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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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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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