entity and…

… encourage our readers to support organizations that start initiatives to highlight Arab voices in journalism in the coming years. Regimes are temporary, but culture is durable, and cultural change…

… imperative to facilitate appropriate avenues for change when we can. Khashoggi spent a lifetime dedicated to the cause of illuminating the Arab world for Western readers. The least we can do is help…

… other Arab journalists honor his memory by shining that same light for their own communities. ELIAS KHOURY | COLUMN The GOP assault on America O n Oct. 21, I spent a significant chunk of my Sunday…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, November 8, 2018 — 3A VETE R ANS WE E K RUCHITA IYER/Daily Ahmed Hamadi, Marines Corp NROTC Senior Advisor, shares his experiences as an Arab…

… students who thought they had registered online. Many of them, Beaudry said, declined to complete provisional ballots. “So, a lot of those students then, we were told, were unwilling to sign the…

… registered to vote and something happened, whether that’s a clerical error, lost paperwork, but that you did register and we don’t have the record.” Beaudry also guessed one reason students may have had…

… lecturer. Molengraff explained one of the challenges of being first-generation is describing experiences to those who do not share the same identity. “While not all students translate from one…

…- generation student. He discussed his experience growing up homeless after his parents split and were sent back to Mexico, not being able to return for 10 years. Parada was allowed to stay in the…

…. “To me, these things were not hurtful because I was a kid,” Parada said. “I was a young student who was just looking at the positive things in life … It didn’t hit me until a couple of years where…

… listen,” Parada said. Parada realized the experiences he faced as a first- generation student were unique to him and emphasized a need to not homogenize student experiences and identities. “Some…

… students may not have grown up with planned vacations or famous authors or book titles on top of their heads or were given NPR radio stations when they were younger,” Parada said. “My question…

… to you is when was the last time you assumed an experience of a student and how can you begin noticing these assumptions before engaging in those conversations?” The symposium then broke into a…

…, discussed concerns of overwhelming students with information as they arrive to campus. “What we worry at orientation is we could tell you, ‘Here’s the pathway to the pot of gold at the end of the…

… state economy. Britany Affolter- Caine, executive director of the URC, attributes this increase to federal funding and larger student populations. “It is being successful — the three universities…

…. The one-credit course is led by EECS Professor Rada Mihalcea and doctoral student Laura Wendlandt. It focuses on exposing all students – particularly freshmen women – who have not had formal…

… programming experience to the world of computer science. Throughout the semester, students will have the opportunity to learn essential computer science concepts, begin to write code, visit local…

… the Flint water crisis and how her identity as an Arab- American shaped her career as a pediatrician. Hanna-Attisha, a University alum, began explaining her book title has two meanings: on a…

… Michigan students have used the motorized scooters around the city since their deployment Friday. The commission weighed allowing the scooters on city streets in the near future. Bird dropped the…

… Elharake then spoke about his experiences and challenges as an Arab-Muslim student and a first generation college student, leading him to this moment to “come for everything they said we couldn’t have…

…, discrimination, harassment. They’re usually detained for hours and hours, even if you are an American citizen.” The member explained how students of Palestinian or Arab heritage who go on study…

… harassment. The member also spoke about international political blacklists, highlighting the fears many Palestinian, Arab and Pro-Palestinian students have of being placed on a blacklist…

… said they were in favor of extending smoking codes and regulations to products such as vapes and e-cigarettes. “Per CDC data, the number of high school students that used e-cigarettes in the…

…. Central Student Government passed a #UMDivest resolution for the first time in the University’s history in 2017, which was also the first time the body allowed for a secret ballot, which members…

… approved to protect pro-Palestinian students from blacklists. “If you are put on that list and you go through these checkpoints, they’ll pull you out and you’re going to be interrogated, you…

…’ll probably be deported, not allowed in,” the student said. “That’s something that the University has ignored time after time and has not released any statements about, and that’s another thing we…

… result of the walls. She also highlighted the demonstration’s aim to raise awareness of struggles faced by minority students on campus and how the walls are affecting their lives at the University…

… investing in American companies that are profiting off these border walls,” the student said. “We’re still pushing for the University to form a committee to investigate our investments in these…

…, Abbas Alhassan, Sally Kafelghazal, Arwa Gayar, Reema Kaakarli, Miretti Habib speak on a panel at Arab and Latinx Wolverine Day Friday. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www…

… 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 September…

… MomentUM appeals Central Student Judiciary Decision, delays certification of election results ANDREW HIYAMA Daily News Editor Incoming Central Student Government representatives may not be able to…

… MVision’s allegations against Engineering junior Michael Nwansi, the elected MomentUM Engineering representative. MVision reportedly observed and photographed Nwansi influencing a student…

… law student, the demerits would cost Nwansi the seat he won, though the runner-up is also a member of MomentUM. Koziara said the one demerit issued to MomentUM would not affect any other…

… representatives. MomentUM is now appealing the decision to the Central Student Judiciary on the grounds that the UEC issued its decision outside the 36-hour time frame following a hearing. Koziara…

…. Law student Tom Allen, who is serving as counsel to MVision, said because the case has been appealed to the CSJ, MVision no longer had the option to drop the case themselves. “Although we…

… executives, meaning he can’t meaningfully reach out to student organizations. “Unfortunately, the student buy-in and willingness to meet, considering upcoming finals, is different from just the…

… candidate who won versus Central Student Government formally reaching out to student organizations, and I’d prefer to use CSG executive resources in terms of the listserv information and the contact…

…, hundreds of University of Michigan students and fans flooded the inter- section of South University Avenue and Church Street to celebrate. LSA junior Mikayla Easley was at Garage Bar watching the game…

… only when non-Arabs are involved.” Graduate student instructor Elizabeth Walz spoke against all study-abroad programs located in Israel, claiming they contribute to the violation of Palestinian…

… move forward with creating your carbon neutrality taskforce, I strongly encourage you to engage students, especially undergraduate students, in this endeavor,” Stults said. “I also encourage…

… you to think about engaging youth, these are the next generation of leaders.” Moving on to conversations around the University’s relationship with the state of Israel, Rackham student…

… letter of recommendation for a student wishing to study abroad in Israel. The University’s decision to admonish Cheney-Lippold stirred discussion on campus regarding the role of faculty’s academic…

… freedoms in regards to their students. Following Cheney-Lippold’s punishment, Provost Martin Philbert appointed a faculty panel to investigate these issues, though the group has been criticized as…

… resolutions in the past. Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, a group of students promoting social justice and human rights of Palestinians, brought the original resolution, which sought to divest…

… funds from companies committing human rights violations against Palestinians in Israel, to the forefront of University conversation over the past decade and a half. Last year, Central Student…

… Government passed the divestment resolution for the first time ever, joining student governments on the Flint and Dearborn campuses in their support. However, a majority of the regents refused to…

… consider SAFE’s call for a committee to investigate the University’s investments, releasing an online statement on the matter weeks after the resolution. U-M Dearborn student Susan Yaseen spoke of a…

… lack of support Palestinian students felt from the University on its Dearborn campus. Yaseen also expressed disappointment in the University’s handling of the resolution for divestment. “We…

… in. This car with three white dudes pulled up, they lowered their window, and they screamed the ‘n-word’ at me.” Other students expressed experiences with teachers or friends making…

… any negative thing to worry about.” For these students especially and coming from places with large Black communities entering the University, with only 4.96 percent of the student body being…

… Black, can be a shock. McKinney said entering the University freshman year, there’s always some sort of incident making Black students feel isolated. “What’s funny is that as a Black person…

… welcoming. Gilbert wrote an article detailing racism she experienced as soon as she entered the University. At her first football game, she and her friends asked a group of white students to pet their…

… the street, and I feel so relieved after an entire semester of being under that pressure.” In Classrooms and Conversation “Being one of the only Black students in the classroom has happened…

… to me probably every semester,” Doss said. This was an experience shared by all of the Black students interviewed. LSA sophomore Pascal Casimier said when this happens with him, he feels…

… feel on the outside of a group.” But, even if their Blackness wasn’t explicitly addressed, many students felt the effect of their race on teachers’ and students’ interactions with them. Gilbert…

… white person whose hand was raised. LSA sophomore Sydni Warner said she was once rejected by students when she asked to join their group project. “We were supposed to do a group work, and I…

… asked to join a group and they just straight up told me no,” Warner said. “Didn’t give me a reason, didn’t give me any type of explanation.” Toombs attributes this avoidance of Black students to…

… to do with Black people, they feel like it’s cool to come up to me and tell me about how it is being Black,” Hicks said. Another assumption people feel comfortable making is that Black students…

… joining TFA. When she started teaching at a predominantly Black school in Detroit, she saw that the most of her fellow teachers hailed from much more affluent upbringings than their students…

…. As someone who grew up in a predominantly Arab school with white teachers who also didn’t share her life experiences — and therefore had trouble relating to her culture and identity — Rima…

… quickly realized the need for teachers to empathize with their students. She felt her impact would be felt most if she worked within the system and educated her co-workers on approaching people of…

… color and cultural responsiveness. This realization allowed her to impact her workplace because it opened up previously closed lines of communication between her, her co-workers and the students…

… with recruiting students of color. After realizing that both of these goals could be achieved by working together, the three went to Andrew Weiner, the editor-in-chief in 2013. This meeting with…

…’s multitudes in mind while reading submissions,” she told us. “As students of color have such a wide range of perspectives and experiences that all contribute to the vibrancy and dynamic of MiC.” We ended…

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… Kevin Sweitzer Tara Jayaram Ashley Zhang Ellery Rosenzweig Elena Hubbell A new kind of grading system is gaining traction at the University of Michigan. About 8,000 students at the…

… Business takes a completely non-self-determined approach to students’ grades: It assesses each and every class on a bell curve, irrespective of learning material, types of assignments or student…

… LSA typically use an absolute grading system to assess students — in my own experience taking a number of upper-level courses in 12 different departments, I have only been graded on a curve in…

… the Economics Department. Students in business courses, however, are perpetually sorted on a bell curve that doesn’t necessarily raise their raw scores. This places them in a state similar to…

… students in “weeder” LSA classes in the sense that one student’s gain is inherently another’s loss. The curve is as follows: Grades for all core classes in the Business School are distributed with less…

… than 40 percent of students receiving an A- or above, less than 90 percent receive a B or above, and over 10 percent receiving a B- or below. The problem with this grading system isn’t in…

… numerical outcomes — the Business School’s curve doesn’t impact students’ overall GPAs significantly. The average sophomore transfer to the program comes in with a 3.7 GPA and the Business School…

… Ibrahim Ijaz on Arab calligraphy, as well as multiple vocal and spoken-word performances. LSA sophomore Ceren Ege presented a spoken-word poem titled, “By Blood,” which illustrated experiences…

….” LSA junior Mariam Reda, co-founder of Redefine, helped organize the event and highlighted her excitement promoting social acceptance through creative, student-led presentations and…

… performances. “The purpose of Redefine itself is to promote social acceptance through the creation and exhibition of original student talent,” Reda said. “(Looking around) I see so many different…

…-stigmatize the event that’s happening.” Additionally, numerous representatives in the assembly commented on the pervasiveness of the upcoming CSG election, in which students can begin voting on Wednesday…

… open to students. LSA junior Seth Schostak informed the assembly of his efforts to determine what the students want to see in terms of changes made by CSG. Schostak told fellow representatives of…

… the importance of listening to student concerns instead of simply counting them as a signature on a petition, which was met with applause and snaps from the assembly. “Ask for input if you guys…

…Daily.com determined that adjusting the timeline to winter semester supports first-year student success by providing the opportunity to fully engage in curriculum and communities,” Harper said. Dean of…

… Students Laura Blake Jones and a team representing the Greek life community will monitor the transition. “In partnership with our Greek Life community student leaders, we are committed to working…

…, administrators from University President Mark Schlissel to E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, to the Board of Regents repeatedly emphasized the council’s self-regulated efforts. “I want…

… to applaud you for all the work that you’re doing along with other students to provide a safer environment in our fraternities and sororities,” Regent Denise Ilitch, D, told IFC president Sam…

… alone in this, it would be a lot tougher. It’s also really cool how close you get with people who understand you. I’m so close with the mixed people in JSA (Japan Student Organization) because we…

… catch our connecting flight. At this point, I was unfazed by the disgusted gaze of onlookers as my mom frantically directed us in Arabic because I had experienced the same look in grocery stores as…

… with every step I took and word I spoke. But that isn’t the truth. I was so scared of becoming the scary Arab-Muslim everyone feared that I lost myself, retreating into a shell of a person who hid…

… her culture and religion and felt the constant need to reaffirm her Americanness, to prove her patriotism. I’m here now to say that I am an angry Arab. I’m angry my best friend in elementary…

… grandmother in Arabic before she passed. I’m angry a woman in our small town took off her head scarf because she didn’t want her kid to be bullied at school. I’m angry I was never taught to feel…

… religions are scoffed at. Only certain movies featuring Arab or Muslim people are eaten up by mainstream media, and it is very evident they are the ones that feature the infamous white savior…

… when minorities are repeatedly portrayed as such in mainstream media? For many, the only knowledge they have about Arabs is what they see on the big screen, and this perpetuates an ignorance about…

… walked into the house we stayed at, I was immediately met with kindness and a sense of familiarity. Throughout the weekend, we had deep conversations about our lives as Filipinx-American student…

… of students of color, we discussed the stigmas associated with self-care options such as therapy or yoga. Many students recounted how in their communities, things like those were described as…

… sad moods and someone who has anxiety would just be considered a big worrier. Your illness would stop being just an illness and would begin to define who you are. On Dec. 18, 2010, the Arab…

… lie somewhere between informed tourist and distant citizen. I do not know of a Syria that I can call truly mine. When I am there my broken Arabic, my fluctuation between native and taught tongue…

…, I can almost feel stress levels increasing among students. Midterms are approaching and spring break is still a month away. During times like this in the semester, I internalize my stress when…

… installment, the storytellers were all students or alumni of the University. The theme, which was quite fitting for a new semester, was “Nobody Told Me” — stories of the reality of college life. There…

… laughed, some cried and some did both. But in each speaker, I saw their delight in sharing their burden with others. Zanib Sareini, an alumni of the CSP and currently a graduate student at the…

… University’s School of Social Work, shared her experience of being an Arab-American in a post-Sept. 11 America. “There was a different pressure post-9/11,” Sareini said. She recalls being told by…

… told this part of her story, CSP students in the front rows whooped and cheered. Sareini smiled back. While she couldn’t stop the discrimination, she knew who to come to for help. Eddie Williams…

…, a student of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, told of how his relationship with his family changed upon coming to college. He distanced himself from them, found himself too busy with…

…Dearborn is my safe haven, a city with the highest concentration of Arabs in all of America, a place for people who are just like me. Growing up, I had the best of both worlds. I was able…

… to connect with my Middle Eastern roots and culture in a city that has the best Mediterranean food around. I could speak Arabic and not feel out of place. My days would be filled with visiting…

… “khaltos” (Arabic word for aunts) and potlucks where we would eat our days away while playing tag outside with the neighborhood kids who were more like family than friends. However, my city was never…

… fighting against the status quo. And despite all of this, now that I am in Ann Arbor, I yearn for my town. I become retrospective and think back to the now defunct Arab-American festival on Warren…

… University of Michigan, my pampered taste buds found the dining hall food bland, unappetizing and incredibly foreign. I saw students carrying plates filled to the brim with food I had never before…

… back home to Dearborn for the day if she did. Now, as I sit in my dorm room, my supply of Arab food is dwindling and I am once again venturing out into the dining hall hoping for the best. They say…

… manufacturer 18 Sound system component 22 Rendered immobile 23 Student advocacy gp. 24 Ruckus 25 Shake things up 27 Key of Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto 28 Horseshoe holder 30 Merchant of 10…

…, to say the least 46 Arab bigwigs 48 Bit of tomfoolery 49 Rollicking good time 50 Prom night coifs 51 Dickens bad guy 56 River in western Belgium 58 Org. for pugilists 59 They, in Tours 60…

… experience of watching the University orchestras perform is unlike any other, given that they include fellow students who are also some of the nation’s best orchestral musicians. This coming Sun. at…

… immensely well. The theme will be present in some of the chosen costumes as well as the pieces selected to be played. Historically, the Halloween Concert has been a medium used to connect students to…

… only connects musicians with the audience, but different parts of the audience with each other — students and community,” conductor Kenneth Kiesler said in an interview with The Daily about…

… program to help prepare them for the Brevet, an English-heavy examination all Lebanese students must take to go to high school or vocational schools. Through LEAP, I had the opportunity to connect…

… accessories was donated to the Helping Hands for Relief and Development and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. They sold stylish items, some with Arabic script, including jewelry saying “Love” and…

… letter for a study abroad trip in occupied Palestine. As a student body, we should take after Cheney-Lippold and refuse to be bystanders complicit in the human rights abuses carried out by Israel…

… tell people my name. To these Americans, my name is a foreign word. Some of my friends have names that can sound foreign. My name is not like that. Arabs will try to say my name the Arabic way but…

… I am not Arab, even though my name is. It is complicated but I like to think my name and me are a cultural juxtaposition. I also struggle in discussion class because I need a few minutes to…

… pass off as American to be in the U.S. So I began becoming proud of saying my name, the way I know how. Not the American way or the Arabic way, but the Malaysian way, and every time during…

… discussion class I can only wait for my American graduate student instructor to ask me the second time how to pronounce my name because it is so foreign to them. What are you: ambiguously brown A…

…, Center for Arab American Studies, UM-Dearborn Joshua Akers, Social Science, UM-Dearborn Angie Achkar, Undergraduate Student Hani Bawardi, SSCI/ HIST&AAST, UM-D Kevin Kobelsky, College of Business…

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… on workplace morale. Rather than debating the merits of an important political issue of our time, the university has taken a side, and disparaged pro-BDS students, staff and faculty. We stand…

… critical of their views.” We stand with graduate students who have stated that such disciplinary measures set “an alarming, worrying, and dangerous precedent for impinging on the protected…

… administration to refrain from any disciplinary actions against graduate student Lucy Peterson and to drop the actions against Professor John Cheney-Lippold. We call on the university to include diverse…

… voices in the new panel the provost has created to examine the intersection between political thought/ ideology and faculty members’ responsibilities to students. We call on the university to…

… Silan Fadlallah, Student LS&A, Ann Arbor Bushra Habbas-Nimer Mar Freire Hermida, Romance Languages and Literatures, Ann Arbor Howard Brick, Department of History, UM, Ann Arbor Sally Howell…

…” students will benefit from the switch. Jones explained under the current system, a student taking back-to-back LSA and nursing courses has no transition time between classes. University spokesman…

… importance of communication, saying the administration hopes to keep students up-to-date on the switch from Michigan time using Canvas, social media, posters and student publications. Multiple…

… Architecture students Courtney Klee and Ellis Wills-Begley of the Initiative for Inclusive Design, a project aiming aims to foster dialogue about building accessibility issues. According to Wills…

… realized how different my sisters and I were from my cousins. They always refer to us as Americans, because we don’t entirely fit into their culture. We prefer English music to their Arabic music, and…

… once walking to class when I heard two voices behind me talking about how many Arabs (people of Middle Eastern origin) are boaters (derogatory term for immigrant) and don’t understand English. I…

… student-run organization that works to empower and make leaders of students from underrepresented minorities on campus. This organization welcomes each of its members like family, which is truly an…

… hard to do as I was the only Black person in the class that day. This blurred the line between having a fruitful conversation and taking the role of “educating” the other white students in my class…

…, as all the white students would inevitably look to me as the definite stance of who deserves to say the word. Besides obvious reasons of not having to be a spokesperson for my race, I could not…

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… of decency, no matter the political cost. At a campaign rally during the 2008 presidential race, he famously rebuffed a woman who called then-Senator Barack Obama an “Arab” and another supporter…

… tracked online, recent developments have shown just how much personal data the tech industry collects and shares about its users. As people growing up in the turbulent digital age, college students…

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… of decency, no matter the political cost. At a campaign rally during the 2008 presidential race, he famously rebuffed a woman who called then-Senator Barack Obama an “Arab” and another supporter…

… tracked online, recent developments have shown just how much personal data the tech industry collects and shares about its users. As people growing up in the turbulent digital age, college students…

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… professor of “Oriental Languages” who taught Hebrew, Assyrian and Arabic. Since then, the department has been known as the Department of Semitic Studies, the Department of Oriental Languages and…

… change is in keeping with the parlance of a large majority of students and faculty. In a departmental press release this month, Department Chair Gottfried Hagen noted how few people still use the…

… altogether. But violence is contagious … BDS is the most important global issue for thousands of students on the U-M campus. This nonviolent movement is part of who they are. BDS is not against any…

… and downgraded Arabic from its official language status. Abulhawa then talked about the history of Palestine and Zionism. Seventy years ago, she said, Palestine was a thriving, pluralistic…

… then I’m confident you will also sign on.” In November 2017, for the first time in the school’s history after years of attempts, Central Student Government passed a divestment resolution…

… calling for the University to investigate several companies it had investments in which have contracts with the Israeli military. The Board of Regents later rejected the resolution. One student…

… had originally agreed to write the letters before learning they wanted to study in Israel. “I don’t believe the professors were discriminating against the students,” Abulhawa said. “The…

… those students, but when they learned that these students were applying to a colonial institution, they exercised their conscience not to be party to that.” After these recommendation letter…

… touch by much of the student body. Students responded negatively to the Guide, calling it “out of touch.” Public Policy senior Lauren Schandevel and LSA senior Griffin St. Onge, in collaboration…

… with other student groups, wrote an abridged guide called Being Not-Rich at UM which improved the advice from “So in terms of next steps, where we go from here, I remain determined to provide…

… ST GE N WE E K NATALIE STEPHENS/Daily Students attend the First Gen? First Year? community gathering in a series of 2018 First Gen Week events in Couzens Hall Monday evening. First Gen Week…

…-Kitaab project, an initiative to replace an Arabic textbook used by the University that some students consider insensitive and colonialist. Gillcrist made a particular appeal to representatives with…

… students alike, is Engler’s lack of academic credentials. Students also worry Engler’s politician status will cause conflict on MSU’s already divided campus. At this meeting, Ashley Fuente, the…

… department, she describes the purpose of the town hall and encourages students to come together. “The Town Hall will provide the opportunity for me to hear from you, the NatSci student body, about how…

… important to get vaccinated, especially for students, who tend to be at a higher risk for the virus. “Students tend to live in fairly close confines, which puts people at greater risks because it…

…’s easier to spread germs and viruses, so students need to take a little bit better care of themselves than the general population,” Saulles said. “They really should be getting vaccinated for the flu…

…, even though it may not be the best match of the vaccine.” In order to avoid contracting the flu, Saulles encourages students to live healthy lifestyles in addition to getting vaccinated…

… experience in Arabic studies. The LSA SG committees, subcommittees and task forces provided other updates and announcements. No guest speakers presented at this week’s meeting. Before the…

… people that go to Michigan State,” Wilson said. “So … I think it’s good if we all keep up to date and if we can help to inform our fellow students about what’s going on at other Big Ten universities…

… a member of MiC, my rosy view of the journalism industry began to dim. MiC was founded because The Daily lacked the voices of students of color, which led to the mischaracterization and…

… oftentimes racist depictions of students of color. The founders of MiC felt they couldn’t trust journalists to properly convey the real experiences of people of color, so they created a section where we…

… after months of talking. I was brought back to elementary school, introducing myself by my American pronunciation, Nah-dah; to my own sister not pronouncing my Arabic name until middle school…

… two Black students (the only Black female) in a class of 60. The oversaturation of whiteness emanating from my television screen felt normal — I felt as though I was the thing that needed to be…

…, one, in particular, caught my eye. It looked like Arabic calligraphy. I took a step closer and realized that it was a verse from the Quran. In fact, it was one that I had learned as a small child…

… and I said it out loud to myself as I read the description — a slave had written this Surah and their Arabic-illiterate owner thought it was a sign they had successfully converted the slave out…

… failed to fulfil their due diligence and protect their students of color from anti- Blackness and racist acts that occur on their campus. And just this weekend, a picture of a white girl…

… shivering under several blankets riddled with homesickness or daydream about Arabic food. What I’m also not going to do is gush about how this experience made me so much more thankful for…

… students interested in studying abroad? Look at all the study abroad offerings — don’t skim over any program because you’re not interested in visiting that country. A lot of people choose their…