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percent. 11 percent said they 
planned to vote for “other.”

When given the option to 

vote for third-party candidates 
such as Libertarian nominee 
Gary Johnson and Green Party 
nominee Jill Stein, main party 
candidates 
lost 
nearly 
equal 

amounts of support, with Clinton 
dropping to 75 percent and Trump 
to 6 percent. Johnson received 13 
percent and Stein 3 percent, with 
3 percent of respondents still 
choosing other. This contrasts 
with the statewide polls for 
Michigan, which cite Clinton at 
43 percent, Trump at 37.8 percent, 
Johnson at 7.3 percent and Stein 
receiving 2.8 percent. 

The support of alternative 

candidates on campus mirrors a 
local trend in the GOP primary 
— 
Ohio 
Gov. 
John 
Kasich 

received the majority of votes 
in Washtenaw County, though 
Trump easily carried the state 
overall.

The University’s chapter of 

College 
Republicans 
did 
not 

respond to repeated requests for 

comment on the data,

Both Stein and Johnson are 

on the Michigan ballot for the 
election.

The 
high 
percentage 
of 

students favoring Clinton can be 
seen in her heightened presence 
on 
campus, 
with 
an 
active 

Students for Hillary chapter 
and the University’s chapter of 
College Democrats’ promotion 
of her events since endorsing her 
on July 12 following her primary 
opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 
(I) dropping from the race. Vice 
Presidential 
candidate 
Tim 

Kaine recently visited campus 
for a speech and rally on the 
Diag. In comparison, the College 
Republicans 
only 
endorsed 

Trump on Sunday, and the 
Students for Trump chapter has 
since become inactive.

College 
Democrat 
Taiwo 

Dosunmu wrote in an email 
interview with The Michigan 
Daily that he wasn’t shocked by 
the survey results.

“The results of the survey 

indicating overwhelming support 
for 
Hillary 
Clinton 
among 

students are not surprising given 
the immense impact this election 
will have on the future of our 

country and the stark contrast 
between the two candidates,” 
he wrote. “Students understand 
that, on every substantive issue, 
Hillary Clinton will make the 
right choices for them– especially 
related 
to 
higher 
education. 

Considering her progressive plans 
focused specifically on students, 
like debt-free college for all and 
tuition-free college for families 
making less than $125,000 a year, 
students recognize that Hillary 
is the ally they need in the White 
House.”

In terms of voting habits 

overall, regardless of who they 
chose to vote for, 73 percent of 
respondents said they would 
“definitely” vote in the upcoming 
election. Another 16 percent 
stating they “probably” would 
and just 3 percent stated they 
“definitely would not” vote.

Eighty-six percent of survey 

respondents were registered to 
vote, 13 percent were not and one 
respondent was too young to vote. 
A majority of those registered 
— 79 percent — are registered in 
Michigan. Voting rates among 
students are traditionally low, 
with only 45% of young people 
voting in the presidential election.

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Wolverines, but they ultimately 
rebounded to win, 45-28. Michigan 
never relinquished its lead for the 
last 28 minutes of the game. 

Michigan fell behind early, 21-7, 

before scoring 17 unanswered points 
to take a 24-21 lead into halftime. On 
the Wolverines’ last drive before the 
break, Speight threw a short pass 
to fifth-year senior wide receiver 
Amara Darboh, who took it 45 
yards down the left sideline to give 
Michigan its first lead of the game 
with 34 seconds left in the half. 

“We weren’t worried,” said senior 

tight end Jake Butt. “In fact, we 
actually talked about it last night as a 
team. We knew, the first two games, 
we were really never punched in the 
face with things going so smoothly, 
and it’s not going to be a fairy tale 
the whole entire season. There was 
going to come a point in time when 
we were going to get punched in the 
face. … We were good enough to get 
it done.”

The 
Buffaloes 
scored 
on 

consecutive series within the first 
five minutes of the game, and 
their second score was especially 
impressive. 
Colorado 
defensive 

back 
Chidobe 
Awuzie 
sacked 

redshirt sophomore quarterback 
Wilton Speight, forcing a fumble on 
Michigan’s 28-yard line. Defensive 
lineman Derek McCartney picked 
it up and ran it in for the touchdown 
to give the Buffaloes a 14-point lead. 

 The back-and-forth scoring 

continued into the third quarter, 
when, only a minute into the second 
half, Liufau completed a 70-yard 
touchdown pass to Shay Fields to 
make it 28-24. 

 But the Wolverines scored on 

the next drive and never looked 
back. Sophomore wide receiver 
Grant Perry got open on a 54-yard 
pass, bringing the ball to Colorado’s 
7-yard line. Senior running back 
De’Veon Smith and redshirt junior 
running back Ty Isaac did the rest 
of the work, with Isaac punctuating 
the drive with a 1-yard scoring run. 

Peppers did most of Michigan’s 

legwork throughout the game, 
recording nine tackles and a sack, 3.5 
for loss. On his most impressive play 
of the game, he ran a punt return 
54 yards to the house for his first 
touchdown of the season with 11:27 
to go in the game. It was his first 
career punt return touchdown.

“In a game of really good players 

all over the field, Jabrill Peppers 
proved that he was the best player 
out there,” said Michigan coach Jim 
Harbaugh. “It was a special game by 
a special player.” 

Added 
Peppers: 
“It 
was 

indescribable. I think I just laid 
there. I was like, ‘Finally, man.’ The 
guys did a great job of giving me a 
crease. They just trust me enough to 
hit what I see and make something 
happen and that’s what I did.” 

The Wolverines sputtered early 

behind 
Speight, 
who 
finished 

16-for-30 with 229 yards and one 
touchdown, throwing multiple near-
interceptions but no actual ones. 
Michigan’s special teams kept the 

Wolverines in the game during the 
offensive struggles, accounting for 
their first score of the game. Senior 
safety Delano Hill and fifth-year 
senior tight end Michael Jocz broke 
through to block Colorado’s punt, 
allowing Grant Perry to scoop up the 
ball for a touchdown. 

Michigan started gaining the 

momentum that would take it to 
victory late in the second quarter 
when 
Colorado 
kicker 
Diego 

Gonzalez missed a 36-yard field goal 
and punter Alex Kinney kicked the 
ball into the back of his own lineman 
to give the Wolverines the ball on its 
own 38-yard line. On the ensuing 
drive, Speight dumped the ball off to 
fifth-year senior wide receiver Jehu 
Chesson for a 17-yard touchdown. 

Fifth-year senior kicker Kenny 

Allen finished the game 1-for-3 on 
field goal attempts. He missed from 
37 and 44 yards out, with his only 
made kick coming with 1:59 to go 
until halftime. 

The Wolverines made mistake 

after mistake early, but with help 
from Peppers and Butt, who finished 
with seven catches for 87 yards, 
Michigan stifled the upset attempt 
to stay undefeated. 

“We definitely have to get the 

big plays corrected,” Peppers said. 
“But the best part about it that it’s 
all things we can correct. It’s not like 
they were just flat out beating us. 
Everything can be coached up and 
corrected. We took a couple lumps 
today, but when we go back and 
watch the tape, we know those big 
plays don’t happen if we stick to the 
deep middle.”

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stations in front of Greek life 
houses that are partnered with 
CSG. Last year, it started funding 
University Dining to open a few 
hours earlier so students can eat 
before tailgating.

“This is kind of another step in 

that pattern we’ve taken to try to 
make game day a safer event for 
students, so we don’t see a lot of 
hospital visits,” Rivas said. 

Students from the Center for 

Campus Involvement were also 
a part of the event, handing out 
pizza and water bottles. One of 
the employees, LSA sophomore 
Ingrid Lindquist, said the tailgate 
helps 
bring 
people 
together 

before the game.

“I think it keeps people more 

safe before a game because a lot 
of drinking sometimes goes on, 
and it helps people remember 
to eat and drink water and just 
enjoy it for celebrating U of M for 
the team and the school, rather 
than a bad way,” Lindquist said.

Fellow 
CCI 
employee 

Elizabeth 
Kruse, 
an 
LSA 

sophomore, 
agreed 
with 

Lindquist.

“I think having a tailgate like 

this is important for students who 
don’t want to go out and party, 
but they can still do something 
fun before the game,” Kruse said.

Several attendees said they 

came to tailgate mostly for the 
free food.

Engineering 
senior 
Zach 

Weglarz said the tailgate was 
important for underage students, 

which LSA freshman Samantha 
Adsit and Rackham graduate 
Aaron Barber echoed.

“I think it’s good to have one of 

these so you can remember it and 
have fun,” Adsit said.

“I definitely think (the sober 

tailgate) is important,” Barber 
said. “I understand people who 
enjoy that just, like, in their life, 
but I kind of don’t want to do 
that before a football game. You 
kind of want to enjoy the game. 
You spend money on the tickets, 
you want to support a really good 
team and you kind of want to 
enjoy the game. And you can be 
as goofy and have as much fun if 
you don’t drink.”

The tailgate also included 

giveaways and free suite tickets 
for a future Michigan football 
game.

as a way of addressing the issue of 
student debt. Trump, in contrast, 
has yet to release a comprehensive 
plan for student debt, though he 
has talked at length about the issue 
of student debt. His campaign has 
continuously promised to release 
thri platform on higher education 
sometime in the upcoming weeks.

Trump:
Donald Trump, while making 

comments on the levels of student 
debt in the country several times 
during the campaign, has not 
released a comprehensive plan 
to address it. The overall GOP 
platform, consisting of more 60 
pages, does have two sections 
pertaining to college costs and 
general higher education.

The platform calls in particular 

for the federal government to 
abstain from involvement with 
student loans, opting instead for 
the private sector to participate in 
student financing.

The party is also calling for all 

government regulations, including 
those that govern interest rates for 
student loans, to be scrutinized 
and challenged against potential 
negative economic impact on 
students and families.

Engineering 
sophomore 

Emma TerBeek, a supporter of 
the Republican Party, wrote in an 
email interview she believes the 
GOP’s conservative approach to 
student debt would better benefit 
current debt holders.

“It is my belief that high student 

debt is a huge concern for all 
U.S. citizens regardless of party 
affiliation,” TerBeek wrote. “My 
personal Conservative views are 
solely that Americans should rely 
more on privatized scholarships 
versus 
government 
loans 
or 

subsidies that stem from taxpayer 
dollars.”

The official platform states, “In 

order to encourage new modes 
of higher education delivery to 
enter the market, accreditation 
should be decoupled from federal 
financing, and states should be 
empowered to allow a wide array 
of accreditation and credentialing 
bodies to operate.”

The party made clear that 

they 
intend, 
by 
encouraging 

privatization, to give students 
more room to “customize their 
college 
experience,” 
according 

to the official platform. Trump, 
at multiple points during his 

campaign, has also pledged to 
“tremendously” cut funding for 
the Department of Education.

Sarah 
Anderson, 

communications director of the 
Michigan Republican Party, said 
in spite of the lack of an official 
platform on the issue, higher 
education is extremely important 
to the Republican Party.

“It is absolutely an issue for 

the Republican Party, and I do 
believe that Donald Trump will 
take it seriously,” Anderson said. 
“(The issue is) one that should 
be debated and one that we 
should talk about. Pie-in-the-sky 
promises are not going to help our 
future generations.”

Even though younger voters 

tend to lean liberal, the typically 
the older Republican voter base is 
still affected by the rising student 
debt in America, as many voters 
have children in college. 

TerBeek noted she has personal 

interest in tuition debt as a student, 
but believes she and the rest of the 
student population should be held 
responsible.

“As a student I feel that student 

debt is a significant issue in my 
personal life but feel that in the 
grand scheme of things, I should 
not rely on the government to pay 
for me to go to school as I could 
have gone to other schools where 
I had scholarships (as did most 
people that go to U of M) but chose 
to go to a more expensive school 
where I didn’t have a scholarship,” 
TerBeek wrote.

Trump’s comparative lack of 

focus on higher education has 
become a campaign issue for 
Democrats — in a recent stop at 
the University of Michigan, U.S. 
Sen. Tim Kaine (D–VA), Clinton’s 
vice 
presidential 
nominee, 

highlighted 
Trump’s 
lack 
of 

discussion on student debt. In an 
interview with Time magazine, 
Kaine also touched on the issue, 
saying Trump’s lack of a plan 
shows when “he brags about his 
own four-year degree from an Ivy 
League school, he has no intention 
of offering anyone else the same 
opportunity.”

Anderson, however, charged 

that the Democratic approach to 
student debt will only serve to 
create future problems.

“The contrast is that Hillary 

Clinton 
is 
promising 
free 

education, but there is no such 
thing as a free lunch,” Anderson 
said. “Free education means that 
somebody down the line has to 
pay for it. If you go to college for 

‘free’ you’re going to have a hard 
time finding a job because taxes 
are going to be so high, businesses 
are going to close down.”

Clinton:
During the campaign, Clinton, 

Kaine 
and 
other 
Democratic 

officials 
have 
made 
many 

statements on how to fix student 
debt in America. As part of her 
New College Compact, she is 
calling on state governments 
to pull their weight and invest 
in higher education, in hopes 
of helping to lower the cost of 
tuition. The plan estimates that 
this investment will, by 2021, offer 
students free community college 
and the option to graduate from 
a public college or university in 
their state without having to take 
on student debt.

The 
Clinton 
administration 

also plans to create a $25 billion 
fund to support historically Black 
institutions and other minority-
serving institutions, to make 
higher education accessible. 

Clinton has also released a plan 

to tackle current student debt. Of 
the many objectives within this 
plan, some of the more prominent 
are cutting interest rates and 
refinancing loans at the current 
rate, aiming to alleviate pressure 
from an estimated 25 million debt 
holders. The Clinton campaign 
would also plans to halt actions of 
for-profit schools and lenders they 
charge take advantage of students 
in need, as well as simplify the 
repayment process for loans.

Clinton’s heavy focus on student 

debt speaks may speak in part to 
the younger nature of her base 
— the Harvard Political Review 
reported 2015 that 60 percent 
of 18- to 29-year-olds supported 
President Barack Obama in the 
2012 election.

LSA junior Taiwo Dosunmu, 

communications director of the 
University’s chapter of College 
Democrats, said he sees student 
debt as a top priority for the 
Democratic Party as a whole.

“The Democratic Party has 

always been pushed forward by 
the energy of younger people and 
college students,” Dosunmu said. 
“Those people are being impacted 
by student debt, so top to bottom 
it’s a major issue.”

Part of Clinton’s plans also 

stemmed from Sen. Bernie Sanders 
(I–VT) unsuccessful campaign for 
the Democratic nomination.

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