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Sexual assault victim recalls a night in Maple Hall By Sarah Sarder “It happened.” That was what she kept saying. “And I don’t want to say it was an accident because he knew what he was doing,” Addison said. “But I don’t think he would have called it rape.” Sitting among scattered brushes and canvases in a dorm room she shares with a friend, Addison still loathes to call it rape. “I don’t want to say that he was taking advantage because that makes me uncomfortable,” Addison said. “But I don’t feel like a rape survivor.” She had recently moved into her Maple Hall dorm room, in fall 2015, when during a wing meeting, she met a funny guy named Toby. Both Addison’s and Toby’s names are concealed in this story to protect their reputations. The North Texas Daily does not publish the names of sexual violence victims. Because this case was not investigated by authorities, and there were ultimately no convictions, the alleged assaulter’s name is also concealed. One in four college women will experience some form of sexual violence, according to several studies, including a 2015 study by the Association of American Universities, in which 27.2 percent of college women reported unwanted sexual contact. New faces on campus To Addison, her relationship with Toby was simply a friendship. During the spring 2016 semester, they grew closer. And on Toby’s birthday, in March, while they ate pizza, Toby said he was romantically attached to Addison. “I thought, ‘oh my god, he’s attracted to me, but I’m not attracted to him,’” Addison said. “And I thought he was going to ask me out, but he didn’t and I was thankful for that.” Not long after, one night in late April,

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Jubilee Farm family up on their feet with help from the community By Kyle Martin

Above: Steve Stone, left, Carol and John Ryan watch the election results. Ranjani Groth Stephanie Plancar te is embraced outside Willis Library. Jennyfer Rodriguez

Republicans rejoice for ‘greater’ America By Kyle Martin Republicans across the country gathered on Nov. 8 to celebrate their astounding victory – a majority in Congress and a red White House. Denton County Republican Party chairwoman Lisa Hendrickson said she was pleased with the results she saw after election day. She said that because America is a “powerhouse in the global market,” she thinks Trump will “bring to the White House a business sense that we have been lacking for a very long time.” “I think that he doesn’t owe anybody anything except to do a good job,” Hendrickson said, noting Trump’s partially self-funded multi-million dollar campaign. “Truth be told, him not being a politician is one of the things that I like about him.” With Trump winning 62 percent of the rural vote in America, according to a

BBC News report, it’s no secret American businesses were a significant topic in this year’s election. Hendrickson believes Trump will keep American business interests in mind as Commander-in-Chief. She added supports Trump’s immigration policies and his plan to deport millions of illegal immigrants. “It is frustrating, though, as a taxpayer, to know that I am also having to pay for the legal defense of those that break the law and are illegal, as well as their health care, and if and when they are incarcerated. So I think it will do a lot for the economy,” Hendrickson said, commenting on Trump’s deportation plans. “ I think it’s going to be a huge lift off the American taxpayer.” Debra Reed, chairwoman of Denton County Precinct 4009, said she is ready for “somebody to come along and help us get along better,”

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UNT, TWU students awash with emotion, fear for future under Trump, Pence White House By Anna Orr Amid the election of Donald Trump as Commander-in-Chief and leader of the free world, UNT joined cities and universities across the country to protest his new position. Dozens of students have said they were apprehensive about Tuesday’s election results. They were resilient and shouted “F– Donald Trump!” They bonded over their differences and talked a lot about skin color and privilege. They shouted “Black lives matter!” But undergraduate and graduate students joined faculty in responding peacefully to a Trump presidency. Student Government Association President Grant Hale said the demonstration should serve as an example for the rest of the nation. “I think it just really speaks to the

sense of community that we have on campus that people are willing to stand in solidarity with one another and show their support,” Hale said. “I hope the same kind of solidarity we saw today can repeat itself throughout our nation.” With an American flag on her back and a sign in hand, international studies junior Stephanie Plancarte stood outside Willis Library to give free hugs. She wanted to remind students that they’re not alone, especially those who share her concerns as a first generation Mexican-American. “I think it’s really important for people to see this and hope is here,” Plancarte. “Even though to the people that voted for Trump, I still love you and still care for you. I believe that this is a fight for America and that we can SEE STUDENTS REACT ON PAGE 3

The Chessman family spent three long years searching for the perfect place to set up their family farm. After road bumps and unexpected turns, they became rooted in the Jubilee Farm, their home and family business. For Ben, Jade and 11-month-old Elijah, the end of this month will mark two years of owning and operating Jubilee Farm, which was first settled by German immigrants in about 1909. They had a vision of a holistic, diversified farm with heirloom variety, seasonal vegetables and animals with a lot of room to roam free and be happy. Overall, they wanted a place where they could cultivate healthy food responsibly and efficiently. “Turns out a functioning farm doesn’t look like it does in the story book,” Ben said. Prior to Jubilee, the Chessmans lived in Pennsylvania while Ben was interning on a small, diversified vegetable farm in 2010. There, he learned how to farm in a community that he said wholly supported farmers and the culture behind them. Ben, a UNT alumnus with a degree in history, is the sole caretaker of the land, takes matters of farming and raising animals into his own hands. Jade, a UNT alumna with a degree in sociology, runs the social media for the farm. They both

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IN THIS ISSUE NEWS

Board of Regents to Meet pg 2 UNT System regents will meet today and Friday to approve key agenda items.

ELECTION 2016

Denton County Recounts Ballots pg 4 Ballot issues forced Denton County officials to recount some ballots.

SPORTS

UNT Pays Millions To Dallas Cowboys pg 6 North Texas athletics paid the Dallas Cowboys $7.5 million for branding.

OPINION

After Trump Election, What Now? pg 7 Staff columnists and a Daily alumnus offer several reactions to the election.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016

NEWS AROUND THE WORLD Erdogan: Turkish-backed rebels close to taking northern Syrian city of Al Bab The Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army is only a mile away from Al Bab, a northern Syrian city about 30 miles northeast of Aleppo, Reuters reported. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday the rebels are expected to take the city with little Islamic State resistance. Rebel troops took Qabasin Tuesday, several miles northeast of Al Bab. It is the last remaining urban stronghold of ISIS in the northern Aleppo countryside.

Officer in the shooting of Minnesota man charged with manslaughter The police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile this summer was charged Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter, The New York Times reported. He is also accused with escalating a mundane roadside exchange into a needlessly violent situation. Prosecutors described the July 6 traffic stop that spiraled out of control when Officer Jeronimo Yanez overreacted to the presence of Castile’s legally acquired handgun. Castile’s mother, Valerie, urged protests to remain peaceful.

Russia withdraws from International Criminal Court amid reports of abuses Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday to withdraw Russia from the International Criminal Court, Al Jazeera reported. The court prosecutes war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. The announcement comes a day after the UN General Assembly’s human rights committee condemned Russia’s “temporary occupation of Crimea.” The report blamed Moscow for rights abuses and discrimination against Crimean residents like Tatars. Russia was a signatory of the 2000 Rome treaty which established the Hague-based court, but never ratified it.

Report: More 100 tigers killed and trafficked each year Fewer than 4,000 tigers remain in the wild, but more than 100 of the big cats are still killed and illegally trafficked each year, according to Agence France-Presse. The latest estimate comes as experts meet in Vietnam’s capital for an international wildlife conference, which kicks off Thursday. The two-day event will join governments, activists and NGOs to combat the illegal wildlife trade of which Vietnam is a nexus. Experts estimate an average of 110 tigers became victims of the trade each year since 2000.

Obama makes final European tour, stops in Germany to visit close ally Merkel President Obama arrived in Berlin Wednesday for his final European trip as president of the United States, Deutsche Presse Agentur reported. Air Force One landed at Berlin Tegel airport at about 5:51 p.m. after leaving Athens, where he gave a keynote speech on democracy. He had a private meeting and informal dinner with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and will continue talks with her and other European leaders through Friday.

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UNT Board of Regents meeting to discuss money, future of university By Tiffany Ditto and Evan Groom

The UNT Board of Regents will meet today and Friday after a two month break to review the UNT system performance, Texas’ 2017 Legislative session, financial decisions for the coming year and the finances from 2016. One of the items submitted to the board is the addition of a new Bachelor of Arts degree program with a major in Japanese. Enrollment in Japanese courses has increased 125% since 2006 with steady increases each year, according to the agenda. Currently, UNT only offers a minor in Japanese. If approved, they will also add a third teacher to the Japanese department at UNT. Another item on the agenda is the approval to add a TWU and UNT joint master of social work degree program. The joint program, which focuses on health care as well as child and family services, will be an equal collaboration between the two institutions. Both will share a common program and curriculum, according to the regent agenda. If approved, up to 36 applicants, once accepted into the program,

will be distributed to either UNT or TWU’s campus to complete 30 hours of course work, beginning in 2018. Another item pending approval is a master of the arts degree program with a major in women’s and gender studies. Currently at UNT, there is only an undergraduate minor for this program. The program is being considered because of the growth in the job sector that has increased demand for these graduates, especially in nongovernmental organizations both locally and globally, according to the agenda. Currently, interdisciplinary studies has enough existing graduate courses to offer a stand-alone program, so the creation of new classes for the program is unlikely. The Board of Regents will also decide on the acquisition of property at 1125 North Texas Blvd. This property will allow for further definition of the campus entry point and delineation of the campus edge south of Interstate 35 East. The property, already signed by the UNT System, is awaiting the board’s approval and will be sold for about $75,000. The board will also review the progress of the campus in regards to

ended the year with a $19 million surplus to current funds, exceeding the budget by over $14 million. In addition, UNT ended the fiscal year with less than 1 percent under it’s budget for the year. The board will use last year’s financial reports to determine how much funding is needed for next year. The 2017 Texas Legislative session will also be discussed, but it is unclear how big of a role this will play in the meeting. The Texas legislative session is important to the university because each year, lawmakers allocate state funding to the university. Other topics set to be discussed pertain to the athletics department, upcoming events and research collaboration opportunities. The board meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday in University Union room 333, and will be streamed live at https://www.untsystem. edu/leadership/board-regents/borwebcast-111716.

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Denton City Council narrows down choices for new city manager By Julia Falcon When former city manager for the city of Denton George Campbell left his contract without renewal in June, the seat was left open for a new CEO of the city. Howard Martin, the former assistant city manager and now interim manager, has worked since June to keep the city running. But the city council Monday night narrowed their replacement choices to three people and hosted a meet-and-greet. Kristoff Bauer, the current city manager for the city of Fayetteville, North Carolina, Jelynne LeBlancBurley, former deputy city manager of San Antonio and former vice president of utility in San Antonio, and Todd Hileman, the current village manager of Glenview, Illinois, are all potential candidates to be the next CEO of the city. Carla Romine-Haggmark, director of human resources for the city of Denton, said she helped with the interviews but the ultimate choice for the new city manager lays in the hands of the city council. “They [city council] narrowed it down with the help of the recruiter and consultant,” Romine-Haggmark

said. “We talked to council, then council selected the candidates and got in touch with them.” When it came down to renewing Campbell’s 10-year-long position with the city of Denton, the city council decided 4-3 not to. Mayor Chris Watts said he wants to hire someone who will problem solve through collaboration, and involve the entire community. “I think we are looking for someone who can appreciate the diversity of the city and lead a city as diverse as ours, a fast-growing and full-service city that has good leadership skills and problemsolving,” Watts said. “We need someone who can appreciate the unique community. We have two universities, there are many opportunities and challenges in that part.” The list for possible candidates for this position was narrowed down from 72 applicants, to 15, now to the final four, and at the last minute, three. After a long and much-anticipated search, Chuck Rohre with Waters Consulting said the process is lengthy and complicated to ensure the city has a good replacement.

“We provided information to city council, developed the recruitment profiles, and gathered resumes,” Rohre said. “We discussed the candidates, and on Nov. 14 will be interviews and tours, then on Nov. 15, a final decision will be made.” With over 50,000 college students, Denton is bustling with younger generations who want their voices to be heard. LeBlanc-Burley, who is currently the president of JLB Group, a consulting group she established to provide services to local governments, said UNT and TWU play very big parts in the city of Denton. “San Antonio and Denton are two very different communities, I couldn’t compare the two,” LeBlancBurley said. “San Antonio has given me a great career, Denton is well managed financially, it is very progressive and the partnership with the two universities here is great. I can’t imagine the energy the college students have.” Aside from the two major universities in town, Hileman said he wants to connect with all levels of education in the city. “For me, its building bridges with

the two universities, it doesn’t matter to me if it is a university or high school campus, it is important for relationships with administration,” Hileman said. “Police, fire, they all overlap. They are an extension of each other. I treat them all as one big team, there is no other way to do it.” During his 10 years as city manager, Campbell has propelled growth in the city in approving the new convention center, and expanding the Denton airport west of the city, to name a few. Bauer, who brings more than 20 years of municipal management experience to the table, said he will listen and learn from this community if he is chosen for this job. “Hopefully I bring creativity and openness to Denton, I’m not sure there’s anything specific I would bring here from North Carolina but every community is different,” Bauer said. “As a manager it is important to listen to the city and what they need. I will bring experience and tools, but I will learn about what this community needs and apply those tools.”

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Assad regime bombing kill 87, including children

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At least 87 people, including four children, were killed in a Syrian regime bombing of the war-ravaged eastern section of Aleppo and the surrounding countryside, CNN reported. The bombings rocked a hospital, a blood bank and other targets near schools, activists and medical staff said. The Al-Shaar neighborhood was the worst hit, with barrel bombs striking the children’s hospital and flattening several buildings in the vicinity. The deaths come after the Assad regime resumed air raids over eastern Aleppo after a three-week lull.

something she said she “did not see in President Obama or his wife.” “I would like to have more unity between the races,” she said. “We have still a long way to go on the racial problems. The prejudice is always going to be here, that’s just

human nature. As long as there are humans, there’s going to be prejudice.” Reed said she wants to see someone come in to fix racial tensions around the country. She said the new President-elect can bring jobs back to America, which could directly affect such issues

Hundreds flee Myanmar amid military crackdown Hundreds of people from the Rohingya minority are crossing the border into Bangladesh after a military crackdown in the region, the BBC reported. In just over a month at least 130 people have died during a military operation in Rakhine state, the home of the minority group. The people attempting to flee include children, and witnesses and Bangladeshi officials say some people trying to flee are being shot and killed. People in Myanmar consider them illegal immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh, as they are part of the country’s Muslim minority.

the 2013 UNT master plan. Among the items is a housing master plan set to be released in February 2017 that will provide a strategic analysis to inform housing goals and objectives for UNT campus, according to the presentation. One other aspect the board will be looking at pertains to finances, academic quality, research and audit activities reports. One of the key points covered in the annual research report reveals that UNT is ranked last among total research expenditures compared to its Texas peers, with Texas Tech being the highest ranked. To increase funding, the report urges the board to consider strategically working with other institutions and federal labs, increase travel grants for graduate students and increase funded partnerships with between UNT, federal labs and the private sector. The last thing on the agenda is the quarterly operations report. This report shows, in a preliminary copy, that at the end of the fourth quarter of 2016, UNT’s revenue was above “$30.4 million, due to increases in tuition and fees driven by higher than anticipated enrollment.” The report also shows that UNT

Lynn Stucky, center, Republican state representative for District 64, speaks to his daughter, Lyndi, and a supporter Nov. 8 at Luigi’s Italian Restaurant. About 100 people were in attendance to support the Republican nominees on the ballot. Hannah Breland

within American society. She believes “welfare in itself is a kind of slavery,” adding that “it’s not just the black community, it’s other races too.” “I’m a white person, but I have some black friends. I’m not prejudiced and it really hurts my feelings, I guess you could say, whenever people accuse me of being racist and I’m not,” Reed said. “If he can give a man or a woman a job, it will instill pride in them and I think it will be for everybody of every race to be able to and have a job.” Debbie Terry, a member of the state Republican executive committee for Senate District 12, said she was “very, very excited [Trump] was elected,” even though she was originally a Ted Cruz delegate and supporter working in Iowa. She said she is glad to have Trump’s business expertise, as well as Mike Pence’s strong conservative values, in the White House. “Any wise manager or leader can recognize they cannot possibly know everything they need to

know to govern,” Terry said. “So you need to pick the best, brightest people you can find to be on your team and I see him doing that starting with Mike Pence, and that gives me an awful lot of confidence about what he’ll do in the future.” Jake Martinez, a UNT advertising junior, said he “proudly voted for Donald Trump.” As a millennial, his vote did not align with that of most of his generation, according to a USA Today report showing the vast majority of millennials voted for Hillary Clinton. “I think he will bring a different approach to government ideology,” Martinez said. “In the next four years, I hope to see the national debt decrease, the immigration issue fixed in a way that pleases a majority of Americans and for the promise of more jobs to be fulfilled.”

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Above: Students gather at the Library Mall for an open discussion about Tuesday’s election. Jake King Left: UNT police keep a watchful eye on students as they gather around Willis Library. Jennyfer Rodriguez Right: Joshua Opar addresses a crowd of students who gathered in front of Willis Library to pray in response to Trump’s victory. Ian Melo

Students, psychologists gather to discuss post-election woes STUDENTS REACT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 still overcome in our future. I will never stop fighting for what I believe in.” Gary Johnson voter Jimmy Marquez, an international studies senior and former infantryman in the Army, began discussion on American bipartisanship amid a sizable audience near the main congregation outside Willis Library. “It’s the two-party system that’s dividing our country,” he said. “What we have to do is stop voting in Democrats and Republicans. I was in the military for 13.5 years and this is what I’ve come to believe.” A week after the election, about 100 students gathered in the University Union Wednesday evening to discuss the impact of

the 2016 presidential election. More chairs were brought to the room to accommodate the growing crowd. UNiTy town hall, sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs and the Division of Institutional Equity and Diversity, was made to address any concerns student, staff and faculty had over the election. Tensions ran high after Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States. The meeting was planned over a month ago but fell in perfect timing for students, faculty and staff to express their concerns about the results of the election. Many attendees were apprehensive about what the future, with concerns ranging from immigration to safety on campus. “One of the things that I first

saw at this institution was it was the most caring community that I have ever been involved in,” UNT President Neal Smatresk said. “I have been to a lot of schools in my career and when I arrived at this campus, what I saw was people were welcomed and felt the warmth of the community.” The conversations were centered around practicing inclusion on campus and valuing diversity among all students. The university has a history of sponsoring a diverse environment. This promotion is seen in UNT’s “This is Me at UNT” pushing students to embrace themselves. The moderators of the event were clincal psychologist Dr. Joshua Hook, Dr. Endelia Sauceda, a clinical psychologist and staff psychologist in the Counseling and Testing Center

at Chestnut Hall, and associate director of Residence Life Tomas Sanchez. Smatresk commented on how the ultimate future of the country remains uncertain, but made it clear that actions based on hate and prejudice were not going to be tolerated on campus. Plancarte remains politically active against Trump and has tried her hardest to be a part of uniting minority groups at UNT. “A lot of people who have power at the university are unaware and unprepared for the questions we are going to ask them,” Plancarte said. “It’s a lot of the questions that the Hispanic organizations of campus were asking which is about DACA. I was frustrated with the fact that they were giving the same answers and they weren’t saying that UNT

was going to take a stance. I felt that this was to make us unified and more secure but I feel like this makes undocumented students more insecure. I was born in this country but I have been protesting this entire last week for the undocumented students.” Teresa McKinney, assistant vice president of Student Affairs and co-chair of the student support task force, commented on the importance of promoting a diversity on campus. This event is a part of a series Students Affairs is hosting with the student support task force McKinney said. “We want to make sure to foster the idea of diversity at UNT,” McKinney said. “We want to make sure that we give people a voice to express their perspective and identities in a safe and secured environment.

We want to make sure that we can act as a united UNT family so we are able to successfully support each other and be allies for one another.” Sauceda related her experience at the town hall meeting back to the students she has talked with in her practice. “I think what stood out to me was the resiliency,” Sauceda said. “The fact that people filled this room showed that students showed that intention and showed that folks are on the same page of the university regarding diversity and inclusion. It reminded me of resiliency.”

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UNT bands invited to perform and collaborate in Cuba By Julia Falcon The UNT Symphonic Band and Latin Jazz Band will collaborate and learn alongside Cuban musicians in May. The historic trip will be the first UNT makes into the isolated island since the U.S. lifted bans on travel in March. Since the 1960s, it has been difficult for anyone to travel from the U.S. to Cuba. For the first time in 88 years, President Barack Obama was the first sitting president to visit Cuba when he visited in March. The travel restrictions to Cuba still exist. But the U.S. embassy in Cuba said traveling there for educational activities and public performances is allowed. John Richmond, who was named the new dean of music this semester, said this trip had been discussed

before he began working at UNT and expressed his interest in the planning of the trip. “Dennis Fisher was a guest conductor about a year ago of the National Wind Band of Cuba, and they said they wanted him to come back and bring his band,” Richmond said. “We have a latin jazz ensemble that shows our involvement with that region. We visited with leaders in Cuba in September and visited hotels for students. We are going to go back in January to scout out concert locations.” The trip was sparked by the interest in UNT’s College of Music from a retired commander of the President’s Own Marine Band, Col. John Bourgeois. He was scouting three university bands to participate in the Inaugural Invitational Wind

Band Festival in Havana. Symphonic Wind Director Dennis Fisher said he is honored to be performing in Cuba, but uneasy about going into a highly restricted political culture. He is also overwhelmed to transport all of the students, staff and equipment more than a thousand miles. “All that boils down to the reaction of gratitude for the unique opportunity to be a part of something that holds unbelievable long-term potential in addition to the trip itself,” Fisher said. “The festival is intended to be a goodwill and cultural initiative to continue to foster relations between our countries.” Fisher said the bands are preparing for their performances, but they are also anticipating some

unique cultural experiences, sharing his first-hand experience from what he remembers as the beginning of what could have been World War III. “The officials in Cuba have given me some guidance on the type of music they would like to hear us play, largely Americana in nature,” Fisher said. “I put together a historical overview that outlined the causes for the Cuban missile crisis, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the economic embargo that was put into place in the 1960s, all leading to broken relations with the Cuban government since 1962.” As the 13th largest music school in the world, Richmond said he wants this opportunity to open up partnerships and exchanges for jazz education and to learn about each

others’ cultures. Administration and other music educators in Cuba will provide tips for the bands that will take the trip there, including proper instrument care. “We are a prestigious place, and we have some great people on our staff,” Richmond said. “There will be components of study abroad, but this is more like a music tour.” UNT President Neal Smatresk has been a part of the planning process and said he and his wife would not miss this trip for the world. “It will be fun for students to go to Cuba, in the spirit of collaboration and exchange,” Smatresk said. “It is a tremendous accomplishment and with the new dean, we will go further. Our reputation will go

further. I am excited about that. We are currently on the rise.” Fisher wants to make this trip a long lasting one and hopes UNT will continue to keep relations with Cuba. “I know from meeting the folks in Cuba that what we will bring to them will be immeasurable, we are making plans to give clinics in many areas in addition to concerts,” Fisher said. “Our people-to-people interactions will be essential. Having met with all of them twice, it is clear their excitement for us coming and sharing with them is equal to our excitement about going.”

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Updated Denton County election results President of the United States

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County’s retabulated votes show wide irregularities but no outcomes affected Your ballot might not have been counted on Election Day. Or your ballot might have been counted more than once. Officials tried to fix their election night problems with voting machines by retabulating Denton County’s votes over the weekend. When they released new totals Monday morning, the outcome didn’t change for any contest, even for the county’s smallest, tightest races. Most contests saw an increase in the total number of votes counted. That’s expected, experts say. However, four races saw a decrease in the tally. That’s “highly unusual,” said Ray “Buck” Wood, an Austin lawyer and Texas election law expert. “I haven’t seen a situation like this ever before,” Wood said. The irregularities appeared large enough to jeopardize the election’s integrity, he added. “The whole election could be thrown out,” Wood said, cautioning that the only way to be sure of an election’s integrity would be for ballots to be recounted by hand. Alicia Pierce, a spokeswoman for the Texas Secretary of State’s office, confirmed that a recount would likely need to come first in reviewing an election’s integrity. After that, she said the state doesn’t necessarily have a procedure for determining what happened in an election administration when something appears to have gone

wrong. Denton County election officials were not conducting an official recount when they retabulated more than 30,000 paper ballots from 9:30 a.m. Friday to 7 p.m. Saturday at the elections administration building. Election workers rescanned every paper ballot cast in the county after officials received court approval on Thursday, according to Mary Horn, the county judge and retabulation coordinator. “The main thing was we got every vote counted, and every vote counted accurately,” Horn said. The retabulation resulted from issues with the paper ballot scanning machines on Election Day, when election workers inadvertently delivered some ballot scanners to polling sites in “test mode.” Some voters who cast paper ballots had to drop their ballots in a secure storage box to be scanned later. Because of this, election officials believed some paper ballots were not counted before being bundled with paper ballots that were counted. Carmen Rivera-Worley, a visiting judge in the 211th District Court, signed the order granting the retabulation on Thursday. Lannie Noble, the Denton County elections administrator, said election officials had to start an entirely new database in order to get accurate retabulation results. Workers input all the early voting, mail-in and electronic ballots from Election Day into the new database, Noble said. The paper ballots cast on Election Day were not included in the new database until the workers

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ERIC MAUCK 30.7%

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MICHAEL BURGESS 65.2%

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CONNOR FLANAGAN 38.7%

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64.33%

ROD WINGO 17.29%

JANE NELSON 82.71%

Texas House District 64 LYNN STUCKY 61.44%

62.73%

Texas Senate District 12

HILLARY CLINTON 37.09 %

DONALD TRUMP 57.17%

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Ballots being counted on Nov. 8 at the Denton County Election Commission. Evan Groom finished rescanning those ballots on Saturday, Noble said. “We don’t know what happened on Election Day — that’s why we redid everything,” Noble said. Although the race outcomes were unaffected, the updated election results showed some races received fewer overall votes than initially reported. Races for Texas House District 64 and 65 seats respectively showed 410 and 437 fewer votes than initially counted on Election Day. The Corinth special election produced 269 fewer votes, while

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the Lake Dallas special election showed 237 fewer votes. Noble did not know why some races showed fewer votes. Horn, who also serves on the Denton County Elections Commission, said it’s “very possible” that some paper ballots could have been counted more than once on Election Day. “We had big problems,” Horn said. Horn has called a Nov. 23 meeting with the elections commission, which includes the county tax assessor, the county clerk and the chairs of both the Democratic and Republican parties, to

discuss potential issues with elections administration personnel. She said the elections commission can make personnel recommendation to the county Commissioners Court. But, she said, she didn’t see anything during the election that would warrant an outside investigation into the matter. “I don’t know that a law was broken,” she said. “There were a lot of things that went wrong that shouldn’t have, and that comes back to organizational skills and management of the elections.”

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Jubilee Farm family up on their feet with help from the community COMMUNITY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 handle the business end of their homestead. “Most people wouldn’t even know the farm exists without her,” Ben said of his wife. In February, struggling to merge their passions with the demands of running a business, the Chessmans launched a Kickstarter for Jubilee Farm, asking for help in raising $25,000 to aid in upfront startup costs. They were in need of farming equipment, seeds, money to pay the bank and other massive expenses. By the end of their Kickstarter campaign, they raised $27,315 from 154 backers. “People who we didn’t think even cared about what we were doing came through and offered with their pledge these huge words of encouragement,” Jade said. “They believe in what we’re doing, they care about it and they want us to grow and develop and be a viable source for food in our community.” The Chessmans, as part of a

thank you to donors of a certain level, held a dinner to express their gratitude to community members who helped them get on their feet. A long table was set up in a grazing pasture under a string of lights beneath an overhanging tree. Sheep sauntered around the dinner table, curious, while this farming family enjoyed the fruits of their labor with community members who believed in them. “When Ben and Jade talk about the farm and their vision for it, it’s so easy to get caught up in it,” Caitlin Crawford, who attended the intimate dinner with her husband, Clint, said. “They want to get in touch with a process that wants to cause more good than harm.” She said they were surprised to arrive at the dinner and see many longtime friends that had also donated to the farm. She and Clint, both UNT alumni with their own degrees in psychology and communication design, met Ben and Jade in college and have been friends ever since.

“I think that speaks to Ben and Jade’s strength as individuals within a community,” she said. “They are just so loved and they are so easy to love.” With the money they raised from their Kickstarter campaign, the Chessman family is now looking to provide their services to Denton and beyond. On the farm, Ben uses practices of crop rotation, varying the types of crops grown on the farm, hand-weeding and hand-turning his own soil, and raising their animals with plenty of room to live respectably. The family operates on roughly 18 acres total. This land includes pastures, living space and three-fourths of an acre plot for vegetable cultivation. They raise pigs, sheep, chickens and roosters on their pastures, but Ben’s primary focus is the small acreage used for vegetables. “On three-fourths of an acre you can grow a blow-your-mind amount of food,” Ben said. “I couldn’t handle more than about an acre by myself, there’s no way,

of just vegetable cultivation.” He sees his practice, without the use of chemicals like herbicides and fertilizers on his plants or steroids on his animals, as a way to farm responsibly. It also provides a connection to farmers around the world who live a similar life as he and his family without the aid of the technology in the commercialized and industrialized corporate farming world. “There’s value in feeling like, in a sense, that I’m part of a global community of farmers and that we kind of struggle with the same sort of things together,” Ben said. “I don’t think technology and industry have the answers to most problems on a farm.” The Chessmans sell their produce at the Denton Community Market, a produceronly farmer’s and artist’s market held every Saturday morning on the corner of Mulberry and Carroll streets. Ben and Jade said each weekend at the Market

can be different. Some are better than others, and they said sometimes they notice the local farming culture isn’t always supported as heavily in Denton as they remember from their experiences at other markets in Pennsylvania. “It’s not the mindset here in Texas,” Jade said. “In Pennsylvania it was, but in Texas we’re very much having to gently help change culture and change the way of thinking to value the things that we value. I think we’re getting there.” However, Cecelia Gandy often sees a different perspective as produce manager at the Cupboard, a grocery store in Denton that sells local produce from farmers around the area. She does business with anywhere from three to 10 local farmers at once, including the Chessmans. Gandy sees how much people appreciate locally raised products on a regular basis. “[The Chessmans] are really sweet and knowledgable,” Gandy, 28, said. “Everything I’ve

Sexual assault victim recalls a night in Maple Hall SEXUAL VIOLENCE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Addison texted Toby, saying she was drunk. The exchange went on from there, but Addison remembers very little of it. She does recall some sexual exchange but says she’s certain she did not invite him to have sex. The next thing she knew, Toby was at her door. “I was like, ‘whoa, what are you doing?’” she said. In an interview, Addison said she was highly intoxicated, but was conscious. She did not remember the details of the encounter, but she knows it involved intercourse. Addison said that while Toby did not force her into sex, she was drunk enough that he didn’t have to. “I just feel like it was an instant regret,” Addison said. “If I had the option to, I would’ve backed out.” According to UNT policy, consent refers to “words or actions that show an active, knowing and voluntary agreement” to take part in sexual activity. Consent must be given of one’s own free will and cannot be given when an individual is incapacitated due to the use of alcohol or drugs. An individual can also revoke their consent at any time, if they change their mind. Within a few days of the incident, Addison told some friends about what happened. They told her she had been raped. Her friends convinced her the incident needed to be reported, so Addison told a Maple Hall resident assistant. She said she was unaware that RAs must report incidents of

sexual violence under a federal law known as the Clery Act. RAs, like most UNT faculty and staff, are campus security authorities and must report Clery crimes like sexual assault to the police. When Addison got a phone call from her RA later that day, she was surprised to hear that she needed to talk to her hall director, and even more surprised to learn that the director would be filing a police report and a report to the dean of students office. Students can stay anonymous in the police reports. That’s what Addison chose to do. She also decided to not give Toby’s name to authorities. The dean of students categorizes students like Addison as “reluctant complainants.” That means the case cannot be investigated further, which is what happened here. “Survivors have the opportunity to tell us whatever they want to, and sometimes people choose not to tell us the respondent’s name,” McGuinness said, emphasizing survivors’ freedom to report what they decide. While the DOS office approaches complaints from an investigative standpoint, UNT’s Survivor Advocate Renee McNamara simultaneously reaches out to survivors with assistance, care and resources. For her, a student like Addison is known as a “reluctant survivor.” Finding help Addison said her impression of rape is something that happens in a dark alley, perpetrated by a stranger and what happened to her doesn’t fit that scenario. In a 2015 report, the U.S.

Department of Justice found that three in four rapes are committed by someone the victim knows. “Research shows us that people that have been sexually assaulted or believe they’ve been sexually assaulted sometimes struggle with whether it was their fault or if it was rape, and we know that from our work with survivors,” UNT Dean of Students Maureen McGuinness said. “A lot of people struggle with reporting for those reasons, they wonder what they could have done differently. We are here to tell them that we’re here to help, no matter what.” McGuinness said that while UNT cannot offer victims of sexual violence confidentiality, it promises to give them privacy. After reporting, all students are given access to the same resources regardless of whether their name is on the police report. Students who think they may be a victim of sexual violence can contact the Dean of Students office at 940-565-2648, or visit the DOS or Survivor Advocate offices on the fourth f loor of the Union. No appointment is necessary. The Survivor Advocate attempts to connect survivors of sexual violence with counseling, legal and academic resources. “Each person handles trauma very differently,” McGuinness said. “You really can’t determine how they’ll handle it, but you can offer all you possibly can, and that’s what we try to do.” Moving on Once she filed the anonymous report with UNT

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police, Addison was referred to a variety of resources for sexual assault survivors. While she said that everyone was helpful after she reported, Addison emailed with university counselors for a few days before deciding the resources weren’t for her. “The resources here on campus … are so useful,” Addison said. “I mean, I never actually went to them but I know that the resources are great, and I’m glad that we have them here on campus.” Addison said she is trying to

forget the incident now. “I don’t feel like a rape survivor,” Addison said. “I don’t feel like something drastic happened to me and changed my life. Saying the word rape makes me feel uncomfortable, which might also be a factor in why I don’t want to call it that.”

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bought from them is gorgeous and they sell really well.” Gandy, having worked with the Ben and Jade for over a year, has had fresh sage, sweet peppers, heirloom tomatoes, herbs and other produce in stock from the Jubilee Farm. She says that when Ben comes into the store she likes to “grill him about his experience,” as she wants to become a farmer herself. Ben said being able to see who you are doing business with as farmers and consumers is something special in and of itself, which is why supporting locally at the Denton Community Market or at a local grocer is so important to him and the community. “They meet me and can talk to me and there’s that personal connection,” Ben said. ”And that’s what people value.”

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Resources for sexual assualt survivors • UNT Survivor Advocate Renee LeClaire McNamara: 940-565-2648 • Denton County Friends of the Family 940-382-7273 • UNT Counseling Center 940-369-7617 •National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233 •RAINN (Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network)

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Lone senior on North Texas volleyball UNT paying $7.5 team finishing out her final season million in Cowboys partnership

By Courtney Anderson MEAN GREEN QUICK HITS Football: At 4-6, the Mean Green need to win its final two games to become bowl eligible. Starting running back Jeffery Wilson is out for the season after undergoing knee surgery last week. Volleyball: North Texas faces off against Southern Miss in the first round of the C-USA tournament on Friday in the single-elimination tournament. A loss ends the season. Men’s basketball: After winning its season opener against Sul Ross State last week, North Texas lost on the road to Texas Tech on Tuesday to fall to 1-1.

UPCOMING GAMES Friday • Volleyball vs. Southern Miss in C-USA tournament at 7 p.m. (Houston) • Women’s basketball vs. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley at 8 p.m. (Abilene, Texas) Saturday • Football vs. Southern Miss at 4:30 p.m. (Denton) Sunday • Men’s basketball vs. Drexel at 1 p.m. (Denton)

Friday marks the beginning of the end for Amy Henard. The only senior on the Mean Green volleyball team will begin the final conference tournament of her collegiate career when North Texas travels to Houston to try and earn an NCAA tournament berth. Henard joined the team four years ago after being recruited by North Texas’ former head coach, Ken Murczek, but has adapted to current head coach Andrew Palileo. This season, she has had to take on a leadership role that was previously held by Carnae Dillard, who holds nearly every volleyball record in Mean Green history. During her tenure in Denton, Henard has changed her game to not only fit a new coach, but to help her teammates as well. “I think [my voice] goes in and out with the temperament of the team,” Henard said. “I’m not really mean very often but when I do have that voice and get stern is when people tend to notice and listen more because I don’t get that way. I pick my select few times to get that way.” Part of Henard’s legacy is her mentoring of young players. Her teammates say she is a fun presence year-in and year-out and they appreciate her approach to leadership. Junior middle blocker Amanda Chamberlain is one of many who will miss not only what she brings to the court, but her personality off it. “I love Amy,” Chamberlain said. “She’s just goofy and corny. She doesn’t care who’s around, she’ll just be herself and she’s one of those people that you can’t not like.” As the setter, it’s only fitting

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Senior Amy Henard prepares to return the ball on Oct. 23 during the UNT vs. University of North Carolina - Charolette game. Hannah Breland Henard broke a few records during her farewell tour. During North Texas’ match versus Western Kentucky University this past Thursday, Henard moved into the top3 in Mean Green history with 3,755 assists. She is also the only North Texas player in to record at least 3,500 assists to go along with 1,000 digs. As a freshman, Henard was named to the All-Freshman team, as well as the All-Academic team her sophomore and junior year. She has also earned Setter of the Week during those three seasons and has grasped the C-USA Spirit of Service award, which is designed to recognize student-athletes for their community involvement, grades and sport involvement. “It means a lot,” Henard said of her accolades. “It just shows the hard work I put in over four years and being able to play all four of those years is just really cool. It’s all just a testament of the work I’ve put in.” Henard’s coaches have also recognized the work she has done. Her freshman year she started

every match and she has not slowed down since. Henard has shown her adaptability and skill set by switching between setter and libero throughout this season after experimenting with the position last year. “She’s done a lot for this program,” Palileo said. “She’s open to whatever we need her to play. The great thing about her is she’s versatile enough to play whatever we need her to do for that match.” Graduating in 2017 with a doublemajor in chemistry and biology, the 3.8 GPA holder hopes to continue her education in order to become a physician’s assistant. But before that, Henard and the rest of the Mean Green will take on The University of Southern Mississippi on Friday in hopes of continuing its season for at least one more day. “I’m most looking forward to this tournament and seeing how we can finish out,” Henard said. “I’m going to remember the fun times laughing with everyone because of how funny the team is. That’s what I’m going to miss most.”

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In August, UNT formed a partnership to become the official higher education partner of the Dallas Cowboys. Recently, the Dallas Business Journal reported UNT is paying $7.5 million over the eight years to hold that title. The contract expires on June 30, 2018, unless either side decides to opt out. The agreement will automatically renew for up to three additional two-year periods and has the potential to be active until 2024. After the official announcement, the UNT brand was plastered around AT&T Stadium, The Star in Frisco and Cowboys games not broadcasted in markets outside Dallas. In August, UNT President Neal Smatresk said the partnership should bring a national-scale awareness to the university. “It will give us very highprofile coverage,” Smatresk said. “We believe we’ll have broad exposure not just in this region, which is our primary region for student recruitment, but national exposure that we would probably have difficulty emulating by going out into traditional media markets.” The deal came to fruition from a conversation with board of regents member Brint Ryan. Ryan had mutual connections with the Cowboys and got the university’s foot in the door. Then Smatresk put the plan in motion.

Smatresk said in August he made sure the Cowboys knew he wanted this to be more than just an advertising partnership. With the Cowboys’ new world headquarters and practice facility, The Star, being just across the street from UNT’s Frisco campus, Smatresk wanted Cowboys officials in the classrooms. This means more internships and opportunities for UNT students. “Just the sponsorship part wouldn’t have been enough to turn my head,” Smatresk said. “It was being able to weave in one of the hottest sports businesses in the country to our educational program. I basically told them if we weren’t going to do that, I wasn’t interested in the relationship. They agreed.” The Cowboys were named the most valuable sports franchise in the world according to Forbes in 2016. The university will be expected to pay over $1.28 million in 2016 to retain the partnership and will pay the Cowboys at least $200,000 every 4-10 months as long as the contract is active, per the Dallas Business Journal.

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Led by a massive performance from senior wide receiver Taywan Taylor in his final regular season home game, Western Kentucky Univesity downed North Texas football 45-7 on Saturday. Taylor finished with six catches for 166 yards and three touchdowns. The Mean Green (4-6, 2-4) must now win its final two games to become bowl eligible this season. North Texas could only muster 232 yards of offense while allowing the Hilltoppers (8-3, 5-1) to soar for 542 yards. “We’re not going to be happy or satisfied one bit with losing,” head coach Seth Littrell said. “It hurts. That’s something we don’t want to get used to.” Not much went right for the Mean Green in the first half, or all day, for that matter. Zero points, one fumble and two quarterbacks told the tale of the first half. Miscues between freshman quarterback Mason Fine and senior center Sam Rice led to an out-of-sync offensive rhythm. Fine fumbled early in the second quarter after a blindside hit and left the game with a sprained AC joint. “It’s not great,” Littrell said of Fine’s injury. “We’ll have to do a further evaluation when we get back.” Fine finished 3-for-6 with just nine yards passing. Senior Alec Morris saw his first significant time since the season opener as Fine’s replacement and went a smooth 5-for-8 for 30 yards on his

first drive. Morris’ first drive at the helm since Sept. 10 against BethuneCookman University put the Mean Green in position for their only points of the half, but junior kicker Trevor Moore pushed the 47-yard field goal wide. After that, things looked bland for the senior. Morris ended the afternoon 14-for-26 with 108 yards and an interception. His counterpart, junior quarterback Mike White, finished 14-for25 with 316 yards and four touchdowns. As a result, the Hilltoppers put up 38 unanswered points through three quarters. “That’s a really good football team,” Littrell said. “We didn’t have success on all three sides of the ball.” The Hilltoppers opened with two massive plays by Taylor. He went 64 and 75 yards on two of the first three Western Kentucky drives to open a 14-0 lead. The Hilltoppers added a field goal and then another touchdown on the first play from scrimmage after Fine’s fumble and injury. Senior running back Anthony Wales tacked on one more touchdown before halftime to put Western Kentucky up 31-0 at halftime. Wales’ touchdown was the only non-passing touchdown of the half.

But halftime only meant a temporary reprieve from the Hilltoppers’ onslaught, as Western Kentucky jumped back into the action with a 24-yard touchdown catch by senior wide receiver Nicholas Norris, who finished with five catches for 90 yards and two touchdowns of his own. North Texas finally got on the board in the third quarter when junior running back Andrew Tucker streaked down the field 71 yards for his second touchdown of the season and the longest run of his career. The scoring did not stop for Western Kentucky, though. Hilltopper graduate quarterback Tyler Ferguson tossed a pass to Taylor, who hauled in yet another touchdown, his third of the game and 13th of the season from four yards out to make it 45-7 with three minutes to play. That would be the final score, as the Mean Green now face Southern Mississippi University at home, 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. “We’ll focus in on this next week,” Littrell said. “We have a chance to go out and play in front of our fans and keep our dream alive.”

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Pence is no friend to the LGBTQ community

By Shain Thomas What does the future hold for the LGBTQ community? With the Trump campaign seeing victory on election night, rights established by the Obama administration will be regressed. Although President-elect Donald Trump has no apparent animosity toward the LGBTQ community, the same cannot be said for his running mate, Vice President-elect Mike Pence. As a self-identified “Christian, conservative and Republican,” Pence has made it clear several times that he is committed to preserving conservative family

values. Am I worried? Absolutely. We should not forget the vice president also serves as the president of the U.S. Senate. In a senatorial vote whenever there is a tie, Pence will have the deciding vote. In 2000, during his first successful run for Congress, the then-governor made his stance on sexual orientation clear by writing his agenda on his website, titled “Strengthening American Values.” Pence proposed that money from a program, designated to help individuals with HIV/AIDS, be diverted to organizations assisting “those seeking to change their sexual behavior.” He thinks sexual orientation is a matter of choice and believes conversion therapy helps people change those attributes. Sexual orientation, despite rightwing thought, is not changeable like a suit. “Harvard sociologist Pitirim Sorokin found that throughout

history, societal collapse was always brought about following an advent of the deterioration of marriage and family,” Pence said in a 2006 speech. “Marriage matters to kids. Marriage is a safe harbor to raise children.” So it is not surprising that a year later Pence voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. He said establishing such a law is equal to waging “war on freedom and religion in the workplace.” Taking your religious beliefs into your place of employment has the potential to create a hostile environment. While the bill successfully navigated the Senate, it failed in the House. Considering the make-up of the House, expecting the bill to pass was a bit of a stretch. As stipulated in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Technically, Pence has a right to his views, but that does

not mean he should sign them into law. The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment was not designed to impose religious views on other people. The U.S. government does not have the authority to promote one religion above others, or the right to restrict an individual’s religious practices. There are no parenthetical exclusions in the clause, and it exists for the equal benefit of all Americans. Jews, Muslims, atheists and agnostics have just as many rights as Christians. In a 2010 interview with CNN, Pence opposed ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” He argued that repealing the law would make the military become “a backdrop for social experimentation.” Despite Pence’s opposition, in 2011, President Obama successfully repealed the policy. Openly gay military personnel can now serve their country.

In 2013, Pence signed a bill allowing for the jailing of samegender couples seeking marriage licenses. To prove he wasn’t only targeting them, Pence also wanted to see marital clergy jailed for supplying those marriage licenses and performing the weddings. Two years later, Pence signed a religious freedom law, allowing

businesses to discriminate against the LGBTQ community. Even after significant backlash from business leaders, Pence signed an amendment to the law, adding provisions that essentially protected gays and lesbians. It was the first brush with criticism that the vice president-elect had to deal with from LGBTQ members. There are dark days ahead for America, but the LGBTQ community could see some of the most negative changes.

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Give Trump a chance How Hillary Clinton lost the election

By Colin Mitchell Americans are still letting it sink in that Donald J. Trump is the president-elect of the United States. A man who many of us figured would suffer from a low voter turnout won the election against opposing candidate Hillary Clinton, and the race wasn’t even close. Everything predicted, from the polls to the media’s depiction of Trump, to another four years of a Democratic president. We were wrong. Trump won over the Electoral College in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, states that haven’t

voted red since Ronald Reagan in the ‘80s. These people are not all racists, misogynists and sexists, as so many detractors have labeled Trump supporters to be. These are statesmen who rallied behind Barack Obama for both of his presidential bids in 2008 and 2012, believing in hope and change, only to never see any actual results. They must have been tired of the status quo on both sides of the political aisle. According to The New York Times, Trump won over the people living in the industrial Midwestern states, which had a more than 75 percent shift favoring Trump among white Americans without college degrees. The continued poverty of the Rust Belt contributed to the shift. Cleveland has a 35.9 percent amount of impoverished people, Flint, Michigan has 41.6 percent and Buffalo, New York has 30.9 percent – according to the U.S. Census. He is, by no means, the perfect person to run our country, and has enacted a wealth of controversial statements and actions.

Enough of the U.S. clearly felt they could look past those antics, however, if it meant changing drastically from our previous eight years of Democratic rule in favor of an anti-establishment icon. During a speech held after he was officially announced as the electoral champion, President-elect Trump did not talk about building walls or deporting immigrants. Rather, he began pledging to “represent every citizen in our land.” Although we, “the People,” have different ideologies and beliefs, we are still a people that have had the ability to put those differences aside for the greater good of the country. And more times than we can count. For every person upset about the election results, 47.5 percent of U.S. voters are most likely pleased with the new outcome. This has been an amazingly polarizing election, but we can no longer remain divided. In order for our nation to survive, we must unite as citizens under the same flag. Not as brick-headed individuals. I ask all of you, not as a Republican or Democrat, but as a fellow American, to put aside your opinions. Give Presidentelect Trump a chance because whether we like it or not, Trump will be the 45th president of the United States of America. He is our leader for the next stage in our lives, and if history proves anything, unity is what leads to constructive change.

@CJHMitchell President-elect Donald Trump stands at a podium. Wikimedia Commons

By Sidney Johnson As a progressive, I hate to say I told you so, but the era so many scoffed at is actually here, and it’s as ugly as we imagined. The people have spoken, your electoral college has voted and that familiar voice of white-male supremacy in America – which has been largely ignored – has found its megaphone. This truth may disgust and anger you, but Donald Trump is your next president. It’s scary to think how taxpayers might pay for a militarized police force tasked with removing illegal Mexican immigrants from their homes, or a nationwide stopand-frisk that targets minorities. Now it’s more probable, though unlikely, that a theocratic nut-job like Mike Pence could influence the overturning of Roe V. Wade. But we need to look no further than the decisions of the disgraced Democratic National Committee for Hillary Clinton’s defeat and the path our country has been set upon. The deception of Debbie Wasserman Shultz, Donna Brazile, Luis Miranda and any participant in the DNC who snuffed the populous candidate, Bernie Sanders, fostered this mess. Everyone involved spat in the faces of their actual progressive

supporters, chained to their prechosen candidate during the Democratic primaries. They were more concerned with upholding the status quo of a pro-corporatist, neo-liberal Democratic party instead of listening to the overwhelming pleas of their base. Each understood they would have no place in a Sanders administration if he were elected and stood #WithHer as a backup plan. No one did anything to correct this injustice to democracy as it unfolded, and yet they scratch their heads wondering why they couldn’t secure the nomination. Here’s a tip: Stop. Doing. Shady. Things. Voters see what you’re doing, and social media ensures that even when partisan news outlets won’t. We arrive at a new day, one where red and blue bases reject crooked mouths regurgitating an aged cadence prioritizing donor interests over the issues that matter to them the most. It is the task of anyone running for public office to propose transparent policies that fall in line with their constituency in order to get elected. Although I strongly disagree with his message, Trump did this masterfully without political experience. Clinton, as well as her die-hard supporters, never got the memo and, instead, touted Trump as a boogeyman to conjure superficial votes from whoever they could. By now, you’ve probably seen the polls confirming what progressives screamed all along: how Sanders was the only Democratic candidate who could’ve bridged the gap between urban millennials and rural whites. He could have ridden

a wave of support to the White House lawn, leaving the bitterness of Trump supporters exposed for all to see outside the gates. It was a great plan, but it wasn’t enacted. Trump is now at the helm of the most powerful military in history. Not to mention the new Republican Congress and a Supreme Court seat that could hinder progressive policies for years to come. There are now Democratic loyalists blaming anyone who didn’t vote for Clinton, scapegoating the actual reasons why she didn’t get elected. It’s her likeness to a sane Republican, as shown by her voting record: the Iraq War, the Patriot Act, TPP and not supporting the LGBTQ community until it became popular. You can curse millennials, third party voters and those who wrote into their ballots, but somewhere beneath that dense partisan loyalty, you knew this was a possibility. Your candidate was flawed and the people didn’t trust her. It’s both comical and terrifying how the most qualified candidate lost to a reality star. This is a man who mocked the disabled, has 3,500 pending lawsuits, proposed a ban on all Muslims until now, admittedly groped women without their consent, proposed to murder the families of ISIS and promised to repeal the Paris Agreement because he believes climate change is a Chinese hoax. Maybe Clinton’s message should’ve been more #ImWithYou to those who ultimately dictate her political future.

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Trump and Pence will endanger women’s rights

By Victoria Baghei Ever since Donald Trump became the president-elect, anxiety attacks have occurred in fear of what dangerous policies he’ll pursue. Two of the most discussed subjects right now are the status of Planned Parenthood and women’s rights for abortion. Trump’s stance on abortion has been relatively constant throughout his campaign, considering how he made outrageous claims in Wisconsin

that people with abortions should be punished, only to take those statements back hours later. Because Trump was prochoice in the past, it could be speculated that it’s a part of his ploy to gain more supporters, to please the GOP and find common ground with Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Pence’s stances on abortion have never changed, and he has a history of implementing those beliefs as the governor of Indiana. Last March, he signed a state ban on abortions from fetal deformities. Previously, Pence led a failed mission to defund Planned Parenthood. Now, as Trump prepares to take office, we’ve learned how these attempts might actually become a reality. It’s been rumored that President Obama signed a law into effect that permanently

protects the federal funding of Planned Parenthood The Obama administration suggested the rule in order to block states from holding funding for family planning services unless they aren’t effectively provided. If approved, the states won’t be allowed to take the funding whenever they want. If it’s not approved, it could defile the years of progress activists have made to uphold women’s reproductive rights. In his recent 60 Minutes interview, Trump said he will fill the vacant Supreme Court seat with a pro-life conservative, hoping to improbably overturn the Roe v. Wade case which legalizes abortion nationwide. Though overruling the decision wouldn’t necessarily decline abortions, it would allow states to decide if abortion should be legal or not.

Sure, that’s not the worst possibility. If you live in a state where it’s allowed and you have the time, transportation and money to travel there, why not? Who’s to say the state only allows certain kinds of abortions? Right now, it’s odd to watch Trump talk about abortions, as he speaks with little to no conviction about a subject matter which makes so many women panic for their bodies. According to TIME Magazine,, Planned Parenthood has received almost 80,000 donations since the election. Many of them in Pence’s name, which isn’t surprising since this trend was created to fight against his own abortion laws.

This is a serious and dangerous issue, as Trump and Pence pose substantial threats to women and their reproductive rights. Pence doesn’t seem to be as upfront as his superior or even

have a backbone, but his history of signing laws against women’s rights makes him just as imposing as Trump is. It also means he’s someone who should be watched closely during our nation’s awkward transition between presidents. Trump, however, is making it very clear that re-configuring judicial law is the direction he wants the United States to head in.

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‘Liberal trash bag’ is an understatement By The Editorial Board Enough has been written about last week’s election results. Like many of you reading this, we were all surprised when it became clear Donald Trump had won the presidency. And between now and then, liberals and conservatives all over America were triggered, feeling the need to chime in for all of their Facebook friends to see. Some people stood out as leaders, presenting thoughtful dialogue. Others were outraged, marking Trump supporters as racist, insensitive and idiotic. What we need now is for all sides to calm down a bit and not think about at once all the issues Trump brings to the table. As dozens of students said last week in Library Mall, Trump is only one person. Each of us must focus on making our corners of the world more livable. We believe liberals everywhere should get off their high horses and hear their neighbors out. We are certainly guilty of liberal elitism, as the majority of our editorials and columns have thrown heavy jabs at

right-wingers. The so-called racists, insensitives and idiots aren’t the only ones responsible for Trump’s election. Liberals are equally guilty in very different ways, especially their blind support of the Democratic Party. They isolated the majority of white, working-class Americans who voted Trump into office. During the campaign, the news media pounced on Trump’s shortcomings, but gave bland reports on Clinton’s email scandal. Whenever Trump threatened to throw Clinton in jail, many sites made it the headline of their second presidential debate coverage, rather than making the candidates’ policies their focus. It was also a fault of the Democratic National Committee to “pull a Hillary” themselves, having 19,252 of their emails published on WikiLeaks on July 22. On May 5 in particular, DNC officials apparently attempted to make Sanders’ faith an issue during the primaries so religious voters in Kentucky and West Virginia would

side with Clinton. Although he’s Jewish, Sanders has said that he is not religious. Two days after the leak, DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned from the governing Democratic body. While it wasn’t surprising when she stepped away from her position – being the face of political disgrace and whatnot – it was still alarming to wake up this pasr Wednesday morning to watch Trump parade his victory. But it shouldn’t be so shocking upon revisiting the facts leading into the election. By ejecting Sanders, the millennial favorite, out of the primaries for Clinton’s favor, the Democrats gave their voters a “textbook politician” who was antithetical to Trump’s antiestablishment rhetoric in every way. The main reason President Obama won in 2008 was because his campaign centered on “hope and change,” two qualities young Americans needed to hear at the end of the Bush era. For his time, Obama was the anti-establishment liberal, turning out to be the most personable, peaceful and “blackest”

head of state we could’ve asked for. The difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was how well he could connect to the demographic of white voters without college degrees. By continually declaring to “make America great again” and rid the nation of illegal immigrants, Trump resonated with an untapped silent majority that had one of the biggest influences on the Electoral College last week. Hardcore liberals and Democrats were too elitist and pompous to recognize such a possibility. American news and entertainment media focused on demonizing Trump and did not spend enough time investigating why people supported him. The white, workingclass, undereducated silent majority felt left behind by the Yeezywearing, bleeding-heart liberals living in U.S. metropolitan areas. It’s interesting to see that the newspapers endorsing Clinton, which provided hard-hitting news for over a century, were completely ignored by Trump voters. And CNN and MSNBC were no less guilty, as they probably influenced liberals

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much more than the dying news industry. Liberals, and their media, lived under a bubble that was finally burst by a populist uprising of sickand-tired, rural Americans. All we can do now is continue to converse with others, even if they voted red, and make social causes apparent to influence better legislation. Some would advise you to not protest, but please, keep your marches persistent. Raise hell, enforce the issues that matter to you and change will happen. Pulitzer Prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich famously said “well-behaved women seldom make history.” Bearing in mind how criticized Trump was by women’s rights groups for his sexually aggressive comments, the only way liberals can rebound from their own hubris is to continue supporting the causes of others.

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