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Bare your soul. Get featured in the Daily!” WHISPER Introducing the WHISPER “Look up ‘how to make a long egg’ on youtube” “I find ankles sexy” 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