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NEWS in REVIEW By Madeline Purdue
INTERNATIONAL BOMBING IN TURKEY INJURES 100 PEOPLE Early on the morning of Friday, Nov. 4, a car bomb detonated near a police station, killing nine people, including two police officers, and injuring 100 more in southern Turkey. The bomb flattened cars and destroyed building fronts in the popular Baglar district. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack shortly after the bombing, which occurred after members of Parliament who are a part of a Kurdish political party were arrested for failing to come forward after being summoned by prosecutors. The Peoples’ Democratic Party Branch Chief Dogan Erbas said in a press conference that members of his party have started protesting the arrests because it goes against democracy in Turkey, as reported by CNN. The protests and bombing follow other events creating political tension in Turkey.
Presidential election is a signifigant source of stress for Nevada voters By Rachel Spacek From name-calling to FBI investigations, this election cycle has been a roller coaster ride for both candidates and voters. According to studies from The American Psychological Association’s “Stress in America” report, just over half the people surveyed said the election “is a very or somewhat significant” source of stress in their daily lives. Nevada, a swing state, has been the target for rallies and surrogates, and Nevada voters have been bombarded with campaign volunteer phone calls and home visits. “We have never seen an election like this and for us to be in Nevada, in a swingstate, it is huge, it has been a lot,” said Megan McKeon, a student at the University of Nevada, Reno. Voter anxiety was at an
NATIONAL MAN STABS 6, KILLS 3 IN REVENGE ATTACK A man broke into a home in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, Nov. 5, and stabbed six people, killing three of them. It is suspected the man was angry after a member of the household named him as a suspect in a shooting and sexual assault on Facebook. Jeremy Arrington, 26, killed two young children and a college student visiting the family. The children’s mother and their 13-year-old twin siblings were also stabbed but are in stable condition. Three people managed to escape untouched. Arrington was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, among other charges on Monday. His bail was set for $5 million. He was out on bail on an unrelated assault charge when he stabbed the victims. Arrington knew the family and where they lived, but authorities did not give more details. He was taken into custody on Sunday after surrendering to a stand off with police.
LOCAL DOJ TO MONITOR POLLING PLACES IN WASHOE, MINERAL COUNTIES The Department of Justice announced on Monday, Nov. 7, it will be sending 500 members of its Civil Rights Division to 67 counties across the country on Election Day to confirm whether or not they are complying with federal voting laws. Some of these members will be sent to Washoe and Mineral counties in Nevada. “We enforce federal statutes related to voting through a range of activities — including filing our own litigation when the facts warrant, submitting statements of interest in private lawsuits to help explain our understanding of these laws, and providing guidance to election officials and the general public about what these laws mean and what they require,” said Attorney General Loretta Lynch, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal. It is not stated why the DOJ chose these Nevada counties, but both were involved in a lawsuit with the Pyramid Lake and Walker River Paiute tribes over disenfranchisement due to lack of access to polls in September. “It’s encouraging that the Department of Justice is following up on their statement of interest brief by putting staff on the ground,” said Bret Healy, a consultant with the Native-American advocacy group Four Directions to the RGJ. Madeline Purdue can be reached at mpurdue@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @madelinepurdue.
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all-time high during Trump’s last rally in Reno on Saturday, where the candidate had to be rushed offstage by Secret Service agents. According to a Secret Service spokesperson, there was a commotion in the crowd at the rally and someone shouted “gun.” The spokesperson said there was no weapon found after officials searched the individual and the scene in question. The individual was later identified as Austyn Crites, who told reporters the commotion began after he raised a “Republicans Against Trump” sign at the rally. Crites reported being assaulted by a group of people before anyone shouted “gun.” Crites said he was beaten and grabbed around the neck. “Four years ago, I had no idea what was going on and that is to be expected from someone who doesn’t read See ANXIETY page A2 Photo Illustration by Nicole Skarlatos/Nevada Sagebrush
A frustrated voter tears his Clark County ballot guide `on Monday Nov. 7. With Election Day around the corner, voters must face the source of their anxiety — the presidental election results.
Educators change approach to elections By Emily Fisher The 2016 presidential election is making history in more ways than one. This is the first time a woman has claimed a major party nomination for president of the United States, the first time since Dwight D. Eisenhower that a person without experience in a government role or Congress has been nominated and both candidates are the oldest in history. The differences in this year’s election compared to past election make it obvious that educating students on elections is a lot trickier than it used to be. The question of how the elections will affect education today and in the future — both in public and higher-education institutions — is significant. The key to understanding how education is affected is understanding specifically how this year’s election differs from the norm, said Jennifer Ring, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, who specializes in race and gender in American politics.
Race and gender have both played a very large role in this election compared to previous years, Ring said. “Donald Trump has enabled haters in this country to think they’re being real, rather than politically correct, by being racists,” Ring said. According to Ring, there has been an escalation of racial tension in the country that has not been seen in previous elections. Kevin Banda, an assistant professor of political science at UNR, said before the 2008 election, racial attitudes and anxieties in the U.S. didn’t predict votes, but from 2008 to now race plays a powerful role in elections. “People have now been primed to use their racial attitudes to make political assessments in ways that they haven’t been for a long time,” Banda said. Gender and gender attitudes have also played a big role in this election compared to previous elections, Banda said. According to Ring, this is in part because of Hillary Clinton being the first woman
America questions political situation By Madeline Purdue In an election where voters will have to decide between two unfavorable candidates, voter anxiety is at an all-time high as voters ask themselves the question, “how did we get here?” On Nov. 8, America will decide who will become the next president after one of the most intense elections the country has ever seen. “The rest of the world is very concerned with what the results will be of this election,” said Richard Ford, a Pulitzer Prizewinning writer, to a journalism class at the University of Nevada, Reno, on Monday. “These European reporters are being sent over here to America to poll-watch.
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These reporters usually aren’t sent here; they’re sent where there are fragile democracies. We have a fragile democracy.” As the world watches, America anticipates the results of the election and looks back at the last year and a half of comic relief amongst name-calling and scandals.
THE REPUBLIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
The Republican National Convention was held in Cleveland July 18 through 21. There, Trump was officially nominated as the GOP’s presidential candidate. Three days before the convention started, Trump announced he had
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nominee. However, the extreme symbolism behind potentially having a female as commander in chief has been lessened because of the antics between the two candidates and the controversy surrounding Clinton. Ring stated Donald Trump’s language involving women and the recent accusations of sexual assault have also brought gender into the limelight, and not in a positive way. The hateful rhetoric and language between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have enhanced the polarization of the country, and this causes teachers and professors to take note. This year many public school teachers are choosing to focus not on the candidates but on the election process and the ideologies of the different parties. In a survey this year conducted by Teaching Tolerance, a division of the Southern Poverty Law Center, from March 31 to April 2, nearly 2,000 teachers were questioned about the impact of this year’s election on students and schools. More
than 40 percent of the teachers surveyed were hesitant to teach about the election at all. Ring argues not teaching the election or attempting to “clean up” the election harms students and avoids important dialogues that simply can’t be ignored. “The tendency of primary and secondary education is to give the least disturbing story,” Ring said. She worries that problems of economic polarization, race and other difficult but important topics aren’t being discussed as much as they should be. Ring teaches a course at UNR called Identity Politics that is dedicated to correcting everything incoming college students learned in primary and secondary schools. Ranging from topics of racial tension within the U.S. to problems revolving around religion, gender and class, Identity Politics often surprises and angers students because they didn’t learn correct information in high school, Ring said.
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Analysts look to bellwether Nevada to predict election By Rachel Spacek It wouldn’t be Election Day without the customary slew of individuals and news organizations, both national and international, using various methods to try to predict the outcome of the presidential race. In China, the Shiyanhu Ecological Tourism Park had its most prized monkey pick the presidential candidate by having him chose between cardboard cutouts of both. In previous election years, people have used the winner of Game 7 of the World Series to predict which candidate will win the election. Bellwether states are one method of predicting the outcome of the election.
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A bellwether state is a state that can be used as a tool to predict the results of the election based on state demographics, voter registration and history that often mimics national trends. It is a state that has, throughout history, given its electoral votes to the nominee who goes on to win the presidential election. Nevada is one of the more reliable bellwether states and has chosen the winner of the presidential election 26 of 30 elections since it became a state. Since 1912, Nevada has only failed to choose one election winner. In the presidential election of 1976, the state voted for incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford, while
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