About 
150 
students 

gathered Monday afternoon 
in an Angell Hall auditorium 
for “Election 2016: Looking 
Under the Hood and Down the 
Road,” a panel of University of 
Michigan’s political science 
faculty also discussed the 
recent presidential election 
as a monumental shift in 
American politics.

The panel consisted of six 

LSA faculty members with 
concentrations in American 
politics, political psychology, 
public policy and the Middle 
East. 
Each 
presented 
an 

individual response to the 
election 
based 
on 
their 

concentration.

Political 
Science 
Prof. 

Lisa Disch moderated the 
panel and said the event was 
predominantly a data-based 
response to the election.

“We in political science 

are in a position where we’re 
able to look at the events of 
the past month in a way that’s 

about fact, not perception, 
and we can help explain what 
might be coming next,” she 
said.

Each panelist emphasized 

in their remarks the general 

uncertainty 
of 
the 
data 

already 
collected 
about 

the election and the future 
political 
climate. 
Panelist 

Ted Brader, a professor of 
political science, discussed 

the reliability of pre-election 
polls, emphasizing that they 
fell ultimately within a fair 
margin of error but were 
clearly not infallible.

On Monday, Laurence Ball, 

professor 
of 
economics 
at 

Johns 
Hopkins 
University, 

charged that the United States 
Federal Reserve was partially 
responsible 
for 
the 
2008 

bankruptcy for neglecting to bail 
out the Lehman Brothers. The 
lecture was in Hutchins Hall to a 
group of about 30 students.

Lehman 
was 
the 
fourth-

largest investment bank in the 
United States when it declared 
bankruptcy. 
A 
combination 

of falling stock prices, rating 
downgrades, increases in credit 
default swaps premiums on its 
debt and negative commentary 
in the media would result in the 
largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. 

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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

CL A SSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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

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

See BALLOTS, Page 3

A attack on the Ohio State 

University’s campus Monday 
morning left at least nine 
victims injured. According to 
a statement from OSU police, 
a suspect, who was shot by 
campus police, ran victims over 
with a car and cut individuals 

with a butcher knife. Eight of 
those injured are stable, but 
one is in critical condition, 
according to the Associated 
Press.

The AP also stated that the 

shooter has been identified 
as OSU student Abdul Razak 
Ali Artan by the university’s 
public safety director Monica 
Moll. Artan was killed by Alan 
Horujko, a police officer at 

the university, after crashing 
his vehicle into pedestrians 
and attacking students with a 
knife.

A 
shelter 
in 
place 
on 

campus 
was 
lifted 
late 

Monday morning, after initial 
reports of an active shooter 
situation. 
Law 
enforcement 

officials are still conducting 
an investigation and campus 
sweep.

OSU police told media they 

did alo receive reports of shots 
fired in a campus building, 
although no reports of bullet 
wounds or injuries have been 
released. No deaths have been 
reported aside from a shooter, 
according to the AP.

OSU emergency management 

tweeted 
Monday 
morning 

alerting students about the 
situation, urging them to seek 

refuge and defend themselves 
if necessary. According to the 
tweet, a shooter was active in 
Watts Hall, OSU’s materials 
science 
and 
engineering 

building.

The 
“run, 
hide, 
fight” 

recommendation 
is 
part 

of 
standard 
active 
shooter 

protocol, 
advising 
students 

to evacuate if possible, get 

See LEHMAN, Page 3

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See ELECTION, Page 3

See OSU, Page 3

Jason 
Furman, 
President 

Barack Obama’s chief economist, 
spoke to a crowd of about 165 on 
public policy’s role in reducing 
poverty and the effect of certain 
Obama administration policies 
on income at the University of 
Michigan Monday.

During the talk, Furman said 

the United States has recently 
experienced a surprisingly strong 
recovery after the 2008 financial 
crisis, a worldwide economic 
downturn that resulted in mass 
job loss and decreased consumer 
spending.

In the years following the 

crisis, the unemployment rate 
has fallen below expectations, 

See ECONOMIST, Page 3

Zak Attack

For better or worse, the 

Michigan men’s basketball 

team is relying on Zak Irvin 

for a large portion of its 

production.

» Page 8

MASON SWIRES/By The Lantern

Elizabeth Riter, an advisor in the College of Engineering, is emotionally embraced by her 
husband on the corner of College and Woodruff Ave outside the police cordons after an attack 
on the OSU campus on Nov. 28 outside of Watts Hall.

KEVIN ZHENG/Daily

Political Science Prof. Nicholas Valentino discusses gender attitudes towards the election at Angell Hall Monday.

Three weeks after Election 

Day, 
the 
2016 
presidential 

election has officially been 
certified in Michigan by the 
state Board of Canvassers, 
with President-elect Donald 
Trump 
winning 
the 
state 

popular vote — along with all 16 
electoral votes — by a 10,704-
vote margin over Democratic 
presidential nominee Hillary 
Clinton.

In 
total, 
Trump 
won 

2,279,543 votes to Clinton’s 
2,268,839, according to the 
Michigan Secretary of State. 
Candidates now have 48 hours 
to file for a recount.

Jill Stein, former Green 

Party presidential candidate, 
announced Monday that she 
has filed petitions to recount 
the vote in Wisconsin and 
Pennsylvania, charging that 
there might have been hacks 
or irregularities in the way votes 
were counted.

“After a presidential election 

tarnished by the use of outdated 
and unreliable machines and 
accusations 
of 
irregularities 

and hacks, people of all political 
persuasions are asking if our 
election results are reliable,” 
Stein wrote in her statement. “We 

MASON SWIRES/By The Lantern

Top: Police vehicles line up alongside College Road after the attack on Ohio State’s campus on Nov. 28.
Bottom: Columbus Police, Fire and other Federal agencies surround the attacker’s car that hit multiple 
students outside of Watts Hall on Nov. 28.

Michigan 
certified for 
Trump in 
final count

Attack at Ohio State injures at least nine 

ELECTION

Suspect, identified as a student, crashed his vehicle into pedestrians and cut victims with a knife

LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter

Prof. talks 
research 
on Lehman 
bankruptcy

CAMPUS LIFE

Professor talks role 
of Federal Reserve in 
2008 recession

HEATHER COLLEY

For the Daily

Faculty panel examines uncertain U.S. 
political climate following election

Professors discuss polling issues, inconsistant data at event

EMMA RICHTER

For the Daily

Top Obama 
economist 
discusses 
recovery

GOVERNMENT

Jason Furman talks 
economy growth, impact 
of president’s policy

RHEA CHEETI
Daily Staff Reporter

State race determined 
three weeks after election 
by narrow margin

KEVIN BIGLIN
Daily Staff Reporter

