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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