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Body discusses
issues of
abseentism at
meetings
By ANNA HARITOS
Daily Staff Reporter
At
Tuesday’s
meeting,
representatives
of
Central
Student
Government
discussed medical amnesty,
recalling
representatives,
an upcoming mental health
survey and two resolutions.
During
the
meeting,
the assembly voted to call
on the University to enact
all-encompassing
medical
amnesty,
including
drug
violations, for the University
and for the state of Michigan.
Currently, the state provides
medical amnesty only for
underage drinking.
“A Medical Amnesty Policy
cannot
achieve
its
goals
unless it protects both the
caller for help, and the person
experiencing
the
medical
Republican
candidate talks
student debt and
American Dream
By CAITLIN REEDY
Daily Staff Reporter
At
Sen.
Marco
Rubio’s
(R–Fla.)
campaign
stop
in
Michigan on Wednesday, all
roads led to the American
Dream.
Weeks
before
Michigan’s
presidential primary on March
8, Rubio visited the Lacks
Enterprises Inc. factory — a car
part manufacturer just outside
of Grand Rapids.
Two thousand supporters
gathered
in
a
storage
warehouse for the company
to hear Rubio, who discussed
the burden of student loans
and what he characterized as
the country’s failures, ranging
from military to the current
campaign.
In particular, Rubio spoke
of his frustration with current
levels of student debt in the
United States — Market Watch
reported on average a debt of a
$35,051 for students graduating
in 2015 — a topic he said he is
the sole Republican candidate
to address.
“You go to school, you do
everything they ask you to do
and you end up with hundreds
of thousands of dollars in
New York-based
publication
considered 477
colleges in study
By ANNA HARITOS
Daily Staff Reporter
Tuesday, Business First — a
publication based in Buffalo,
New York — released an ranking
of the top public colleges in
America. The University of
Michigan placed second in the
rankings, a drop from its first
place ranking in 2015.
The University declined to
comment on the ranking.
The University’s first place
spot was taken this year by the
University of North Carolina,
which was the runner up in the
2015 rankings.
According to the study, the
University scored 97.621 points
out of 100. The ranking of 477
four-year public universities
is based on 20-part formula
created
to
indicate
which
institutions
offer
their
students the best educational
experience.
The
formula
looks
at
indicators
of
excellence,
diversity,
prestige,
affordability
and
economic
strength.The
breakdown
of
the statistics looked at for each
university covers a wide range
of departments. It includes the
school’s admissions process,
economic communities, tuition,
retention
rates,
diversity,
reputations,
resources
and
housing costs.
All
the
statistical
information that was reported
was from the National Center
for Education Statistics and the
U.S. Census Bureau’s American
Community
Survey.
Other
publications’ college rankings
— such as the U.S. News and
Forbes — were also taken into
consideration.
The University is ranked
first among the 15 Michigan
institutions that were included
in the study. The second was
Michigan
State
University
in 37th place, and Michigan
Technological University in
124th place.
Event at Michigan
League draws large
campus, state crowd
By BRANDON SUMMERS-
MILLER
Daily Staff Reporter
A debate featuring controversial
public figures Julie Bindel and
Milo Yiannopoulos took place
Tuesday night in the ballroom of
the Michigan League.
During the debate, the two
speakers exchanged arguments
about feminism, debating whether
the feminist movement impedes
an individual’s freedom of speech.
Hosted
by
The
Michigan
Review, the event drew a crowd of
several hundred people, some of
whom drove across state lines to
hear the pair.
Engineering
senior
Hunter
Swogger,
one
of
the
event
organizers,
said
the
Review
wanted to bring Bindel and
Yiannopoulos’
voices
to
the
University’s campus in order to
expose the campus to new ideas.
“The entire point is to hear
prominent people of prominent
ideologies come together and
speak,” Swogger said.
Yiannopoulos has been the
subject of significant criticism
for his opinions on individual
feminists and feminist ideology,
namely his views that feminists
invent problems that do not exist
— such as campus rape culture and
the gender wage gap.
Bindel, who considers herself
a second-wave feminist — a
movement
focused
sexuality,
family and workplace issues that
lasted from the 1960s to the 1980s
— has also received criticism for
her treatment of modern feminists
and the transgender community.
Both Yiannopoulos and Bindel,
who are British, have been banned
from multiple universities in the
Modifications to
come in light of
recent shootings in
Kalamazoo
By RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter
Students
at
Western
Michigan University are raising
questions about the reliability
and efficiency of emergency
alerts concerning off-campus
incidents at their college after
Saturday night’s mass shootings
in Kalamazoo.
Jason Dalton, an Uber driver
in the city, shot eight people
at random while picking up
riders
throughout
the
city
between 6 and 10 p.m., killing
six and injuring two victims.
The incidents occurred in three
separate county jurisdictions
across the span of more than
four hours, with Dalton moving
within two miles of WMU
grounds at times. No alert was
sent out by WMU.
WMU junior Philip Faustman
said he drove by the crime scene
on his way home from work, but
had no idea what had occurred.
“I did see about 20 cop cars
there. I couldn’t find anything
out until about 11 p.m. when
local news reported the news,”
he said. “But on Saturday night
when kids are out at bars, no
one’s in dorms, there’s incredible
on-campus traffic moving off-
campus. When a large chunk of
the student body is going to be
affected by this, why was there
no alert?”
WMU has an emergency
alert system similar to the
University
of
Michigan’s,
capable of alerting students,
faculty and staff by phone and
e-mail. Unlike the University,
WMU’s system only reports
threats occurring directly on
campus, the minimum required
of schools by federal law under
the Clery Act.
After backlash about the lack
of an alert, WMU president
GREG GOSS/Daily
English journalist, Mil Yiannopoulus, speaks on issues regarding feminism and mysogyny during the debate against Julie Bindel at the Michigan League ballroom on
Teusday.
AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily
Senator Marco Runio (R-Fl) speaks at a rally in Grand Rapids on Tuesday evening.
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See DEBATE, Page 3A
See CSG, Page 3A
See RUBIO, Page 3A
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‘U’ rank drops
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Presidential hopeful Rubio
hosts rally in Grand Rapids
CSG talks
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