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WEATHER TOMORROW HI: 54 LO: 31 A look at the club making spontaneous art on campus » INSIDE the art b-side 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