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… night. Hosted by the office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA), the event concluded a month of Arab cultural festivities featuring workshops, performances and guest speakers. The ceremony…

… began with Arabic food and people gathering around tables. MESA Program Manager Jesús Galvan greeted students and families as they walked into Trotter Center. Taubman freshman Lynn Samman…

…, the event coordinator for the closing ceremony, began by thanking MESA and the Arab Student Association for their support in empowering the Arab community on campus. She then recognized…

… YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Former music professor sentenced to prison for sex crimes In the mid-1980s, a North Carolina School of the Arts student took a brave step that affected the rest of her…

… high school career: she met with Robert Hickok, the school’s dean, to report that Stephen Shipps, her violin teacher, had attempted to kiss her during her lesson. The student requested anonymity…

…, the student remembered Hickok’s response. “(Shipps is) a very affectionate man: ‘Are you sure you didn’t misunderstand it?’” Meghan recalled Hickok saying. (Hickok is deceased; two students…

… reports. It is also unclear if the school communicated these complaints to the University of Michigan. In 2017, a former student of Shipps’s emailed the then-interim dean of the Music, Theatre & Dance…

… music, the chair of strings and the director of a youth music program through the Music, Theatre & Dance School. He had previously served as the school’s associate dean. The former student that…

… MichiganDaily.com Stephen Shipps receives five years after guilty verdict on exploitation of a minor The Arab Heritage Month Closing Ceremony took place at the Trotter Multicultural Center Thursday…

… each of the Arab Heritage Month committee members, thanking them for their work in putting on various events throughout the past month. “We would like to recognize all our committee members…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

…, we’ve gone to the Michigan Africans, we’ve gone to BSU (Black Student Union), we’ve gone to the Arab Student Association and we’ve had conversations with them. We have already taken that leap by…

…Read more at MichiganDaily.com News Wednesday, March 30, 2022 — 3 ADMINISTRATION The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Design by Kate Shen Graduate students at the Univer- sity of Michigan…

… School of Social Work walked out of their classes Monday morning and gathered on the Diag to rally for Payments for Placements (P4P). This is a student campaign demanding that the Uni- versity begin…

… compensating Master of Social Work (MSW) students for their internship work; around 80 members of the campus commu- nity attended the walkout. In 2017, MSW students, Social Work alumni and social workers…

… started a petition calling for fair compensation for their field work. Most recently in January, MSW students submitted a petition with over 300 student signatures to Social Work Dean Joseph Himle and…

… Social Work Education requires that MSW students across the U.S. complete 900 hours of field work during their master’s program. SSW spokeswoman Lisa Raycraft confirmed that at the University, non…

…-advanced standing MSW stu- dents must complete 912 hours of field work to get their degree. How- ever, MSW students with advanced standing — those who come into the University with a BSW — only have to complete…

… week.” Other students within the Social Work School shared Abraham’s frustration. A survey conducted by the P4P leaders found that 83% of respondents worked additional jobs on top of the required…

… helps protect workers’ rights. Fischer empha- sized that the field work is primarily intended to academically support the MSW program by providing students with hands-on experience before receiving…

… their degree. “Students are unlicensed pro- fessionals and would not be able to engage in MSW-level work,” Fisch- er wrote. “Field placements also provide opportunities for students to discover new…

…-M community and around the country. The IWG aims to create a safe environment for Arab, Muslim and MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa) students. Irfan said he and Maria Wajahat, LSA SG representative…

… 670 main floor restrooms in all academic and student-facing buildings, University spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald told The Michigan Daily in an email Thursday. In November, the Ann Arbor City Council…

… contract for tenured professor in Fall 2022 Mark Schlissel could return as faculty member in MCDB, Microbiology & Immunology GRACE BEAL/Daily A University of Michigan student tested positive for…

… meningococcal meningitis, according to an email from University of Michigan Chief Health Officer Preeti Malani and Lindsey Mortenson, University Health service medical directors Thursday night. The student…

… Sigma Beta Rho house in East Lansing. The student started experiencing symptoms on Monday, Jan. 24. Meningitis is a rare and serious bacterial infection; however, vaccines can prevent it. It involves…

… County Health Department, officials urged students who may have been in contact with the individual to complete an online survey through UHS. According to the Health Department, points of contact can…

… said they are taking the case seriously and are encouraging any students who are worried they may have been in close contact with the positive individual to receive the necessary prophylactic…

… antibiotic treatment as a preventative measure as soon as possible. Positive case of meningococcal meningitis confirmed in UMich community Exposed students are encouraged to fill out online UHS…

… teaching, he will be relied on to serve on faculty committees and mentor students. Bethany Moore, chair of Microbiology and Immunology at the University, wrote in the letter obtained by The Press that…

…-Muslim bigotry, supports installing bidets LSA Student Government passed two resolutions that intend to create a more accepting environment for the Muslim community on the University of Michigan campus. One…

… not being where I “need to be.” Coming from a high school that is composed of an overwhelmingly Arab stu- dent body, where most students are not met with the opportunity of moving away for col- lege…

… or even attending a university like the University of Michigan, I face a new struggle of assimilating into a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) as an underrepresented student of Color. Dealing…

… my sheltered, small town of predominantly Arabs and Mus- lims. I also held the fears of not being able to achieve my academic and personal goals, not only because of my own barriers but because of…

… room where the information session was being held. I caught the glances of all the other older students in the room and immediately felt my body shrivel up. There was a teacher at the front of the…

… classroom with a stack of papers on a desk, and a line of students in front of her. I quietly stood in line and twiddled my thumbs, avoiding eye contact with the other students before I eventually made…

… it to the teacher and her desk. “Hi there, what’s your name?” “Smarani.” The teacher immediately looked puz- zled. I could feel the students behind me in line becoming impatient as the teacher…

… sort, showing a list of a bunch of students’ first and last names. “The last name is Komanduri, K-O- M-A-N-D-U-R-I,” I added. I figured the roster was alphabetized by last name and hoped I could…

…, the teacher stopped me. “Oh, sweetie, could you hang back for a sec?” I slowly paced over to her desk as all the other students made their way out the door, taking a final quick glance in my…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, February 9, 2022 On Sunday Jan. 26, student organizers from the Indian Amer- ican Student Association and the United Asian…

… Arab Queer people. Similar strategies are utilized by the radical right in the United States to push across conserva- tive agendas while remaining palatable to woke America. Queer liberation in…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

… Saturday afternoon. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Winter 2022 semester by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to…

…, Mae Veidlinger, Kirti Aplash, Jacob Cohen Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily.com SPORTS…

…, which collected and disposed of unused or expired medications in an environmentally friendly way to protect the ecosystem. This event was led by two student organizations within the…

… College of Pharmacy: American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Student Pharmacists and Phi Delta Chi, a professional pharmacy fraternity founded in Ann Arbor. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic…

… Pharmacy worked together to efficiently sort and dispose of the waste. Pharmacy student Brendan Veit was among the student volunteers at the Ingalls Mall location. He said the goal of this event…

…@umich.edu. Iraqi Student Association invites UMich campus community to a night of Chai & Chobi RONI KANE Daily News Editor Over 100 attendees gather at Rackham in celebration of dance, food and culture…

… Light from the chandeliers in the Rackham Assembly Hall reflected off the bejeweled djellaba dresses worn by members of the Iraqi Student Association (ISA) as they hosted their third…

… Institute (BLI) — a student and faculty- run organization within LSA that awards funding to student projects that will benefit the campus community. LSA senior Diana Ramo, ISA treasurer, was…

… experience,” Ramo said. — pronounced “shay” and often transliterated to “chai” in English — is the Arabic word for tea. In Iraq, chai is often served at events and is one of the most important hot…