New Arab group seeks to educate, support

Members of "Shamis," a new student organization founded to address the needs of Arab and Arab-Americans on campus, hope to promote awareness of Arab culture and end what they formerly saw as the conspicuous absence of an Arab group on campus. According to Malik Mehr Ali '04, Shamis vice-president, the need for an Arab organization has existed at Dartmouth for years, but became more apparent after the events of Sept.