control of the state House. 
Currently, 
Republicans 
have 

a majority in the state House, 
62-44.

“Not only are we going to elect 

Hillary Clinton as president, but 
the greater 12 can take the state 
House of Representatives,” she 
said. “If you’re unhappy about 
the fact that the Flint water was 
poisoned or all the others things 
that have happened, we need to 
take those seats back.”

Albright also stressed the 

importance of not becoming 
overconfident 
in 
Clinton’s 

ability to win, despite her recent 
advantage in the polls. Nationally, 
the most recent RealClearPolitics 
polling average showed Clinton 
6.7 points ahead of Republican 
presidential 
nominee 
Donald 

Trump.

“I worry about the following 

thing,” Albright said. “I worry 
that her numbers are really up 
and people might think it’s over. 
It’s not over. … We really need to 
get out there and door knock and 
do things that get people out to 

vote.”

Trump 
has 
been 
under 

scrutiny in the past two weeks 
following the release of a tape in 
which he made comments about 
touching women without their 
consent. Since the uncovering 
of the tape, several women have 
come forward to allege that 
Trump sexually assaulted them 
in the past. Trump has denied 
these allegations, and called the 
tape “locker room talk.”

In an interview with The 

Michigan Daily, Albright said 
these revelations show he is unfit 
to serve as president.

“I think the things that have 

been revealed about Donald 
Trump 
make 
it 
absolutely 

dispositive that he does not have 
the character, the moral values 
or any aspect of his temperament 
that makes it possible for him 
to be president of the United 
States — much less, frankly, to 
be a member of the public life,” 
she said. “What he has done is 
completely disgusting.”

Ann 
Arbor 
resident 
Barb 

Fuller, who attended the event, 
noted that Albright led a succesful 
career as a diplomat during a 
time which that type of behavior 

Trump has been accused of 
was commonplace, making her 
message especially resonant.

“Secretary Albright predates 

any disclosure of the activities of 
Donald Trump being criticized,” 
she said. “She remembers an era 
when that was totally acceptable. 
You didn’t say anything. You had 
to endure that, and she went toe-
to-toe with male leaders around 
the world and never blinked.”

Albright told the crowd that if 

women turn out to vote, Clinton 
will win in November. A recent 
FiveThirtyEight 
map 
showed 

Clinton would win by a landslide 
if only women voted, and Trump 
would win if only men voted.

“We do know that women can 

make the difference,” she said. 
“In fact, if women vote it will 
bring her over the top. Plus, she 
is incredible on women’s issues 
across the board, and also it will 
be historic.”

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of education.

Kaine noted that all of the 

points 
he 
discussed 
work 

together and are essential to the 
campaign’s plan.

“We’ve got to do all these 

things at once,” he said. “We’ve 
got to invest in underserved 
communities to create jobs and 
get incomes rising; we’ve got 
to help lower income families, 
with dignified housing and safe 
communities; and we’ve got to 
give at-risk kids the skills they 
need and deserve to succeed.”

Expanding on each of these 

areas, he discussed a variety of 
policy proposals ranging from 
investments in infrastructure 
and small businesses to higher 
education reform and technical 
schools. 
Emphasizing 
the 

importance 
of 
infrastructure 

improvements, 
Kaine 
also 

discussed the Flint water crisis, 
saying it remains a priority for 
him and Clinton.

He said many other cities are at 

risk for disaster like the one that 
occurred in Flint if infrastructure 
issues are not addressed.

“A safe home means being able 

to drink the water,” he said. “And 
Flint is the tip of the iceberg on 
this because aging infrastructure, 
water infrastructure and other 
utility 
infrastructure 
around 

the country are exposing people 
to really serious environmental 
harm.”

Michigan and the city of 

Detroit have received a fair 
amount of attention in recent 
weeks, with visits from Clinton, 
Kaine, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D–
Vt.) and other surrogates. Though 
the state is not as close as initially 
predicted 
by 
some, 

with Clinton now leading by 11.4 
points in a head-to-head matchup 
with 
Republican 
presidential 

nominee Donald Trump in the 
state, the Republican campaign 
has also visited Michigan.

Both Trump and his vice 

presidential 
nominee, 
Mike 

Pence, have made stops in recent 
weeks. Pence was most recently 
in the state Monday when he 
spoke in Macomb County.

Ahead of Kaine’s visit, Joseph 

Guzman, a Michigan campaign 
co-chair for Trump issued a 
statement 
criticizing 
Clinton 

following 
a 
new 
Wikileaks 

release 
of 
campaign 
emails 

featuring remarks about Catholic 
and Evangelical voters by chief 
staffers.

“After the new leaks show the 

Clinton-Kaine team selling out 
Michigan families to Wall Street 
donors behind closed doors, their 
ticket of ‘open trade and open 

borders’ has lost all credibility 
in the Great Lakes State,” he 
wrote. “Unlike Hillary Clinton, 
Mr. Trump as President will 
unite our country, and support 
American families, workers, and 
communities of faith.”

The 
leaked 
emails 
also 

revealed 
that 
Sen. 
Debbie 

Stabenow 
(D–Mich.) 
was 

considered 
for 
the 
vice 

presidential 
candidate 
slot 

earlier 
in 
the 
campaign. 

Stabenow said she was grateful 
to be considered, but expressed 
concern over Russian hacking 
threats and cybersecurity issues.

“I think what we should all be 

concerned about in an age where 
we are all using cell phones and 
texting and emailing is that 
the Russians are hacking our 
systems,” she said at Tuesday’s 
event. “Right now it may be 
Democrats but eventually it 
should be everyone.”

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yearly increases of tuition are not 
sustainable.

“I don’t think a student should 

have to mortgage their future in 
order to have one,” Ilitch said. 
“That is why I have advocated 
for alternative sources of income 
to the University so tuition does 
not burden our students and their 
family.”

Ilitch said she believes some 

of the unintended consequences 
of yearly tuition increases can 
already be seen at the University, 
like the lack of diversity. The 
University’s student population 
is predominantly white, at 56.2 
percent according to the Office of 
the Registrar in 2015.

“I’m 
not 
convinced 
our 

educational cost structure is 

sustainable,” Ilitch said. “The lack 
of diversity — economic diversity 
and race diversity — is because of 
the rising cost of tuition.”

She 
highlighted 
the 

University’s 
new 
five-year 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 
plan, which outlines strategies for 
enrolling and sustaining a diverse 
group of students and faculty, 
as one option to solve the issue, 
though she noted the importance 
of student imput.

“We 
definitely 
need 
our 

students 
involved 
actively 

and we should work in strong 
collaboration with them,” she 
said. 

Despite pushback from other 

candidates 
concerning 
the 

decision to increase University 
President Mark Schlissel’s salary 
by 3 percent in September while 
student debt is increasing, Ilitch 
said she supports his pay raise. 

She feels that though the increase 
in pay is well deserved, student 
debt 
remains 
an 
important, 

exclusive issue. 

“I think it is important to 

reward 
strong 
performance,” 

Ilitch said. “There are lots of ways 
the University can cut costs.”

A strong supporter of student 

involvement in board decisions, 
Ilitch said she has met with 
Central 
Student 
Government 

President David Schafer and CSG 
Vice President Micah Griggs, LSA 
seniors, before to discuss the best 
way to increase collaboration 
between University students and 
the board. If re-elected as regent, 
she said she would like to see a 
consistent relationship between 
the board and students that 
remains strong despite changes in 
students and board members

“As 
students 
change, 
the 

relationship should stay strong,” 

Ilitch said. “It is important to hear 
directly about student experiences 
at the University. Many of us rely 
on our own personal experiences, 
but I really welcome the input 
from our students. I think they 
are brilliant.”

As a mother of two, Ilitch said 

she often considers the University 
students her own and tries to 
consider how their parents would 
feel when making decisions. Her 
perspective, she said, is one of the 
reasons she persistently advocates 
for providing students with a well-
rounded and affordable collegiate 
experience. 

“Many 
times, 
it’s 
pretty 

simple, I have a mom hat,” Ilitch 
said. “When making decisions 
that affect many people at the 
University, I think of all the moms 
and dads out there who send their 
children to school and I feel like a 
gatekeeper.”

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of the solutions to this problem.

“The idea of the new school is to 

think of new ways to bring these 
people together, new ways to 
involve students, really whole new 
ways to do education and research 
in this topic,” Pollack said.

The 
internal 
faculty 

committee 
that 
initially 

made 
recommendations 
for 

overall changes is no longer in 
operation, and the new faculty 
transition 
team 
have 
been 

charged with creating specific 
recommendations to give to the 
new dean of the school once he or 
she is appointed.

Interim 
SNRE 
Dean 
Dan 

Brown, a professor of natural 
resources 
and 
environment, 

oversees the transition team. He 
said the team has five main tasks 
starting with increasing faculty 
involvement 
across 
different 

schools at the University and 
focusing on identifying faculty — 
those who are currently affiliated 
with SNRE and those who are 
not — who might be interested in 
being part of the new school.

“One part of the vision for 

this is that faculty in units from 
around campus will keep their 
positions where they are, but take 
partial positions in the new school 
and so the faculty transition team 
is tasked with thinking about how 
that might work,” Brown said.

The other tasks deal with 

the inner and outer workings 
of the school, focusing on the 
development of the program’s 
structure. 
The 
committee 

suggested organizing the new 
school around themes, or problem 
areas 
in 
environment 
and 

sustainability, Brown said, adding 
that the faculty transition team 
aims to “implement a process for 
identifying themes” and define 
function and governance.

“The fourth thing is to identify 

opportunities and proposals for 
curricular innovations in the new 
school — make recommendations, 
essentially — for what kinds 
of programs the new school 
should be offering, and thinking 
about that very innovatively and 
creatively in terms of online, living 
laboratories, undergrad and grad 
combined 
programs, 
potential 

changes 
to 
the 
professional 

program,” he said. “The fifth thing 
is to identify the administrative 
and governance processes for the 
new school: For example, coming 
up with some bylaws that would 
help launch the new school.”

Fifteen faculty will serve on the 

transition team, which will start 
meeting Thursday. Bill Currie, 
chair of the New School Faculty 
Transition Team and School of 
Natural 
Resources 
professor, 

said there are plans in the works 
to add two student members and 
the team will create additional 
mechanisms for student input in 
the future.

Pollack 
emphasized 
that 

faculty from a wide array of 
colleges and programs at the 
University have been included in 

the committee, in alignment with 
the multidisciplinary approach of 
the school.

“The 
whole 
goal 
of 
what 

we’re trying to do is to bring 
together 
people 
from 
across 

boundaries from across campus,” 
she 
said. 
“Sustainability 
and 

the environment are areas in 
which you need to have multiple 
perspectives. You need not just 
the perspective of science and 
social science, but you need 
the humanities, and you need 
engineering and you need public 
health and on and on.”

Currie 
noted 
that 
while 

the 
school 
may 
faces 
some 

issues in integrating different 
backgrounds, current issues in 
sustainability need to be tackled 
through the lenses of many 
different disciplines.

“The problems that we face in 

sustainability — things like clean 
energy, food security, climate 
change, land use change, water 
quality — these environmental 
issues have gotten to the point 
where they cannot be solved 
in just one discipline,” he said. 
“In 
fact, 
sustainability 
deals 

with something called ‘wicked 
problems,’ which the definition is 
that they are large and complex 
and across disciplines, and people 
don’t even agree on the statement 
of the problem. So these are really 
challenging problems to work on, 
and we need people from different 
disciplines.”

He added that the most difficult 

task the transition team will 
have is figuring out how to get 
the campus community to think 
about 
sustainability 
and 
the 

environment 
differently 
than 

they have before, emphasizing 
the 
importance 
of 
fostering 

innovative thought within the 
discipline.

“Professors and administrators 

at the University tend to be really 
accustomed to working in their 
own disciplines, and getting them 
to think in bold and innovative 
ways, what can we really do 
differently, (is) going to be a big 
challenge,” 
Currie 
said. 
“But 

everyone that I’ve talked to on 
the committee is excited about 
thinking about what we can do 
along those lines. So we’re excited 
about it, but it’s still going to be a 
tough job.”

Brown said he hopes the new 

school can bridge together the 
different 
sustainability 
and 

environmental 
programs 
that 

currently exist to establish the 
University as a leader in the field. 
Currently, the University has 
programs including conservation 
ecology 
and 
sustainability 

systems.

“The biggest goal is that we, 

as a university, pool together the 
dispersed assets that we have 
for scholarship and education in 
environment and sustainability, 
coordinate those more carefully, 
and 
collaborate 
more 
closely 

around campus to elevate our 
ability to provide ongoing and 
stronger 
leadership 
… 
and 

ultimately to become a category 
leader in offering environment 
and 
sustainability 
programs,” 

Brown said.

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