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A look at her fashion over
her long political career
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NEWS
City Council election
previews
Contested races in Wards
1 and 5
>> SEE PAGES 2 and 3
NEWS
‘Ban the Box’ may
cause discrimination
Employment reform has
unintended consequences
>> SEE PAGE 3
OPINION
A separate
movement
Kevin Sweitzer writes
about a new movement at
the DNC.
>> SEE PAGE 5
SPORTS
Non-conference
schedule released
The men’s basketball team
faces lackluster competition
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Young people rock DNC with
protests, but students sit back
GRANT HARDY/Daily
A young boy protests the DNC in support of Bernie Sanders with his father outside the Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Millenials fall
behind Clinton
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
PHILADELPHIA
—
Amid
leaked DNC emails and fears
of a divided party, Sen. Bernie
Sanders’
supporters
ignited
protests throughout Philadelphia
during the Democratic National
Convention this week. Additionally,
many delegates at the convention
came in protest with taped mouths
and rampant booing of various
speakers who praised presumptive
Democratic
nominee
Hillary
Clinton.
Protesters came from varying
demographics, but the majority
tended to be millennials — a core
group of support for Sanders
throughout the primary season.
However, few of these young people
were current students. Out of 25
young people to whom the Daily
spoke with at various protests, just
five were current students. Three
of those five students stated they
intended on supporting Clinton in
the general election, despite their
reluctance.
Catherine McGurk, a student at
Arcadia University, said she plans
to vote for Clinton because the
movement Sanders started must
begin on a smaller scale.
“I believe that grassroots works
from the ground up,” she said. “So
local elections are more important
if you are trying to get a grassroots
candidate elected, someone who is
an independent, for example. But at
the presidential level I believe it is
still Republican or Democrat, and
Hillary is more aligned with my
beliefs, so I’m going to pick her.”
The students also agreed that
the majority of students on their
campuses plan to support Clinton
despite their initial commitment to
Sanders.
Angel Green, a member of the
Up to Us movement which supports
Sanders’ campaign and grassroots
change in government, confirmed
that while her group is — at its core
— made up of young people, just a
few members are current students.
Many of these students and
young
people
are
protesting
because they fear the consequences
of a Hillary Clinton and Donald
Trump presidency, equally. On
campus,
according
to
College
Democrats chair Collin Kelly, a
rising LSA junior, the mentality is a
little different.
“I know that people aren’t
as
enthusiastic
about
Hillary
Clinton as there were about Bernie
Sanders,” Kelly said. “But even the
most skeptical person of (Hillary
Clinton) is more scared of what
would happen if Trump were
elected.”
Nonetheless,
the
recent
Wikileaks
release
of
e-mails
showing the DNC was clearly biased
against Sanders may cause more
students to join the “Never Hillary”
or “Still Sanders” movements.
Students for Sanders president
Nick Kolenda, an LSA rising junior,
wrote in an e-mail interview with
The Daily that, though he views the
movements as slightly dangerous,
he understands the frustration
among Sanders supporters.
“Personally (as a “Never say
never” kind of person) I think that
it’s risky if you’re a progressive
supporting
that
particular
movement as we live under a
majoritarian system,” he wrote.
“However, after the revelations
from Wikileaks, the anger is
See DNC, Page 9