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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
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03/09/20
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Release Date: Monday, March 9, 2020
ACROSS
1 Seminary book
6 E-cigarette output
11 Media-monitoring
org.
14 __-proof: easy to
operate
15 How the cheese
stands, in a kids’
song
16 “__ be in touch!”
17 *Fruity ice cream
treat
19 Be litigious
20 Grandstand
group
21 Cough syrup, e.g.
23 Chad or Rob of
movies
26 Practical joke
28 Lacking a
downside
29 Immobile
31 Chafing result
33 Smart set
member
35 “Great Leap
Forward”
Chinese leader
36 Storybook fiend
39 Upside-down
sleeper
40 Fixed, like the
ends of the
answers to
starred clues
43 Put a jinx on
44 Messy roomie
46 Nourished
47 House speaker
Nancy
49 Luggage tie-on
52 Shops with slicers
53 Gondolier, e.g.
55 Deviate from a
course, at sea
57 MASH shelter
58 Declares to be
true
60 Carpentry wedge
62 Nautical pronoun
63 *Knock one out of
the park
68 Afternoon social
69 Chopin piece
70 Marble mineral
71 Write “mispell,”
say
72 “Jurassic Park”
critters, briefly
73 Well-known
DOWN
1 Highchair wear
2 Wash. neighbor
3 TSA checkpoint
container
4 Shoes sans
laces
5 Sicilian volcano
6 Seven Sisters
college
7 Tyrolean peak
8 C-SPAN figures,
informally
9 French crockful
with a cheesy
crust
10 Captured back
11 *Place for rural
anglers
12 Crossword hints
13 Checkout
worker
18 “Life of Pi”
director Lee
22 Common jazz
combo
23 Tree branches
24 Shaq of NBA
fame
25 *Won 10 in a
row, say
27 2/2/20, for Super
Bowl LIV
30 Many coll. lab
instructors
32 Roll of bills
34 Egyptian queen
in Tut’s time
37 Amber, for one
38 Be
41 Like fresh nail
polish
42 __ XING:
crosswalk sign
45 Restrain, as
one’s breath
48 Captive’s plea
50 Worked together
perfectly
51 Serious cuts
53 Keep moist, as
turkey
54 [none of the
above]
56 Grinch victim
59 Zap with a Taser
61 Somali-born
model
64 Pointless bother
65 Squeal on the
mob
66 Rugged vehicle,
for short
67 “Game of
Thrones”
patriarch Stark
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6A —Monday, March 9, 2020
News
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Sanders: My impression is that
older people voted in significantly
higher numbers, their percentages
went way up. More younger people
did vote, but nowhere near the
level of increase of older people.
But here is the challenge that we
face. Younger people are in fact the
most progressive young generation
in the history of this country, that’s
your generation. The problem is
that it has historically been very
hard to get young people to vote in
large numbers. We’re making some
progress. 2018 was a good example
where a lot more younger people
voted than four years previous to
that. I think you’re going to see the
same thing now. But historically it
has been hard, and that’s why we’re
here on the campus, that’s why
we visit many campuses: to make
it clear to young people that in a
democracy they have an obligation
to participate, that it’s not good
enough to moan and groan about
all the concerns you have, you’ve
got to get involved and stand up
for what you believe in, and that
means participating in the political
progress.
TMD: Student loans are a very
important issue for many people
here at the University of Michigan
and universities across the country.
What do you say to your opponents
who believe that canceling student
loan debt is a handout?
Sanders: Well, what I say is if
Trump could give a trillion dollars
in tax breaks to the top 1 percent and
large multinational corporations,
if Congress 12 years ago could bail
out the crooks on Wall Street who
destroyed our economy through a
Wall Street bailout — what do you
call those things? Those things
are handouts, but handouts that
are going to the very rich and
the powerful. I think that young
people who have done the right
thing, they’re trying to get a decent
education, what we’re finding is that
they’re struggling very hard to buy
a home, to buy a car, to get married,
to have kids. I think it is totally
appropriate through a modest tax
on Wall Street speculation to raise
enough money which will make
public colleges and universities like
the University of Michigan tuition-
free and at the same time cancel all
student debt. So in other words, 12
years ago we bailed out big time the
people on Wall Street who nearly
destroyed the economy. I think
through a modest tax on Wall Street
speculation, they can help us help
the younger generation.
TMD: And now we have more of
a fun question: Have you seen any
of the memes about yourself? If so,
what’s your favorite?
Sanders: No. Well, I probably
have, there’s so much stuff out there.
Literally I have a hard time keeping
up with it.
SANDERS
From Page 2A
LSA
senior
Yosef
Gross,
no relation to Amanda Gross,
commented on Gore’s political
legacy and the impact of his
environmental policies on the
upcoming election.
“I think he has the potential
to be a really good choice as the
commencement speaker because
his own political experience is
so relevant to what’s happening
this political cycle,” Gross said.
“When I think about Gore
conceding the presidency to
Bush in 2000 to make sure that
the country could move forward,
even though he believed that
the election had been stolen
from him, I can’t help but notice
the contrast with our current
president, who I believe would
never do the same.
Additionally,
actress
and
playwright
Dominique
Morisseau, a University alum
and Detroit native, will be the
Rackham
Graduate
School
speaker at its commencement on
May 1 at Hill Auditorium.
Morisseau, a recipient of the
MacArthur Foundation’s “genius
grant,” has written numerous
plays, including several about
Detroit.
She has maintained close ties
with the University, performing
her 2017 play “Blood at the Root”
at the University’s Arthur Miller
Theatre.
Currently,
Morisseau
is
a
playwright
in
Signature
Theatre’s
Residency
Five
program in New York City.
“Morisseau is one of America’s
most
produced
playwrights,
acclaimed
for
her
lyrical
dialogue, emotionally complex
characters
and
authentic
portrayals
of
people
and
communities
struggling
with
economic and social change,” the
press release reads.
Daily News Editor Claire Hao
can be reached at cmhao@umich.
edu.
COMMENCEMENT
From Page 6A
The
University
of
Michigan’s
2019
Central
Student Government voter
turnout
ranked
fourth
highest
across
Big
Ten
schools, according to The
Michigan
Daily’s
analysis
of voting trends in student
government elections.
The Daily analyzed Winter
2019
—
the
most
recent
executive ticket election —
data for 13 of the Big Ten
schools. The University of
Illinois student government
was not included because
voting data could not be
obtained.
On
the
high
end
for
the
Winter
2019
student
government elections, 16.4
percent
of
University
of
Nebraska
undergraduates
voted.
The
lowest
voter
turnout
rate
was
at
Rutgers
University-New
Brunswick, where 2 percent
of
undergraduate
students
voted.
From 2015 to 2017, voter
turnout for CSG elections fell
steadily from 20.1 percent
to 17.9 percent but jumped
to 23.9 percent in 2018. In
2019, the figure declined to
approximately 11.9 percent.
Based
on
this
data,
if
rankings were based on the
2018
election
as
opposed
to the 2019 election, the
CSG voter turnout would
have
been
approximately
50 percent more than the
next highest school. Instead,
because of the double-digit
drop, it was fourth.
As
deputy
elections
director during the Winter
2019 election and elections
director for the Fall 2019
election, Law student Austin
Del Priore administered and
advertised the elections. He
said he and his team handed
out flyers on the Diag and
emailed the student body to
encourage students to vote.
Del Priore attributed last
year’s voter turnout to the
low competitiveness of the
election. In 2019, there was
one
party,
Engage,
while
there were eight in 2018’s
election.
“I think that generally …
the more executive tickets
you have running, the more
likely you’re to see higher
voter turnout,” Del Priore
said. “So I think in (the
Winter 2019) election, there
were actually fewer executive
tickets than had been to go
in past years and so I think
that we speculated that that
was a large driver of lower
turnout.”
The University’s student
turnout
rate
for
Central
Student
Government
elections
counters
voting
trends for national elections.
University
student
voter
turnout rate for the 2016
presidential
election
and
the 2018 midterm elections
were about 45 percent and 41
percent respectively — two to
four times the turnout in the
Central Student Government
elections of those same years.
For
Michigan
State’s
student
government,
the
Associated
Students
of
Michigan State, executives
are elected through ASMSU
representatives rather than by
direct election by the student
body.
ASMSU
President
Mario Kakos attributed the
low voter turnout rate at
his school to the structure
of
ASMSU
elections
and
the $100 cap on candidate
campaign expenditures.
“The
idea
behind
(the
spending caps) is to ensure
that
it’s
equitable
for
anyone who wants to run
for any position. So you’re
not
going
to
see
people
passing out 1,000 buttons.
You’re not going to see any
yard signs,” Kakos said. “I
personally don’t believe that
student engagement will be
something that is ever really
achieved.”
CSG’s compiled code allows
individual
candidates
to
spend $150 of personal funds
on their campaigns, while
executive tickets can spend
up to $500. The code also
limits the amount students
can donate to candidates.
Individual
candidates
are
only allowed $75 per donor,
while executive tickets are
permitted $250. Further, a
donor can contribute no more
than $500 in a particular
election.
Aneesh Deshpande, spring
elections committee chair of
Rutgers University Student
Assembly
attributed
the
drop of their turnout from 12
percent in 2018 to 2 percent in
2019 to a lack of competition
in the latter year. He further
highlighted
that
Rutgers,
being a primarily commuter
school, witnesses low turnout
rates because the majority of
students live off-campus.
However,
Jared
Long,
internal vice president of
University
of
Nebraska’s
student
government,
credited
their
high
voter
turnout to their focus on
issues that solely concern
students, something he said
distinguishes
them
from
other student governments
that tend to focus on issues on
which they have little impact,
like immigration.
“A lot of other Big Ten
student governments focus
on a lot of hot-button issues,
things that really parallel
the
American
government
and the American political
system,” Long said. “And
while,
of
course,
we
all
as engaged students have
options in regards to what
policies are happening at the
national level, we at Nebraska
avoid those hot-button issues,
which I think results in the
fact that we are not alienating
large parts of the student
body.”
Long
also
spoke
about
the importance of student
participation in the activities
of
their
school’s
student
government
through
voting and the necessity of
increasing voter turnout. He
said he did not expect his
school to be the highest at 16
percent, conceding that it is
not a turnout rate to be proud
of.
“Unfortunately,
student
government is not something
students take interest in when
they really should,” Long
said. “When administrators
are tackling a problem and
they want student input, they
turn to student government
members.
So
student
government is the easiest way
to get connected with the
university
administration.
For that reason alone, I think
people should take an interest
in student government.”
Jinwook
Hwang,
the
University
of
Maryland
Student
Government
Association’s
director
of
communication,
credited
their high voter turnout to
consistently
competitive
elections as well as the ticket
system. Hwang said few other
schools use the ticket system,
in which four students can
run together on a unified
ticket.
“UMD’s voter turnout was
unique in the fact that people
don’t really see double-digit
turnout but it was possible
for us mainly because there
was a lot of competition,”
Hwang said. “We had three
different
teams
running
against each other and so the
competition was advanced
when candidates started to
reach out to communities that
usually did not get reached
out to.”
In Ann Arbor as of Sunday
night, two parties, Mobilize
and Change at Michigan,
have launched campaigns for
the
University’s
upcoming
2020 winter elections.
Public Health junior Grace
Sleder didn’t vote in the
Winter 2019 elections. She
attributed her decision to
a lack of information about
the issues and candidates’
platforms.
“I think in my freshman
year I voted, but it’s only
because I knew someone who
was running,” Sleder said.
“For a presidential election,
you wouldn’t just vote based
on who you think has the best
sounding name or something,
you want to be informed on
the issues, and I just don’t
feel like I’m informed enough
to make a good decision or
vote.”
She said she wishes there
was a better system to learn
about what each candidate
was running on and what
voting for them meant, such
as including the candidates’
platforms on the email the
elections director sends to
the student body informing
them of the elections.
On the other hand, Public
Policy junior Bryce Brannen
voted in 2019 CSG elections
after she found out about them
through
current
President
Ben
Gerstein’s
Facebook
page, who was running at the
time, and saw posters of other
party candidates. Brannen
said voting was essential for
her as the work CSG does
directly impacts her day-to
day-life as a student.
“I think voting is important
no
matter
how
small
or
how big (the government
is),” Brannen said. “Voting
obviously makes a difference
and is a great way to have
your voice be heard and make
sure that there are people
who are representing you
that you ideally agree with.”
Reporters Navya Gupta and
Julia Rubin can be reached
at itznavya@umich.edu and
julrubin@umich.edu.
University ranks 4th out of Big Ten schools in
voter turnout for student government elections
Michigan Daily analysis of voting trends across comparable institutions reveals disparity in electoral participation
NAVYA GUPTA
& JULIA RUBIN
Daily Staff Reporters