Brown and White Vol. 131 no. 18

              The Brown and White Vol. 131 No. 18
Friday, November 11, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Student voters
experience
registration
issues at polls
PA amends state liquor laws
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Donald Trump speaks at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States of America on Nov. 9.
By SAMANTHA TOMASZEWSKI &
MADISON GOUVEIA
Editor in Chief & Lifestyle Editor
After 511 days of campaigning,
Republican candidate Donald Trump
was officially named the 45th pres-ident
of the United States in the
early hours of Wednesday morning.
Even though his Democratic oppo-nent
Hillary Clinton won the popular
vote by around 200,000 votes, Trump
defeated the former first lady and
secretary of state with 279 electoral
votes to her 228. Arizona, Michigan
and New Hampshire have yet to be
called.
The former “Apprentice” host
and business mogul, who holds an
honorary degree from Lehigh, won
multiple key swing states such as
Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina
and Florida. In Pennsylvania, Trump
won 49 percent of the vote, giving
him the state’s 20 electoral votes. It
was the first time the state went red
since the 1988 election.
Even though Trump ultimately
emerged victorious, Clinton appeared
to be the more popular choice for col-lege-
aged voters. According to CNN
exit polls, 55 percent of voters ages
18-24 voted for Clinton and 37 per-cent
voted for Trump.
Lehigh reactions
Emmanuel Lai, ’17, who has sup-ported
Trump since the Republican
TRUMP ELECTED
PRESIDENT
By ANNA SIMONEAU
Visuals Editor
Amendments relax restrictions on liquor sales
and store hours within the state of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania has started chang-ing
its liquor laws to modernize the
sale of alcohol in the state. On Aug.
8, Act 39 went into effect, amending
35 different sections of the state’s
liquor code.
“It’s the first major change in
83 years and a lot of this has been
brought about because the public,
the consumers want more choice,
more selection, better hours, things
like that,” said Gail Reinard, the
executive director of the Law and
Justice Committee for Pennsylvania
state senator Chuck McIlhinney.
Senator McIlhinney is the chair-man
of the Senate Law and Justice
Committee and wrote the new leg-islation.
The new bill has three main com-ponents
that will impact consumers.
The first is that wine can now be
sold in grocery stores if the store
applies for a wine extended permit.
This means the grocery store must
already have a restaurant license,
which requires 400 square feet of
restaurant space as well as food and
seating for 30 people. Restaurant
licenses have always allowed stores
to sell up to two six-packs of beer in
their stores.
“We actually looked back and
found one dating back to the
1950s and 60s, a convenience store
that was selling beer to go under
its restaurant license author-ity,”
said Elizabeth Brassel, the
director of communications for
the Pennsylvania Liquor Control
Board. “In the past 10, 15 years,
we’ve definitely seen an increase in
the interest from the Wegmans, the
Sheetzs, the Weis, Giant — the gro-cery
and convenience store chains
have certainly in the last decade or
so been applying for more restau-rant
licenses.”
The new permit extends this abil-ity
to up to four bottles of wine and
requires an application separate
from a restaurant permit.
The bill also opens up
Pennsylvania’s regulations on ship-ping
wine. Brassel said wineries
from in and out of state can now
ship almost three times more bot-tles
and have wine delivered direct-ly
to people’s homes instead of their
local wine and spirits store. In order
to do this, a new direct wine ship-ping
license was created and the tax
structure was changed.
Pennsylvania wine and spir-
By SAMANTHA TOMASZEWSKI &
REBECCA WILKIN
Editor in Chief & Deputy News Editor
Lehigh students showed up in
droves to vote in Tuesday’s election,
taking time out of the school day to
stand in winding lines outside of
Litzenberger House on East Fourth
Street. After waiting for sometimes
more than two or three hours to
vote, several students found out
that their wait had been for noth-ing.
They were not registered to vote.
Josh Goldberg, ’17, said he had
registered with NextGen Climate
Pennsylvania outside of Fairchild-
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