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Hillary Thesis "Wellesley College, “There is Only the Fight.” It praises the work of radical activist Saul Alinsky, a man who epitomized a self-interested no-holds barred campaign style that Hillary has emulated in later years. Clinton’s savvy-but-ruthless politics, including the “politics of personal destruction” she so often condemns but more often practices, seem rooted in Alinsky’s famous rules for radicals." Quote from Amanda B. Carpenter What leftist Saul Alinsky rules for radicals did Hillary use from her Thesis in yesterdays Las Vegas debate? Here are Alinsky's Rules for Radicals Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what...

“…It was early 1993, in the first days of the Clinton administration, when Hillary Clinton's friend and former thesis adviser at Wellesley College took the phone call that would land him in the middle of a political intrigue. "I got a call from ... the White House — shortly after the inauguration, saying the Clintons had decided not to release her thesis," professor Alan H. Schechter told MSNBC.com. "I said, 'Why? It's a good thesis.' I got some mumbo jumbo about how they were beginning to work on health care and she had criticized Sen. Moynihan in the thesis, and...

Hillary Clinton visited her alma mater yesterday to let her 40-year-old feminism out for a romp in safe territory, and to soak up a little adoration in the process. This being one of the few occasions where she can relate to her audience viscerally and intuitively, we're treated to relatively spontaneous remarks, perhaps the closest we'll get to an unscripted Hillary: 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,...

WELLESLEY, Mass. — Senator Clinton is describing her opposition to the war in Iraq as an extension of Eugene McCarthy's position in the 1960s movement against the war in Vietnam. Mrs. Clinton's comments came at an energy-charged rally yesterday at her alma mater, Wellesley College. Her visit, the ostensible purpose of which was to announce a new Web site aimed at younger voters, hillblazers.com, created palpable excitement on campus. Hundreds of students lined up amid Wellesley's autumnal splendor for a chance to hear the speech of the 1969 graduate and then moved and bopped to the strands of Smash Mouth's...

Hillary Clinton reached out to young women voters in an emotional return today to her alma mater, Wellesley College, where she said that “in so many ways, this all-women’s college prepared me to compete in the all-boys’ club of presidential politics.� It was Mrs. Clinton’s first visit to the school as a presidential candidate, and she chose it as the place to launch an aggressive drive to attract more women to what she is underscoring as her historic candidacy. Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is increasingly counting on women, who made up 54 percent of the electorate in 2004, to help propel...

“There is only the Fight”   By Andrew WaldenFrontPageMagazine.com | 8/21/2007 Hillary Clinton has a written life plan, but there have been only two copies available to the public—until now. Written in 1969, and kept under lock and key during her years as First Lady, Hillary’s Wellesley College senior thesis has only been readable in person at the campus library and in a single microfilm copy made available to individual researchers on inter-library loan. Clinton lawyers have previously blocked people who sought to make it public. A read of the 92-page thesis, titled “There is only the Fight, An...

A PDF copy of Hillary Rodham’s senior thesis at Wellesley arrived in our inbox this morning. it is titled: “There is only one fight …” an analysis of the Alinsky Model Although I have no ‘loving wife’ to thank for keeping the children away while I wrote, I do have many friends and teachers who have contributed to the process of thesis-writing. We have not had a chance to review and will do so today. Regardless, we wanted to post this as soon as possible to share with everyone. Hillary is running for President and it is important to know...

A box of yellowed letters written in the 1960s by a self-absorbed, angst-ridden university student with a penchant for long words and philosophising has given intriguing insights into the author - the future Senator Hillary Clinton. They were written by Mrs Clinton, the favourite to win the Democratic presidential nomination, between 1965 and 1969 when she was a student at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and was keeping in touch with an old school friend called John Peavoy. The assured, fiercely disciplined politician had then "not yet reconciled myself to the fate of not being the star" at university and was unimpressed...

Hillary Clinton received a mash note on the front page of the New York Times this weekend. Reporter Tamar Lewin was writing about Hillary’s Wellesley classmates, who all seem to just adore their Hillary. According to Lewin, the 400 members of the Class of 1969 “have winced at her struggles over how to be a modern first lady and her marital humiliations, rejoiced with her election to the Senate, puzzled over how her guarded and cool political persona is so different from the warm, funny and outspoken woman they know. They still see her as the thoughtful friend who called...

Hillary D. Rodham's (Clinton) senior thesis at Wellesley college was about the radical leftist agitator, Saul D. Alinsky. In her (Rodham's) paper, she accepted Alinsky's view that the problem of the poor isn't so much a lack of money as a lack of power. She also accepted his view of federal anti-poverty programs as ineffective. Alinsky felt the War on Poverty was a “prize piece of political pornography.” Rodham wrote in reference to the War on Poverty, “A cycle of dependency has been created which ensnares its victims into resignation and apathy.” There you have it, what Republicans have been...

Ann Coulter's make up date at Wellesley is scheduled for Monday, May 1, 2006. More details when I receive them.

by Mark Finkelstein January 12, 2006 - 07:50 Much as the MSM likes to bury stories adverse to Democratic interests, there was no way the Today show could ignore Mrs. Alito's tears. Not only was it clearly the political story of the day, but the footage of Mrs. Alito's distress was much too riveting television not to run. Above a graphic asking "Have Democrats Gone Too Far?", Katie Couric interviewed world-class windbag Joe Biden [D-DE]. Was Katie speaking out of feminine solidarity, or was she assuming the role of Democratic strategist, concerned that her party had hurt itself with its...

The Princeton Review's annual list of best colleges included lists of colleges most accepting of LGBT students and those least accepting. The Princeton Review's annual "The Best 361 Colleges" was released Tuesday, and authors included lists of the colleges that are most accepting of LGBT students and those that are not. According to a survey taken by 110,000 students at 361 top colleges, the 10 schools that ranked the best in being accepting toward gay students are: New College of Florida, Sarasota; Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn.; Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.; Eugene Lang College, New York City; Mount Holyoke College,...

Commencement Speech, Wellesley College by Hillary Rodham Wellesley College - May 31, 1969 "I am very glad that Miss Adams made it clear that what I am speaking for today is all of us -- the 400 of us -- and I find myself in a familiar position, that of reacting, something that our generation has been doing for quite a while now. We're not in the positions yet of leadership and power, but we do have that indispensable task of criticizing and constructive protest and I find myself reacting just briefly to some of the things that Senator Brooke...

Materials found in historic house give hints of owners' lives Directions on how to make a child's petticoat. Recipes for temperance cake, calf's foot broth and boiled mutton. In the late 19th century, a careful housewife would have had such instructions close at hand. But over the years, most of them have disappeared into trash bins or the archives of museums. In one Wellesley house, however, some of them lay hidden behind the walls of a historic house for more than a century, until the present owners began renovating what used to be a bedroom into a master bathroom, walk-in...

Transport Mix-Up Happens Following After-School Program WELLESLEY, Mass. -- School officials in Wellesley are promising an investigation after a white after-school program teacher mistakenly put a black kindergarten student from Wellesley on a bus and sent him to Boston with other minority students who participate in a voluntary desegregation busing program. Newscenter 5's Jack Harper reported that the parents of the boy who was mistakenly sent to Boston's Dorchester neighborhood is not very happy about it. The program said they expect the boy to return to the program. The real hero in this story is the woman on the other...

In 1968, feminists staged a protest outside the Miss America pageant. In 2003, a women's studies major will compete in it. This confused state of feminism doesn't surface only at beauty pageants. I have sat beside the lake at Wellesley College in Massachusetts with some peers and have been surprised by their comments. These women tell me that the battle for equality has been won. They are respected and feel confident they can get any job they want. Yet they still bemoan the fact that they can't find boyfriends. When I decided to attend Wellesley more than two years ago,...

Wellesley College 1969 Student Commencement Speech Hillary D. Rodham May 31, 1969 Ruth M. Adams, ninth president of Wellesley College, introduced Hillary D. Rodham, '69, at the 91st commencement exercises, as follows: In addition to inviting Senator Brooke to speak to them this morning, the Class of '69 has expressed a desire to speak to them and for them at this morning's commencement. There was no debate so far as I could ascertain as to who their spokesman was to be -- Miss Hillary Rodham. Member of this graduating class, she is a major in political science and a candidate...

Overrides fuel higher taxes, but not higher turnout By Rick Holland / Townsman Staff Thursday, May 8, 2003 As yard signs pop up and rhetoric intensifies on both sides of Wellesley's $2.9 million override question, recent history suggests that the measure will be decided upon by only about one in every four registered voters. The town has a total of 15,256 citizens eligible to vote on the override question next Tuesday, but if past override votes are any indication, only about 4,000 will make their way to the polls on May 13. And according to Town Clerk Kathy Nagle, procrastinators...

From Letters to the Editor: Diversity at Wellesley I was pleased when my daughter chose to matriculate at Wellesley last fall, and I read with interest the articles in the fall '02 alumnae magazine about the class of '06. My daughter's experience has been completely the opposite of the rosy picture painted in the magazine, and I feel that much of the blame rests squarely on the welcome, or lack thereof, that she received upon arrival. My daugher is white, straight, and hails from Maine, one of the least diverse states in the union. At Wellesley, many of the minority...

Wellesley College 1969 Student Commencement Speech Hillary D. Rodham May 31, 1969 Ruth M. Adams, ninth president of Wellesley College, introduced Hillary D. Rodham, '69, at the 91st commencement exercises, as follows: In addition to inviting Senator Brooke to speak to them this morning, the Class of '69 has expressed a desire to speak to them and for them at this morning's commencement. There was no debate so far as I could ascertain as to who their spokesman was to be -- Miss Hillary Rodham. Member of this graduating class, she is a major in political science and a candidate...

Boston Globe Signals Importance of Prof. Gilligan and Jane Fonda's Money Those colleges which are attacking boys across the country, according to Prof. Christina Hoff Sommers, are Wellesley, Tufts, the Graduate School of Education at Harvard and the psychiatric department at Harvard Medical School. She quoted a professor at Tufts, "We've deconstructed the old version of manhood, but we've not [yet] constructed a new version." The "research" which shows that boys are favored and are causing serious problems was performed at those institutions. But that research is non-existent or "riddled with errors," Prof. Sommers reports. She says it is...