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ARTS
The Versatile 
style of Hillary 
Clinton

A look at her fashion over 

her long political career

 >> SEE PAGE 7

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 

>> SEE PAGE 10

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Vol. CXXVI, No. 126 | © 2016 The Michigan Daily 
michigandaily.com

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

