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Presidential candidate Kucinich visits campus

By Jamie Way
By Jamie Way
April 09, 2004

The rain did not keep Dean Powers and roughly 150 other people from listening to U.S. presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich speak on campus Thursday.

"I wanted to support the Democratic cause and I think Kucinich is a really noble guy," said Powers, a senior English major. "He's out there pushing ideas."

Powers said he was interested in what Kucinich had to say about education. Powers said he did not understand why the United States spends such large amounts of money on defense instead of education.

"It's astonishing how much we're spending on defense and not education," Powers said.

Kucinich visited the university, in particular, to discuss...(Full Story)

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