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Here at Nut Muffins Sans Nuts, BRYAN, Go-Kart Mozart, Mall Madness, Sharpies, Zello the paper, we encourage creativity and uniqueness, spark dialogue and discussion, and foster the App, Airplanes, Rasal Flatts, Spring Weekend Rumors, Otters?, A Duck with a community where students are free to fully express themselves. Good Intentions march 21, 2018 the paper page 3 Fordham Joins National Walkout against Gun Violence by Gabby Curran Thousands of schools held walkouts demanding change Copy Editor of students evacuating the school and would be a vast understatement. heads high, others looked down at the It was a chilly, but cloudless day, on The situation is made all the more Thankfully, students are refusing to ground, all silencing ourselves for the March 14th, when members of the tragic considering Cruz’s less-than- stay silent in the wake of the massacre. same cause. I couldn’t tell you what Fordham community––following in veiled penchant towards violence. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High every single person was thinking during the footsteps of over 30,000 other those 17 minutes. They never really tell students across the nation––gathered you what exactly to think about during on Edward’s Parade to commemorate a so-called “moment of silence.” I the one-month anniversary of the personally thought about what had shooting that took place on Valentine’s happened, of course, but also about Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas my days in high school, how our own High School in Parkland, Florida. As professors would hold yearly lockdown the Keating bells struck 10, crowds of drills that nobody really took seriously. students and staff members filed out I don’t think it was because we were of classroom buildings and clustered by heartless, or ignorant; I think the the fence facing the Lombardi Center severity and terror of the situation we to stand in solidarity with the victims were preparing for was just too scary to of the shooting, as well as the students genuinely contemplate. We were lucky actively fighting for urgently-needed to never have had to huddle in the back gun reform laws. The atmosphere of a classroom in true fear, hoping the was chatty and social, yet solemn–– door the professor had just locked this was not, after all, a casual get- would hold up against a shooter’s fists together put together by CAB. There or their artillery. was symbolism behind this gathering; Several of his former classmates School’s own students––most notably When the 17 minutes were up, there was a message to be conveyed, commented on Cruz’s reckless Emma Gonzalez, whose speech at a another student speaker stepped to if a representational one. Ten minutes personality, and he reportedly had Fort Lauderdale rally shortly has gone the top of the gymnasium steps and later, two student speakers took to behavior issues that began in middle viral since its publication online–– thanked everyone for coming. However, the top of the Lombardi steps to thank school. Disturbingly, in September are spearheading the movement for he rightly stressed, this is only the everyone for coming out, and to read off 2016, Cruz posted a Snapchat of him gun reform, and letting nobody get first of many steps that should be the names of the 17 students and staff harming himself and threatening to in their way. Fordham University’s taken towards preventing something members whose lives were abruptly cut buy a gun. The state investigators, community, too, has joined the ranks like this from ever happening again. short on February 14th. 17 minutes of clearly in a stroke of qualified wisdom of young citizens who refuse to accept He then urged Fordham students to silence ensued, punctuated by 17 rings and justice, concluded that he was “at the government’s callous value of the start letter-writing campaigns, contact of the Fordham Victory Bell. low risk of harming himself or others.” archaic Second Amendment over the their representatives, and continue to This sequence of events is A YouTube account under his literal lives and futures of America’s youth. actively speak out against gun violence. unfortunately nothing new––with name was also found leaving violent When the 17 minutes of silence This walkout was the calm before 17 killed and 17 more wounded, and threatening comments on videos began at approximately 10:10, an the storm. This walkout should be the the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High such as “I’m going to be a professional earnest and solemn silence fell over calm before the storm––a moment School massacre clocks in as one of school shooter.” To make matters the students in attendance. We would for us to grieve what happened, the deadliest shootings in American worse, the AR-15 Cruz used was be lulled into a moment of deep and to remember the lives of those history, only third behind the Virginia obtained legally. Cruz’s own parents contemplation for 59 seconds before unjustifiably taken too cruelly and Tech massacre and the Sandy Hook knew about it, and misguidedly the intermittent clang of the bell would too soon. This walkout should, as the shooting. The perpetrator, 19-year-old thought that all it took to prevent their remind us of another student lost to a student speaker reminded us, be but former student Nikolas Cruz of Margate, son from misusing it was to establish preventable tragedy. There was barely the first step we take, before we take Florida, was arrested and taken into rules about keeping it in a lockbox. To a sound as we stood in the cold, hands actions that are direly required of us for custody while hiding amongst a crowd say that this tragedy was preventable in our pockets. Some of us held our this to never happen again. page 4 the paper march 21, 2018 Democrat Conor Lamb Wins PA Special Election by Andrew Millman Former prosecutor won a Trump-backing congressional district News Editor The Republicans chose state able to differentiate himself margin among the affluent On Tuesday, March 13th, legislator Rick Saccone, who had enough from the national Pittsburgh surbanites, winning back Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional been in public office for several Democratic brand, which is toxic many white working-class voters district held a special election to years and won his seat from an in places like Southwestern that the Democrats lost to Trump, replace former Representative incumbent Democrat, while the Pennsylvania, to pull off one of and also bringing new voters to the Tim Murphy, who resigned last Democrats chose former federal the biggest political upsets in polls.