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Students, faculty brace for results Trump wins stunning victory over Clinton ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Ole Miss students, faculty and staff braced themselves for the results of the 2016 presidential election at various watch parties across campus. Groups and residence halls hosted watch parties on and off campus. Student Libby Summer patiently waited outside the courtyard of Residence Hall 2 and 3 along with 40 other students at the Pajamas and Politics watch party. “I’m super scared,” Summer, who is from Madison, said. “Super scared, like moving to another country if Hillary wins.” Summer was attending the watch party with friend Lauren James, who is also from
Madison. Together, the two watched as the ballots came in showing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both running a tight race. “It’s going to be really close,” James said. “I personally don’t want either one of them in office, but if I had to choose, I would much rather Donald Trump be in there than Hillary Clinton.” Overlooking the watch party was James Duncan, a security guard from the University Police Department. “I’m just here to make sure everyone here is safe,” Duncan said. “I can’t really say who is going to win, but from what I can tell it’s going to be pretty close.” At Deupree Hall, students
pre-gamed with pizza and cupcakes. Senior and first-time voter Josh Tucker said it was exciting to be a part of the election. “I think that the most important issue is probably going to be the Supreme Court justice decision,” Tucker said. “We know that President Obama has nominated Judge Garland, and the Senate has yet to approve his nomination. It will be up to the next president to decide who that Supreme Court judge should be.” Ole Miss Senior Tyler Flynn said no matter what happens, he wants to see
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump awakened a movement of angry working-class voters fed up with political insiders and desperate for change. On Tuesday, that movement propelled him to the White House. Trump’s stunning, come-frombehind victory over Hillary Clinton served as a symbolic raised middle finger to the political establishment from his fervent backers. But to millions of others, the billionaire businessman’s elevation to the presidency is a shocking, catastrophic blow that threatens the security and identity of a bitterly divided nation. Many see the president-elect as a racist, a bigot and a misogynist
unfit for the office. “He scares the daylights out of me,” said Wendy Bennett, a Democrat and government worker from Reno, Nevada, who cast her ballot for Clinton. “I think his personality is going to start World War III. He reminds me of Hitler.” Lisa Moore, a registered Republican from Glen Rock, New Jersey, crossed party lines to vote for Clinton, who would have been the nation’s first female president. “As a woman, in good conscience, and as the mother of a daughter, I can’t vote for somebody who’s so morally reprehen-
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STAFF EDITORIAL
It is time to unite together under our new president We, the editors of The Daily Mississippian, call upon all Ole Miss students, Mississippians and Americans to unite after the results of yesterday’s presidential election. For more than two centuries, our country has prided itself in our peaceful transition between different presidents. Whether it be war, depression or unrest in our society, the people of our country have shed the differences among us and united together for a better tomorrow. After a hard-fought and tense campaign, it might be natural for groups with different political ideals to separate themselves, blame the other side
and refuse to work together. We could choose to remain Trump or Clinton supporters, Democrats or Republicans, conservatives or liberals. We could choose to stay on our respective sides and refuse to engage each other in civil discourse. This might be the easy solution, but it is not the right one. It was Abraham Lincoln who said, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” We must refuse to become part of this destructive mentality that not only hurts the character of our soci-
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ety but also threatens our republic as a whole. So, how do we unify? How do we come together as a campus and as a country? At Ole Miss, we can work to build productive dialogue among different political groups on campus. As members of the Ole Miss family, students, faculty and staff must commit to the core tenants of our University’s Creed. We should respect every person’s academic freedom, while still upholding the respect and dignity of each person. As Americans, we can start to talk to each other again, instead of posting tweets and Facebook statuses only de-
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signed to channel our anger and put the other side down. One action of reaching out across the aisle leads to another. Our campus and our country, more than ever before, are a diverse patchwork of different peoples, beliefs and ideologies. Some might view this as deterrent to success. We view it as an opportunity. Together, we are stronger than we are apart. Whether conservative or liberal, Trump supporter or Clinton supporter, it is time for our nation to patch the wounds that have divided us during this contentious campaign and unite toward a better future. The Daily Mississippian is published Monday through Friday during the academic year, on days when classes are scheduled. Contents do not represent the official opinions of The University of Mississippi or The Daily Mississippian unless specifically indicated. The Daily Mississippian welcomes letters to the editor. Letters should be e-mailed to dmletters@olemiss.edu. Letters should be typed, double-spaced and no longer than 300 words. Letters may be edited for clarity, space or libel. Third-party letters and those bearing pseudonyms, pen names or “name withheld” will not be published. Publication is limited to one letter per individual per calendar month. Letters should include phone and email contact information so that editors can verify authenticity. Letters from students should include grade classification and major; letters from faculty and staff should include title and the college, school or department where the person is employed.
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America unified. “For me personally, it does not necessarily mean a lot to me,” Flynn said. “What I want to see is unity, which is what we probably will not see in this election.” Flynn said his next concern is the economy. Ole Miss senior Rimen Singh said he felt proud to vote for the first time. “I’m actually going to graduate this year, hopefully, and I have never been big on graduations, so this will probably be the proudest moment of the year for me,” Singh said. Singh said he thinks there are many issues Americans should be concerned with, but probably the most important is the economy. “More people need to have more wealth,” Singh said. “There have been arguments over wealth distribution, and I think that the more wealth is distributed the more people have to spend and the more they can buy. It will help everyone in the long run.”
sible,” said Moore, an exercise instructor. The 2016 election will go down as one of the most vicious in modern history, as Clinton tried to paint Trump as a reckless bully and Trump belittled his rival as a corrupt insider who belonged behind bars. But the election also served as vindication for Trump, a former reality TV star whose appeal was underestimated from the start. While pundits assumed his poll numbers would sink as soon as voters started taking the race seriously, Trump was drawing thousands each night to rallies packed full of angry, largely white supporters who felt ignored and lied to by Washington. While statistics showed the U.S. economy improving overall, it didn’t feel that way in places like upstate New York, Pennsylvania’s coal country and former manufacturing towns across the Midwest devastated by outsourcing and globalization. Chaos abroad only added to the feeling that the country was sliding backward. Together, those factors drove a yearning to return to a simpler time when America was the world’s undisputed superpower and middle-class wages were on the rise. “We have our fingers in too many baskets,” said Joe Hudson,
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Hillary Clinton supporters react to the news that Donald Trump has pulled ahead significantly in the presidential election.
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49, an engineer and registered Republican from Virginia Beach, Virginia, who said he would be voting for Trump because “we’re not taking care of our own people.” “We’re trying to be too involved in world politics. And our country is imploding from within,” he said. “We need a new direction, a new attitude, and people to stop arguing and letting the media affect how we feel.” Trump’s vow was simple: He’d “Make America Great Again.” His outsider status, coupled with his personal business success, lent credibility to a populist message that emphasized recapturing manufacturing jobs, restoring American strength abroad and curtailing legal and illegal immigration. Trump, early on, painted his supporters as a “movement” larger than himself. “This isn’t about me; it’s about all of you and our magnificent movement to make America great again all over this country. And they’re talking about it all over the world,” he said at a rally in Miami last week during the race’s furious final stretch. “There has never been a movement like this in the history of our country — it’s never happened. Even the pundits, even the ones that truly dislike Donald Trump, have said it’s the single greatest phenomena they have ever seen.”
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Registration error stops Local elections return incumbents some from voting MISSISSIPPI HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
City leaders say a registration error is keeping some students from voting in the 2016 presidential election. In voters drives, which were popular on campus during the registration period in September and early October, some students put their home address instead of a local address, and so they could not vote in Oxford. Other voters left blanks on their applications, so their forms were marked as “pending.” Lafayette County Circuit Clerk Baretta Mosley said Tuesday that her office contacted those who had pending registration forms and asked them to come complete the forms after the registration deadline, Oct. 8. Mosley said some people left small things undone, like the social security number area. Those who
did not fix their forms cannot vote today. “Those are pending,” Mosley said. “If it’s pending, it’s not on the poll books.” Mosley said there weren’t “a lot” of registration issues with students, but that she had dealt with a few today. Today, Election Day, is too late to get these pending registration forms fixed. The application errors can occur, Mosley said, when voters register in drives instead of with local authorities. Mosley said the best way to ensure your registration form is filled out correctly is to do it at the clerk’s office, where an attendant will help voters find their polling place, fill out absentee ballots or register for local voting.
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On election night, room 404 A in the Student Union became campus’ Emergency Operations Center. Emergency Management Coordinator Barbara Russo manned the station, looking out for the Ole Miss students’ safety on the divisive night. Russo was not alone in her duty, however. University Police Chief Tim Potts, Capt. Don Douglas and Assistant Director for Social Media Ryan Whittington joined her special election night team, acting as eyes around campus and online. Russo manages Ole Miss’ Crisis Action Team throughout the year. She said the CAT assembles for any large gatherings on campus, including home football games and upcoming events like Chancellor Jeffrey
to scan every post from nearby for inflammatory keywords. If the program finds a tweet, Whittington presents it to the rest of the CAT to decide the next course of action. One tweet came up on the virtual EOC early Tuesday night. Potts and. Douglas left their patrols to convene about a plan with Russo in the Student Union. They deemed the tweet insignificant, but kept an eye on its number of retweets and replies all night. “My job as emergency manager is really to coordinate all responding agencies. They all kind of do their thing,” Russo said. “If it’s a fire emergency, the fire chief is in command. If it’s a crime, the police are in PHOTO BY: SLADE RAND command.” Members of the Crisis Action Team sit waiting on election night just in case they are needed. Douglas said UPD had patrols at all the special events on cam- for extra protection. keep students safe from speedpus on election night. The night After all night classes let out, ing cars in case a crowd gathshift was on scheduled duty, UPD barricaded the Circle off ered later. and Potts called in the day shift to traffic. Russo said this was to UPD Lt. Adam Peacock patrolled campus on election night and said it was safer than he expected. At 10:26 p.m., as the election only drew closer, Potts grew worried. “That’s my concern, that they come back all liquored up from the swaps tonight. If he’s going to win, announce it now so they’re all still out on the Square,” Potts said. UPD locked the Union’s doors at midnight on election night, and the election was still not closed. Russo said she hoped Clinton would win because it would mean she had a shot at becoming the director of FEMA. Russo sent Clinton a two-page letter about why she should be the first female head of the national emergency relief organization. “I didn’t think it’d be this wide open at this point. If I had known, I would have sent a letter to both candidates,” Russo said. “I’m an equal opportunist.” 5
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Students and community members wait in line at the Jackson Avenue polling center early Tuesday morning. Later in the day, students attended several watch parties across campus.
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