The University of Michigan 

Central Student Government 
hosted its third sober tailgate 
Saturday on Elbel Field in an 
attempt to prevent alcohol-
related incidents during late-
starting football games. 

The event was coordinated 

by LSA sophomore Grant Rivas, 
CSG’s 
chief 
programming 

officer, who said student safety 
is the first consideration with a 
3:30 p.m. kick off time like the 
Michigan vs. Colorado game.

“We as a university see an 

(uptick) 
on 
alcohol-related 

incidents and hospital visits,” 
Rivas said. “So with that game 
time, we definitely wanted to 
make an effort to make sure 
students are as safe as possible 
and just have a really fun event 
for all students.”

Rivas estimated that CSG 

handed out 350 pizzas and 
1,600 water bottles Saturday, 
serving 1,500 students in total. 
At the 2013 tailgate, the last 
time it took place, more than 

8,000 students were reported 
to have attended. Rivas said 
the difference in numbers can 
be attributed to the length of 
the tailgate and the time of the 
game. During the 2011 tailgate, 
the event lasted through most 
of the game, whereas Saturday’s 
was operating only between 

noon and kick-off.

Rivas 
said 
in 
the 
past, 

administrations 
have 
noted 

a significant decrease in the 
number 
of 
hospital 
visits 

because of the tailgate. During 
Saturday’s game, there was one 
arrest, one citation and four 
ejections due to alcohol in the 

stadium. 5 people were taken to 
the UM emergency department 
and medical personnel treated 
83 people after the game as well. 

Rivas said CSG has taken 

other 
measures 
to 
ensure 

student 
safety 
on 
gameday 

this year, including hydrations 

After the No. 4 Michigan football 

team handily put away its first two 
opponents of the season, it was 
assumed that its matchup with 
Colorado (2-0) would go almost 
as smoothly. Two minutes into 
the game, redshirt sophomore 
linebacker Jabrill Peppers crushed 
running back Phillip Lindsay for a 
2-yard tackle for loss to the crowd’s 
delight, and all seemed to be well. 

But the Buffaloes had different 

plans. On the next play, Colorado 
quarterback Sefo Liufau completed 
a 37-yard pass to wide receiver 
Devin Ross to get on the board first 
at Michigan Stadium.

It was just the start of a 

troublesome first half for the 

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SUDOKU..................... 2A

A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A

SPORTSMONDAY. . . . . . . . .1B

During the leadup to the 

presidential 
election, 
The 

Michigan 
 
Daily 
is 
polling 

students about campaign issues 
every two weeks. This is the first 
iteration of the survey.

This 
week, 
the 
survey 

was sent to 1,000 University 
of 
Michigan 
students 
and 

received 154 responses over a 

period of four days. The sample 
was chosen randomly from 
University undergraduates and 
reported in the aggregate.

When asked whom they 

would vote for if the election 
were today, given the two main 
party candidates, respondents 
overwhelmingly 
favored 

Democratic nominee Hillary 
Clinton 
over 
Republican 

nominee Donald Trump by 
a margin of 80 percent to 9 

See POLL, Page 3A

EVAN AARON/Daily

LSA junior Mason Van Gieson and LSA senior Angel Antoun perform in “Out of Silence” Friday night at the Mendelssohn Theater.

The 
cast 
of 
 
“Out 
of 

Silence,” an episodic theatre 
performance 
consisting 
of 

students and alumni, reenacted 
a variety of adapted stories 
about women deciding to have 
an 
abortion 
in 
Mendellson 

Theater on Friday.

Brittany 
Batell, 
a 
dual 

master’s 
student 
in 
the 

Schools of Social Work and 
Public Health, organized the 
performance 
in 
conjunction 

with 
her 
internship 
this 

summer with the nonprofit 
Michigan 
Organization 
on 

Adolescent 
Sexual 
Health. 

Batell said she selected this 
project 
to 
concentrate 
on 

over the summer because the 
theatrical aspect of “Out of 
Silence” resonated with her.

“I 
just 
really 
felt 
an 

affinity with the idea of doing 
public health work through 
creative 
expression 
and 

trying to help innovate health 
communications that way,” she 
said.

The performance, she added, 

aimed to humanize an issue 
that is often submerged in 

political discourse.

“We hear all the time about 

the politics of this, we hear 
about different definitions of 
personhood and we hear about 
statistics, and those really don’t 
resonate in the same way that 
people’s stories do because 
you can’t argue with that; you 
can’t argue with someone’s real 
experience,” she said.

The 1 in 3 Campaign, a 

national project of Advocates 
for Youth that aims to spark 
conversation about abortion, 
created the script of “Out of 
Silence” 
from 
submissions 

from more than 400 women 

concerning their experiences 
with abortion. They then had 
playwrights craft 12 different 
five-minute 
vignettes 
from 

these submissions, eight of 
which were part of Friday’s 
performance.

LSA senior Katrina Hamann, 

co-director of “Out of Silence,” 
noted how the format of the 
show 
was 
essential 
to 
its 

humanizing goal.

“Doing it with eight different 

stories as opposed to one play 
about one particular situation 
humanizes the issue for people 
who may not know what to 

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This article is the second in a 

series examining candidates’ higher 
education reform plans.

With the presidential election 

just seven weeks away, both 
Democratic 
nominee 
Hillary 

Clinton and Republican nominee 
Donald Trump are polishing their 
stances on a multitude of issues 
before they enter the final stretch 
of the campaign. One topic at the 
forefront of this election is higher 
education — with one side of the 
aisle outwardly focusing on issues 
of accessibility and rising student 
debt more than the other.

Clinton 
released 
her 
New 

College Compact plan months 
ago, proposing debt-free college 

See EDUCATION, Page 3A

See TAILGATE, Page 3A

AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily

LSA sophomore Ingrid Lindquist hands out pizza to students at the CSG tailgate on Saturday at Elbel Field.

See ABORTION, Page 2A

‘U’ students 
favor Dems 
in Michigan 
Daily survey

Theater group aims to humanize 
abortion through performance

79 percent of respondents prefer Clinton 

EMMA KINERY
Daily News Editor

“Out of Silence” compiled submissions from over 400 women on their experiences

EMILY MIILLER
Daily Staff Reporter

Wolverines
rally to top 
Buffaloes, 
move to 3-0

FOOTBALL

Behind career day for 
LB Peppers, Michigan 
overcomes rough start

KELLY HALL

Daily Sports Editor

Central Student Government hosts 
sober tailgate ahead of Colorado game

Event aims to prevent alchohol-related incidents as part of safety initative

NISA KHAN

Daily Staff Reporter

Education 
plans vary 
between 
candidates

ELECTION

Presidential nominees 
say debt an issue, but 
offer varying solutions

CAITLIN REEDY
Daily Staff Reporter

Thank your defense

The Michigan football team 

relied on its defense to get 

back into the game in its 

45-28 win Saturday.

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