When student-government elections roll around, student unions and residence halls are typically buried in posters and advertising bric-a-brac. But the Internet is helping keep some campuses (relatively) clean. At the University of Texas at Arlington, for example, candidates are selling themselves through Web sites, e-mail messages, and advertisements on Thefacebook, the popular social network.
The Web hasn’t necessarily altered the tone of the college campaign: A minor controversy erupted at Arlington when one party’s Web site charged that voting for its adversaries would be "un-American."
