Campaign Vets

On April 16, alums Jean Elliot Brown ’72 and Rahm Emanuel ’81 joined forces on campus to discuss “Looking Forward, Looking Backward: The 2000 and 2004 Elections.” Brown, currently executive director of the Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, was a Congressional candidate in West Palm Beach, in 2000, a hot spot of the recount controversy; Emanuel, once a top White House adviser to former President Bill Clinton, is now a first-term representative from Illinois currently seeking re-election, and an emerging leader among the Congressional Democrats. “Sarah Lawrence is lucky to have two graduates so particularly well placed to reflect on key themes in recent American politics,” noted event organizer David Peritz, a member of the politics faculty.