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VOLUME 95 I ISSUE 12
Students protest
silence following
Students frustrated with
the lack of comment on the
election gathered in protest.
Kellie Chudzinski
News Editor
@LALoyolan
Students gathered in a silent protest
outside of President Timothy Law Snyder’s
office in University Hall on Monday.
Neither President Snyder nor the
University issued a statement after Donald
Trump was elected president on Nov. 8.
Many students found Trump’s rhetoric,
particularly his comments regarding
minorities and undocumented people, to
be alarming.
A text message was sent out the
morning of the demonstration explaining
the sentiment of the organizers. These
individuals expressed their belief that it
should not be controversial for Snyder to
make a statement that hate is not welcome
and that he supports the marginalized
groups that Trump often attacked.
One of the organizers of the
demonstration, Diana Delgado, a
senior modern languages major,
asked for undocumented student
protection. Delgado expressed fears that
undocumented students have in being able
to continue their education with Trump as
president.
“This is not a partisan issue; it’s an issue
of justice, it is an issue of hate, and he
needs to say something about it,” Delgado
said. “We also want and need President
Snyder to make this campus a sanctuary
campus for undocumented students.
That’s the only way we can continue our
educations.”
Co-organizer of the sit-in, Antonio
De Loera-Brust, a senior film and TV
production major, said Snyder spoke to
the students, including those who had
tape covering their mouths in an effort to
display their feelings of oppression.
Snyder’s
election
The demonstration was held as a silent,
black-out protest and lasted from 11:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. At approximately 3:45 p.m.
Snyder sent out an email to the LMU
community that addressed some of the
concerns held by the protesters.
De Loera-Brust said he understood
that Snyder is somewhat removed from
everyday campus life but thought it was
good Snyder was seeing how students at
the University were feeling. De Loera-
Brust is “cautiously optimistic” that
Snyder understood what the students were
trying to do.
De Loera- Brust felt that it was ultimately
Snyder’s job to convey to the students that
all are welcome on campus.
“It’s on him to essentially communicate
to the entire campus that all are welcome
here, and that every Lion’s life has
value, has dignity and they belong here,
regardless of who’s president,” De Loera
Brust said.
See Protest | Page 5
Anastasia Larina | Loyolan
Protesters gathered outside of President Timothy Law Snyder's office on Monday, Nov. 14 to protest his lack of comment on the election.
All we can do
now is move
forward
Matt at Bat
MattGaydos
Opinion Editor
@LALoyolan
I had two articles prepared for the
result of Tuesday’s election, but what
I had written in case Donald Trump
won doesn’t do how I feel right now any
justice. On Tuesday night, what at once
seemed impossible turned into reality.
America chose to elect a president who ran
a campaign based on fear mongering and
an extremely irresponsible handling of the
truth. But I’m not going to touch on how
Trump got to be the new President-elect,
or the litany of reasons why I, and many
others, wept at this election's results.
There is only one thing that can be done
right now and that is to move forward. I
don’t mean to move forward and shrug off
the magnitude of what happened on Nov.
8. I mean to move forward and make the
change that we want to see in this country
happen. The silent majority is no longer
angry and religious white men. The silent
majority is now apathetic millennials.
Two statistics from Tuesday’s voting
really stand out to me. First, Hillary
Clinton beat Trump amongst voters
aged 18-29 55 percent to 37 percent. If
we based the electoral map on just the
millennial vote, Clinton would have won
504 electoral votes to Trump’s 23. Second,
55.6 percent of Americans came out to
vote. That is the lowest turnout we have
had in a presidential election since George
W. Bush beat A1 Gore in 2000. Guess who
makes up, according to Pew Research
Center, roughly 31 percent of the voter
constituency? If you guessed millennials,
you’d be right. We have more potential
voters than Generation X and roughly the
same as the Baby Boomers generation —
an age group that leaned heavily towards
Trump. So why did the older generations’
Trumps view of media
he did not like. At a rally in Florida, after
winning the Florida Republican primary,
Trump said, “There’s nothing like it — lies,
deceit, viciousness, disgusting reporters.”
At an Iowa press conference in 2015, Jorge
Ramos, reporter for Univision, was escorted
out of the room by Trump’s security
after asking about Trump’s immigration
proposal.
Recently, Ramos said, “We have a
president-elect who’s going through the
process of being normalized by the press
and by the political establishment [...] we
still have to remember what he simply said
in the past.”
According to the Huffington Post, on the
Thursday after the election, Trump refused
to allow reporters to travel with him to
Washington D.C. for his first meeting with
President Barack Obama upon winning
the election, not permitting any reporters
— except photographers — from entering
the hotel. This broke protocol with the
networks that were covering this event.
See Trump | Page 5
See Forward | Page 8
may impact journalists
via Michael Vadon via Flickr Creative Commons
President-elect Donald Trump expressed his views of the media throughout his campaign. He
is now being seen as evading the press corp and breaking protocol.
Throughout his campaign,
President-elect Trump
sparred with the media.
Bri Ortiz
Asst. News Editor
@LALoyolan
Throughout Donald Trump’s presidential
campaign, there have been several instances
where he has voiced his opinions of the
press.
The press, or news media, consists of
broadcast news (radio and TV), print news
(newspapers and news magazines) and
social media.
Many journalists are worried as to how
Trump ’s presidency will impact the way they
write and the type of content they produce.
During Trump’s campaign, there were
incidents in which he called out journalists
