With key swing states falling like dominoes to Republican Donald Trump, scores of students at the University of Oregon took to the streets of the campus and the city to make heard their dissatisfaction with the seemingly inevitable results of the election.

Charlie Keene, an 18-year-old freshmen, voted for the first time in Tuesday's election and he said the prospect of a Trump presidency was disconcerting.

"I fall into a minority group as do many of my friends," he told The Oregonian/OregonLive by phone Tuesday night. "The idea of him being president makes me extremely uncomfortable."

Keene said that "several hundred" students had begun marching through the campus around 10 p.m., making several loops around the university before heading out onto city streets.

He said the group was chanting and there were reports on Twitter that people were burning paraphernalia emblazoned with Trump's trademark slogan "Make America great again."

Jackson Pahl, who said he was one of the leaders of the protest, reached out to The Oregonian/OregonLive on Wednesday to clarify the reports of protesters burning Trump gear.

"From what I know, there was only one minor incident of people attempting to burn Trump paraphernalia, which was one gentleman who unsuccessfully attempted to burn a Trump hat with a lighter," he said in an email.

Currently watching an awkward anti-trump rally on campus that is burning MAGA apparel. pic.twitter.com/T2N6gHaG2y — MDL (@WhiteGirlLeader) November 9, 2016

A stream of students are heading across campus on 13th Ave. Students say they're heading downtown next. pic.twitter.com/wAfjnMypDy — Daily Emerald (@DailyEmerald) November 9, 2016

Officers walking with the crowd as it marches west. Traffic is completely blocked off near Maxes on 13th & Mill. Complete chaos. — Jarrid Denney (@jarrid_denney) November 9, 2016

There were no reports or violence or vandalism as of 11:45 p.m., according to a police spokeswoman.

-- Kale Williams

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