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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CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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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. 

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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

