Of Monsters and Campaigns and Media and Men.by Michael O'Brien Staff Toupée As the summer packs up its belongings and departs for a nice long vacation to the southern hemisphere, the students of Fordham University return to campus with fond memories of hometown friends, barbeques, days spent at the beach and the tranquil serenity of not having two response papers due on blackboard at midnight (sorry I’m projecting). Therefore; it is quite fitting that to kick off the new semester, we at the paper will now soil those nice memories by reminding everyone of all the horrible, soul-crushing, cringe-inducing shit that Donald Trump did over “Summer ‘16”. While one could write an entire book listing every questionable or outright disgusting action committed by everybody’s favorite orange and yellow colonoscopy bag, we have instead chosen to recap three events that best encompass “The Don’s” traits as a human being and presidential candidate.
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Using data to make sense of nonsenseby Declan Murphy Staff Data Analyst Nate Silver is changing the game in politics—for better or for worse.
For those of you who are unfamiliar, Nate Silver is the head of FiveThirtyEight, a site that analyzes data and aggregates results to predict a variety of things. FiveThirtyEight covers topics ranging from sports wins and losses to economic forecasts, but what it’s most known for is its election and campaign coverage. Explaining the biggest data leak in historyby Luis Gómez News Co-editor If there were ever a moment where journalists should congratulate themselves, the Panama Papers prove no better moment. The documents leaked from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamenian law firm, comprise the world's largest document leak ever. The documents themselves link shell company purchases to celebrities, corporate leaders, and even heads of state around the world. This story is big. Too big for any one writer, or news agency. So, let's break it down. Who is Mossack Fonseca? What were they doing? How did these leaks happen?
At this point, I think they're just lashing out for attentionby John Looby News Co-editor What the fuck? I'm sorry, but what the actual fuck? Seriously ISIS? 7000 gazelles? Who in the hell needs 7000 gazelles?
Editor's Note: Seriously I don't understand how they workby Adam Hamilton Staff Primary Kasich won New York! Or at least New York County. Manhattan proved an outlier as Queens native Donald Trump romped up a dominating 60 percent of the vote and won 90 of the 96 delegates across New York on the 19th. This is great news for Trump, who had begun to see a slowdown in his campaign. After a Trump shut out in Utah and a searing loss in Wisconsin, Ted Cruz seemed poised to put up a convention challenge, one which former presidential candidate Mitt Romney had previously pressed for. Trump, the only candidate in the race who has not been mathematically eliminated from winning on the first ballot, still needs to win hundreds of delegates to reach the 1237 votes he would need to win on the first round.
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