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Students propose new major on social class
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Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks to supporters of her father at a campaign event at the Marriott Hotel in Troy, Michigan Wednesday.
Ivanka Trump talks education and child care in Troy campaign stop
Daughter of Republican presidential nominee visits Mich. days before election TIMOTHY COHN Daily Staff Reporter
Ivanka Trump, the daughter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, highlighted a lack of safe, affordable childcare and tax laws that she said negatively impact women returning to the workforce
at a roundtable discussion and community Q&A session in Michigan Wednesday. “Every issue is a woman’s issue,” Ivanka Trump said. “That being said, there are certain areas that disproportionately affect women.” According to a recent aggregate of Michigan polls by RealClearPolitics, Democratic presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton leads the Republican nominee by 6.4 points six days before the election. Despite her lead, both campaigns have made numerous stops in the state, especially in the past few days, in hopes of winning Michigan’s 16 electoral votes. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Donald Trump Jr. were also in Michigan
Wednesday, campaigning for the respective candidates. During the Wednesday event, Ivanka Trump, who is an executive vice president of development and acquisitions for her father’s company, The Trump Organization, emphasized how her father’s policies could help women. See IVANKA, Page 3A
Absence of socioeconomic status in curriculum inspires project RACHEL COHEN Daily Staff Reporter
Last year, LSA sophomore Lauren Schandevel and Sociology Prof. Dwight Lang had an informal discussion about the absence of social class in University of Michigan class curriculum. Schandevel and Lang both noted that though the University has a Women’s Studies Department and a Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, which intersect with social class, there is no major that focuses solely on socioeconomic status. Fast forwarding to tjos uear, that conversation has motivated
Lecturers emphasize challenges of Sanders campaigns passing environmental legislation
Schandevel to recruit a team of students and speak to other faculty about developing a potential new interdisciplinary major specifically for the study of social class. Schandevel said though few programs on social class exist at other universities, the discipline is timely and needed because of the rise in income inequality over the past few decades. According to the Ecnomic Policy Institute, between 2009 and 2012, the the top 1 percent captured 95 percent of income growth in The United States. “I think we’re at a state right now in America where income inequality is at an all-time high,” she said. “There’s really See MAJOR, Page 3A
ELECTION
RESEARCH
for Clinton at Western
Event explores energy and sustainability of both presidential candidates
Study looks at how area is linked to mortality
Senator talks higher education reform on Kalamazoo campus
Wednesday at the Ford School of Public Policy, Public Policy Prof. Daniel Raimi moderated a discussion about the two major presidential nominees’ energy and climate policy plans and addressed whether automated vehicles will have a negative or positive impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The panel, which was sponsored by the University of Michigan Energy Institute and University of Michigan Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy, was titled “Energy, Climate Change, and the 2016 Elections.” Panelist Mark Barteau, the director of the Energy Institute and professor of chemical engineering, described the vastly different proposals outlined by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. He characterized Clinton’s proposals as drawing on the pragmatism and progressivism that has marked Obama’s presidency and raised concerns about Trump’s policy proposals because of their emphasis on increasing fracking, eliminating energy research and development and selling federal lands. Barteau noted that, however, though policies have been outlined, what happens once a candidate takes office could be different.
LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
With less than a week until the presidential election, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) encouraged students to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Western Michigan University Wednesday discussing key issues of her campaign from higher education reform and rising economic inequality. Sanders’ speech primarily focused on issues he highlighted during the primaries and direct attacks on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. This strategy differs from other surrogates who recently held rallies in Michigan for Clinton, such as Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, who emphasized Clinton’s personal strengths and refrained from mentioning Trump by name. “When we talk about the economy, we have got to talk about the moral economy,” Sanders said. “An economy that works for all not just the wealthy … We have got to rekindle hope in America and create an economy that provides opportunity for all.” See SANDERS, Page 3A
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“You would expect (Trump) to disassemble the Obama legacy but he likes to be unpredictable, so you don’t know where he might head,” Barteau said. Rackham student Nathan Wood said after the panel that he is not convinced that the political will exists in the United States to push through major environmental legislation. “There are other countries that propose bold policies and even
they have difficulties in trying to trickle them down to the state and local level,” Wood said. “It is a matter of actually implementing changes even though people have grown up, very much so, doing something else.” Panelist Barry Rabe, professor of public policy and environmental policy, said in the last 25 years, nearly every combination of different political party control of the executive and
legislative branch has existed, but no major legislation pertaining to the environment has been passed. He said not only have politics on a national level become increasingly gridlocked, but state politics have become increasingly polarized as state legislatures drift toward higher concentrations of one party or another. “(There is) a tendency to either make states red or blue rather than See ENERGY, Page 3A
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Public Policy Prof. Barry Rabe discusses the upcoming elections at the Ford School Wednesday.
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Negative views found to be more predictive for white individuals ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter
The way an individual perceives his or her neighborhood safety and quality is predictive of their mortality, according to a new study by Shervin Assari, psychiatric research investigator in the School of Public Health. This predictivity, however, differs between Black and white people. The study, soon to be published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, used data from the Americans’ Changing Lives Study, a nationally representative study which interviewed 3,361 white and Black adults 25 years of age and older in the United States. Using this dataset, Assari assessed the different ways in which safety and quality are measured to analyze selfreported evaluations from study participants about their neighborhood. Assari has done similar research in the past regarding the way environmental effects contribute to premature death and mortality impacts white and See NEIGHBORHOOD, Page 3A
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