Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 11-16-2016 The aB tes Student - volume 147 number 8 - November 16, 2016 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: https://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 147 number 8 - November 16, 2016" (2016) This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Bates Student THE VOICE OF BATES COLLEGE SINCE 1873 WEDNESDAY November 9, 2016 Vol. 147, Issue. 7 Lewiston, Maine ARTS & LEISURE FORUM SPORTS Gabriel Nott ‘17 reviews Will Murray ‘20 discusses Women’s cross- Westworld, a hit TV the administration’s role in country head coach Jay series that questions life discouraging appropriative Hartshorn wins NES- in artifical intelligence. costumes. CAC coach of the year, as team prepares for regionals this weekend. See Pages 5-6 See Page 2 See Page 7 Maine ACLU asks US Dept. of Justice to investi- Wasteland, gate voter suppression effort at Bates College not a waste of time AMAR OJHA & NOAH LEVICK EDITORS IN-CHIEF The Environmental Coalition screened Sunday morning students en- countered bright orange leaflets the movie to better reading “BATES ELECTION LE- GAL ADVISORY.” The word ‘le- gal’ was underlined and had stars educate students around it to add emphasis. Below that were two categorically false about the influence statements. First, students wanting to vote must change their driver’s li- trash can have censes to a Maine license and second that vehicles must be re-registered, MARIAM HAYRAPETYAN with a note stating that this often ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR costs hundreds of dollars. The leaf- lets were immediately removed from Commons and dorm buildings, and Amidst the chaos of the elec- a suspect was identified in the Lew- tion, the Environmental Coalition iston Sun Journal as a tall blonde screened a documentary, Wasteland, man. on Monday in Olin. The film was Less than two weeks ago, Fed- different from the typical documen- eral and State officials along with the tary, in that, it was not purely factu- ACLU of Maine published a press al; rather, it included people’s stories release on election fraud claims. and emotions as a way to connect to U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahan- the audience. ty II said in the press release, “Every The film’s premise was that of an citizen must be able to vote without artist Vik Muniz who incorporates interference or discrimination and trash and garbage into his art— to have that vote counted without there is an aspect of transforming it being stolen because of fraud. These fliers were dispersed around the Bates College campus early Sunday. the material into art. Muniz spends The Department of Justice will act CHRISTOPHER PETRELLA TWITTER/COURTESY PHOTO two years in Jardim Gramacho in promptly and aggressively to protect Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is the the integrity of the election process.” the Governor did not intend to co- investigating the incident at Bates, has mobilized the Bates student world’s largest landfill by the volume A Maine Assistant United States erce, threaten, or intimidate, if the the ACLU is “looking into com- body. On the evening of November of trash that enters it each day. Attorney said he could not yet com- letters had the likely effect of doing ments made by the Governor today 7, Bates students staged a student Given that the city of Rio does ment on the specifics of the case, and that, they would still violate the law. that also target student voting, and demonstration, organized by Bates not have a recycling center in the directed The Student to the FBI. At So another part of the investigation we have called on the US Depart- Student Action and Bates Demo- city—something the locals have this time, the FBI was unavailable would be to figure out what was ment of Justice to investigate.” crats, decrying Republican nominee been demanding—an Association for comment. Legal Director at the the effect; were people intimidated? According to Heiden, “the Vot- Donald Trump and his problematic of Pickers of Jardim Gramacho ACLU of Maine Zachary Heiden Were people scared? Were people ing Rights Act of 1965 makes this a tactics throughout his campaign. formed. The pickers are people who spoke with The Student, saying, made to feel that they would be civil offense. But the National Voter Meghan Lynch ‘17, election co-lead collect recyclables, which are later “The Voting Rights Act of 1965 subject to unwelcome government Registration Act [of 1993] makes of Bates Student Action, said before picked up by the wholesalers. In a prevents any person from threaten- attention if they decided to exercise it, intentionally, a criminal offense. the demonstration, “We are now sense, their job is to help increase ing or intimidating or coercing or their fundamental rights?” There are both criminal and civil incorporating the voter suppres- the capacity of the landfill. attempting to threaten or attempt- Governor Paul LePage had his penalties associated with this.” sion signs. We will be distributing The Association of Pickers of ing to intimidate a person to inter- own take on the matter, saying in a President Clayton Spencer replicates of the original signs with Jardin Gramacho, like any other fere with their right to vote. And it statement on his website that Dem- spoke of the event to the Sun Jour- actual information about the voter movement, has a hierarchy with a seemed to me, given the timing of ocrats “have encouraged college stu- nal, saying it was “clearly a deliber- registration process during the dem- president and vice-president; how- the letter (just before an election), dents from out of state to vote in ate attempt at voter suppression,” onstration.” ever, they all work together to reach and the target audience (student Maine” and college students are al- and released a statement on the “We planned the demonstra- their goals. For example, some of voters), that the only reasonable lowed to vote “as long as they follow Bates website saying: “Many Bates tion so as to send a sense of ur- their movements included a push purpose of such a letter would be to all laws that regulate voting, motor students are eligible to register and gency to students about the value for paved roads and a sewage sys- scare students into not voting.” vehicles and taxes.” Of course, citi- vote in the City of Lewiston. Any of our vote in this contested dis- tem—all of which have been grant- Heiden also noted, “Intent is zens are not required to own a ve- unofficial communications that sug- trict,” Lynch said. “Bates students ed to them. not the only important question un- hicle to vote, nor are voters required gest otherwise are contrary to the to have a driver’s license. ideals of American democracy.” der the Voting Rights Act, so even if See INVESTIGATION, PAGE 4 See WASTELAND, PAGE 4 the people who sent these fliers or Heiden said that, in addition to This voter suppression effort TRUMP WINS BIGLY AMAR OJHA EDITOR IN CHIEF NOAH LEVICK EDITOR IN CHIEF At press time, Donald J. Trump Republicans kept a significant was on the verge of an upset win over majority in the House of Represen- Democratic Nominee Hillary Rod- tatives, having already earned the ham Clinton. Despite nearly every 218 seats needed for control at press political poll and pundit predicting time. In the Senate, Republicans a Clinton win, Trump seemed on appeared poised to win a majority, course to become the 45th President although final results were not yet of the United States. available. Trump retained most of the In Maine’s Second Congres- states that Mitt Romney won against sional District, Republican Bruce Barack Obama in the 2012 election Poliquin defeated Democrat Emily while also taking several important Cain. Lewiston, the second largest swing states, including Florida and city in Maine, favored Clinton by a Ohio. The Rust Belt posed an un- margin of 8,189 to 7,301 votes. expected challenge for Clinton, as While five of the six ballot ini- Trump excelled amongst white, tiatives in Maine were extremely male voters. close, two measures had been called. Question Four, on increasing the minimum wage, officially passed, as did Question Six, which stipulated Bates students register to vote at Lewiston Armory Memorial. the issuing of transportation bonds. MAX HUANG/THE BATES STUDENT Forum 2 The Bates Student November 9, 2016 Costume LePage shuts door on refugees controversies that he does not believe that “these a black church and we treat them as HANNAH WILSON kinds of people” should be receiving an outlier. This double standard is dents regarding the semantics of her STAFF WRITER assistance from the government. But completely racist and Islamophobic. WILL MURRAY email. But buried beneath the con- CONTRIBUTING WRITER This past Friday, Governor Paul what about them disqualifies them This does not even address the forces troversy, Christakis raises important LePage announced that Maine will from accessing these resources? of social and cultural isolation (that As we take down our Hal- questions. be withdrawing from the federal In addition, his assertion that we, the dominant culture cause) loween decorations and pack away At its core, the email explores government’s refugee resettlement refugees are not being properly that could have caused this man to our costumes, consider what this the role of the administration in program.