According to a Newsweek story, campaigns for student office in our nation's colleges and universities have gotten divisive, corrupt, and occasionally violent. Ballot-stuffing took place at Duke University; a fake e-mail accusing some candidates of being racist and homophobic circulated at UCLA; and at Portland State, election committee members' cars were vandalized. "Nixon's dirty-tricks squad would fit in nicely at many college campuses," the article says. And who is to blame?
Besides low voter turnout offering an incentive to cheat, Newsweek reports that, "Adult politicians get a share of the blame, too, for introducing students to tactics like attack ads and impeachment." So the corrupter of our collegians' civic virtue is not, say, Clinton, but those pesky House Republicans who came up with the tactic of impeachment? Give us a break.