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Campus voters,
independents aid in
upset victory over
Hillary Clinton
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders won a
heavily unexpected upset victory
in Michigan’s Democratic primary
Tuesday — and that victory was
marked by a historic voter turnout
for the state, especially among
young voters.
Multiple polling places ran out
of ballots as a record 2.5 million
voters went to the polls or voted
absentee — soundly beating a
previous 1972 record of 1.9 million
votes cast.
In
previous
primaries
and
caucuses,
much
of
Sanders’
support has come largely from
young, white, middle class voters,
while Clinton has fared better with
Black voters. In Michigan, Sanders
held onto his usual demographic,
earning 57 percent of the white
vote and 67 percent of voters under
45 with numbers closer to 80
percent for millennials, according
to CNN exit polls.
Charles Shipan, University of
Michigan political science and
public policy professor, said large
turnout numbers were one of
the main factors contributing to
Sanders’ victory in Michigan.
“A huge turnout happened,”
he said. “And that’s the biggest
predictor of how Sanders is going
to do in an election. If he can get a
high youth turnout ,then he does
better.”
Locally, Sanders did extremely
well in Washtenaw County, where
he won by an 11.7 percent margin.
Voter turnout in Washtenaw was
slightly higher than the state
average: 39.85 percent of the voting
age population in Washtenaw cast
ballots, compared to 31.6 percent
statewide.
Turnout
was
also
elevated in Clinton County, home
of Michigan State University, at
38.31 percent.
LSA
sophomore
Nicholas
Kolenda, president of Students for
Sanders, said he thought student
See PRIMARY, Page 3A
Panels talk
depression as
it connects to
relationships
By WILL FEUER
Daily Staff Reporter
The Depression on College
Campuses conference — a two-
day event hosted by the University
of Michigan’s Depression Center
— began Wednesday afternoon in
Rackham Auditorium.
The
conference
aims
to
discuss causes and treatments
of
depression
on
campuses
throughout the United States,
with a focus on relationships. It
has been held at the University for
the past 14 years, with 150 people
attending this year, a handful of
which were undergraduates.
Becca Lindsay, project manager
in Health Management and Policy,
said she thought that despite
the low undergraduate turnout,
the conference was extremely
relevant on campus.
“This conference is really great
for students on campus because
it gets you thinking more about
issues that really impact you and
your peers,” she said.
Wednesday’s portion of the
conference consisted of a keynote
speech
delivered
by
Bernice
Pescosolido,
director
of
the
Indiana Consortium for Mental
Health Services Research at the
University of Indiana. Pescosolido
discussed
how
different
generations respond to and treat
depression in different ways.
“A confluence of forces have
shifted the place of mental health
at U.S. universities and colleges,”
she said. “This provides a unique
opportunity to rethink the way we
construct learning environments,
engage in institutional social
change,
and
create
a
less
stigmatizing society regarding
mental health and illness.”
Following
the
keynote
speech, attendees broke up into
SINDUJA KILARU/Daily
Speaker Heather Flynn gives a presentation about mental health during the Depression on College Campuses conference in Rackham on Wednesday.
See DEPRESSION, Page 3A
National Institutes
of Health provides
grant for Fathers
and Sons Project
By ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter
The Father and Sons Project,
a
Flint-based
organization
that works with male African-
American youth living apart
from their fathers, will expand
their preventative project to
the Chicago area through a
$3 million grant awarded to
the University of Michigan’s
School of Public Health.
The program, which works
to
conduct
preventative
research on early substance
abuse, early sexual initiation
and
youth
violence
among
African Americans, was funded
through the National Institute
of Child Health and Human
Development,
part
of
the
National Institutes of Health.
According to a study by
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People,
African
Americans
represent
26
percent
of
all juvenile arrests and 12
percent of the total drug-using
population in the United States.
The NAACP also found that 35
percent of African-American
children in seventh to 12th
grades have been suspended or
expelled at some point in their
education.
For
Cleopatra
Caldwell,
principal investigator in the
Fathers and Sons Project and
director of the Center for
Research on Ethnicity, Culture
and Health at the University’s
School of Public Health, the
NAACP’s
recent
statistics
demonstrate
the
need
for
programs like the University’s.
Caldwell said looking at the
effects of nonresidential fathers,
or fathers that live separately
from their biological children,
has often been disregarded
in
research.
However,
she
said
understanding
the
ramifications
of
displaced
See GRANT, Page 3A
Some, but not all
institutions to see
return to pre-2011
appropriations
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
This
year’s
budget
recommendations
from
Gov. Rick Snyder (R) for
the
2017-2018
fiscal
year
included
recommendations
for increases in a number
of areas, including higher
education spending.
The increase is larger than
what’s been seen in the last
several years, after an initial
slash to funding of 15 percent
when Snyder entered office
in 2011. Following the cut,
funding has been increased
steadily — this year’s increase
of 4.3 percent brings the
total state funding back to
pre-2011 levels. However, at
individual institutions, the
proposed 2017 numbers could
still be lower than pre-2011 —
including at the University.
In 2011, the across the
board cut resulted in a 21.6
percent decrease of funding
for the University. Because
of how money is distributed,
the University still receives
7.8 percent less funding that
it did prior to 2011, though
institutions like Grand Valley
State University and Ferris
State University have seen
increases in funding over their
2011 levels of 5.25 percent and
3.6 percent, respectively.
For many, the cut resulted
in changes to operations —
See BUDGET, Page 3A
New tool could
aid children with
aggresive brain
tumors
By SOPHIE SHERRY
Daily Staff Reporter
Researchers at the University
of Michigan have developed a new
tool to test potential treatments
for pediatric brain cancer.
A team led by Maria Castro and
Pedro
Lowenstein,
professors
of neurosurgery and cell and
developmental
biology,
has
created a mouse model which
harbors all the genetic alterations
found in pediatric brain tumors.
Using
the
new
model,
the
researchers
have
replicated
pediatric brain tumors in mice
that will allow the mice to serve as
test beds for new pharmaceuticals
and immunotherapies designed to
shrink children’s brain tumors —
specifically high-grade glioma,
which is an aggressive and
malignant type of brain tumor.
See RESEARCH, Page 2A
Big turnout,
open voting
factor into
Sanders win
GOVERNMENT
Conference stresses mental
health on college campuses
$3M awarded
for research on
Black families
SCIENCE
Snyder’s budget proposal
restores higher ed funding
‘U’ mouse
model may
help cancer
treatments
RESEARCH