Tuesday marked National Voter
Registration Day. In Michigan, the
last day to register to vote in the
presidential election is Oct. 11 — a
mere two weeks away.
With 40 days until the
election and 13 days until the
voter registration deadline, voter
mobilization efforts are in full
swing around campus. Partisan
voter registration efforts organized
by the University of Michigan’s
chapters of College Democrats and
College Republicans will continue
to take place in the Diag and Mason
Hall.
Nonpartisan initiatives, like
Central Student Government’s
Voice Your Vote registration drive,
will launch efforts on Sunday to
register students outside of each
residence hall on campus. The
initiative will conclude next Friday,
Oct. 7.
Those not registered to vote in
the upcoming presidential election
yet must do so by mail or in person,
not online. To check the specific
voter registration guidelines for
Michigan, visit the Michigan
Secretary of State’s website.
If students are unsure if they
are registered to vote in the state of
Michigan, they can also check their
registration status online.
Chelsea Clinton spoke with
students across the country
in honor of National Voter
Registration
Day
Tuesday,
in a phone conference about
the importance of millennial
participation in the upcoming
presidential election.
Clinton,
daughter
of
Democratic
presidential
nominee
Hillary
Clinton,
stressed
the
significance
of
college
communities
in
elections,
saying
millennial-
aged voters make up roughly 31
percent of the electorate.
“We are in the middle of a big
push to register people and get
them to go out and vote,” Clinton
said. “And I hope that last night’s
debate demonstrated the clear
contrast between my mom and
her opponent, and demonstrated
what is at stake this November.”
After speaking about voter
registration and the significance
of voter mobilization, Clinton
also
fielded
questions
from
students at universities across
the country.
Clinton first addressed a
question about the differences
between
Hillary
Clinton’s
education policies and President
Barack Obama’s.
In her response, she said
Obama
does
not
receive
enough credit for his education
initiatives, also highlighting the
ways Hillary Clinton aims to
address education as a part of
her platform.
“There are several things
that my mom wants to address
in
regards
to
education
policy that would build off of
President
Obama,”
Clinton
said. “For example, she wants
to enable anyone and everyone
to index their loan payments
as a percentage of their income
so that nobody has to make a
professional decision to service
their debt.”
During Obama’s terms, he
instituted the “Pay as You
Earn” plan to expand income-
based repayment — a plan that
caps students’ monthly loan
payments based on income and
family size. The program lowers
monthly payments and expands
the length of the repayment
period.
A student on the call also asked
Clinton about the best ways to
motivate students to vote, given
the large numbers of people who
feel apathetic toward both major
party candidates.
In a recent Michigan Daily
poll of a sample of students on
campus,
though
respondents
indicated
overwhelming
support for Hillary Clinton,
13 percent also indicated
support for Libertarian Party
candidate
Gary
Johnson,
more
than
the
support
Trump received.
“Voting is a very personal
thing. ” Clinton said. “What
I encourage you to do is ask
people who are not inclined
to vote is ‘What issues do you
care about?’”
This sentiment of voter
apathy
resurfaced
when
Clinton was asked about
engaging former supporters
of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
who feel disaffected and
question whether Hillary
Clinton is equally liberal.
“My mom has offered the
most progressive platform
of
a
major
presidential
candidate ever,” Clinton said.
“This is apparent when you
look at her record fighting
for children, fighting for
more investment in public
schools, fighting for criminal
justice reform from her time
as a young lawyer until now
during her campaign.”
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University announces start of preferred pronoun initiative
The University of Michigan
announced
Tuesday
that
effective
immediately,
students
will
be
able
to
indicate
their
preferred
gender
pronoun
on
class
rosters.
Provost
Martha
Pollack
and E. Royster Harper, vice
president for student life, said
in an email to the campus
community that a pronoun
committee
comprised
of
faculty and staff members
has developed this process
over the past year. A petition
authored
by
Wolverines
for
Preferred
Pronouns
last March called for the
University to put pronoun
preferences on class rosters,
gaining 795 signatures.
The
email
defined
a
preferred
pronoun
as
a
gender pronoun with which
an individual would like to
identify and expects others to
use when referring to them.
“Students
can
designate
pronouns
in
Wolverine
Access
through
the
new
Gender Identity tab within
the
Campus
Personal
Information section,” Pollack
and Harper wrote in the
email. “This page will be used
to enter/update and/or delete
pronoun information with the
University.”
This change is considered
part
of
the
University’s
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
initiative, which will be fully
launched on Oct. 6.
Pollack and Harper also
encouraged
students
and
faculty to examine the rosters
on Wolverine Access and be
mindful of addressing people
correctly.
“Asking about and correctly
using someone’s designated
pronoun is one of the most
basic ways to show your
respect for their identity and
to cultivate an environment
that
respects
all
gender
identities,” they wrote. “If
you make a mistake and use
the wrong pronoun, you can
acknowledge that you made a
mistake, and use the correct
pronoun next time.”
Students were encouraged
to
change
their
prefered
pronoun before mid-to-late
October
because
faculty
members have been asked to
review class rosters again at
the end of the month and use
the updated pronoun at that
time for the remainder of the
semester.
—Caleb Chadwell
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