was conducted before results from
New Hampshire, where Kasich
pulled in 15.8 percent of the vote
and bested Florida senator Marco
Rubio and Texas senator Ted Cruz
for the second place spot behind
Trump. Kasich is polling at 4.7
percent nationally, according to an
average of recent polls compiled
by RealClearPolitics.
With the Michigan trip, Kasich
is mirroring a strategy employed
during the earliest portion of
the primary season, in which he
skipped out on Iowa and its more
conservative, Evangelical elector-
ate to hold hundreds of town halls
in the Granite State.
“We have to do really, really
well in this state, I mean — or I
have to roll up the carpets and go
back,” he told a crowd Monday in
Allendale, home of GVSU.
Aaron Kall, director of the
University’s debate team and an
expert in election politics, said
Kasich will likely count on Michi-
gan, Ohio’s neighbor to the north,
to carry him through to his home
state’s primary the following
week.
“If he can have a surprise sec-
ond place showing here, that
would really give him momentum
going into Ohio, the real prize for
him,” he said.
According to Kall, Kasich will
likely concentrate his efforts in
college towns, Metro Detroit and
Grand Rapids — places with more
traditional, moderate Republi-
cans less influenced by Tea Party
leanings. The Ohio governor has
emphasized his willingness to
stray from the party line — telling
the crowd at Michigan State that
there is no question that humans
contribute to global warming
and that people should accept the
Supreme Court’s ruling on same-
sex marriage — but also thanked
the student-heavy crowd for com-
ing, though he wasn’t “giving away
free college” as Sen. Bernie Sand-
ers (D–Vt.) has proposed.
In Livonia, Kasich also broke
with the party line in emphasiz-
ing the challenges inherent in
repealing the Affordable Care Act,
recalling a woman from Maine
who told him she spent her whole
life trying to get health insurance
until ObamaCare was passed.
Kasich was one of several Repub-
lican governors, a group that also
included Michigan Gov. Rick
Snyder (R), to adopt a Medicare
expansion in his state through the
Affordable Care Act.
On Tuesday, he also fielded a
question from the audience relat-
ed to research funding. He said
increasing research dollars for
institutions like the National Insti-
tutes of Health would be a priority,
and can be done even while curb-
ing the country’s spending overall.
During Tuesday’s event, Kasich
repeated a family history he often
shares at town hall events — tell-
ing the crowd that his father was
a mailman and his grandfather a
coal miner. That’s a narrative that
could resonate with blue-collar
workers in Rust Belt states like
Michigan.
Steven Gould, a real estate
developer from Plymouth who
attended Tuesday’s town hall in
Livonia, said Kasich reminds him
of another Midwestern governor:
Michigan’s Snyder.
“What I mean by that is they’re
common sense Republicans, and
they’re administrators,” he said.
“What they’re doing right now in
both Ohio and in Michigan is they
look at our budgets somewhat
like a business person does over a
politician, and they prioritize their
spending. I don’t have a problem
with compromise. I have a prob-
lem with nothing getting done.”
When it comes to the Flint
water crisis, Kasich has avoided
criticism of Snyder but has been
more vocal about the issue com-
pared to most of the GOP field,
citing his own experience dealing
with water contamination in Ohio.
During a rally in East Lansing,
Kasich called for increased invest-
ment in infrastructure and tough-
er federal regulations regarding
how the public is notified of drink-
ing water contamination, though
he defended Snyder’s response to
the crisis.
“What I will say is I think
Snyder’s probably working day
and night, and probably not even
sleeping, trying to get on top of
the whole thing and fix it, but it is
a challenge. Water is important.
Clean water is important.”
Throughout Tuesday’s event,
Kasich kept to his pledge to run a
positive campaign and declined
to bash any of the other contend-
ers in the race — Republican or
Democrat — as is custom at most
campaign stops.
“There are so many different
ways the things that the Lord has
given us can be used to heal this
world,” he said. “And when we
think that way, and we go that
way, and we stop screaming at one
another because you watch Fox
News and you watch MSNBC, I
wear red and you wear blue, you
know what, we’re all Americans.”
in
“yearlong
conversation
about transformation and its
histories, politics, aesthetics,
and
social
practices,”
according to organizers at the
Institute of Humanities.
In her lecture, Stryker said
the anti-trans protests of 1973
symbolized a reversal of the
direction things had been
going
for
the
movements,
noting that American society
post-World War II seemed
especially
hospitable
to
emergent forms of personal
identity.
Stryker
then
chronicled
the events of 1973 she thought
were responsible for the gay
and feminist abandonment of
the trans community.
Principle among her list of
events were the Roe v. Wade
decision,
the
Paris
Peace
Accords — which ended U.S.
involvement in Vietnam —
and the declassification of
homosexuality in the DSM.
Although she acknowledged
the Roe v. Wade decision was
a victory for women’s right
to choose, Stryker said the
case was argued on narrow
grounds of a liberal right
to privacy, rather than the
more fundamental right to
reproductive autonomy and
freedom.
“Without
the
war
to
provide
a
common
focus
for leftist, third-world and
countercultural
activism,
oppositional
movements
began to fracture,” Stryker
added.
As well, with the end of
the Vietnam War and thus
the end of the draft, gay and
countercultural men who had
formerly embraced.
“Personal forms of anti-
masculine
counter-conduct”
instead adopted “macho styles
that are more consonant with
conventional
masculinity,”
she said.
And although the removal of
homosexuality from the DSM
was certainly a victory for
gay liberation, Stryker said, it
allowed the gay community,
now incorporated to a greater
degree into society, to view
the trans community as other.
The anti-trans sentiment
in
the
gay
and
feminist
communities
wasn’t
universal, Stryker said, but
where it did exist, it took an
intolerant
tone.
Speaking
about trans activist Sylvia
Rivera’s criticism of the gay
community during the famous
Gay Pride Rally in 1973 and its
harsh reception, Stryker said
a significant faction within
the conference viewed trans
women’s
existence
as
the
exploitation of women.
She ended the lecture on
a hopeful note, pushing her
audience to take action.
“We
can’t
undo
the
decades of estrangement that
characterized the relationship
between trans, feminist and
gay politics,” she said. “But
we have the materials for
imagining a counter-history
at a time when transgender
issues are now experiencing
unprecedented
levels
of
visibility. We have a chance
now, if we are willing to
embrace it, to reactivate the
best impulses of that earlier
time, and bring those visions
to bear our actions today,” she
said.
LSA senior Ashley Burnside
said she enjoyed the event,
saying it gave her a better
perspective of historical anti-
trans movements.
“I
enjoyed
how
she
incorporated
the
video
of
Sylvia Rivera’s speech and the
counter-speech,”
Burnside
said.
“I
had
seen
Sylvia
Rivera’s speech but not the
one that went after her, and
I thought that was really
interesting to see them both
together like that and to hear
her (Stryker’s) response to the
two speeches.
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just the consequence for you, but
the consequences of spreading the
virus,” Eisenberg said.
He added that Michigan is less
at risk for spreading the virus than
warmer areas of the United States
because mosquitoes carrying the
virus tend to frequent areas with
consistently warmer climates.
LSA sophomore Jacob Meyers,
who will be traveling to Cabo San
Lucas, Mexico for Spring Break,
said after skimming the Universi-
ty’s travel warning, he appreciated
that the University is warning stu-
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second way can be food-related,
and symptoms usually occur six to
10 hours within consumption. The
third potential cause is from germs
that are alive inside some kind of
food — things like E. coli and Sal-
monella.”
The Office of Public Affairs,
University Housing and the Uni-
versity Health Service state that
there is no determination on the
cause of the vomiting and diar-
rhea outbreak that has occurred
on campus.
The dining halls also reported
no absences of their student staff.
Some students affected by the
illness have turned to social media
outlets like Twitter and Yik Yak to
voice their concerns and frustra-
tions, in several cases drawing a
response from University Dining’s
Twitter.
Though the source of the out-
break is still unknown, students
said they believe it has been caused
by food in South Quad dining.
LSA freshman Sean Lang, said
he believed he was experiencing
food poisoning.
“Yesterday all I had to eat was
a bowl of Frosted Mini-Wheats
before my 9 a.m.,” Lang said.
“Later, I ate at SQuad again, and I
got a stomach ache around six and
things went downhill from there.
I got a pretty bad headache and
began having diarrhea, and then
around 11 at night I puked, but only
once — other people I’ve spoken
to have complained about puking
through the night.”
Amir Baghdadchi, the Univer-
sity
Housing
Communications
director, siad they do not currently
have any information on the mat-
ter other than the reports of illness
in both students and faculty.
“At the moment there are
reports across campus of both
students and staff falling ill,”
Baghdadchi said. “We’re work-
ing with University Health Ser-
vice to both treat the students
and ascertain what the cause is.
We have no information that sug-
gests that food poisoning is the
case at this moment. We in Uni-
versity Housing don’t have infor-
mation about it.”
Resident of South Quad Johnny
Goldenberg, LSA freshman, said
in an interview he was surprised
by the Unviersity’s decison not to
notify residents immediately, not-
ing that several resident advisors
said they were notified.
“It’s wrong to try to cover it up
and not warn students whatso-
ever,” he said.
Goldenberg added he feels the
University did not acknowledge
the situation, possibly contribut-
ing to the spread of a potential
virus.
“It’s just weird because if
people went the hospital last
night, people have been eating
the entire day (at South Quad)
and even if it’s gone, they could
at least be like ‘some of these
foods might have stuff in them be
careful’ but there was nothing,”
Goldenberg. “And a lot of people
are really mad about this. In my
opinion it’s really a mishandling
of the situation. Because people
have finals too, like people can-
not get sick right now and people
are barfing their brains out.”
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Councilmember Kirk Westphal (D-Ward 2) listens to community members at the Ann Arbor City Council meeting at
Larcom City Hall on Tuesday.
information regarding legal and
financial resources on and off
campus.
According to the resolution,
the responsibility for the mainte-
nance of the guide would either
fall under the duties of Campus
Inclusion Commission chair or
to someone else to be appointed
to the body at a later date.
Another
resolution
passed
Tuesday night to partner with
the Office of Greek Life for a
diversity, equity and inclusion
symposium to take place on
March 28. The resolution states
that CSG will co-sponsor the
symposium and host Jasmine
Rand — the attorney who rep-
resented the Trayvon Martin’s
family — to speak on the topic of
diversity, equity and inclusion on
college campuses.
Confirmations
Four
LSA
representatives
were confirmed to the assembly’s
legislative branch at Tuesday’s
meeting. Freshman Michael Sac-
chetti, freshman Allison Tuohy,
sophomore Dylan Bennett and
sophomore Craig Motola were all
officially added to the assembly.
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since Aug. 1, 2015, after the
retirement of previous Police
Chief John Seto. Seto had been
with the AAPD for 25 years and
transferred to a position in the
University Housing Security
and Safety Services in May
2015.
Baird’s
appointment
was
well
received
among
the
councilmembers.
Jack
Eaton (D–Ward 4), who had
expressed support for White,
embraced Baird’s appointment
and
stressed
that
Baird
deserved unanimous support
from Council.
“James
Baird
is
a
very
capable professional of the
highest integrity,” Eaton said.
Julie Grand (D–Ward 3)
praised Baird’s patience and
dedication throughout the long
process, noting she appreciated
his constant thoughtfulness
and responsiveness.
“After everything, he still
remains committed to Ann
Arbor,” Grand said.
Councilmember
Chuck
Warpehoski
(D–Ward
5)
expressed
confidence
in
Baird’s capability as police
chief, pointing to an interview
between the appointee and
councilmembers during which
Baird
discussed
addressing
biases in police training.
Baird became deputy police
chief in 2013 and has held
other
positions
throughout
his 23-year career with the
AAPD, including professional
standards lieutenant and crisis
response unit sergeant.
Also discussed at Tuesday’s
meeting was the topic of Ann
Arbor’s deer cull, which has
been an ongoing controversy
in the city in recent months.
Several speakers at the meeting
charged that the decision to
carry out the cull was based
on
little
statistically
valid
evidence.
Lorraine Shapiro, Ann Arbor
resident, cited a Feb. 1 post on
the city website that said a deer
management assessment report
will be conducted in May,
which will include results from
an Ann Arbor City Hall survey.
Shapiro
expressed
concern,
pointing to a prior 2014-2015
survey which showed support
for the cull that she said was
flawed and biased.
Shapiro alleged that the
survey was taken by less than
0.4 percent of the Ann Arbor
population, citing a sample
bias. She also claimed three
questions began with a pro-cull
statements.
Challenging
councilmembers to be more
transparent about the purposes
and
motivations
behind
surveys, she said she expects
them to include all stakeholders
in a statistically valid, unbiased
survey during the next round of
data collection.
“Let’s do a statistically valid
survey this time,” Shapiro said.
“Let’s have no more garbage in,
garbage out.”
Audience members carrying
signs reading “Stop the shoot”
and “Save the deer” applauded
and cheered, “Stop the shoot.”
during remarks.
Grant Shafer, Ann Arbor
resident,
was
also
among
the residents who expressed
disapproval toward the deer
cull. He suggested that the
USDA
Wildlife
Services
violated the terms of their
permit, citing a story of a
resident who reported a deer
shot outside the permit period.
He also called for another
investigation into poaching in a
unspecified densely populated
neighborhood,
saying
that
either Wildlife Services or
poachers fail to clean up the
deer remains.
Other sanitation concerns
about the cull were brought
up at Tuesday’s meeting. One
resident said he was worried
that the bullets used to kill
the deer would contaminate
potential meat sources used in
food pantries.
The
city’s
agreement
with
Food
Gatherers
is
a
requirement for the city’s deer
cull
permit,
and
Michigan
Radio reported the president of
Food Gatherers, Eileen Spring,
is certain the deer meat will
uphold food safety regulations.
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dents about the virus.
“I kind of just hope it won’t
really affect me, but obviously
I’m aware of it now, which I think
is good,” Meyers said. “So if any-
thing weird goes on, or people
get sick or something, obviously
I’ll be more careful, but I’m not
too concerned about it.”
Despite the warnings from
the University, some students
planning travel to the area have
expressed their skepticism.
Meyers noted that as most
Zika virus warnings focus on
women who are currently or
are planning to become preg-
nant, he felt it did not necessar-
ily apply to him.
LSA sophomore Zac Vogt,
who will be going on a Carib-
bean cruise for Spring Break,
echoed
Meyers’
sentiment
about the travel warnings. He
said he did not read the Uni-
versity’s e-mail containing the
travel warnings, though he has
heard about Zika virus on the
news.
“I’m not very concerned,”
Vogt said. “It doesn’t affect me.”