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    Colleges Try to Comfort Students Upset by Trump Victory

    -Dozens of students at Cornell University gathered on a major campus thoroughfare for a "cry-in" to mourn the results of the 2016 presidential election Wednesday, with school staff providing tissues and hot chocolate.

    At Tufts University, arts and crafts were on offer. And the University of Kansas reminded students via social media of the therapy dogs available for comfort every other Wednesday.

    Colleges nationwide scrambled to help students process Republican Donald Trump's stunning election victory. They're acknowledging that many students were up late watching results and so may not be at their sharpest in early-morning lectures. More so, they're responding to a widespread sense of shock and despair on campuses to the victory of a candidate who offended Mexicans, Gold Star mothers, Muslims and the disabled during the course of the campaign.

    The touchy-feely approach won some catty comments from skeptics, calling students "snow-flakes" for their inability to handle the result. But schools said the concerns were real for many students.

    "People are frustrated, people are just really sad and shocked," said Trey Boynton, the director of multi-ethnic student affairs at the University of Michigan. "A lot of people are feeling like there has been a loss. We talked about grief today and about the loss of hope that this election would solidify the progress that was being made."

    There was a steady flow of students entering Ms. Boynton's office Wednesday. They spent the day sprawled around the center, playing with Play-Doh and coloring in coloring books, as they sought comfort and distraction...

    http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/1...trump-victory/

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    Dozens..https://www.cornell.edu/about/facts.cfm

    There are over 21,000 students in this college

    Ok sorry for these young people but I would have to ask, what is it you believe you have LOST?

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    Apparently its not an isolated incident:


    Classes Canceled to Allow College Students to 'Cope' with Shock of Trump's Win

    http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/11/1...ock-trumps-win

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    If the media would just stop with the fear mongering and running Trump down and pretending that HRClinton is a saint, these idiotic things wouldn't be happening. It's not like the North Korea's Kim Jong-un is taking the presidency.

    These kids need to grow the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks UP!!!

    Yeesh.

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    Ya know, this is a satire site but maybe there's some truth in it:


    Police Calm Millennial Protesters By Handing Out Participation Trophies

    -U.S.—As anti-Trump rallies nationwide turned hostile overnight with widespread reports of violence, looting, vandalism, and death threats against the president-elect and his supporters, police in numerous major cities were able to instill calm and regain control by handing out participation trophies to all millennial protesters who were enraged about losing the election, sources confirmed.

    The shrewd tactic was the idea New York Police Officer Joe Butler, who has three twentysomething children himself, and noted to reporters Thursday that he remembered how his children “never had to deal with losing as they were growing up.”

    “It’s a foreign notion to them. Even in sports—win or lose, everyone won, and everyone got a trophy no matter what. This is the millennial way,” he said. “So I had the idea—hey, why not start handing out participation trophies to the protesters, and telling them ‘Hey, you know what? You may have lost the election, but look—everyone gets a trophy. Everyone’s a winner.'”

    Seeing how the trophies had an instantaneous calming effect on the millennials and filled them with a sense of fulfillment and achievement, word spread quickly among police departments nationwide, and emergency trophies were procured by the thousands for use at the rallies...

    http://babylonbee.com/news/police-ca...tion-trophies/

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    If the media would just stop with the fear mongering and running Trump down and pretending that HRClinton is a saint, these idiotic things wouldn't be happening. It's not like the North Korea's Kim Jong-un is taking the presidency.

    These kids need to grow the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks UP!!!

    Yeesh.
    The media and the ones behind it are now in 2020 mode..I remember President Obama telling Sean Hannity he was being irresponsible with his broadcasts...wonder why he is not telling the media the same thing? He misses SO many opportunities to bring unity..it has to be because he doesn't want it or just cant do it even himself..

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    Ya know, this is a satire site but maybe there's some truth in it:


    Police Calm Millennial Protesters By Handing Out Participation Trophies

    -U.S.—As anti-Trump rallies nationwide turned hostile overnight with widespread reports of violence, looting, vandalism, and death threats against the president-elect and his supporters, police in numerous major cities were able to instill calm and regain control by handing out participation trophies to all millennial protesters who were enraged about losing the election, sources confirmed.

    The shrewd tactic was the idea New York Police Officer Joe Butler, who has three twentysomething children himself, and noted to reporters Thursday that he remembered how his children “never had to deal with losing as they were growing up.”

    “It’s a foreign notion to them. Even in sports—win or lose, everyone won, and everyone got a trophy no matter what. This is the millennial way,” he said. “So I had the idea—hey, why not start handing out participation trophies to the protesters, and telling them ‘Hey, you know what? You may have lost the election, but look—everyone gets a trophy. Everyone’s a winner.'”

    Seeing how the trophies had an instantaneous calming effect on the millennials and filled them with a sense of fulfillment and achievement, word spread quickly among police departments nationwide, and emergency trophies were procured by the thousands for use at the rallies...

    http://babylonbee.com/news/police-ca...tion-trophies/
    LOL....that is one truly funny satire!!!! I laughed till tears flowed...

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    I also wonder how many used this to get out of school for a few days..

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