michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, October 18, 2017 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Hans von Spakovsky, The Heritage Foundation’s manager on the election law reform initiative, and Bryan Caplan, economics professor at George Mason University, debated if President Donald Trump’s immigration platform harms the United States in an event hosted by The Michigan Review on Friday night. In his opening statement, Caplan attacked many of the actions Trump has taken against immigration. Caplan explained the economic benefits of immigration and that immigrants do not commit crimes at the rate that Trump has said they do. Caplin said since immigration increases total production, the gains nationally tend to outweigh the losses. Spakovsky, however, advocated for the actions taken by the Trump administration, including laws that need to be enforced — especially for those that enforce legal immigration. “You often hear the terms that we have a broken system,” Spakovsky said. “We don’t have a broken system. We have a very complex set of laws governing immigration and who we allow in and who we don’t allow in. The problem has been for decades is that the political will to enforce the law was not there in Washington.” Undeclared student Dylan Calewarts was disappointed the event didn’t explicitly address if Trump’s immigration plan is hurting the United States, but appreciated the topics discussed. “I thought it was great that the issues were being talked about from a policy angle, not from a personality … angle. I would say that the point was struck home that the Constitution gives 100 percent immigration and naturalization authority to Congress and the only power the president has is what Congress has given him,” Calewarts said. The term “illegal aliens,” Spakovsky added, is the legal term used for illegal immigrants, so they should be called such. The deviation from the legal term, he said, is a way for those who want to enforce immigration law to be discredited. “The reason this has happened, that it’s supposedly politically incorrect to use the correct legal term, is because many people want to blur the line between illegal immigration and legal immigration … the whole point of trying to blur that Through discovery, treatment and implementation — along with the use of analytics and big data — University of Michigan researchers will soon advance specialized medicine and personalized health care. The recently revealed Precision Health initiative — which University President Mark Schlissel announced at his Leadership Breakfast earlier this month — will combine several research areas across the University outside of medical disciplines to create a broad approach to optimizing the use of research data. Aside from incorporating these different disciplines, however, Precision Health is partnered with the University’s Office of the Provost, School of Public Health, College of Engineering and Michigan Medicine. Tina Creguer, Precision Health senior project manager, said the goal is ultimately to improve patient care in a way that addresses several GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 11 ©2017 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 CROS SWO R D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 SPORTS..........B-SECTION CITY Initiative to advance precision health care RESEARCH Multidisciplinary project to aid process of discovery, treatment, implementation ALEXA ST. JOHN Managing News Editor MAX KUANG/Daily Tim Carney, Commentary Editor at the Washington Examiner, moderates the Michigan Review Debate at the Union Friday. Notable conservative thinkers debate Pres. Trump’s immigration platform Hans von Spakovsky and Bryan Caplin headline event hosted by Michigan Review COLIN BERESFORD Daily Staff Reporter Too close for comfort The Michigan football team nearly suffered another upset in Bloomington, but junior running back Karan Higdon came through with a touchdown in overtime to seal a victory. » Page 1B michigandaily.com For more stories and coverage, visit See PRECISION, Page 3A Each week, The Michigan Daily will be publishing a wrap-up of the most important bills proposed in Michigan Legislature over the past seven days: SB 620: This bill would amend a 1976 law on sexual education to require the teaching of consent in sexual education programs in school, to address sexual assault, bystander intervention and dating violence. State Sen. Curtis Hertel, D-East Lansing, proposed the amendment to the bill, calling it “Yes Means Yes” legislation in the press release on his website. “College-aged women are four times more likely than any other age group to face sexual assault. When we send our kids off to college, we should worry about their grades and how they are going to pay for their books, not if they will be sexually assaulted,” Hertel said in the press release. The bill aims to clarify the definition of consent, including what it looks like in a committed relationship. SB 629: This bill seeks to modify See WRAP-UP, Page 3A Weekly MI state house legislative wrap-up GOVERNMENT Legislature passes bills on tax reform, consent, sex education, water quality COLIN BERESFORD Daily Staff Reporter The national spotlight placed on the debate over kneeling during the national anthem was brought Monday night to the Ann Arbor City Council, as four council members knelt during the Pledge of Allegiance. Council members Jason Frenzel, Sumi Kailasapathy, Chip Smith and Chuck Warpehoski all knelt in silent protest during the Pledge of Allegiance, which is traditionally said prior to every City Council meeting. Warpehoski announced his intention to kneel during the pledge prior to the council meeting in a post on his website. In that post, he compared kneeling during the pledge to kneeling during a football game for an injured player. “I can’t speak to what is in each person’s heart, but for me to ‘take a knee’ is an act of attention, of concern, and of respect. And it is in that spirit that I take a knee at tonight’s City Council meeting,” Warpehoski wrote. In the portion of the council meeting designated for announcements from the council members, Kailasapathy explained why she joined Warpehoski in kneeling. “For me democracy is more than just symbolic, it’s actually holding up democratic practices,” Kailasapathy said. “I would want others to judge Members of City Council kneel during nat’l anthem See COUNCIL, Page 3A Four councilmembers knelt in solidarity at the body’s meeting on Monday MORGAN SHOWEN Daily Staff Reporter City residents, students gather for peace and justice solidarity march Over 100 brave the rain to participate in nationwide movement at Hanover Square Park Meeting at Hanover Square Park and marching to Liberty Plaza in the rain, over 100 University of Michigan students, Ann Arbor residents and others took part in the Nationwide Solidarity March for Peace and Justice Saturday afternoon. The Ann Arbor march was in coordination with similar marches across the country, all of which were aimed at promoting peace and standing up to all forms of hatred and violence. According to Ann Arbor resident Corky Wa, an organizer of the march, the purpose of the march was to boost the spirits of those who may be exhausted from constant activism since the start of President Donald Trump’s term. “After months and months of calls and letters and emails and postcards, people are starting to lose their mojo and the hate seems to be stronger,” Wa said. Though the attendance of the march was dampened by rain, Wa led her fellow activists in a protest featuring chants against racism, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the MORGAN SHOWEN Daily Staff Reporter See MARCH, Page 3A See DEBATE, Page 3A CAT MYKOLAJTCHUK/DAILY Protestors at the Nationwide Solidarity March for Peace and Justice in Hanover Park Saturday.