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“I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.”
–WEB DuBois, whose 141st birthday was yesterday.
“This article is being written with the belief that our experiences can be absorbed and used, and, what is most important, the Movement can go on to higher levels, evading old mistakes in order to commit the mistakes of the future.”
— Mark Rudd, President of Columbia University Students for a Democratic Society, 1969.
“Student government is a broken reed. If actual, it is capricious, impulsive, and unreliable; if not, it is a subterfuge and pretense.”
— Andrew S. Draper, President of the University of Illinois, 1904.
My dissertation is just about done, and I’ve begun circulating it to folks for comment. This morning, one erudite friend dropped me a line to tell me something I probably should have known.
Carol Elliott, Treasurer of New Hampshire’s Grafton County, was defeated in a bid for re-election this month by a twenty-year-old Dartmouth undergrad. And she’s not happy about it.
Elliott, a Republican who lost by five hundred votes to Democrat Vanessa Sievers, a Dartmouth junior, told a local newspaper that “it was the brainwashed college kids that made the difference” in the election. “I’m concerned for the citizens of Grafton County,” she said. “You’ve got a teenybopper for a treasurer.”
Sievers, a history and geography major, has experience as a bookkeeper and had worked on various New Hampshire political campaigns before running for office herself.
Elliott said she’s considering a run for the NH state legislature, so that she can “change the law” that allows college students to run for public office.
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