Last year, LSA sophomore
Lauren
Schandevel
and
Sociology Prof. Dwight Lang
had an informal discussion
about the absence of social class
in University of Michigan class
curriculum.
Schandevel
and
Lang
both noted that though the
University
has
a
Women’s
Studies
Department
and
a
Department of Afroamerican
and African Studies, which
intersect with social class, there
is no major that focuses solely
on socioeconomic status. Fast
forwarding to tjos uear, that
conversation
has
motivated
Schandevel to recruit a team
of students and speak to other
faculty
about
developing
a
potential new interdisciplinary
major specifically for the study
of social class.
Schandevel said though few
programs on social class exist at
other universities, the discipline
is timely and needed because of
the rise in income inequality
over the past few decades.
According
to
the
Ecnomic
Policy Institute, between 2009
and 2012, the the top 1 percent
captured 95 percent of income
growth in The United States.
“I think we’re at a state right
now in America where income
inequality is at an all-time
high,” she said. “There’s really
Wednesday at the Ford School
of Public Policy, Public Policy
Prof. Daniel Raimi moderated a
discussion about the two major
presidential nominees’ energy
and climate policy plans and
addressed whether automated
vehicles will have a negative
or positive impact on reducing
greenhouse gas emissions.
The
panel,
which
was
sponsored by the University of
Michigan Energy Institute and
University of Michigan Center
for Local, State, and Urban Policy,
was
titled
“Energy,
Climate
Change, and the 2016 Elections.”
Panelist Mark Barteau, the
director of the Energy Institute
and
professor
of
chemical
engineering, described the vastly
different
proposals
outlined
by
Democratic
presidential
nominee
Hillary
Clinton
and
Republican
presidential
nominee Donald Trump. He
characterized Clinton’s proposals
as drawing on the pragmatism
and
progressivism
that
has
marked Obama’s presidency and
raised concerns about Trump’s
policy proposals because of their
emphasis on increasing fracking,
eliminating energy research and
development and selling federal
lands.
Barteau noted that, however,
though
policies
have
been
outlined, what happens once a
candidate takes office could be
different.
“You would expect (Trump)
to disassemble the Obama legacy
but he likes to be unpredictable,
so you don’t know where he might
head,” Barteau said.
Rackham
student
Nathan
Wood said after the panel that
he is not convinced that the
political will exists in the United
States to push through major
environmental legislation.
“There are other countries that
propose bold policies and even
they have difficulties in trying
to trickle them down to the state
and local level,” Wood said. “It is
a matter of actually implementing
changes even though people have
grown up, very much so, doing
something else.”
Panelist
Barry
Rabe,
professor of public policy and
environmental policy, said in
the last 25 years, nearly every
combination of different political
party control of the executive and
legislative branch has existed, but
no major legislation pertaining to
the environment has been passed.
He said not only have politics on a
national level become increasingly
gridlocked, but state politics have
become increasingly polarized
as state legislatures drift toward
higher concentrations of one
party or another.
“(There is) a tendency to either
make states red or blue rather than
With less than a week until
the presidential election, Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) encouraged
students to vote for Democratic
presidential
nominee
Hillary
Clinton at Western Michigan
University Wednesday discussing
key issues of her campaign from
higher education reform and rising
economic inequality.
Sanders’
speech
primarily
focused on issues he highlighted
during
the
primaries
and
direct
attacks
on
Republican
presidential
nominee
Donald
Trump.
This
strategy
differs
from
other
surrogates
who
recently held rallies in Michigan
for Clinton, such as Democratic
vice presidential nominee Tim
Kaine, who emphasized Clinton’s
personal strengths and refrained
from mentioning Trump by name.
“When we talk about the
economy, we have got to talk about
the moral economy,” Sanders said.
“An economy that works for all
not just the wealthy … We have got
to rekindle hope in America and
create an economy that provides
opportunity for all.”
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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
B - S I D E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 B
See MAJOR, Page 3A
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks to supporters of her father at a campaign event at the Marriott Hotel in Troy,
Michigan Wednesday.
Ivanka Trump, the daughter of
Republican presidential nominee
Donald Trump, highlighted a lack
of safe, affordable childcare and tax
laws that she said negatively impact
women returning to the workforce
at a roundtable discussion and
community
Q&A
session
in
Michigan Wednesday.
“Every issue is a woman’s issue,”
Ivanka Trump said. “That being
said, there are certain areas that
disproportionately affect women.”
According to a recent aggregate of
Michigan polls by RealClearPolitics,
Democratic presidential nominee
Hillary
Clinton
leads
the
Republican nominee by 6.4 points
six days before the election. Despite
her lead, both campaigns have
made numerous stops in the state,
especially in the past few days, in
hopes of winning Michigan’s 16
electoral votes.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Donald
Trump Jr. were also in Michigan
Wednesday, campaigning for the
respective candidates.
During the Wednesday event,
Ivanka Trump, who is an executive
vice
president
of
development
and acquisitions for her father’s
company, The Trump Organization,
emphasized
how
her
father’s
policies could help women.
See SANDERS, Page 3A
EMMA RICHTER/Daily
Public Policy Prof. Barry Rabe discusses the upcoming elections at the Ford School Wednesday.
The B-Side
Senior Arts Editor Jacob
Rich explores the ups and
downs of indie video game
design from the perspective
of several new games.
» Page 1B
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See ENERGY, Page 3A
See IVANKA, Page 3A
The
way
an
individual
perceives his or her neighborhood
safety and quality is predictive
of their mortality, according to
a new study by Shervin Assari,
psychiatric research investigator
in the School of Public Health.
This
predictivity,
however,
differs between Black and white
people.
The
study,
soon
to
be
published in the Journal of
Racial
and
Ethnic
Health
Disparities, used data from the
Americans’
Changing
Lives
Study, a nationally representative
study which interviewed 3,361
white and Black adults 25 years
of age and older in the United
States. Using this dataset, Assari
assessed
the
different
ways
in which safety and quality
are measured to analyze self-
reported
evaluations
from
study participants about their
neighborhood.
Assari
has
done
similar
research in the past regarding
the way environmental effects
contribute to premature death
and mortality impacts white and
See NEIGHBORHOOD, Page 3A
Students
propose new
major on
social class
Ivanka Trump talks education and
child care in Troy campaign stop
ACADEMICS
Absence of socioeconomic status in
curriculum inspires project
RACHEL COHEN
Daily Staff Reporter
Daughter of Republican presidential nominee visits Mich. days before election
TIMOTHY COHN
Daily Staff Reporter
Sanders
campaigns
for Clinton
at Western
ELECTION
Senator talks higher
education reform on
Kalamazoo campus
LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
Lecturers emphasize challenges of
passing environmental legislation
Event explores energy and sustainability of both presidential candidates
TYLER COADY
Daily Staff Reporter
Study looks
at how area
is linked to
mortality
RESEARCH
Negative views found to
be more predictive for
white individuals
ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter