About 100 people gathered 

in the Ford School of Public 
Policy 
Monday 
to 
hear 

personal 
experiences 
and 

reactions to the Flint water 
crisis from a diverse group of 
panelists, including activists 
and government workers.

The 
Flint 
water 
crisis 

occurred 
after 
a 
state-

appointed 
emergency 

manager decided to cut costs 
by changing the source of 
city water to more corrosive 
sources, which caused lead 
from the pipes to leach into 
the water, poisioning Flint’s 
residents. It was not publicly 
addressed until nearly two 
years after the initial notice 
of potential lead in the the 
water.

Panelist 
Chris 
Kolb, 

president of the Michigan 
Environmental 
Council, 

started the discussion with 
comments on his work on 
Gov. Rick Snyder’s (R) Flint 
Water 
Task 
Force, 
which 

reviewed the state, federal 
and municipal actions leading 
to the crisis.

“We 
worked 
for 
five 

months to come up with the 
report,” Kolb said. “When 
we held our press conference 
in March of this year, I said 
that I thought the Flint water 

crisis was a toxic brew of 
intolerance, 
incompetence 

and ignorance.”

The report was a consensus 

document 
that 
contained 

36 findings about the crisis 
and placed the majority of 
the blame on the Michigan 
Department of Environmental 

Quality, a state government 
agency 
meant 
to 
ensure 

water and air quality are up 
to healthy standards. The 
emergency manager, Snyder 
and the ill-prepared Flint 
water treatment plant were 
also to blame for the disaster.

In an interview, Thompson 

said her research has largely led 
her to conclude that the slow 
downfall and ultimate economic 
collapse of Detroit can be traced 
back to former President Lyndon 
B. Johnson’s Law Enforcement 
Assistance Act, which, Thompson 
argues, started the so-called war 
on crime and the incentivization 
of incarceration that came with it.

“As 
important 
as 

deindustrialization and ‘white 
flight’ are, we have also given 
short shrift to the punitive turn 
the embrace of mass incarceration 
had in destroying cities like 
Detroit,” she said.

The Act intended to strengthen 

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NEWS......................... 2A

OPINION.....................4A

S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 A

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

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

F A C E O F F . . . . . . . . . . 1 B

This period, the Daily’s 

survey was sent to 1,000 
University 
of 
Michigan 

students and received 175 
responses over a period of two 
days. The sample was chosen 
randomly 
from 
University 

undergraduates 
and 
is 

reported in the aggregate.

Support 
remained 

largely the same for most 
candidates from the previous 
surveys, 
with 
70 
percent 

of 
respondents 
expressing 

support 
for 
Democratic 

presidential 
nominee 

Hillary Clinton, 13 percent 
for Republican presidential 
nominee Donald Trump and 
9 percent for Libertarian 
presidential nominee Gary 
Johnson. However, support 
dropped notably for Green 
Party presidential candidate 
Jill Stein, to 0.61 percent, 
down from 3 percent in 
the previous survey. Seven 
percent of respondents opted 
for “other.”

Following 
the 
passage 

of 
the 
voter 
registration 

See POLL, Page 3A

AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

University of Michigan Housing residential advisors and other staff members hold signs that read “You Belong Here” as they gather at the final meeting point of the 
march on the Diag Monday.

About 400 University of 

Michigan Housing residential 
advisers, 
peer 
academic 

success specialists, diversity 
peer 
educators 
and 
other 

staff members participated in 
three collaborative marches 
across 
Central 
Campus, 

North Campus and the Hill 
Neighborhood 
Monday 

evening.

March participants walked 

through the community centers 
of every campus dorm in a 

stance of solidarity for dorm 
residents in light of the anti-
Black, anti-LGBTQ and anti-
Islam posters found in Mason 
and Haven Halls and current 
discussions surrounding the 
release of University President 
Mark 
Schlissel’s 
Diversity, 

Equity & Inclusion Plan earlier 
this month. 

Participants walked from 

dorm to dorm, holding signs 
and 
chanting 
“You 
belong 

here.”

LSA senior Kim Ellsworth, 

community 
center 
manager 

for 
West 
Quad 
Residence 

Hall, said the march was 

organized in a collaborative 
effort for dorm residents to 
feel more included on campus, 
she noted that residential life 
had been raised as an issue in 
community discussions held by 
the University around the DEI 
plan.

“We heard during the open 

forums of President Schlissel 
that students couldn’t express 
(their 
feelings) 
and 
they 

weren’t feeling safe in the 
residence halls, so we wanted 
to come together as a res staff 
to show that we’re a physical 
presence in the halls and on 
campus and show that we 

stand with our residents and 
that they belong here in our 
communities,” Ellsworth said.

Stressing 
the 
importance 

of visibility, Ellsworth said 
University Housing was not 
asking for an administrative 
response, 
but 
rather 
was 

working in support of their 
diversity strategies.

“One of the core values of 

Housing and of the University 
is to make this be a diverse and 
inclusive space for all residents 
because this is their home, 
and when they’re not in class, 
they’re at home,” Ellsworth 

See RESEARCH, Page 2A

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Anti-Black and anti-Islam fliers 

attributed to the alt-right movement 
were found on campus Friday 
morning — the third discovery of 
similarly offensive posters found 
on University of Michigan property 
this semester.

Three of the posters found 

Friday were displayed outside 
South Quad Residence Hall and 
included headlines like “Black and 
White IQ Distributions,” as well 
as text that portrayed differences 
in rates of sexually transmitted 
diseases, intelligence and welfare 
usage between white and Black 
men and women. Some posters 
included a frog meme that has come 
to be associated with the alt-right, 

See FLIERS, Page 3A

See FLINT, Page 3A

KEVIN ZHENG/Daily

Kent Key, director of the Office of Community Scholars and Partnerships at Michigan State University’s College of 
Human Medicine, discusses the Flint water crisis at the Ford School of Public Policy Monday.

See MARCH, Page 3A

Thank your defense

The Michigan football team 

relied on its defense to get 

back into the game in its 

45-28 win Saturday.

» Page 1B

Daily poll shows 
low to no change in 
student opinions 
on 2016 candidates

Residential staff organizes march 
in solidarity with students of color

ELECTION

Sample of campus maintains support 
for Clinton, Trump despite incidents

LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter

Around 400 walk dorm to dorm, holding signs and chanting “you belong here”

ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter 

Prof. looks 
at jail system 
in new book 
on Detroit

STATE

Prof. Thompson talks 
legal, societal roots of 
mass incarceration

WILL FEUER

Daily Staff Reporter

Panelists discuss the ongoing effects 
of Flint water crisis on city residents

Activists, government official say still more work to be done by the state

KAELA THEUT

For the Daily

Little action 
taken after 
new alt-right 
fliers found

CAMPUS LIFE

Students express concerns 
about third incident of 
offensive posters

TIM COHN

Daily Staff Reporter

70%
Hillary Clinton

13%

Donald Trump

Projected Student Candidate Choice

Source: Michigan Daily student survey (rounded to nearest percent

9%

Gary Johnson

.6%

Jill Stein

7%

Other

