Incumbent 
Gov. 
Gretchen 

Whitmer 
and 
Republican 

gubernatorial 
candidate 
Tudor 

Dixon faced off in the first of two 

debates in Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Thursday evening. The debate was 

hosted in the WOOD-TV studio and 

moderated by political reporter Rick 

Albin. 

Whitmer’s campaign announced 

on Aug. 24 that she had accepted 

invitations from WOOD-TV for 

their Oct. 13 debate and WXYZ, 

WXMI and WSYM for their Oct. 25 

debate. Later that day, Dixon said 

she believed the candidates should 

have debated before absentee ballots 

were available to Michigan voters. 

Whitmer opened by emphasizing 

the 
importance 
of 
bipartisan 

collaboration and placing democracy 

and civil discourse above political 

differences. 

“I grew up in a household that was 

bipartisan, and we had very different 

perspectives, but we shared values,” 

Whitmer said. “I still believe there is 

more that unites us than divides us. 

I believe in our democracy. I believe 

in decency and that’s what I want to 

focus on tonight and every minute 

I’m governor of this great state. Let’s 

work together and build a better 

future for our kids.”

In Dixon’s opening remarks, she 

highlighted her experience as a 

mother of school-age children and 

her time working at a steel foundry, 

in addition to criticizing Whitmer’s 

policies over the past four years. 

“I’m 
running 
for 
governor 

because, quite frankly, Gretchen 

Whitmer has let us down,” Dixon 

said. “I’m sure you remember the 

promises that this governor made 

four years ago right here on this 

stage. She’s going to try to attack me 

tonight to distract from her record 

of broken promises, but I’m going to 

focus on the future. I’m going to talk 

about how to make Michigan freer 

and more prosperous.”

The first question of the night, 

written by an Allendale, Mich. 

resident, asked the candidates to 

clarify their positions on abortion 

and describe what limitations or 

exceptions they would support. 

Whitmer said the fall of Roe v. 

Wade undid years of progress for 

reproductive rights and highlighted 

her May lawsuit which is currently 

blocking the enforcement of a 1931 

abortion ban. 

“When 
the 
Supreme 
Court 

overruled Roe v. Wade, it took away 

rights that we had for 49 years,” 

Whitmer said. “Michigan could 

revert to a 1931 law that makes 

(abortion) a felony, no exceptions for 

rape or incest, criminalizing doctors 

and nurses. The only reason that law 

is not in effect right now is because 

of my lawsuit stopping that. When 

Roe fell, Mrs. Dixon celebrated 

that. She said it didn’t even go far 

enough.”

Whitmer 
said 
she 
supports 

Michigan’s abortion policy as is, in 

which abortion is a protected right 

up until the point of fetal viability. 

Dixon said she remains anti-

abortion, with exceptions only for 

when the life of the pregnant person 

is at risk, but recognizes that 

the upcoming ballot initiative 

and Michigan courts will determine 

the legality of abortion in the state, 

regardless of her personal beliefs. 

“I am pro-life with exceptions for 

the life of the mother,” Dixon said. 

“But I understand that this is going 

to be decided by the people of the 

state of Michigan, or by a judge.”

The candidates also discussed 

Proposal 
3, 
a 
constitutional 

amendment on the ballot this 

November that would enshrine the 

right to abortion, contraception 

and reproductive care in the state’s 

constitution. 

Albin 
asked 
Whitmer 
and 

Dixon whether they would accept 

the results of the ballot initiative 

regardless of its alignment with 

their personal beliefs, to which both 

candidates pledged they would. 

Whitmer criticized Dixon for this 

promise, pointing to her support 

for false claims of widespread 

voter fraud in the 2020 presidential 

election and arguing that this speaks 

to her ability to serve as governor.

“Saying she will respect the 

will of the people when she has 

not even embraced the outcome 

of the last election or pledged to 

embrace the outcome of a future 

election tells me we cannot trust 

what she’s saying,” Whitmer said. 

“These are fundamental rights. We 

cannot make any assumption that 

The University of Michigan 

Hospital will be expanding its 

pneumatic tube system across 

its campus after being approved 

at the Sept. 22 Board of Regents 

meeting. The project has an 

estimated cost of $6.5 million 

and is expected to be finished in 

spring 2024.

The pneumatic tubes within 

Michigan 
Medicine 
are 
a 

network of highly-compressed 

air ducts that allow the hospital 

to transport specimens, such as 

blood and urine samples, through 

the pneumatic tube system to the 

laboratory. 

Scott 
Marquette, 
associate 

chief 
operating 
officer 
of 

Michigan 
Medicine, 
said 

pneumatic 
tubes 
increase 

efficiency because healthcare 

workers are able to transmit 

information 
across 
the 
long 

distances between the buildings 

on the medical campus.

“(The pneumatic tube system) 

is kind of like a train system 

that’s built within our building,” 

Marquette said. “So you can 

send one train from one clinic 

to the central lab and from the 

central lab to the inpatient area 

… It allows us to more efficiently 

deliver care across an expansive 

campus very quickly.”

Kristina 
Martin, 
clinical 

pathology operations director for 

Michigan Medicine, explained 

that the pneumatic tube system 

connects multiple health centers, 

such as the main hospital, the 

C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, 

the Von Voigtlander Women’s 

Hospital and other buildings on 

the medical campus. 

“In the laboratory, we can 

also use the pneumatic tube 

system to send blood products,” 

Martin said. “So patients who 

need transfusions … we actually 

pack (the blood products) into 

the pneumatic tube and get those 

sent out.”

Walking down North Ingalls 

Street, you may hear the sound of 

bells ringing from Burton Memorial 

Tower. Located steps from popular 

campus stops such as the Modern 

Languages Building, the Michigan 

League and Hill Auditorium, many 

passersby stop to admire the looming 

structure and to hear the bells ring. 

Many may wonder: What is it like to 

play those notes? What is it like to 

view Ann Arbor from the very top 

of the tower? Who are the people 

playing the bells? 

The first mention of building a 

clock tower on campus is found in an 

editorial in the Michigan Alumnus 

published in 1919, just a few years 

after the clock tower attached to 

University Library was torn down. 

Former University of Michigan 

President Marion LeRoy Burton 

suggested the tower be built in 

memory of the 231 men enrolled at 

the University of Michigan who lost 

their lives in World War I during 

his Commencement address in 

1921. Instead, after Burton’s death 

in 1925, the tower was built in his 

memory. In honor of the University’s 

bicentennial in 2017, the tower was 

given an updated floodlight system, 

which can be programmed to shine 

in a variety of colors, including maize 

and blue.

Students use the Charles Baird 

Carillon, the sonorous bells within 

the top of the tower, for performances 

and for classes. The tower usually 

plays the Westminster Quarters on 

the hour, but on special occasions, 

people can also hear different tunes, 

ranging from classical études to 

more modern tunes like “You’ve 

Got a Friend in Me” from Pixar’s 

“Toy Story.” The music is incredibly 

varied, 
as 
Rackham 
student 

Alexander Gedeon commented.

“You’ll find that there’s a lot 

of music that is written for the 

instrument that is either very old or 

very young,” Gedeon said. “So either 

from the 17th and 18th centuries or 

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RESEARCH

The University of Michigan Central 

Student 
Government 
convened 

Tuesday evening in a hybrid format 

to 
hear 
from 
the 
Coordinated 

Community Response Team (CCRT) 

and Sexual Assault and Harassment 

Law 
Student 
Advocacy 
Services 

(SAHLAS). CSG also discussed a 

possible investigation into the Speaker 

of the CSG assembly.

Rebecca Veidlinger, intermittent 

law lecturer and one of three CCRT 

co-chairs, spoke at the Assembly 

about CCRT’s missions and actions. 

The CCRT was created as a result of 

a settlement in a class-action lawsuit 

filed against the University’s handling 

of the over 1,000 sexual misconduct 

allegations against former athletic 

doctor Robert Anderson.

Veidlinger explained that CCRT 

consists of members from all three 

University campuses and that the team 

is trying to bring in new voices from 

all walks of life instead of listening to 

people in positions of power.

“The goal is largely to examine, 

to learn and to experiment with new 

ways of prevention and response 

to the problem of campus sexual 

misconduct,” Veidlinger said. “It’s an 

attempt to bring some new voices to 

the table with more of a grassroots 

approach rather than top-down.”

Veidlinger urged all students to 

go to CCRT’s website and submit 

information on their suggestions page 

as part of the effort toward bringing 

in more voices from the University 

community.

Engineering junior Zaynab Elkolaly 

asked Veidlinger if there will be a focus 

on addressing inequities for people of 

Color and other marginalized groups 

when it comes to sexual harassment.

Veidlinger said CCRT is giving a 

voice to underrepresented groups 

better by hosting specific listening 

sessions for a wide range of groups, 

including students of Color, staff, 

faculty, the Graduate Employees’ 

Organization, survivors of sexual 

assault and members of the LGBTQ+ 

community. 

“Our listening sessions have been 

targeted at different groups; we had 

some for staff, some for faculty,” 

Veidlinger said. “(With) GEO, we 

have a listening session upcoming, we 

have a listening session with survivors 

of sexual assault. We have one for 

LGBTQ+ students and one for students 

of Color.”

Law students Hannah Mezzacappa 

and Madison Butler also spoke at the 

Assembly about the Sexual Assault and 

Harassment Law Student Advocacy 

Service

(SAHLAS), a Law School student 

organization aiming to educate the 

University community about Title IX 

and advocate for changes in Title IX 

policy. The organization also supports 

complaints undergoing the Title IX 

process, and members were present at 

Tuesday’s CSG meeting to discuss how 

more students can get involved.

Title IX is a U.S. federal civil 

rights law that prohibits sex-based 

discrimination in any educational 

program receiving federal government 

funding.

Mezzacappa said the University 

also has its own rules on what 

constitutes as sexual misconduct that 

are based on Title IX but cover more 

situations.

“University of Michigan prohibits 

sexual assault, sex and gendervbased 

harassment, exploitation, stalking, 

intimate partner violence, sex and 

gendervbased 
discrimination 
and 

retaliation,” Mezzacappa said. “Title 

IX includes quid pro quo, hostile 

environments 
sexual 
harassment, 

intimate partner violence, sex and 

gender based stalking and sexual 

assault.”

Mezzacappa 
and 
Butler 
then 

discussed how victims of sexual 

harassment can report their case 

and receive assistance. The process 

consists of reporting, investigation, 

hearings, 
outcomes, 
sanctions, 

remedies, 
appeal 
and 
adaptive 

resolution. Reporting can be done 

confidentially, but Butler explained 

that the investigation process can be 

retraumatizing for survivors. 

LSA 
sophomore 
Emma 
Sklar 

expressed 
her 
gratitude 
toward 

Mezzacappa and Butler for informing 

everyone about their right to be 

protected from sexual harassment. 

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