Ally_Kat
12-18-2006, 10:08 PM
The Buzz at Hunter for Hillary
By Sewell Chan
If Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton decides to run for president, she may want to recruit field workers and volunteers from Hunter College.
This morning at Hunter, Mrs. Clinton attended a closed-door meeting with top Bush administration officials – including Dr. John O. Agwunobi, assistant secretary for health at the United States Department of Health and Human Services and Dr. John Howard, head of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health – to discuss the ongoing efforts to help 9/11 rescue and recovery workers who now suffer from respiratory, digestive, muscoskeletal and mental diseases.
Afterwards, the senator held a news conference with three House members from New York – Jerrold L. Nadler, Carolyn B. Maloney and Vito J. Fossella. As she walked out of the college’s west campus building, she was mobbed by enthusiastic students seeking autographs.
Several of the students clutched copies of the 10th anniversary edition, released last week, of Mrs. Clinton’s book “It Takes a Village.” Mrs. Clinton patiently obliged, signing the books – as well as a baseball, a statistics textbook and even scraps of looseleaf paper. She did not make any public comments about her political aspirations.
“I got her signature!” exclaimed Leandro Gallo, 20-year-old freshman from Brazil who lives on the East Side, showing off a half-page of lined looseleaf with Mrs. Clinton’s John Hancock. Mr. Gallo said that news of the senator’s visit had taken the students by surprise. “I didn’t know she was going to be here.”
Hunter College’s student body is three-quarters female and overwhelmingly black, Latino or Asian; one-quarter of students are the first in their families to attend college. Many are working and studying at the same time. The demographic profile may speak to the strength of the enthusiasm shown for Mrs. Clinton.
By Sewell Chan
If Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton decides to run for president, she may want to recruit field workers and volunteers from Hunter College.
This morning at Hunter, Mrs. Clinton attended a closed-door meeting with top Bush administration officials – including Dr. John O. Agwunobi, assistant secretary for health at the United States Department of Health and Human Services and Dr. John Howard, head of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health – to discuss the ongoing efforts to help 9/11 rescue and recovery workers who now suffer from respiratory, digestive, muscoskeletal and mental diseases.
Afterwards, the senator held a news conference with three House members from New York – Jerrold L. Nadler, Carolyn B. Maloney and Vito J. Fossella. As she walked out of the college’s west campus building, she was mobbed by enthusiastic students seeking autographs.
Several of the students clutched copies of the 10th anniversary edition, released last week, of Mrs. Clinton’s book “It Takes a Village.” Mrs. Clinton patiently obliged, signing the books – as well as a baseball, a statistics textbook and even scraps of looseleaf paper. She did not make any public comments about her political aspirations.
“I got her signature!” exclaimed Leandro Gallo, 20-year-old freshman from Brazil who lives on the East Side, showing off a half-page of lined looseleaf with Mrs. Clinton’s John Hancock. Mr. Gallo said that news of the senator’s visit had taken the students by surprise. “I didn’t know she was going to be here.”
Hunter College’s student body is three-quarters female and overwhelmingly black, Latino or Asian; one-quarter of students are the first in their families to attend college. Many are working and studying at the same time. The demographic profile may speak to the strength of the enthusiasm shown for Mrs. Clinton.