“Entrepreneurs
believe
in
the inherent volatility of the
world,” he said.
LSA
freshman
Jillian
Gordner commented that the
business lens was an interesting
way
to
examine
Gladwell’s
work,
and
she
found
his
approach to entrepreneurship
unique.
“I haven’t heard him speak
much in an entrepreneurship
context,” she said.” It was a cool
way to use entrepreneur a lot
of different ways, and I think
what he has to say is relevant
to everyone in all educational
domains.”
However, LSA senior Anu
Vora said she wished Gladwell
would
have
discussed
a
subject
he’s
more
familiar
with himself, noting that she
does not consider him to be an
entrepreneur.
“He’s a very creative writer
in
journalism,”
Vora
said.
“At the same time, I don’t
necessarily agree that you can
boil
entrepreneurship
down
into three qualities. There’s a
lot more that goes into being
an entrepreneur, which I’ve
learned
firsthand
working
with
startups
on
campus
and growing up in a very
entrepreneurial home. It’s not
possible to accommodate all
entrepreneurs in this model.”
However,
Business
sophomore
Becca
Rudman
found
herself
inspired
by
Gladwell,
reconsidering
her
possible involvement in the
world of entrepreneurship given
the challenges and personality
types Gladwell outlined.
“It made me question whether
I could be an entrepreneur,” she
said.
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he took the stage, LSA junior
Shavon Edwards emphasized the
importance of voting for Clinton
because of her commitment to
higher education.
“As
students,
affordability
of college is a huge issue,”
Edwards said. “Now we have
the opportunity to make history
and to take away that burden by
electing our next president Mrs.
Clinton and next vice president
Mr. Tim Kaine.”
During the primary season
and previous elections, Clinton
has had mixed success with
younger
voters,
especially
on college campuses like the
University’s. During the 2008
campaign, voters aged 18 to
29 favored her opponent now-
President Barack Obama by a
margin of 57 to 41 percent.
Eight
years
later
in
the
2016 primaries, Sanders won
Washtenaw County, 55.4 percent
to Clinton’s 43.7 percent, taking
Michigan overall in an upset win.
He visited campus in March,
as well as visiting Eastern
Michigan University, and made
a higher education policy — free
college — one of the cornerstones
of his campaign. After dropping
out of the race, Sanders worked
with Clinton to expand her
higher education platform to
encompass some of the ideas
presented in Sanders’ such as
offering free in-state tuition for
families making under $125,000.
In
his
speech
Tuesday,
Kaine
emphasized
Michigan
connections
to
Clinton’s
plan, saying that 90 percent
of Michigan families would
be eligible for free in-state
tuition if the proposed reforms
are
implemented.
Currently,
Michigan residents, like those
in many other states, face
significant loan debt burdens
— overall, Michigan residents
owe over $39 billion in federal
student loans.
Kaine
also
focused
on
contrasts between Clinton’s and
Republican presidential nominee
Donald
Trump’s
visions
on
higher education policy. Noting
that Trump has not yet released
a specific platform on higher
education
reform,
the
vice
presidential nominee suggested
students refer instead to Trump’s
background in higher education,
citing Trump University — a
educational program launched
by
Trump
currently
facing
multiple lawsuits over charges
that it defrauded students.
“Who
understands
higher
education? Who understands
the power of an education?”
Kaine said. “The choice is very,
very clear: If you want a pro-
education president, it’s got to be
Hillary Clinton.”
Kaine
also
emphasized
contrasts between Clinton and
Trump on other issues, charging
that Trump encourages hateful
speech and behavior.
“If you cannot call out bigotry,
if you cannot call out racism,
xenophobia — if you can’t call
it out and you stand back and
you’re silent around it, you’re
enabling it to grow,” he said.
“You’re enabling it to become
more powerful … so I’m happy
to be on a ticket with someone
who’s not afraid to call it out.”
He also touched on equity
issues,
calling
the
election
a greater movement toward
equality through “breaking the
glass ceiling” and electing a
female president.
Referencing the low numbers
of
women
in
Congress
—
currently they make up 19
percent, which is the highest it
has ever been —Kaine said it is
time for the United States to step
up to the plate.
“We are good at a lot of
things,” he said. “But electing
women to federal office is not
one of them.”
Engineering freshman Evan
Ciancio,
who
attended
the
rally, said that emphasis is what
attracts him to the campaign.
“They’re supporting equality,”
Ciancio said. “I see everyone at
Michigan as equal, and I like
how they also see that.”
Beyond
appealing
to
the
college
setting
through
an
emphasis on higher education,
Kaine also kept his speech local
by focusing on issues affecting
the state of Michigan — such
as the improvement of the auto
industry — and the role the state
has the potential to play in the
election.
“Michigan is really really
important.
Both
sides
are
competing
very
heavy
in
Michigan,” Kaine said. “We like
what we see in Ann Arbor — I’d
rather be us than them — but, it’s
close.”
Currently,
Clinton
leads
Trump 45.3 to 39.7 percent
in
Michigan,
according
to
an
average
of
polls
from
RealClearPolitics,
though
Trump and his campaign have
expressed the goal of turning the
state red several times. The state
has not voted for a Republican
presidential
nominee
since
President Ronald Reagan.
Kaine ended his remarks with
that focus, encouraging students
to be mindful of the role the state
could play in the general election
and volunteer for the campaign.
For
many
students
who
attended the event, the perceived
importance of the 2016 election
is already on their mind.
“It’s really important all the
students are out showing that we
actually do care about something
like voting,” said LSA sophomore
Natalie Burr, “because it is going
to be really important in this
state for Tim Kaine and Hillary
Clinton to win the election.”
Not all agree with Kaine’s
remarks, though. Sam Barke, a
freshman at Hillsdale College in
Hillsdale, traveled to Ann Arbor
to protest Kaine’s Diag speech.
“I think that Hillary Clinton
stands for more of the same of
what’s been going on in this
country in the eight years of
failed Obama policies,” Barke
said. “She’s corrupt.”
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine
(D-VA), the Democratic vice
presidential nominee, might
have been closer to the White
House than he thought on
Tuesday — across the street
from the Diag, where students,
faculty and staff gathered to
hear Kaine talk about gender
equality for female officials
and the cost of tuition, a giant
bounce-house version of the
White House stood on North
University Avenue for the day.
The inflatable was part
of a station set up by the
nonpartisan organization
ONE to educate voters about
extreme poverty across the
country as part of its ONE Vote
initiative.
Co-founded by U2 lead
singer Bono, ONE “raise(s)
public awareness and press(es)
political leaders to combat
AIDS and preventable diseases,
increase investments in
agriculture and nutrition and
demand greater transparency
in poverty-fighting programs,”
according to their website.
The event featured a
virtual reality simulator that
allowed participants to watch
and experience poverty in
Africa through a short video
as well as learn about what the
organization is doing to help.
Maggie Bridges, the ONE Vote
campaign representative, said
participants were then asked
to sign a petition to both of the
presidential nominees, former
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and businessman
Donald Trump, to encourage
them to take measures toward
ending extreme poverty in
Africa upon entering the White
House.
“We’re taking this
all over the country; we
launched it at the Republican
National Convention and
the Democratic National
Convention and will be taking
it all across the country until
the end of the election,”
Bridges said. “The point of
it is to ask the presidential
candidates to have a plan to
fight extreme poverty when
they enter the White House.”
After signing the petition,
participants were encouraged
to enjoy a few minutes in the
White House-themed bounce
house, Bridges added.
“The point of a giant bounce
house is to give people an
opportunity to cast their ballot
and say what is important to
them before they ‘enter the
White House,’ ” she said.
The caravan is slated to
continue traveling around to
different college campuses in
America, including Hofstra
University in New York for the
first presidential debate on
Sept. 26.
Bridges said it was
coincidental that the ONE
caravan came to the University
of Michigan on the same day as
Kaine’s rally in the Diag, but it
was a pleasant surprise.
“U of M was one of the
spots we were working to
come to for a while now and
we found out yesterday or the
day before that Tim Kaine was
going to be here, so that was
a pretty cool thing,” Bridges
said. “We’d love for him to
come by.”
Bridges said they had
reached out to both campaigns
asking for campaign
representatives to stop by and
meet with them.
Idealists for Hillary activist
Jeffrey Stacey, an LSA class of
1991 alum, stopped by the ONE
Vote event to make connections
with the initiative. Stacey said
he works closely with Clinton’s
campaign and is currently
working to educate young
progressives who formerly
supported Sen. Bernie Sanders
(I–VT) or the Green Party
about Clinton’s agenda.
Stacey is a Democrat, but
says he admires the universal,
nonpartisan goals that ONE
strives for.
“You see it right there;
fighting extreme poverty,
that is something we are in
lockstep with them on,” Stacey
said. “They’re so committed to
getting people to act on their
political opinions that they’re
nonpartisan — they’re a great
organization.”
CALEB CHADWELL
Daily Staff Reporter
Inflatable bounce house on North University
aims to educate voters about poverty issues
sleep, self-rated health — but
they live longer,” said Shervin
Assari, the School of Public
Health psychiatric research
investigator who conducted
the study. “So there is a
paradox that they say ‘I’m not
as good’ but they live longer.”
Men naturally perceive
risk differently than women
with regard to health issues,
Assari said.
“The brain is designed in
a way to protect men from
perception of risk,” Assari
said.
Assari attributed much
of his findings not only to
evolutionary tendencies but
also to personality differences
between men and women —
something that similar studies
in Europe and Canada have
revealed as well.
“Being a woman is
associated with awareness of
symptoms, awareness of their
body and also perception of
risk,” Assari said. “Regardless
of the domain of risk, if it
is nuclear bombing, if it is a
new political change or if it
is a reactor in their city or
anything, women perceive the
same risk as higher.”
Psychology Prof. Robin
Edelstein, who was not
involved in the study but
investigates individual
personality differences
related to hormones, said she
would support the findings
of the study, noting that
women are generally more
conscientious, which could
lead to them seeking out
medical care more often.
Women also tend to be higher
in neuroticism, which could
correlate to them worrying
about other factors in addition
to their health.
“Men are probably
underreporting symptoms for
self-presentation reasons,”
Edelstein said. “For men
there’s this idea that they
want to report they are
healthier than they really
are.”
Edelstein added that
she doesn’t believe these
differences are reflected in
structures of the brain.
“I would say it’s probably
about how men and women
are socialized,” Edelstein said.
“Men are probably socialized
to not complain about their
health and to be tough and
masculine.”
Ultimately, Assari said
his research serves multiple
purposes. First, when
patients report poor health,
it is proven to likely predict
mortality, so their concerns
should be taken into account.
Additionally, research that
considers self-rated health as
a screening tool for eligibility
for certain services should
be aware of the predictor’s
health implications as well.
He also cited the
significance of this data
in the world of precision
medicine — a customized
approach to treating illnesses
and developing individual
treatment plans based on
understanding a patient’s full
medical history and physical
state.
“There is a new increasing
interest about precision
medicine that indicators of
health should be differently
used for differing individuals,
and treatments should
be tailored based on that
person,” Assari said. “These
types of works can contribute
to precision medicine because
they say, if you are a member
of this group here, men, that
single item is more serious.”
Nonpartisan organization ONE sets up advocacy effort near Diag
PERSONALITY
From Page 1A
financial aid than most other
Midwestern states, spending
just an average of $223 per
undergraduate
full-time
equivalent student. The state
also only spends 42 percent
of the national average on
financial aid grants per full-
time student.
When it comes to the other
side of the equation — tuition
— the University announced
a 3.9 percent tuition increase
for
in-state
undergraduate
students this summer, which
corresponds to an increase of
$546 per year. This is similar to
increases in past years.
In response to the report,
University of Michigan Provost
Martha Pollack emphasized
the
University’s
pledge
to
meet the financial needs of
in-state students. She cited
the University’s commitment
to providing better services to
students as an explanation for
rising costs.
“If people want a world-class
faculty, you have to pay for
world-class faculty,” Pollack
said.
She also pointed to inflation
costs and raising funds for
financial aid, as well as as the
commitment to providing an
improved education, as the
three main reasons for tuition
increase. However, she also
stressed the difference between
the sticker price of tuition and
the amount actually paid by
students, saying the number
is not an accurate indication
of affordability because of the
amount of aid provided.
Overall, about 70 percent of
in-state students receive some
kind of financial aid, according
to Pollack. This year’s proposed
increase in tuition includes a
10.8 percent increase in need-
based grant aid — as of this
year, the University has gone
seven years with no increase
in full-cost attendance for
in-state
students
in
need,
Pollack said.
The
High
Achieving
Involved Leader scholarship,
a
need-based
scholarship
program
launched
by
the
University last year, is one of
the new programs that will
be funded by the increase in
tuition. The program provides
a select group of low income,
in-state students with four
years free of tuition.
Beyond individual choices to
raise tuition at universities and
stagnant financial aid from the
state and federal government,
state funding to universities
also plays a large role in
determining college costs and
subsequent loan burdens for
Michigan students.
In 2011, Gov. Rick Snyder (R)
announced a 15-percent cost
cut of in-state public university
funding
across
the
board,
cutting funding specifically to
UM by 21.6 percent. The most
recent $16 billion education
budget, for 2017, allows for a
2.9-percent increase in funding
to public in-state universities
but doesn’t quite return to the
pre-2011 levels.
Peter Ruark, a senior policy
analyst at the Michigan League
of Public Policy, said the
decrease in state funding may
be a “slow privatization” of
Michigan’s public university
system.
“It’s
a
big
mistake
to
disinvest in education,” Ruark
said.
CSG Vice President Micah
Griggs, an LSA senior, said the
constant increase in tuition
taints the struggling student’s
college experience.
“Students at the University
of Michigan and nationwide
are graduating college with
more and more student loan
debt and it does have an effect
on our college experience,”
Griggs said. “Decisions such
as what classes to take, what
student organizations to join
and how to support yourself
financially while on campus is
becoming harder.”
Pollack also charged that
most coverage of rising costs
hasn’t
acknowledged
that
the University is below the
national average annual tuition
cost, and that UM graduates
are above the national average
in earnings post-graduation.
“These newspaper stories
are fixated on the sticker price,
and our strategy is to try and
have people pay a lot less if
their families have less money,”
Pollack said. “What you need to
look at is what people actually
pay.”
DEBT
From Page 1A
“Who
understands
higher
education? Who
understands
the power of
an education?
The choice is
very, very clear:
If you want a
pro-education
president, it’s
got to be Hillary
Clinton.”
GLADWELL
From Page 1A
In the Midwest, Michigan Students Pay the Largest
Share of University Expenses
69%
61%
60%
58%
57%
48%
32%
Michigan
Ohio
Iowa
Minnesota
Indiana
Wisconsin
Illinois
Source: State Higher Education Executive Officers