In a poll of students conducted
by The Daily earlier this month,
a
majority
said
they
were
unfamiliar
with
Michigan’s
gubernatorial
candidates
this
year. The Daily talked to several
major candidates to help provide
a guide.
The poll was sent to 500
students. Of the respondents,
32 percent of students said they
are most likely to vote for Abdul
El-Sayed, while 48 percent of
respondents
said
they
were
unsure whom they would vote for.
Over 72 percent of the students
reported they were registered
to vote in the state of Michigan
and 70 percent said they are
planning on voting in the 2018
gubernatorial election.
Fifty-two percent of students
said they were not familiar at
all with the candidates, while 0
percent said they were very
familiar.
Of the respondents, 10 percent
said they would vote for a political
party different than the one they
voted for in the 2016 presidential
election, suggesting either they do
not like the direction their party
is going in or they expect different
policies for local government.
Meanwhile,
74
percent
of
students said they would vote for
the same party as they did in the
presidential election, while 16
percent remained unsure.
Democratic
candidate
Gretchen Whitmer is currently
the
Democratic
frontrunner,
polling at 37 percent, tied to
Republican
frontrunner
Bill
Schuette, according to the Detroit
Free Press in September.
According to campaign finance
reports
released
Wednesday,
Whitmer’s campaign holds $1.5
million in bank balance, following
$768,000 raised this quarter for
a total of $2.3 million raised this
election cycle.
Whitmer began her political
career in Michigan’s Congress,
serving for six years in the House
of Representative and serving in
the state Senate since. In 2010 she
was chosen to be the state Senate
democratic leader, making her
the first female leader of a party
caucus in the Senate. However,
Whitmer said it isn’t her gender
that sets her apart from other
Talk of carbon dioxide in U.S.
politics usually revolves around
how to reduce its emission
into the atmosphere. However,
this narrative was rebuked by
entrepreneur
Bernard
David,
founder of the Global CO2
Initiative, who spoke about how
to turn carbon dioxide from an
environmental liability into an
asset at an event Wednesday
afternoon
sponsored
by
the
Graham Sustainability Institute.
“It’s transforming CO2 into
an asset, and CO2 is usually
a negative,” said Engineering
freshman
Loren
Mata,
who
attended the seminar as an
elective requirement for one of
her engineering classes.
David’s
organization,
the
Global CO2 Initiative, hopes to
make products out of carbon
dioxide, which he estimates could
be a $1 trillion business by 2030 if
“all the stars align.”
“Climate change is one of the
most complex challenges of our
time. Left unaddressed, it will
continue to cross geographic,
social, and financial barriers
—
altering
ecosystems
and
fundamentally changing life as we
know it,” the initiative’s website
reads.
David believes taking a business
approach to tackling climate
change with long-term solutions,
like those advocated by the Global
CO2 Initiative, will help mitigate
environmental problems.
“In a free market economy,
unless you can make a business
case about something, it’s not
going to work. People only care
about doing the right thing for a
certain amount of time,” David
said.
Despite his current line of work,
David’s path to the sustainability
business was not intuitive. He did
not have a science background
and had worked as a businessman
for years until he retired 17 years
ago in his early 40s.
About that time, 9/11 happened.
The attacks motivated his father-
in-law, an artist, to draw a
timeline depicting the evolution
of man. This led David to reflect
on the vulnerability of humans in
today’s world.
“I realized that we as a species
want to be here for a while,” David
said.
He realized humans embraced
a
short-term
mindset,
and
he sought to find a long-term
solution to climate change. While
talking to research scientists
at the California Institute of
Technology, he realized that
carbon dioxide, which composed
82 percent of greenhouse gas
emissions in the United States
in 2015, could be turned into an
asset.
Pitching his political platform,
State
Sen.
Patrick
Colbeck,
gubernatorial
candidate,
R-Canton, spoke to members
of the University of Michigan’s
chapter of College Republicans
on Wednesday at the Michigan
Union.
The students in attendance
gathered to question the second-
term
state
senator,
who
is
known to be among the most
conservative members of the
chamber on issues ranging from
Obamacare to road maintenance
— in 2015, 56 percent of non-
federally funded roads were in
poor condition, according to the
Michigan Transportation Asset
Management Council.
LSA senior Enrique Zalamea,
president of College Republicans,
said he invited Colbeck before
frontrunner
Bill
Schuette
because an internal straw poll
of College Republicans indicated
that he was the most popular
of the Republican candidates.
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SUDOKU..................... 2A
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Students largely undecided on
2018 state gubernatorial race
DESIGN BY NOAH SHERBIN
Among students polled, 48 percent said they were still unsure who they would vote for
COLIN BERESFORD &
CARLY RYAN
Daily Staff Reporters
S P O O K Y
Colbeck
highlights
campaign
promises
GOVERNMENT
College Republicans host
State Sen. to hear political
platform, governor’s race
ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
JOHN YAEGER/Daily
Bernard David, Chairman of the Global CO2 Initiative, presents at the Graham Sustainability Institute’s “Transform-
ing CO2 from a Liability into an Asset” at Munger Graduate Residences Wednesday.
Businessman spouts carbon dioxide
as an asset in talk on sustainability
Head of Global CO2 Initiative seeks to turn emissions into marketable products
ZAYNA SYED
For the Daily
Witches and goblins
and Scooby Doo
oh my!
Arts enters some spooky
territory with this week’s
Halloween themed B-Side
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Gretchen Whitmer
Abdul El-Sayed
Bill Schuette
Patrick Colbeck
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In today’s contentious political
climate, it can be difficult to find
common ground with others of
opposing viewpoints. To combat
this, political science professor
Arthur Lupia, created the class
“Beyond Partisanship.”
“Beyond
Partisanship”
intends to find common ground
on important issues like the
opioid
crisis,
homelessness
and housing security, among
others. It addition, it hopes to
push students to find tangible
solutions to these problems.
When approached to create
this undergraduate course, Lupia
sought to encourage students to
facilitate discussion with those
of differing ideologies.
“The aim is to find issues on
which 70 percent of Republicans
and 70 percent of Democrats
agree,” Lupia said. “We want to
identify those problems, as well
as real solutions, in both the
private and public sectors, and
bring them to the table.”
Professor
spearheads
course on
dialogue
ACADEMICS
Political science class
focuses on carving out
common ground in policy
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