The daughter of presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton hoped to help her mother by campaigning at her alma mater, Stanford University, in advance of the February 5 presidential primary in California.
Instead, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton may have kicked up a political controversy.
The university’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, is complaining in an editorial that Chelsea Clinton shunned most of the campus when she made a one-day campaign stop on Sunday. Ms. Clinton invited only sorority members to her gathering, leaving out many other Stanford students who “would have stayed home from Lake Tahoe ski trips for a chance to attend,” the newspaper said.
Chelsea Clinton told the 100 sorority members that she was “just trying to make my mom’s campaign more accessible to people,” The Stanford Daily said.
The newspaper acknowledged the wisdom of meeting with young women, calling them “a key target demographic of the Clinton campaign.” But the invitation-only session with members of the sorority system, “a naturally exclusive institution that accepts and rejects candidates based on notoriously subjective qualifications, only perpetuates the major criticisms of the Clinton campaign,” The Stanford Daily’s editorial board said.
