Nora Dagher

How Not To Look Like A Freshman

by Nora Dagher

It’s a new year–new books, new roommates, new classes, a new start. It’s also a year of new incoming freshmen. They’re extremely easy to spot with their fresh, young faces devoid of any indication of stress, fatigue or general experience. You see the confusion in their eyes as they learn to navigate the ways of [...]

Transgressing borders

by Nora Dagher

At a young age I would say I was quite different from the other children on the playground. I have always been told that I am a happy child and seem to be living in “la la” land yet it is these quick connotations people make of others without translating them first. Each person has [...]

Generation Opportunity: Mobilizing The Masses

by Nora Dagher

Generation Opportunity understands the vital role that young people will play in the 2012 election cycle.

Medical school information fair

by Nora Dagher

Every student knows that pre-Med is arguably the most popular pre-professional path at the University of Michigan. This research-based, public university is the best breeding ground for science majors and provides the best opportunities for a thriving, successful pre-Med career path. On Thursday, March 15, from 3-6pm, the Career Center hosted a Medical School Information [...]

Syria bleeds panel blogpost

by Nora Dagher

It is common knowledge that the situation in Syria is getting worse by the day. Flipping the channel to CNN, the viewer is overcome by bombs, blood and citizens calling out for a revolution and overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Facing an issue where misleading facts are rampant and tensions run high, I was happy [...]

Graduate school panel

by Nora Dagher

All undergraduate students worry about their future, it’s inevitable. They want to make sure their hard earned tuition dollars go to a productive education, one that secures them a job and future. It’s important that students ask the right questions, engage in the right dialogue, and get the right advice about their respective career choices. [...]

Arab Spring, a year later

by Nora Dagher

Professor Juan Cole, a Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan in History, gave an enlightening lecture today at Rackham Auditorium on the Arab Spring and where it stands today. Starting with Tunisia’s role, a small country with little geopolitical clout on the world stage, Juan Cole was able to trace the [...]

Interfaith Action Dialogue Dinner

by Nora Dagher

I always relish opportunities to hear other people’s world views and opinions in a safe space. It seems that in today’s society, with so many stereotypes running rampant in the media, we often lose sight of other people miles around the globe as human beings. We forget that we all have fundamental commonalities and often [...]

Change in Housing Priority: Good or Bad?

by Nora Dagher

Upperclassmen returning to University Housing next year may be out of luck as the University is planning to change its current policy of housing priority, giving sophomores earlier sign up dates, and therefore better pick of housing, over returning juniors and seniors.

Suicide: Number One Killer of College Students?

by Nora Dagher

According to University of Virginia researchers, the leading cause of student deaths may be suicide.

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