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The New York Times
Clinton Rallies Students at Wellesley
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 1, 2007

Filed at 10:59 p.m. ET

WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, cheered at her all-female alma mater after being buffeted by male Democratic rivals, said being a student activist at Wellesley College in the 1960s had helped pave her path to a White House bid.

''In so many ways, this all-women's college prepared me to compete in the all-boys club of presidential politics,'' she said Thursday to cries of support.

Clinton spoke at Wellesley two days after a rocky debate performance in which she fought off criticism from six male presidential rivals. Thursday's event had a decidedly ''You go, girl'' flavor, with reminders of the pioneering nature of her candidacy.

In Tuesday's debate, the New York senator was grilled about her integrity, electability and tendency to sidestep tough questions. Her comments at Wellesley and a new fundraising appeal from campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle suggested there was an element of sexism at play.

''On that stage in Philadelphia, we saw six against one. Candidates who had pledged the politics of hope practiced the politics of pile on instead,'' Solis Doyle wrote. ''Her opponents tried a whole host of attacks on Hillary. She is one strong woman. She came through it well. But Hillary's going to need your help.''

At Wellesley, hundreds of students jammed a campus auditorium to see Clinton, many wearing T-shirts that said, ''I can be president, too.'' They danced in the aisles to songs like ''Every Little Thing She Does is Magic'' and a few shouted ''We love you, Hillary!''

For her part, the former first lady reminisced about the ''camaraderie of smart, ambitious women'' she'd enjoyed in college but said times had changed significantly since then.

''When I came to Wellesley, I never in a million years could have imagined I'd one day return as a candidate for the presidency of the United States,'' she said. She added that the idea of a female president would have been met with derisive laughter in those days.

Clinton chose Wellesley to announce the formation of ''Hillblazers,'' her campaign's new effort to cultivate support nationally among college students.

While polls show female voters are her strongest constituency, rival Barack Obama enjoys strong support on college campuses, too, and his campaign is counting on a strong showing among students, especially in Iowa's leadoff caucuses Jan. 3.

''We're really excited that a Wellesley woman could be the first woman president. But people really like Obama, too. So there's a need to do research,'' said Eileen Crehan, a senior majoring in math and biology.

Clinton peppered her stump speech with several student-friendly promises, such as making college more affordable and helping to end the carnage in Darfur. She said she would unveil a detailed plan next week to deal with the challenges of global warming.

''The challenges you face today are no less profound than ones faced by previous generations of Americans,'' she said. ''You deserve a president who will meet those challenges head on. A president who is committed to your future. A president who will never again play politics with women's health and women's lives.''

Clinton also entertained the audience with tales of her years on campus, when strict curfews were enforced and boys were allowed in students' rooms only on Sunday afternoons.

''We had to observe what was called then the 'two feet rule.' That meant two out of four feet had to be on the floor at all times. Try it sometime,'' Clinton said to laughs and cheers.

She reminisced about delivering the commencement speech her senior year -- a call for activism among young people that won national attention at the time.

Clinton winced remembering some of the flowery language she had used.

''I have to admit it wasn't the most coherent address, and I sort of cringe when I read that I actually said things like 'coming to terms with our humanness' and 'inauthentic reality,''' she said. ''But I still believe as strongly today as I did then in my statement that politics is the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.''

Politics aside, students said Clinton's visit had brought a lift to the campus, which is reeling from news that a Wellesley student had been arrested last week and accused of trying to stab a former boyfriend to death.

Later at a rally at the University of New Hampshire, Clinton said students would be critical to helping her campaign and changing the country -- something she linked to her campus days.

''I believed that when I was in college, that I could make a difference. ... We protested the Vietnam War, we marched for civil rights, we fought to bring more minority students and faculty to the campus. We even tried to make it clear that we wanted to live differently. We wanted to make a statement about who we were.''

In Iowa, meanwhile, EMILY's List, a group that seeks to

Boston Globe
Clinton reminisces, garners support at Wellesley

Unveils effort to organize campus groups


By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff November 2, 2007

WELLESLEY - Returning to her alma mater yesterday for the first time as a presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton recounted how she was so intimidated as a freshman that she wanted to give up and go home to Chicago. How young women raced along Route 9 on Saturday nights to make curfew after their dates. And how late-night debates with her Wellesley College classmates fed her dreams and ambitions.

"In so many ways, this all-women's college prepared me to compete in the all boys' club of presidential politics," Clinton declared, prompting yells and applause.

"I have to tell you, though, when I came to Wellesley, I never in a million years could have imagined I would one day return as a candidate for the presidency of the United States."

Thirty-six hours after a televised Democratic debate in which she came under sustained and withering attack - her campaign accused her male rivals of piling it on - Clinton visited the friendliest territory imaginable to unveil her campaign's new effort to organize campus groups. The issue was not whether Clinton has waffled on fixing Social Security or giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, but whether she will be the first woman elected president.

More than 1,000 young women, and a few men, screamed at top volume, stomped their feet, and danced in the aisles to welcome the class of 1969 alumna, who in addition to asking students to volunteer for her campaign, spoke at length about women's advancement in society.

"We're ready to shatter that highest glass ceiling," she said.

Clinton's closest opponent in the polls, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, has inspired unusual devotion on college campuses, but Clinton's campaign said it has 120 Students for Hillary chapters in 37 states and expects many more to open soon. The campaign unveiled a new "Hillblazers" website for student supporters, and Clinton also spoke yesterday at the University of New Hampshire.

Applications to Wellesley shot up after Clinton's husband became president in 1993. A spokeswoman said it's too soon to say whether her presidential run will attract more interest from prospective students, but some applicants continue to cite her as a reason for considering the school.

Clinton began her 40-minute speech by mentioning the old rules for young women that she helped abolish at Wellesley, and of which many of today's undergraduates were unaware. Boys were allowed to visit dormitory rooms only on Sunday afternoons, and couples had to keep at least two of their four feet on the floor at all times.

"Try it sometime," she deadpanned, to big laughs.

On a more serious note, she spoke about becoming Wellesley's first student commencement speaker. Her anguished, rambling remarks were reprinted in Life magazine because they reflected 1960s angst. She said she cringes at her youthful musings - "coming to terms with our humanness" - but said she still believes in one of her lines, that politics is about "making what appears to be impossible, possible."

Clinton spoke of driving up to New Hampshire to canvass for Eugene McCarthy, who ran for president on an antiwar platform in 1968.

Although she sometimes notes it on the campaign trail, Clinton yesterday did not mention that she arrived on campus a Goldwater Republican and led the campus Republicans before becoming an antiwar Democrat.

She told a couple of stories about witnessing sexism in her career, including when a colleague told her that it would be impossible for her to be a courtroom lawyer because she had no wife to make sure she had clean socks during a long trial.

Members of the campus group supporting Clinton wore bright blue T-shirts that said, "I can be president, too." (One freshman had a T-shirt that said "Hot for Hillary.")

Several students said they were inspired by Clinton's candidacy. "Maybe one of us will be the second female president," suggested Courtney Streett, a junior from Delaware majoring in environmental policy and Africana studies.

Others, however, said the gender barrier in the White House isn't the most important thing, including Alia Radman, a sophomore who had lived in Bosnia and said she has long loved the Clintons because President Clinton intervened to end the war there.

"It would bother me if people would only vote for her because she's a woman, because that demeans what she has to say," said Radman, who is studying filmmaking and Middle Eastern studies.

Bombardieri can be reached at [ mailto:bombardieri@globe.com ]bombardieri@globe.com.