March to the Polls
Wendy Davis visits the Island University
Islander Revue showcases talent
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photo by CONNER TICHOTA
Texas governor candidate Wendy Davis (D) marches with students to the O’Connor building where early voting took place on Oct. 29.
by JAMIE FINK news reporter
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n Wednesday, Oct. 29, gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis held a free speech rally inside the Hector P. Garcia Plaza on the campus of Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi to address the Islander students and march them to the polls for early voting. The Island University was one of six stops Davis had on her campaign trail as she spent the day crisscross-
ing the state to encourage people to get out and vote during early voting. Davis, who was late to the event, addressed the crowd in the hot Texas sun as soon as she arrived. “I’m so excited to see your bright and smiling faces out there,” Wendy Davis, current senator, said. “We have six days left until this election, and nothing could define better what I am fighting for than all of you gathered here today.” As part of her speech, Davis addressed the importance of her cam-
paign and the fight she is doing to bring the money back to Texas for education and state schools. “We have been campaigning for over a year, and nothing is more important than what we are fighting for in this campaign, and for the support of public and higher education,” Davis said. “I held a filibuster in 2011 for the $5.5 billion budget cuts to our schools, fortunately for us we killed that bill. However, Governor Perry called us back and the bill passed.” see WENDY DAVIS on page 3
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Combat Human Trafficking
Symposium to raise awareness on local issue by NATALLY ECHEVERRIA contributing writer
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here is a global problem occurring every day, human trafficking. Most people are not even aware that they could easily be a target of human trafficking. “[My] goal is to bring awareness to those people who have fallen into that trap,” Texas A&M-University Corpus Christi student Brittney Holland said. “Anyone is at the possibility of being trafficked…It’s everywhere, everywhere and it’s sad.” There have been 20.9 [reported] million victims of human trafficking
since 2013 according to a study done by the International Labor Organization. The trade of humans, as defined by Oxford dictionaries, is for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker. Human trafficking has become such a local issue that the Island University is trying to make the public aware of the issue by presenting a symposium of “Combating Human Trafficking” beginning at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday Nov. 12 in the Warren Theater. The symposium is sponsored by
the World Affairs Council of South Texas in conjunction with the Island University’s Communication and Media department and Communication Club. The symposium will consist of presentations by Dr. Anantha S. Babbili and his students Holland, Evan Paret, Julianna Salman, Kyla Radford and Sneha Prakash. The symposium will also have a presentation of the film “Not My Life,” a film about human trafficking and modern slavery, followed by a keynote speaker, who is a survivor of sex trafficking, and several other speaker presentations. see TRAFFICKING on page 3
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