Georgetown
University

faculty Sherry Lee Linkon,
English
and
American

Studies professor, and John
Russo,
visiting
scholar
at

the Kalmanovitz Initiative
for Labor and Working Poor.
Linkon and Russo focused on
patterns of voting among the
working class with an eye on
the 2018 midterm elections.

The
lecture,
“Don’t

Blame
the
Working-Class:

Understanding
Working-

Class Politics and Culture
in
the
Trump
Era,”

stemmed
from
the
book

Linkon and Russo recently
co-authored, “Social Costs of
Deindustrialization,”
about

the
city
of
Youngstown,

Ohio. Youngstown suffered
immensely from the downfall
of the steel industry that had
been central to their economy.

Linkon began the lecture

by
affirming
those
who

voted
for
Donald
Trump

largely came from higher-
class
demographics,
in

contrast to popular belief.
While the white working-
class
did
contribute
to

Trump’s election, she found
that
Hillary
Clinton
won

by
a
significant
margin

among voters of low-income
brackets.
Trump’s
largest

margin of victory was from
people who made $200,000
or more. Linkon emphasized

other factors, such as race and
education level, as indicators
to votes.

“The one factor you could

most clearly predict for who
voted for Trump versus who
voted for Clinton was race,”
she said.

Linkon
also
explored

common
misconceptions

about why the white working
class
voted
for
Trump,

such as lack of education,

discontent with being left
behind by global economy and
racism. According to Linkon,
disenfranchisement and lack
of trust in politics played a
larger part. She referenced
a New York Times poll that
asked working class voters
which elected officials they
felt were fighting for them.
The most common response
was
not
Democrats
or

Republicans, but rather, “no

one.”

“As
we
see
it,
Trump

really did appeal to many
disaffected voters, but we
have
to
understand
that

they’re
disaffected
for
a

variety of reasons, including
people having seen politician
after politician come to places
like Youngstown and make
promises, and then went to
Washington and did nothing

At least three University

of Michigan students were
recently
diagnosed
with

mumps, according to a campus-
wide email sent Tuesday from
Robert Ernst, the executive
director
of
the
University

Health
Service,
which

provides health care services
to University students, faculty
and staff.

“I want to assure you that we

are coordinating with campus
partners, Michigan Medicine,
and state and county public
health authorities to identify,
treat and prevent mumps,”
Ernst wrote in the email.

According
to
a

Washtenaw
County
Health

Department fact sheet, the
virus, which Ernst said is
“fairly easily transmitted,” is
spread through droplets in the
air, such as from coughing or
sneezing. Symptoms of mumps
can appear 12 to 25 days after
the
initial
exposure
and

include headaches, fever, and

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“The news is moving so fast.

We move week after week, from
story to story, from crisis to
crisis, from despair to outrage,
to not knowing where to turn.
Sometimes it’s important to stop
and step back, and remember
that even if the story at the front
of the news has moved forward,
the thing that we were talking
about one month ago. . . is still
very active and still requires our
attention,” Lynette Clemetson,
director of the Wallace House
at the University of Michigan,
opened.

On Tuesday evening, Wallace

House, an organization focused
on encouraging civic engagement
through journalism and the
free press, hosted a panel of
journalists at the Ford School of
Public Policy to discuss the crisis
at the United States-Mexican
border. Though it may not be at
the forefront of recent headlines,
the problem is still affecting
thousands of immigrants daily.

This panel coincided with the

University’s Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion Summit, a week-

long event to reflect on and
evaluate the initiatives Michigan
has taken to improve its racial
composition and climate.

Social Work student Joanna

Jaimes said she came to the event
interested in the intersection of
social work and politics, having
grown up listening to journalist
Maria Elena Salinas, who spoke
at the event.

“Latino students on campus

and
our
representation
is

important at events like this,”
Jaimes said.

Salinas is the host of her own

news-magazine show, “The Real
Story with Maria Elena Salinas,”
and
has
received
numerous

awards recognizing her work in
investigative journalism and the
awareness she has brought to the
implications of the United States’
immigration policies.

Public
Policy
graduate

student
Jose
Javier
Lujano

introduced Salinas, praising the
fundamental trust she has been
able to build with the people she
is interviewing.

“(Salinas) knew her audience’s

stories as if they were her own,”
Lujano said.

Salinas moderated a panel

composed of Ann Lin, associate

professor in the Ford School of
Public Policy, Aaron Nelsen,
2019
Knight-Wallace
Fellow,

and Ginger Thompson, a senior
reporter at ProPublica. The
panelists discussed the trajectory
of current American policies
and the political discourse over
what immigration laws actually
state versus how they are being
enforced.

Lin claimed the current

immigration crisis is a result
of the disconnect between
the actual policies
and
a

consideration
of
their

implications. The 1997 Florez v.
Reno settlement set restrictions
on how long children can be
separated from their families
while
their
parents
are

undergoing court proceedings,

whether that be in the process
of applying for asylum, or in the
process of being prosecuted for
re-entering the United States
after originally being deported.

Thompson
explained

the
Obama
administration

was previously sued by the
American Civil Liberties Union
for
detaining
families
for

too long, violating the Florez
settlement. This violation is the
reasoning behind the Trump
administration
separating

children from their families; so
that the families as a whole are

not detained unlawfully.

The
Trump

administration is also
separating
children

from their families in

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of mumps
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precautions against

“easily transmitted” virus

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Georgetown University Professor Sherry Linkon discusses how deindustrialization has created a cultural shift at the
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Members of the University

of Michigan Students Allied
for Freedom and Equality and
La Casa gathered in the Diag
on Tuesday afternoon for an
annual demonstration, focused
on the border wall between
Israel and West Bank Palestinian
territories, as well as the border
wall between the United States
and Mexico.

Two large painted mock walls

stood in the Diag, and members
of SAFE and La Casa gathered
in front of them to chant, sing
and listen to experiences of
their classmates. One SAFE
member,
who
requested
to

remain anonymous due to safety
concerns, explained the parallels
between the two walls, pointing
to specific discrimination faced
by students because of these
borders.

“We’re putting them up to

raise awareness about the unjust
human rights violations that
happen at both of these borders,”
the SAFE member said. “The
same things that are happening at
the U.S.-Mexico border are also

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SAFE, La
Casa raise
mock walls
in protest

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Annual demonstration
challenges violations at
Mexico, Palestine borders

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