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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

