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University
of
Michigan,
Lawrence said he hoped
campus will be impacted by
the news, and that students
who
have
not
yet
been
vaccinated will take the time
to do so.
“I
have
treated
many
patients with cervix cancer
and cancers in the head and
neck region, both of which
can be caused by the virus,”
Lawrence said. “Although
many patients can be cured,
many are not. Even under the
best conditions, treatment
has a lot of side effects and
there is significant expense.
Three injections of a vaccine
can prevent all of this.”
Lawrence said he believes
that vaccines for infectious
diseases, including HPV, are
truly life-saving, and that
the benefits far outweigh
the risks, especially when it
comes to this vaccine.
“It is not an exaggeration
to say that this vaccine is a
dream come true,” he wrote.
The
vaccine
remains
controversial because it is
suggested to be administered
at
young
ages
and
two
children have died of early
onset Lou Gehrig’s disorder
after being given the vaccine,
according to NPR.
LSA senior Alisha Vora,
co-president of University
Students
Acting
Against
Cancer at the University, said
she is glad that the University
is promoting proactive ways
to combat cancer. She said
raising
awareness
about
preventative measures is a
key goal for her organization.
“Being
proactive
in
whatever we can do is a
really smart idea and I am
glad that the University is on
board,” Vora said. “It makes
a lot of sense — if there is any
way for us to prevent cancer
and if it is something as easy
as vaccinations that should
definitely be promoted.”
Vora also said her club
could use the news to raise
awareness
about
specific
kinds of cancer.
“Our club is very open to
new ideas, we ask our club
members if there is a specific
kind of cancer that they
want to raise money for or
raise awareness about and
we do it,” she said. “If this
is something happening on
campus I think it is a great
thing to raise awareness
about.”
Vora said she is hopeful
about the future of cancer
research and prevention, and
believes that many students
share her sentiment.
“A lot of us have been
personally
affected
by
cancer so it’s something that
we all keep in our hearts;
hearing great improvements
that are happening, such
as raising awareness about
vaccinations that will help
prevent cancer, is great —
it is great to see us moving
forward,” she said.
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Jan. 5.
President Barack Obama also
declared a state of emergency in
the city on Jan. 16.
The University has also gotten
involved — to aid the residents
of
Flint
and
the
University
of
Michigan-Flint
campus,
University
President
Mark
Schlissel
appointed$100,000
in funds to research the water
contamination on Jan. 22.
During the debate, LSA junior
Joshua Strup, president of the
Michigan Political Union, said
the crisis in Flint and Snyder’s
perceived
negligence
of
the
issue should not be an ongoing
problem. He said before focusing
on whether or not Snyder should
be
recalled,
people
should
consider whether any governor
should be recalled at all, as they
were chosen by popular vote.
“Whether
you
approve
of
Governor Snyder or not, he was
duly appointed through a direct
election of the people to this
position,” Strup said. “Similarly,
if you were in Michigan 15 years
ago, we had Governor Granholm
and whether you liked her or not,
she was the duly elected governor
of Michigan.”
Granholm
was
elected
governor of Michigan in 2003.
Strup said whenever the matter
of recall is brought up the elected
official becomes focused solely
on staying in office instead of
focusing on the issues.
“While he might not have
done the best job, I’d rather
have him doing work instead
of making speeches to keep
his job,” Strup said. “I think a
recall procedure is partially just
political grandstanding and stops
the proper governance of a state.”
The electorate should be held
responsible for their choices,
Strup said, and the choice to elect
Snyder is something that should
not be reversed.
“Once we make a decision, we
should stick by that decision,” he
said. “Our system is not perfect.
We as members of the state
must work to formulate a more
perfect society, but we have to
accept the consequences of our
decisions both individually and
collectively.”
Engineering
junior
Tyler
Dubay, who is from Flint, said
responses
from
government
officials to the water crisis were
not punctual and there was
negligence on Snyder’s behalf.
“Even
though
there
are
children being poisoned and
there is something that needs to
be done, I think we’re going about
this entirely the wrong way,”
he said. “We’re focusing more
on who to point fingers at than
actually fixing the situation.”
However, instead of debating
whether
Snyder
should
be
recalled, Dubay said, people need
to focus more on how to fix the
water problem in Flint.
“We need to focus this on a
multitude of levels to figure out
what the problem is and how to fix
it before we go and start pointing
fingers,” he said. “In order to
figure out who’s to blame for this
situation, we need to not point at
one single person, because this is
a class action against the entire
government system between the
city of Flint and the state level.”
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin supported presidential candidate Donald Trump at a pre-caucus rally in Cedar Rapids, IA
on Monday.
a
protest
against
ROK’s
meeting on Tuesday. One
of the organizers, an LSA
sophomore who asked to go by
her first name only, Susanna,
due to fear of retaliation from
ROK, said she was initially
shocked by news of the group’s
presence in Ann Arbor.
“I
was
planning
on
dressing up and going out and
having a fun time but I started
thinking, ‘maybe I should just
stay inside,’” Susanna said.
“Then I realized, why should
I let them scare me? So I
decided that instead of letting
them terrorize our campus,
we would organize ourselves
and speak as one voice for
women’s rights.”
Many
posts
on
the
Facebook page urged women
to be on guard, as ROK has
not detailed what exactly the
group’s plan of action will be
after convening at Nickel’s
Arcade. Valizadeh’s website
calls for men to move to
“final venues” after the initial
meetup; one answer on a list
of frequently asked questions
claims that men will move to
bars.
Susanna emphasized that
she is not a member of any
feminist groups on campus,
but wanted to take action.
“I’m
not
a
‘learned-
feminist,’ ” she said. “ I
don’t know terminology or
events. But I do know when
something is wrong.”
have
through
candidates’
aggressive caucusing gives them
a different perspective than other
universities and, at times, the
networking does have significant
influence over their votes.
“There is a strong Martin
O’Malley presence on campus, I
think that’s largely because the
organizer for him in this area is
a Grinnell graduate,” Wadle said.
“He graduated this past spring
and jumped onto the campaign,
so he has personal connections
(on campus). That’s something
you’ll hear about the caucuses a
lot. It’s really based a lot on your
own personal connections.”
An
hour
away
at
Drake
University
in
Des
Moines,
O’Malley found support as well.
Like students at Grinnell, junior
Gabriela Edwards said she was
drawn to O’Malley for personal
reasons.
“I think I’m going to (caucus)
for O’Malley. He’s not very
popular so I’m trying to get as
much support,” Edwards said.
“I’m from Honduras, he’s done a
lot of work in El Salvador so I like
that about him, and he did that
way before he was even (running
for president).”
Based on the attendees at a
rally on campus Sunday, Grinnell
students felt favorable of Sanders,
who placed second in Monday’s
caucus
by
0.3
percent.
He
drew a crowd of 1,280 students
during his visit. Hillary Clinton,
who won the caucus with 49.9
percent, made a stop at Grinnell
in November, and her husband,
former President Bill Clinton,
campaigned for her on campus in
January.
Despite the excited chatter
among some college Campus
Democrats before the caucusing
began,
in
contrast
O’Malley
ended with 0.6 percent of the
votes and dropped out of the race
Monday evening.
Caucus
poll
results
show
students tended to lean more
toward
Sanders
—
CNN’s
entrance polls indicated that
84 percent of 17- to 29-year-old,
and 58 percent of 30- to 44-year-
old voters said they were for
Sanders, while 58 percent of 45 to
64-year-old voters and 69 percent
of 65-and-older voters chose
Clinton.
Regardless
of
the
polls,
though, for many Iowan students,
their decision was not as clear cut
as the statistics suggest. Drake
senior Kendrick Dewdney said
he would be alright with either
leading Democratic candidate
but, if forced to choose, preferred
Sanders.
“I guess I’d be content with
Hillary or Sanders,” Dewdney
said, “but I think one thing
Sanders has that’s very exciting is
the breaking down the big banks
into a kind of a more diffused
power, and then also the cease in
student loans in general is pretty
appealing.”
Students across the state said
they were enticed by Sander’s
plans, but questioned the viability
of them. Jaylin McClinton is a
senior at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign; though he
cannot caucus in Iowa because he
is not a resident of the state, he
said he chose to come campaign
for Clinton in Des Moines because
he saw her plans as most feasible.
“I like Senator Sanders a lot as
well, but I think for me, (Clinton)
has some really very strong plans
and I think that all of them can
be implemented in the current
political
climate,”
McClinton
said.
“She’s
very
strong
on
voting rights, she has a very solid
criminal justice reform policy,
and I think it would be great
to see a woman in the White
House as the actual president,
commander in chief.”
Drake senior JaShay Fisher-
Fowler said she is left-leaning,
but feels Sanders’ free college
plan goes too far.
“I’m interested in Hillary, I
think she wants to make college
debt-free,” Fisher-Fowler said. “I
believe O’Malley wants to make
college debt-free as well. My
concern is with Bernie trying to
make college free in general — I
have a concern with that. That’s
kind of unreasonable, and you
don’t want to take the value away
from a degree or a value from
education. I think paying to go to
school is good; it places value on
the education that you’re getting
versus getting an education for
free. I really do like O’Malley’s
and
Hillary’s
standpoint
on
leaving college debt-free.”
Sophomore Logan Kentner,
president of the Drake University
College Republicans, said as a
college student he would like to
see reform to make college more
affordable, but felt making it free
was too far.
“I see college as an investment
into your future,” Kentner said. “I
think that trying to make college
free is absurd because it’s not
really an investment if it’s free. I
do think that making it affordable
is realistic, and it needs to be
done, but there’s limitations to
that.”
On college campuses and even
at Republican candidate rallies, it
was difficult to find conservative
students among the crowds of
supporters. Kentner said he was
unsure of who Drake University
students were leaning toward,
but had heard a lot of talk about
Jeb Bush. Bush ended in sixth
place, carrying 2.8 percent of the
votes, far behind U.S. Sen. Ted
Cruz (R-Tex.), who won with 27.7
percent.
“I think there’s a large support
of Jeb on campus,” Kentner said.
“And you’re going to see a large
support group for the more
moderate
people
on
campus
just because college campuses
typically don’t lean too far right
— specifically on social issues.”
Kentner
said
Drake
conservatives
were
most
interested in economic policy.
At the University of Michigan,
earlier this year, the University’s
chapter of College Republicans
told The Michigan Daily that in a
straw poll conducted among the
group, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R–
Fla.) was the favored candidate
among the group. Rubio notched
a third place finish in Iowa,
carrying 23.1 percent of the vote.
Few
college-aged
students
were present at a Cruz rally in
Iowa City Sunday. Of the few
students at a Donald Trump
rally in Cedar Rapids, most
interviewed said they went to see
him because they were curious,
but didn’t necessarily side with
their beliefs.
Trump came in second place
in Monday’s caucuses with 24.3
percent of the vote.
Hamline University freshman
Chris Covert, a Iowa native who
attended Trump’s Cedar Rapids
rally, said he felt the candidate,
while important to see, didn’t
address issues he was interested
in such as global warming and
national security.
“His message is so provocative
and
it
catches
the
people’s
attention, and that’s something
that spoke to me,” Covert said.
“He’s not a politician people are
used to, he’s speaking a message
that goes against the federalist
system that we have now. I’m not
a huge Trump fan at all, I’m more
of a Sanders guy but I think it’s
important to pay attention and
follow the political scene.”
Emily Montgomery, a masters
student at Appalachian State
University in North Carolina,
wore a Donald Trump beanie
to the rally, which she attended
with a class. She said she likes
Trump because his beliefs align
with hers on immigration.
“I’m
interested
in
the
Republican Party in general, it’s
what I identify with, and I’m
interested in his immigration
reform; that’s what draws him to
me the most,” Montgomery said.
For some students across the
aisle, immigration also proved
important.
Fisher-Fowler
and
Edwards both said they have
friends
whose
parents
are
undocumented, and that’s what
drove them to caucus Democrat.
Wadle, Grinnell sophomore
and president of the Grinnell
College Campus Democrats, said
Grinnell students are passionate
about both national issues such
as
college
affordability
and
improving economic inequality,
and local issues like renewable
fuel standards and economic
development of rural areas.
At
Clinton’s
Des
Moines
rally, Simpson College seniors
Natasha
Shehade
and
Sarah
Beadle, wearing pink Planned
Parenthood shirts, said they
supported her because of her
commitment to women’s health
care.
“I really appreciate Planned
Parenthood’s support of Hillary
Clinton; personally, reproductive
health is so important to me,”
Shehade said. “They haven’t
supported a candidate in over
100 years which speaks a lot to
how important they think her
work as president would be for
reproductive health.”
Beadle said she was interested
in Clinton’s devotion to the
Affordable Care Act, an issue
Clinton
has
used
to
draw
distinctions between herself and
Sanders.
“Her general feelings on health
care is a big issue for me,” Beadle
said. “I love that Obamacare
allows collegiate students to be
on their parents’ health care until
they’re 26. I know I plan on going
to grad school, and not having to
worry about the gap between my
employment in the summer is
really nice.”
For students in other states
with
later
primaries,
like
Michigan, the opportunities to
engage as directly might not be as
present. Most candidates on both
sides have been to the state only
once or twice since announcing
their campaign, or not at all, such
as Sanders.
Wadle said given the extra
attention Iowa gets in the process,
it’s heavily important for college
students in the state to take part
and show that they care about the
issues and want to engage.
“To
have
young
people
participating,
that’s
the
most important thing to me
personally,” Wadle said. “It’s
really important that we have
a strong presence in the Iowa
caucus and we show that young
people are politically engaged and
they are thinking about what they
want — and they have a variety of
opinions. And making sure that
we continue that representation
on into the county convention,
the district convention, the state
convention and then hopefully
having some delegates from Iowa
to the national convention.”
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POLICE
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halls — particularly Bursley
Dining Hall — and creating
cheaper Acatering for stu-
dent organizations.
“We are able to not only
move this food program
forward for (students), but
have an instrumental role in
developing a lot of careers
that work in our industry,
(and) provide jobs for (stu-
dents and their) peers,” he
told the Assembly.
Mangan said Michigan
Dining also plans to initiate
nutritional workshops and
wellness initiatives to teach
and
encourage
students
how to cook and eat health-
ily even if they no longer
have a meal plan.
Upcoming resolutions:
CSG also discussed a res-
olution the body will vote
on next Tuesday that would
recommend the Starboard
Group and League adminis-
trators keep Wendy’s in the
Michigan League Wendy’s
or ensure student input is
considered when choosing
what replaces it.
Currently, the Starboard
Group and League admin-
istrators have the ability to
remove the Wendy’s locat-
ed in the basement of the
building. Last summer, the
company and administra-
tors shut down Taco Bell
without the approval from
students and prior notice to
students.
CSG
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