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November 4, 2008

While other members of the Black Student Organization celebrate Obama’s victory in the Joe Crowley Student Union theater, Johnell Cropper is more sober. Change will take time.

“Both Obama or McCain would have faced a lot of challenges,” Cropper said. “People are going to be looking for instant gratification, and that’s not going to happen.”

Alonzo Miles and Andre Lawson also stopped by to hear the election results announced on CNN in the Joe Crowley Student Union theater after the Black Student Organization’s weekly meeting.

“It’s history,” Miles said. “It’s scary, but it’s good. It’s surreal.”

Meanwhile, students watched CNN election coverage in the Joe Crowley Student Union theater.

Students watch CNN election coverage in the Joe Crowley Student Union theater.

Michelle Sneck, a junior at the University of Nevada, Reno, celebrates Obama’s victory with her friends at the Joe Cowley Student Union theater.

“We got here just in time,” Sneck said. She says that youth participation ebbs and flows, but hopes that this election will have a lasting impact.

“When Obama came to Nevada, 2000 people came to see that,” she said. “I think that was pivotal. Our generation will at least remember this event and encourage our children.”

Story and photos by Heather Horn

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