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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.
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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.
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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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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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