1 The Round Up reemerges as the independent student voice of NMSU since 1907. Volume. 118 Issue 12. Monday, November 14, 2016 contributors & Staff Corey Stevens Albert Luna William Jones Katie Kilbane Executive Director Editor-in-Chief Advertising Director Marketing Director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (575) 646-3743 (575) 646-5434 (575) 646-7989 (575) 646-7680 David Mares Marlene Flores Rush Allen Photo Editor Donovan Duran Lead Designer Graphic Designer [email protected] Comptroller [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (575) 646-3634 (575) 642-5140 Derek Gonzales Salina Madrid Joseph Fullbright Luis “Luigi” Finston Sports Editor Cultural Editor Staff Writer Staff Writer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Larry Jackson Ryland Carter Ethan Holbrook Jianna Vasquez Photography Advertising Academic Life Cultural Legacy Legacy Legacy Legacy Josue Ornelas Austin Gest Nick Arias Isaiah Silva Graphic Design Sports Design/Journalism Culture Legacy Legacy Legacy Legacy Bryan Chavez Carlos Trujillo Armando Arellano Photography Photography Advertising Legacy Legacy Legacy 2 Top Left, Top Right and Bottom Right by: David Mares Bottom Left Photo courtesy of DonaldJTrump.com Contents In this issue Legal By: ALBERT LUNA Election Results . 4 Change is here. The election is over; the country The Road to the White House . 5 has spoken: Donald Trump is the right candidate. Along with control of the House, Senate, and like- TRU Opinon . 6 ly the Supreme Court, the GOP just might have its Academic Life best pathway to make change in an ever evolving Is Thanksgiving Something to Give Thanks About? . 8 America. Trump looks poised to continue to fl ip the entire system on its head and be unlike any President Culture in modern history. On the democratic side, Hillary Aggies in the Big Apple . 9 Clinton somehow lost a sizable, once thought to be untouchable lead, and her party seems to have Food Truck Mania . .12 had one of their toughest losses in history. Election results, analysis, as well as looking forward to the Sports Thanksgiving break and holiday are all in the next Football Two-Game Home Stand . .13 few pages as The Round Up is proud to present our twelfth issue of the year as Donald Trump will be Weir Will Revitalize NMSU Basketball . 14 the 45th President of The United States. I hope you Dixie & Dusty . 16 enjoy, give us feedback, and as always, keep your ears to the ground and now, more than ever, continue to Aggie Event Calendar . 19 write your own story. 3 TRU legal Election Results By: Isaiah Silva With 279 electoral votes, Donald J. Trump became the Presi- Clinton offered to work with Trump during her concession dent-Elect of the United States Wednesday morning. speech Wednesday morning. She thanked her supporters while saying they “Must accept this result and look to the future.” Trump was able to surpass the 270 electoral votes needed to secure the Presidency, despite losing the popular vote to demo- Most predictions gave Trump a narrow path to 270. However, he cratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who ended the election with rough- was able to pull off victories in states that had previously leaned ly 228 electoral votes in her favor. towards a Democratic candidate, including the swing states of Ohio and Florida. While the results were being released the nation was split between the two candidates. Each won a state by either a landslide According to Yale’s Ray Fair, which used economic factors or as close as a point, which was essentially as few as a thousand and the Democratic Party’s time in office to make projections, he votes in some places. predicted that Trump would win 56 percent of the vote. In the state of Michigan, Trump won by exactly one point, with According to the Wall Street Journal, about 130 million Amer- 97.54 percent precincts reporting. In Nevada, however, Clinton had icans were expected to cast their vote in what was considered the 47.8 percent of the vote while Trump had 45.7 percent. most unpredictable election to date. “He started a movement throughout the United States, Many voters lacked confidence in each candidate. though it may not have been worded the way a politician would word it, I think he used the media to be covered a lot.” Samantha Supporters of Clinton had been very vocal about their opin- Morales, a senior at NMSU said. ions regarding the results. Trump supporters are ecstatic that their candidate, who be- “I feel like Trump is an all around bad person, I feel like he has gan his journey to the White House in June of 2015, came out vic- no good intentions for this country.” Jocelyn Jimenez, a sopho- torious. Clinton supporters, on the other hand, essentially mourn- more at NMSU said. “Hillary was under federal investigation, which ed the results. Messages on social media, blogs, news outlets and made me uneasy, but then when you look at everything Trump other sources came from many people asking Americans to come did it’s like I would rather have that than what he wants. No one is together and help the country move forward peacefully. perfect.” “I think that we as a country should all unite because I was According to the Associated Press, at publication time, Clinton prepared for Hillary to win. I wasn’t going to say any hateful stuff, led by about 175,000 votes. Although Clinton had more votes, nothing like that, and I just feel we kind of deserve that kind of Trump won more states and the states he won carried more elec- respect.” Morales said. toral votes. Once the results were out, both candidates congratulated Morales says despite the election being over, Americans still each other on their campaign; albeit Clinton sending her entire have plenty to be proud of, “We as Americans should embrace our watch party of supporters home for the night just minutes before diversity- politically, religiously, and racially- this election has come she called to congratulate President-Elect Trump. to an end, and let’s see what the next four years have to come. We’ll see how they turn out.” “Now it is time for all Americans to bind the wounds of division,” Trump said during his victory speech. “It is time for us to Donald Trump’s inauguration into office will be held on Friday, come together as one united people.” January 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C. 4 The President-Elect’s Road to the White House 5:12 P.M. (MDT) : 8:53 P.M. The results are called for some states. Trump Florida is called for Trump – It wins Indiana and Kentucky, Hillary Clinton wins looks even more likely that he will be the next Vermont. Many predict Clinton will become the President. fi rst female president of the United States – and Supporters of Clinton react at her election crowds of people fl ock to the grave of 19th night rally in Manhattan, New York becomes century suff ragette Susan B Anthony to leave 'I far more somber. Voted' stickers on her gravestone. 6:05 P.M. 9:30 P.M. Canadian immigration website crashes Clinton wins Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland as Americans look to leave the States and Delaware. Trump wins Missouri, in the increasing likelihood of a Mississippi, Oklahoma and Trump presidency. Tennessee. 11:20 P.M. 7:10 P.M. Republicans retain control Mexican Peso nosedives as of the Senate with victory Trump wins Texas and in Pennsylvania. Colorado 7:15 P.M. 11:45 P.M. Trump wins Nebraska, Trump wins Pennsylvania. China Kansas, North Dakota, seems to be anticipating a Trump South Dakota, Wyoming, victory with many believing he and Arkansas. will do less to disrupt their for- eign policy ambitions. 7:30 P.M. The markets weaken as a Trump 12:30 A.M. victory looks more likely. Dow Trump wins Wisconsin futures are down around 500 points. 1:00 A.M. Trump delivers his acceptance 8:40 P.M. speech at the Hilton Hotel in New Trump takes Ohio, another York City, to a crowd of cheering swing state. supporters. It is conciliatory and he congratulates Clinton on a "very, very hard-fought campaign". 5 TRU opinion America Can Do Better By: Albert Luna Donald Trump is the leader of the the most divisible of ways than ever different tweets in less than a day. free world, come January 20th. before in this nation, but Trump op- Nothing can change that fact. ponents took the news far different Many will point to the fact Trump For all the outburst, slander, and than most would expect. echoed similar remarks during many even riots at the result of Trump’s of his speeches about whether he’d victory, it has given America a bad Simply going on-line during the be willing to accept the results from look. Not a bad look by the man that early morning hours following the election night. Yet it clearly screams has been selected to lead this coun- Trump victory, there was seemingly a double standard in the direction of try for at least the next four years, more negative talk about the Presi- his criticizers, who had always essen- but by the nation he is inheriting. dent-Elect than ever before by not tially seen themselves as the voice of just voters, but in some instances, reason. Instead, many of his critics So, what happened to the polls, the mass media alike. were rolling in the same trenches of projections, and the media blitz that ego, stubbornness, and respect that essentially laughed Trump off the So much for “going high when they Trump once did.