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THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

The 
Statement 

partners 
with 

Michigan 
in 
Color 

to explore the experiences 
of diverse identities on the 
University’s campus.

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Café open 
house

WHAT: Michigan 
Dining will host an open 
house for Fields Café 
to celebrate its opening 
and to sample its new 
menu, with a raffle 
for a monitary prize.
WHO: Michigan Dining 
WHEN: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. 
WHERE: Palmer 
Commons, third floor

Tuesday, 
federal 

prosecutors announced 
that they will not bring 
criminal charges against 

NYPD 
Officer 
Richard 

Haste, according to NBC 
New York. Haste shot and 
killed unarmed Black teen 
Ramarley Graham in 2012.

1

Piano recital

WHAT: Pianist Ce Sun 
will perform a masters 
recital at the Walgreen 
Drama Center, including 
pieces composed by 
Ludwig van Beethoven, 
Johannes Brahms and 
Robert Schumann.
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. 
WHERE: Walgreen Drama 
Center, Stamps Auditorium

National 
Football 

League 
star 
Calvin 

Johnson 
announced 

Tuesday that he will 

be retiring, according to 
ESPN. The six-time Pro-
Bowler is a Detroit Lions 
wide-receiver who is the 
Lions’ leader in all-time 
yards 
and 
touchdowns. 

3

Ross lecture

WHAT: Michigan 
Alum Jeff Blau, CEO 
and general partner of 
Related Companies, will 
eliver a lecture at Ross. 
WHO: Michigan 
Real Estate Club
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Ross School 
of Business, Robertson 
Auditorium

Rainbows and 
relaxation

WHAT: The Spectrum 
Center will host an event on 
North Campus to welcome 
spring with a variety of 
stress-reducing activities and 
snacks.
WHO: Spectrum’s Student 
Event Planning Team
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Pierpont 
Commons Boulevard Room

CJS film 
screening

WHAT: The Center for 
Japanese Studiesis will 
hold a free film screening 
of “Battle Royale.” The film 
will be screened in Japanese 
with English subititles. 
WHO: Center for 
Japanese Studies
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: State Theatre

Kick-off 
dinner

WHAT: This dinner 
will kick off the vice 
provost’s sponsored 
First-generation 
Awareness Campaign. 
WHO: First Generation 
College Students 
@ Michigan
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. 
WHERE: Michigan 
League, ballroom

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Investment 
banking 101

WHAT: A presentation from 
Morgan Stanley will offer 
information for investment 
banking.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan League, 
Michigan Room
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the Daily to corrections@
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Sky viewing 
night

WHAT: The astronomy 
department will host a 
viewing through a 19th 
century telescope at 
the top of the Detroit 
Observatory.
WHO: Department of 
Astronomy
WHEN: 8 p.m. to 9:30 
p.m. 
WHERE: Detroit 
Observatory in Ann Arbor

At the polls, ‘U’ students cite 
college policies as top priority

Sanders seems 
favorite among 
campus voters in 
Tuesday’s primary

By CAITLIN REEDY

Daily Staff Reporter

Across the entire state, the 

economy and jobs, government 
spending, 
terrorism 
and 

immigration 
were 
the 
issues 

Michigan residents cared most 
about, according to CNN exit 
polls. However, for students at the 
University of Michigan college 
affordability, women’s rights and 
the performance of the economy 
and job availability were their top 
issues, according to interviews 
conducted by Michigan Daily 
reporters during the day.

Though 
they 
didn’t 
align 

completely with residents overall, 
those issues — and those students 
— may have had a significant 
impact on at least the Democratic 
primary outcome, which saw 
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) 
winning an upset victory over 
Hillary Clinton amid large turnout 
from college areas. In the lead-
up to Tuesday’s primary, Clinton 
was projected to win by over a 20 
percent margin.

In the Republican primary, 

frontrunner Donald Trump won 
the state with about 36 percent of 
the total vote.

Throughout 
Ann 
Arbor 

Tuesday, it was easy to find various 
people and groups walking around 
campus, telling people to vote and 
make their voices heard. At the 
Michigan League, a main polling 
spot for students, a total of 646 
voters according to poll volunteers. 
The Michigan Union, another big 
polling spot, saw 711 voters as of 
7:30 p.m., a half-hour before the 
polls closed, which the polling 
clerk said was the biggest voter 
turnout at the Union since the 
2008 election.

Many 
students 
said 
they 

realized their priorities, especially 
the high emphasis placed on 

college affordability, would be 
different than statewide priorities 
due to their proximity to the issue.

LSA sophomore Yong-Joon Kim 

said a candidate’s platform for 
student debt played a large part in 
who he decided to vote for.

“Since I am a college student, 

one of the top things I was 
thinking about was college tuition. 
In my opinion, Bernie definitely 
promised a lot of things — he was 
promising college students that 
he would be reducing tuition and 
making college free,” Kim said. 
“But a lot of the cases I feel that 
Bernie’s ideas and his math just 
doesn’t add up, in my opinion.”

LSA 
sophomore 
Nicholas 

Kolenda, president of Students for 
Sanders, said he thinks Bernie’s 
attention to college affordability 
allowed him to perform well in 
Monday’s primary. Of the students 
the Daily talked to at various 
campus voting sites, the majority 
said they were voting for Sanders.

“It’s daunting that Clinton has 

her current delegate lead, but it’s 
not surprising as the first 15 or 
so states have been a plurality to 
majority Southern,” Kolenda said. 
“This is where Clinton naturally 
performs best as. [Her] campaign 
likely still has its best days ahead 
of it — many states in the Rockies, 
Pacific Northwest and parts of 
New England are heavily favorable 
towards him.”

Other than student debt, other 

issue students cited were social 
issues 
pertaining 
to 
women’s 

rights.

LSA junior Kendra Mantz said 

she sees Sanders as a candidate 
who respects women.

“Women’s rights is a huge thing 

for me. I consider myself a strong 
feminist and so having my own 
rights, such as my reproductive 
rights, being taken away from me 
or monitored by old, white men 
in the government, that doesn’t 
fly with me,” Mantz said. “I don’t 
like that. I appreciate that Bernie 
respects a woman’s right to control 
her own body”

In terms of women’s rights, 

LSA sophomore Anushka Sarkar, 
outreach 
director 
and 
event 

coordinator 
for 
Students 
for 

Hillary, noted that in terms of 
women’s rights, Clinton is the 
only 
candidate 
to 
frequently 

address safety for women on 
college campuses and halting the 
rise of sexual assault. The issue is 
a particularly prevalent one for 
the University, which is currently 
restructuring its sexual assault 
policy. She said she thought that 
emphasis 
contributed 
to 
the 

Clinton’s campaign overall lead in 
the race.

“I think we are getting to the 

point where, mathematically, it’s 
impossible for Sanders to win 
unless he gets every state by a 50 
point margin,” Sarkar said. “I think 
the general direction her campaign 
is taking is less about villainizing 
other campaigns and more about 
why she is the best candidate.”

Other 
students 
said 
they 

placed a heavy importance on the 
performance of the economy, as 
many are graduating soon and 
need to find jobs — such as LSA 
senior Sunder Kannan

“The main issues that I’m 

considering are economic issues 
as they relate to unemployment 
among recent graduates,” Kannan 
said. “I’m graduating in May and 
so it does worry me about finding 
a job and paying for grad school.”

Despite the overwhelmingly 

Democratic voters, there were 
also individuals voting Republican 
at the polling stations Tuesday, 
though for varying reasons.

Business senior Jeff Yu said he 

voted on the Republican ballot 
despite identifying himself as 
a Democrat. Michigan election 
law allows voters to participate 
in either party’s primary without 
being registered to a specific party 
beforehand.

“I’m actually a Democrat, but 

because it’s an open primary, I am 
voting Republican just because 
I’m confident in both Democratic 
candidates,” Yu said. “And with the 
Republican party, I think there’s 
a better chance of swinging some 
delegates away from Trump.”

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“

ally, it has been Ross students 
who have been participating, 
but our goal is to be campus-
wide, because there is so much 
opportunity for women to col-
laborate and find partners and 
just supporters.”

Kerppola said these sup-

porters 
could 
be 
fellow 

students across various dis-
ciplines as well as members 
within the broad community 
such 
as 
professionals 
and 

investors. She said she chose 
to screen this specific film 
after meeting one of the film’s 
producers at TEDWomen last 
spring and immediately con-
necting the project to her 
organization’s mission.

“Their vision was to address 

this huge gender gap that we 
see in tech and computer sci-
ence,” she said. “She told me a 
little about the documentary, 
and it was spot on, because 
one of the things we aim to do 
is encourage women to engage 
in entrepreneurship through 
whatever venue that is. Tech-

nology, computer science, pro-
gramming is certainly one of 
them.”

The Center for Entrepre-

neurship also sponsored the 
event. Ashleigh Bell, who runs 
student services in the office, 
said their mission of promot-
ing women and minorities tied 
in well to the event.

“Our office is very pas-

sionate about equality in the 
workplace and in the entre-
preneurial 
space, 
whether 

that be for women or under-
represented minorities,” she 
said. “This year we’re mak-
ing a really concerted effort 
to increase our enrollment of 
women in underrepresented 
minorities.”

Bell said in the past year the 

female enrollment of classes 
through the University of 
Michigan’s Center for Entre-
preneurship has increased by 
30 percent, which she added is 
only the beginning of increas-
ing engagement.

“I have conversations with 

female students all the time 
about being one of the only 
women in their classes and 
just really feeling that there 

is a non-inclusive culture,” 
Bell said. “(We) want to really 
help by having conversations 
about this issue and really 
empowering both women and 
everyone to engage in entre-
preneurship.”

The film, directed by Robin 

Hauser Reynolds, was inspired 
by the director’s daughter — a 
computer science major who 
found it frustrating to be one 
of two women in her class. It 
looks at why women are often 
discouraged from pursuing 
careers in technological fields 
and the sexism that occurs in 
these fields, but also the ben-
efits of having a more diverse 
workplace.

The film notes that comput-

er science is often not encour-
aged for female students or, 
in many states, even taught 
prior to the university level. 
It argues that once female stu-
dents — who have been cultur-
ally pushed away from fields 
like building and technology, 
and often see these paths as 
male-dominated 
fields 
— 

enter higher education, com-
puter science is not on their 
radars.

At the end of the film, Dan-

nan Hodge, vice president of 
Women Who Launch, led a 
brief group discussion dur-
ing which attendees shared 
thoughts about the film and 
their personal experiences 
in connection with it.

For Engineering freshman 

Monika Paliwoda, the film 
resonated with her experi-
ence in a coding class. She 
said though it was a beginner 
course, she was intimidated 
by the skills of her peers.

“It’s been really interest-

ing seeing that disparity 
and my confidence level has 
been tested a lot,” Paliwoda 
said. “I thought this movie 
was really interesting just 
to shed light on that it’s OK 
not to be one hundred per-
cent confident in your abili-
ties, and that doesn’t mean 
you’re a bad coder or a good 
coder. It just means that your 
level at that point in time is 
different, and that it’s some-
thing that you can learn in 
the future.”

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From Page 1A

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free tickets to see Kid Koala if they post 
a video of themselves dancing online.

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