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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