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NewHampster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 08:52 PM
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Crooked Campus Politics - We're training them young.
Crooked on Campus

Our columnist says today’s college politicians play dirty. How’d they learn? Watching the pros...

It’s election season at Ole Miss in more ways than one. Spend a few minutes on our Oxford, Miss., campus......

MSNBC Newsweek http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4564781/


And I ask. If they already have crooked elections in college, how can we expect them to be honest when they graduate to the real world?

What a fucked up country we live in.
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 09:22 PM
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1. the article doesn't explain what was so bad
"Sororities used coercion to make their members vote in blocs. Frat boys drove voters to the polls."

If it's a secret ballot, how could soroties coerce the members' votes?

And what is wrong with driving people to the polls?
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