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UndocuHoosier Alliance member Esmeralda Martinez discusses fundraising to create scholarships for undocumented students at IU at a meeting Monday. Martinez, a sophomore studying microbiology, was born in Mexico and moved to Ft. Wayne at the age of 5. As a member of UndocuHoosier Alliance, she and her team are working to make IU a sanctuary campus against threats of deportation.
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that, that’s huge,” he said. “That would mean equal opportunities and scholarships, which is a huge gap right now, especially since we live in a state where undocumented students have to pay out-of-state tuition.” To support these students, UHA is in the process of organizing several fundraising efforts, including selling food at an upcoming poetry slam at the Bishop Bar and trying to add an option to donate to undocu-
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death in 2012. Under Bannon, Breitbart News had 19.2 million visitors in October — the website’s highest traffic since its founding in 2007. Many activist and minority groups are concerned about the role Bannon will play in the Trump administration. IU junior Margaret Hoffman, director of social affairs for the IU Feminist Student Association, said she thinks Bannon’s chief strategy officer appointment is offensive and ridiculous. Hoffman said the FSA executive board shares Breitbart News headlines in its GroupMe. She said they were blown away by the sexist nature of many of the headlines. Alt-right groups have been emboldened by Trump’s victory, she said. “People now think homophobic, sexist and xenophobic views can exist out in the open,” Hoffman said. “There’s no punishment. It’s legitimized.” Bannon has also been accused of white nationalism. Asshar Madni, the vice president of the board of trustees for the Al-Salam Foundation, an Islamic nonprofit organization founded in 2012, in Indianapolis, said he watched one of Trump’s recent speeches and was encouraged by Trump’s message of working for all Americans. However, Bannon’s appointment directly undermines Trump’s objectives, Madni said. “We are seeing contradictory messages,” Madni said.
mented students during class registration. An IU staff member and a representative from Bloomington Cooperative Living also offered their support in the fundraising subcommittee meeting led by IU student Esmeralda Martinez. The alliance plans to attend the next Bloomington Faculty Council meeting, as well, and support faculty who will support resolutions to help undocumented students. According to Palomo, there are thousands of uni“Mr. Bannon’s appointment sends the wrong message to the people.” Bannon has also been accused of anti-Semitism. In 2007, Bannon’s ex-wife Mary Louise Piccard said in a court declaration during their child custody battle that Bannon didn’t want his two daughters to attend the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles because of the number of Jewish students at the school. “The biggest problem he had with Archer is the number of Jews that attend,” Piccard said in her statement signed on June 27, 2007. “He said that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiny brats’ and that he didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews.” Newt Gingrich said in an interview on “Face the Nation” that Bannon could not be anti-Semitic because he has served in the Navy and worked at Goldman Sachs and in Hollywood. Silberberg said she does not believe Trump is ideological, but he’s surrounding himself with incredibly conservative and alt-right people. “Whether he believes these things or not, he’s surrounding himself by people who aren’t moderate,” Silberberg said. Piccard also accused Bannon of choking her and grabbing her arm in 1996. Police responded to the altercation and found red marks on Piccard’s left wrist and on the right side of her neck, according to a police report released by Santa Monica,
versity-age undocumented people in Indiana, but there are only about 200 in the whole IU system. “Numbers of undocumented students are low because it takes so much for these students to survive in our environment, to be able to afford college in the first place, to be able to jump through all the hoops they need to in order to receive the resources that they deserve,” Palomo said. Recruitment and retention of undocumented students could be aided by mandatory training for adCalifornia, officials. The fact that he has been accused of domestic violence in the past and that he will now serve as a key advisor to Trump is the problem, Hoffman said. “I just hope people keep their eyes and ears open and continue to read the news,” Hoffman said. “Don’t let people like Steve Bannon become normalized because he’s not normal.” Madni said right now it is too early to say what influence Bannon will have on policy, but the Al-Salam Foundation encourages civic engagement, so they will be watching the news closely. Eyas Raddad, president of the Board of Trustees of the Indianapolis Muslim Community Association, said he thinks Bannon will be busy working on economic policy, so he will have little influence on social issues. He said he does not believe Trump or Bannon are extreme in their views. “I feel they are rational and pragmatic people,” Raddad said about Trump and Bannon. “However, they have abused the underlying current of racism and hate and Islamophobia to help them win the election.” Raddad said he believes Trump and Bannon will continue to engage with the white, working-class demographic that propelled Trump to victory this year in order to win the next election. The Trump campaign has implicitly and explicitly contributed to Islamophobia, he said. He said Breitbart News has become a platform for Is-
missions and faculty on how to better interact with the students, Palomo said. However, even better might be creating a way for undocumented or Latinx students to reach out and recruit undocumented high school students. “I don’t care how welltrained your admission person is,” Palomo said. “Them talking about their experience will be nothing like the undocumented college student reaching out to that undocumented high schooler, showing them it actually is possible.” lamophobes to further hostility, uncertainty and negativity toward Muslims. Between Nov. 9 and Nov. 15, 701 incidents of hateful harassment occurred, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. About 25 percent of these incidents occurred Nov. 9, the day after the election. The majority of the acts were anti-immigrant, anti-black or anti-LGBT — about 30, 21 and 11 percent, respectively — and most occurred at K-12 schools, businesses and universities. The FBI recorded 5,818 total hate crime incidents in 2015, which averages to 111 incidents per week. This year there has been a 532-percent increase in weekly hate crimes due to the 701 incidents following the election. In an interview on “60 Minutes,” Trump said to his supporters committing hate crimes, “If it helps, I will say this — stop it.” Raddad said what is most troubling for him is the lack of strong or direct repudiation of the hate crimes on Trump’s part. “There were some statements, but nothing like what you would expect from a president who values all Americans equally,” Raddad said. Silberberg said she has been disturbed by how Trump’s win has emboldened alt-right groups, including neo-Nazis and the NPI. “They feel like they have an equal voice now,” Silberberg said. Silberberg said she sees many similarities between
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International tight end Jonnu Smith when Smith dropped a wideopen pass. He nearly broke IU’s 20-plus-year losing streak to Ohio State twice, once in 2014 and again in 2015, when he recorded the longest run by an IU quarterback in program history in the fourth quarter. As a freshman in 2014, he scored the last-minute, gamewinning touchdown against Purdue to cap off a season in which Hoosier fans had few things to cheer for — Tevin Coleman reached 2,000 yards rushing and wins against Missouri and Purdue. His picture with the Old Oaken Bucket and a cigar between his teeth became the symbol for higher expectations during the 2015 offseason. Diamont was just grateful to be a part of the program, he said after the win against Purdue. He knew he wouldn’t start this season with junior transfer Richard Lagow coming to Bloomington. He didn’t even know if he would see the field. He didn’t transfer. In fact he drew up a play that scored a touchdown against Michigan State, prepared the first-team defense against quarterbacks like Ohio State’s JT Barrett and Nebraska’s Tommy Armstrong and ran the Big Bacon package with 275-pound freshman running back Tyler Natee. The concussions in high school and the hits in college just started to add up and he wants to walk away from the game on his own terms, Diamont said. “It’s brutal,” Diamont said. “I’ve worked my entire life to play this game — be successful playing this game. It obviously hasn’t always been that way. It’s really hard to walk away.”
laying on the ground surrounded by blood,” said Ohio State sophomore Camille Bratton. “And then we were all just in shock. It was completely silent.” The suspect reportedly had a knife. Just before the suspect injured students at Watts Hall, a false fire alarm brought about 30 students out of the building, where a car attempted to hit many of them, Bratton said. A resident in Bratton’s dorm building had been hit by the car. “It’s been chaotic,” Ohio State sophomore Maheen Nadeem said. “There are really conflicting reports about what happened and whether it’s safe to go outside. None of us know what to think or what to do.” Ohio State freshman Greg Antonini had been biking to class near the scene at about 10 a.m., unaware of the active shooter lockdown. “I saw all these police cars and just thought it was a really bad accident,” Antonini said. “And then suddenly everybody outside was running as fast as they could to get into a building. It was really chaotic.” Students were on lockdown in their classrooms and dorm buildings for several hours. Watts Hall and the nearby buildings are laboratory buildings on OSU’s campus and administrators were worried by rumors of bomb threats, sophomore Andrea Thompson said. Thompson sat for two hours in a locked classroom in a chemistry building next to Watts Hall. All gas lines had been shut off and the room was freezing, she said. “I could hear a girl behind me crying quietly the whole time,” Thompson said. “When we could finally leave, it was like a mass exodus of students to the south part of campus, away from the shooting.” Campus has been mostly deserted since the lockdown was lifted, Ohio State freshman Matt Orchard said. Students remained unsure of whether campus was safe after the lockdown was lifted. Orchard said he and most other students planned to stay inside the rest of the day. “All these people keep texting and calling me, saying they heard something about this or that,” Orchard said. “But I have to keep telling them I don’t really know what’s going on. We’re holed up watching the news like everyone else.”
the Trump campaign and Hitler’s rise to power in the 20th century. Both leaders laid out their plans publicly, but people did not take Hitler seriously, and the Holocaust happened, she said. “People don’t believe what he says, but it’s scary to not believe what somebody says.” Silberberg said on Trump. “In my experience, people don’t tend to say things they don’t mean.” Silberberg said she and many others feel powerless because they see things happening around them, like hate crimes and speeches like Spencer’s, and they don’t know how to stop it. “It’s OK to feel powerless,” she said. “But at some stage very soon, we have to take the next step and do something about it.” Silberberg said the final voting data is reassuring because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, which means more than half of the country does not support hate. Clinton has surpassed two million votes more than Trump in the popular vote, according to the U.S. Election Atlas. Clinton obtained 64.4 million votes, and Trump obtained 62.3 million votes, as of Nov. 23. No matter if Spencer continues to “hail Trump,” or hate crimes continue to occur, Silberberg said the people should know they are the ones with the power. “We just need to remember each one of us has a responsibility to stand up and take the next step,” Silberberg said.
“We heard gunshots and ran to the windows to see the officers shooting at the guy, and then he was just laying on the ground surrounded by blood.” Camille Bratton, Ohio State sophomore