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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. 

See ALERT, Page 3A
See DEBATE, Page 3A

See CSG, Page 3A
See RUBIO, Page 3A

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WMU sees 
criticism of 
emergency 
alert system

Controversial figures debate 
feminism, freedom of speech 

‘U’ rank drops 
in business poll
on academics

Presidential hopeful Rubio 
hosts rally in Grand Rapids

CSG talks 
resolutions, 
 

recalls three 
members

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