The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 97, Issue 11 - November 7, 2018

LOYOLAN VOLUME 97 ISSUE 11 LMU's basketball teams are gearing up for the upcoming season. For full coverage and player features see pages 15-20. WWW.LALOYOLAN.COM NOVEMBER 7, 2018 EST. 1921 KEY RACES ACROSS NATION producion, Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. MO< UAI PIJI г»в.з% ( S' I GOV. CA Ш v L J 43.7% Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom John Cox 48.9% Andrew Gilum GOV FL 49.9% 48% OO Y GA • - > Stacey Abrams Ron DeSantis Brian Kemp 51% 48.2% SENATE TX 51% Beto O'Rourke Gov. Ted Cruz Information Compiled by Kayla Brogan, News Editor via The New York Times; Graphic: Jessica Glassberg | Loyolan Democrats lip House, ose Senate The blue wave did not appear in voting as expected, as Republicans keep key seats. Kellie Chudzinski Editor-in-Chief @LALoyolan Democrats have taken the House of Representatives from Republican control, picking up at least 26 seats. The Republicans kept hold of the Senate, winning key races, earning a seat and leaving them with a 51 seat majority. The Democrats needed to pick up at least 23 new seats in the House of Representatives to gain a majority, while control of the Senate balanced on close races in Tennessee, Texas, Nevada, North Dakota and Missouri. Democrats needed to defend all 25 Democratic seats up and get two more seats to win a majority in the Senate. Many key races Democrats tried to flip, including Governorships and Senate seats, flipped or stayed red. Incumbent Democratic Florida Senator Bill Nelson lost to Florida Governor Rick Scott, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp beat Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams and Republican incumbent Texas Senator Ted Cruz beat Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke. As ofTuesday morning, 33 millionpeople had voted either by mail or in-person, as reported by CNN, an increase of 11 million people from 2014 early voting. Thirty- three states have surpassed their 2014 early voting numbers, with Florida, Texas and Tennessee seeing almost doubled See Election | Page 3 Trump attempts to redefine gender HERE'S HOW THE PROPOSED POLICIES WOULD AFFECT AMERICANS: - 1.4 million Americans identify as a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth. via The New York Times - The proposed policies would negate federal recognition of those 1.4 million Americans as their preferred gender identity. via The New York Times ' - Under the proposed legislation, the legal definition of sex under federal policy would be: "A person's status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth." via Insider Higher Ed. -If the policies were to be enacted, any controversy about one's sex would require genetic backing to be settled. via Insider Higher Ed. A DEMONSTRATION IN SUPPORT OF TRANS AND NON -BINARY PERSONS WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY, NOV. 8 AT ALUMNI CROSSING. _ Information compiled by Molly Box. News Intern: Graphic: Jolie Brownell and Jessica Glassberg | Loyolar Psychological support after natural disasters Bradley Smith, a mental health professional, assisted in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. Kayan Tara Asst. News Editor @LALoyolan Bradley Smith, director of special programs in Student Affairs, was one of over 3,500 Red Cross volunteers deployed to North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. When one thinks of the devastation caused by natural disasters, not many imagine the mental and emotional trauma caused that can take years to recover from. The slow-moving yet ferocious nature of Hurricane Florence caused life-threatening and long-term damage, according to The New York Times. Because he was a licensed professional clinical counselor, Smith responded to the urgent national call from Red Cross asking for licensed mental health professionals to assist victims of Hurricane Florence — he volunteered from Oct. 7 to Oct. 16 of this year. Smith is also a board- certified alcohol and other drug counselor, as well as LMU’s substance use disorders response specialist. See Bradley Smith | Page 2 Campus responds by providing support to transgender and gender non-binary students. Molly Box Asst. News Editor @LALoyolan The Trump administration released a memo on Oct. 21 to the New York Times describing their consideration of defining gender as dictated by genitalia at birth. The proposed policies would counteract decisions previously made by the Obama administration that federally recognized preferred gender identity in prisons, schools, universities and homeless shelters, easing legal definitions of sex and gender. The LMU community’s response was largely against this proposed policy. “The Trump/Pence administration’s threat to amend Title IX is not just another of the regime’s rolling back of civil rights, but is, in my opinion, unconstitutional,” Danielle Borgia, senior lecturer in women's and gender studies, said. Title IX, according to the NCAA, protects people from discrimination based on sex in programs and organizations that receive Federal financial assistance. According to the New York Times, the policy change would attempt to establish a legal definition of sex as either male or female and inalterable under Title IX. Those who identify as transgender or genderqueer would not be federally recognized and would not qualify for the protections provided by Title IX. Though no final decision has been made, if the legislation was to pass, it would negate federal re cognitio n of 1 . 4 million Americans who identify as something other than the gender they were assigned at birth. “Their goal is to restore every bit of the White supremacist capitalist patriarchy our country has started to dismantle in the last 100 years,” Borgia said. “I am terribly frightened by how much they have been allowed to accomplish in only two years.” Amy Woodson-Boulton, history professor, shared similar views on how the proposed policy could invalidate the work of preceding activists. Woodson-Boulton said that the efforts of gay and trans rights activists in the past helped to undo ideals that linked gender identity and sexuality to biological sex, and this policy would disregard all of it. See Trans Rights | Page 2