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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Lecture titled “Don’t Blame the Working-Class” debunks misconceptions

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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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