 and welcome to the second ECU-TV news broadcast of the year. I'm Rachel Keller, and today we'll be taking a look at some of the latest news stories surrounding campus life. With Donald Trump voted the 46th President of the United States, students certainly had a lot to say about it. Reporters Lee Mashen and Ocean McQuarrons took to the campus to ask members of the student body their thoughts on the present elect. For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I'm reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country. The world was in shock this morning with the news that Donald J. Trump has been elected 45th President of the United States of America. Momentum swung in Trump's favor after winning key battleground states Florida, Ohio, Iowa and North Carolina to put him within touching distance of the presidency. Everybody's just like trying to realize what's going on here and like hopefully things will work out okay it's kind of the kind of the vibe it's like we didn't think this was happening but it's happening it's always been a joke but now now it's just it's actually happening it's crazy. It's very discouraging I did not think it was gonna happen I told many people yesterday there was no way it was gonna happen but I was very shocked this morning when I woke up and very disappointed. The president elect is planning to triple the U.S. deportation force which could deport up to 1.2 million people per year. Well I did a J1 last year and like I'm lucky enough to be one of the people to actually go and now that he's here he's trying to get rid of J1s and that's kind of given a lot of our students problems because they've already planned it and now they're not going to be able to. At 70 years old Trump is the oldest president to be elected to the White House while his wife Malania from Slovenia would be the first foreign born first lady. Donald Trump will officially begin his four years in office on the 17th of January 2017 when his inauguration will take place. Ocean Requirements DCU TV News. DCU's debate sock held an event this week to consider the ongoing arguments for and against repealing the 8th Amendment. Our reporter Rebecca Lumley attended the heated debate. The first answer is to export and deny, exportation and denial regardless of what the topic is. Export the issue to Britain and deny even the capitalists. Well it does. 3,451 in 2015. 18 of which were under 16. DCU Debate Society's first event of the year took place last Thursday and saw students debate the issue of abortion. They discussed the pros and cons of repealing the 8th Amendment of the Constitution which criminalizes abortion in Ireland. Our side is currently against the 8th Amendment simply because a vote against the 8th Amendment is a vote for complete and moderate uncertainty. What will replace the 8th Amendment in legislation? Nobody knows. Nobody has come up with a plan. The pro-choice side has not given us a legal plan which they aspire to follow. So the vote against the 8th Amendment is a vote for complete and moderate uncertainty. It leaves a void in legislation which then can be exploited any which way and nobody knows which way that can go. They are awful at the ordeals that wouldn't go through. My whole awful they are. It is still the ordeal of an abortion or going through an abortion or being abortion. I would argue is a greater ordeal than having the abortion performed on yourself. The crowd was also addressed by two keynote speakers on either side of the debate which provoked a passionate response from one audience member. Okay. The murder issue. Let's deal with it. If you believe it's murder, don't do it, okay? And if you don't believe it's murder, you shouldn't be stopped. Most people in the world do not believe it's murder. You have no authority at all. Your profession is a needy. You're here? I'm here for a quick question. I want to paint your heart. You don't order it today. It's a great crime. Though the second speaker who argued on the pro-life side attracted less heated response. People here tonight need to be cognizant of the positive impact and influence the Eighth Amendment has had upon society. The truth is our appeal of the Eighth Amendment would inevitably result in lies being lost. We heard Craig mention earlier, what way is this to treat women when in fact we know when we looked to the UK and investigation in 2012 stated very clearly that abortions are taking place on grounds of gender. And guess which gender is being discriminated against and which gender is being aborted? Female babies. What way is that to treat unborn female babies? What way is it? What way do we treat them? What way do we call them in regard to our society? We spoke to society's chair, Seamus Cummins, about organising the event and making sure both sides received fair representation. To keep debate impartial, it's really hard, especially with such contentious topical issues. I did a little speech at the start. I just wanted to make sure that no one heckled. I didn't want anything happening that was not above board. It can lose track of your head when matters of the heart come involved. Topical issues like this really does just split the population. So we had guest speakers from both sides, both sides were representatives of boys and girls speakers and we were completely impartial. The debate society's next event will focus on the issue of political correctness and whether political correctness has gone too far. Rebecca Lomley, DC TV News. With depression affecting one in ten Irish people, mental health services are being made more accessible to sufferers all over Ireland. DCU provides a number of crucial students at board services that are available all year round that students may not be aware of. Our reporters spoke to Anne O'Connor, who is head of the Disability and Sports Services at DCU about the importance in students availing of the facilities that they provide. With Mental Health Awareness Week taking place last month, some DCU students decided to raise awareness by creating their own campaign. The idea behind it was 30 Days to Selfie, so it's in conjunction with Mental Health Ireland. We wanted to raise awareness and kind of get a conversation going and obviously raise funds for Mental Health Ireland. So the 30 Days to Selfies campaign, you start after day one, you take your selfie of yourself doing something fun, whatever it is, something a bit different. You tag five friends and then you text MHI to 50300 and then to run a four euro. Then for the next 29 days you just take your random selfies. And we're kind of trying to get people to make sure that they don't, you know, filters and life is wonderful because, you know, life isn't always wonderful. So it's to highlight that and just to show, get a bit of a laugh, get a conversation going around mental health issues. DCU's Disability and Learning Support Services offer a range of support services for students with mental health issues as well as various other learning difficulties. The services include exam support, in-class support and working with occupational therapists to ensure students have fair access to their study. We provide a range of supports to students who are registered in DCU with specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, with medical conditions, with neurological conditions, physical disabilities, mental health difficulties and anything that impacts on the student to be able to attend classes. They can contact us through our email, disability.service at DCU.ie, call into us. We're here in CG28 in the Henry Gratton and also in room A102 on the St Pats campus. Call us, anything they feel they either call in, drops an email or drop into us and have a chat. And we can have that initial chat if they're a bit, I'm not sure what you can do for me. I don't think there is anything or I'm not sure if I fall in your categories. Come in and have a chat with us and we can see if there's any supports we can offer them. We asked DCU students what they knew about these services. They're clearly like very important. I know like there's the doors as well, like through the Henry Gratton where like you can push them like they open. But other than that I haven't really noticed many, but that could just be me being a bit ignorant because I don't have to think about it so much. But I'd hope that they are there and that there's that accessibility for people who don't have the same abilities that I am lucky enough to have. As far as I'm aware and I'm sure the general consensus is the same is that there's not nearly enough done in disability services in DCU. I was aware of the physical help out there for people, but the mental help is great. I wasn't actually aware that there was any of these services, but I do think it's important. That's a really good idea. TEDx is a programme of local self-organised events that is run in order to bring people together to share the thoughts of inspirational speakers. This year's TEDx DCU, which is an independently organised TED event, was held in the Helix with the theme being Imagining the Next Century. The event featured speakers from DCU's academic staff, including Marina Carr and Christine Lotcher, Aaron McElroy reports. A TEDx talk was hosted by DCU last week and held in the Helix on the Glassnever campus. The talk looked at imagining the next century and featured speakers who were both DCU academic staff and alumni. The 2016 TEDx DCU was held in the Helix on the Glassnever campus on November 10th. The talk projected into the future and explored how factors such as education, media and the arts can shape an even better future for citizens. Speakers included Irish player Marina Carr, Lawyer and Pyrrha. The important social media messaging has been in getting the story of the election 2016 out of audiences. There was an app that uses Bluetooth to find your keys, which could be really handy. And one girl programmed a robot that can solve the Rubik's Cube. From the coolest project awards and Carter Lodger, I've had so many amazing opportunities. In summer 2015, I went to Xbox Incubator where I spent three weeks living in a big Helix over in London with 50 other girls, wearing what Helix wore in tech business. Yeah, it was really cool being up on stage and the crowd was really nice and everything. So, it was pretty amazing. I think some people are really amazed and I'm so young and I've done so much already, but I just think that if every young person is given the opportunity to learn to code and give them the opportunities to go to all these cool places, they can just as much as me. I don't think people should be amazed and I've done so much because anyone at any age can do this. This independence year gone TED talk raises many questions and left with the audience something to think about. I'm Aaron McElroy for DCU TV News. That's all for this week's broadcast. 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