“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.”

KAINE
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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

