About 250 people gathered on the steps of the Iowa Capitol last week. Protests have not been limited to college campuses. Josh Lehman, communications director for the Iowa Board of Regents, said his office doesn’t comment on legislation until it’s been introduced.

But people have to be able to sit down and have open dialogue and honest communication with one another.” “It wasn’t like previous elections, so the response wasn’t like previous elections. “This election was somewhat unique,” Ketelsen said. While half the country cheered Trump’s election, the other half reacted with sadness and even fear. Clinton was forced to concede defeat early Wednesday morning. She won the popular vote, but her Republican rival won several competitive states to gain a majority in the Electoral College. National polls going into election night showed Democrat Hillary Clinton as the likely victor. Protests and coping sessions have popped up across the country after Trump's expectations-defying victory.

Both schools said they did not spend extra money on those events. Students and faculty at Iowa State University held a rally and marched to the president’s office, and student groups at the University of Iowa held their own events. Ketelsen said there was no money spent on them.

At UNI, students and faculty got together at three different “sharing sessions” to discuss the election, their fears and their anxieties.

Suck it up buttercup