Opinion > April 24, 2008

By | This column represents the views of the Old Gold & Black Editorial Board.

Exciting times hit Wake Forest as presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton packed students, professors and community members into Wait Chapel.

We would like to express how pleased we are with the university as a whole for having such a good reputation as to negotiate Clinton’s coming. Congratulations to President Hatch and the College Democrats and everybody else involved in the planning of the event. We are also happy for the chance to see our illustrious professor Maya Angelou in a public setting.

Talk about a positive event for the school’s national recognition and public relations.

Although we understand that it wasn’t a requirement to support Clinton to attend the conversation, and to me didn’t and do not support her, we are happy that so many students not only showed up but maintained an admirable level of respect and self-control. The event probably didn’t change any body’s mind politically, but it did prove that students aren’t quite as politically apathetic as people claim we are.

If nothing more, we believe that this event served as a chance to listen to a renowned political mind discuss a few pressing issues facing our world today, issues that many of us have probably studied here in some of our classes, issues that are on our minds as students and young world citizens. We wish that the event had lasted longer so that more topics could have been covered, especially after all the time that we spent waiting for it to start. Now we are just waiting for the other two candidates to come to campus.