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GOVERNMENT
Clinton talks importance of registering young voters ELIZABETH XIONG/Daily
After hiatus with media, nominee discusses higher education in press call
Students socalize at the LGBT Queer Welcome Carnival at Regents Plaza Thursday.
Spectrum Center hosts second LGBT Queer Welcome Carnival Event aims to foster community and inclusivity as new semester begins ALEX COTT
Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan’s Spectrum Center hosted their second annual LGBT Queer Welcome Carnival Thursday in Regents Plaza, greeting students
with free T-shirts, cotton candy, popcorn and carnival games. Some carnival attendees were returning students, while others were new students coming to their first LGBTQ community event. Several students noted the welcoming and inclusive environment characterizing the
event. “I think it’s really cool to see friendly faces and see that they are welcoming and that it’s a safe space,” said Engineering freshman Jazmyn Rivera. “It’s great to have a community that you belong to on campus.” Attendees also included
international students who were experiencing everything the Spectrum Center has to offer for the first time, allowing them the opportunity to reflect on themes of diversity and inclusion. “Coming from a country where it is a taboo topic, this (welcome See CARNIVAL, Page 3A
LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton hosted a press call with college students from across the country Thursday morning, discussing her commitment to younger voters. The call followed a recent push by the Clinton campaign to engage with more reporters. Clinton has only recently started talking directly with reporters again after not holding any press conferences since the start of 2016. On Monday, she announced
she would allow her press pool — the team of reporters designated to cover every aspect of Clinton’s campaign — to travel on her plane. During most presidential election years, the candidates begin traveling with a press pool shortly after the official nomination at respective conventions. This year, both Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump have been much more reluctant than usual to allow their respective press pools to f ly with them. Trump still uses his personal plane without the press on board, See CLINTON, Page 3A
Dean Martin discusses power vacuum NSF grants Prosecutor University on Supreme Court after Scalia’s death candidate
RESEARCH
more than $8 million
ANN ARBOR
Professor develops model to gauge ideological preferences of justices
Money slated to go to several projects in STEM fields WILL FEUER
Daily Staff Reporter
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D– Dearborn) announced recently that the University of Michigan would receive three awards from the National Science Foundation. A cumulative $8,062,199 will span across three separate academic areas to combat a diverse range of global issues. “This NSF funding will go towards advancements in STEM education, manufacturing systems and food production that will help solve some of our most pressing challenges and ensure we continue to lead in a 21st century global economy,” Dingell said in press release. The largest of the three awards, $2,999,968, will be allocated to a project called “Advancing Technologies and Improving Communication of Urine-Derived Fertilizers for Food Production within a RiskBased Framework,” which aims to convert human urine into a safe fertilizer for agricultural crops. See AWARD, Page 2A
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CALEB CHADWELL Daily Staff Reporter
As part of the University of Michigan’s Complex Systems Seminar Series, LSA Dean Andrew Martin spoke Thursday afternoon at West Hall about the “MartinQuinn” scores, a measurement of the liberal or conservative ideologies of U.S. Supreme Court justices, which Martin researched and developed with Kevin Quinn from the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law in 2002. Martin and Quinn’s model encompasses every member of the court from October 1937 to October 2015. It was referenced in multiple academic journals, and most recently in a New York Times article on the Supreme Court. “I think the model does a quite reasonable job of telling us something about the U.S. Supreme Court,” Martin said. “The overall project goal is that we were trying to accomplish is to develop a structural model of revealed preferences, the preferences of the nine justices who sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.” Martin said the model focuses a lot on the “median” justice of the Supreme Court, the one who sits in the middle of the ideological spectrum and is an indicator of how the court’s ideology will impact
decisions. The “median” justice is especially important for the future ideological balance of the court in the wake of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing last February, leaving the Court with only eight justices. “The passing of Justice Scalia has put the Supreme Court at a crossroads,”
Martin is quoted as saying on the LSA website. “If a Democrat appoints the next justice who is confirmed, then Justice Breyer will become the median justice and the liberals will control the court for the first time in a generation. On the other hand, if a Republican appoints the next justice who is
confirmed, Justice Kennedy will once again become the median justice.” Martin said Thursday that scholars try to make inferences about the past based on the model, but reiterated that playing hypotheticals like these are unrealistic. He said it is See DEAN, Page 2A
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LSA Dean Andrew Martin presents initial assumptions and conditions for research regarding the Supreme Court at West Hall Thursday.
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focuses on city police
D’Real Graham calls for series of reforms to AAPD ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie will face a challenge at the ballots this November from a grassroots activist who aims to bring police accountability and voter engagement to the forefront of county politics. Mackie’s challenger is D’Real Graham, program coordinator for 826michigan — a volunteer educational organization. Graham said he wants the role of county prosecutor to be more visible to the public so voters will make informed decisions and not blindly vote along party lines. “When you think about corrections and who is making decisions, when you identify leadership, the county prosecutor is high on the list,” Graham said. “If we are hoping to have local officials ready to amplify our values we have to know them, we have to talk to them, we have to challenge them.” A teacher professionally, Graham hopes to increase civic engagement at the local level and greater transparency overall. “If we don’t understand how See PROSECUTOR, Page 3A
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