Clinton

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton took a break from his wife’s presidential campaign trail yesterday to urge college journalists, via a phone conference, to commit to solving global and local problems by partaking in the Clinton Global Initiative University.

Photos from the New York, South Carolina and New Hampshire primaries.

It goes without saying that political news and sports news should be very different. Nevertheless, if you watch CNN or MSNBC, chances are you’ll see political coverage that looks a lot like sports coverage, focusing on which candidates (or teams) are doing well this season and therefore have a chance to make it past the primaries (or to the playoffs) in order to become president (or World Champion).

Former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe addressed about the state of the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton’s upcoming campaign before an audience of nearly 75 in Lerner Hall on Friday afternoon.

With the whole country getting an unusually early start on the 2008 presidential race, Columbia students are working hard to keep up with the action.