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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA • FOUNDED 1885

PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2024

VOL. CXL

NO. 26

TRUMP RETURNS Donald Trump, Penn alumnus, defeats Kamala Harris to win second term as president His victory in Pennsylvania and nationwide puts an end to four years of Democratic leadership in the White House BEN BINDAY AND PAIGE RAWISZER News Editor and Senior Reporter

1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States. Fox News first called the election for the Penn graduate and former president around 1:50 a.m. on Nov. 6, declaring Trump the victor of the 2024 presidential election, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in a highly anticipated election to clinch his second term in office. At around 5:30 a.m., NBC News and other outlets called the race after projecting Trump to win Wisconsin, securing the electoral votes to exceed the 270 threshold and win his bid for the White House. Trump is currently projected to win the national popular vote by 1.5%. Trump was also the projected winner of Pennsylvania, and he declared victory in a speech around 2:30 a.m. at his Mar-a-Lago Club election watch party in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump said that he had won the national popular vote — though a popular vote winner has not been projected by major outlets — and that Republicans would take control of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. While all major news networks have projected Republican control of the U.S. Senate, control of the House remains in flux. This year’s campaign is Trump’s third for president. He first defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016 and lost to current President and former Benjamin Franklin Presidential See TRUMP, page 6

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Election results shock campus, prompt canceled classes and student dismay Students expressed grief and disappointment after Trump won the presidential election and carried Pennsylvania — and many professors altered their class and assessment schedules CHARLOTTE COMSTOCK, THEO GREENFIELD, NICHOLAS MAHARAJ, ISHA CHITIRALA, AND CHRISTINE OH Staff Reporters and Contributing Reporters

Penn professors and students alike had a wide range of reactions in the wake of 1968 Wharton graduate, former President, and President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, which was called early Wednesday morning. Penn professors react, take action After Trump was named the winner of the election early Wednesday morning, professors acted quickly — canceling classes, offering resources, and adjusting exam schedules. Economics professor Anne Duchene told The Daily Pennsylvanian that in advance of the election, she had made attendance optional in her ECON 0100 classes, anticipating that election results would take more than one night to declare. After waking up to a “very red map,” Duchene opened her lecture with a short poll asking students how they were feeling. “I just wanted to acknowledge the wide variety of emotions that were in the classroom and also to respect these emotions,” she said. “It’s really hard to know how the students are, what the students are really thinking, but my interpretation is that they wanted to have a normal class.” Neuroscience professor Michael Kaplan also preemptively canceled his Wednesday classes for his own wellbeing and due to his strict policy against “politicking from the podium.” He explained that it seemed “ridiculous” to

Harris performed worse than Biden and Clinton on Penn’s campus Trump

Opponent Kamala Harris

82%

2024 16%

83%

Joe Biden

2020 17%

91%

Hillary Clinton

2016 9%

consider lecturing without discussing the “elephant in the room.” Anthropology professor Caroline Jones rescheduled an exam after “a slew of emails” from concerned students about preparing for an exam set to take place right after the election results were announced. Jones — who teaches “Human Origins, Evolution, and Diversity” — wrote in a Nov. 6 Canvas post obtained by the DP that students were concerned about the impact election results would have on their exam preparation and she wanted to “recognize and validate the disappointment many of you expressed.” History professor Brent Cebul made class attendance optional and rearranged the class syllabus to facilitate discussion on the election results. “I just wanted to give students room to share their thoughts and feelings about the election — no matter what side of the aisle they fall on,” he wrote in a statement to the DP. Some Penn professors elected to adhere to mandatory class policies, despite the election results. Political Science professor Ian Lustick explained that he did not cancel classes because “students deserve normalcy,” explaining that “classes, in particular, are practically sacred spaces.”

Trump’s proposals could deport students, threaten Penn’s federal funding The Daily Pennsylvanian analyzed what a second Trump presidency — and a projected Republican majority in the Senate — could mean for Penn and higher education institutions across the country JASMINE NI AND ETHAN YOUNG Senior Reporter and Staff Reporter

Impact on Penn, Philadelphia, and the nation Political Science professor Rogers Smith said the incoming TrumpVance administration could impact Penn given the immense political scrutiny it has faced in the last year. “Elon Musk and associates of Donald Trump will reinforce those conservative political pressures on the University,” Smith said. “The faculty, at least, and probably many students … have reason to be concerned about whether conservative pressures on the University will increase after the election.”

1968 Wharton graduate, former President, and President-elect Donald Trump went into Election Day with a clear roadmap for his second term — including for funding and regulation of higher education institutions like Penn. The Daily Pennsylvanian examined what a second Trump presidency — and a projected Republican majority in the Senate — could mean for Penn. At a December 2023 rally in New Hampshire — held a week after former Penn President Liz Magill’s resignation under significant political pressure — Trump referenced several institutions of higher education that had come under congressional scrutiny, including Penn, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He said at the rally he would “take away their tax advantages and grants” if they “attack free speech.” “We’re going to take away their endowments, and they will pay us billions and billions of dollars for the terror they have unleashed into our once-great country,” Trump said, later telling the crowd that he would “stand up to the radical left communists, Marxists, fascists, and frauds who have taken over our universities.” The Republican National Committee Platform Committee adopted a resolution in the GOP’s platform in July addressing recent campus protests. One of 20 “promises” contained in the platform advocated for the

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