Hi Michelle:
Looks like there's gonna be a cat fight in Palo Alto:
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Copyright 1998 The Scotsman Publications Ltd.
The Scotsman
September 19, 1998, Saturday
SECTION: Pg. 13
LENGTH: 591 words
HEADLINE: CAROLYN STARR JOINS CHELSEA IN A STUDY OF COSMIC IRONY
BYLINE: Tim Cornwell In Los Angeles
BODY:
THE independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, saw his daughter, Carolyn, start her college career yesterday - at Stanford University, where Chelsea Clinton is a second-year
student.
For at least two years, if all goes as planned, President Bill Clinton and his nemesis will be fellow parents at the elite private university near San Francisco.
Mr Starr and his wife, Alice, were expected to attend a special convocation for first-year students at Stanford today, the same event where Bill and Hillary Clinton took
front row seats last year when they went to see Chelsea into the university.
Pursuing what is a hallowed tradition for parents world-wide - hauling your grown-up child's suitcases into her college room - Mr Starr and his wife were booked for
three nights in a modest suite at the nearby Cardinal Hotel.
Accompanied by two US marshals carrying luggage, Mr Starr declined comment on the Clinton crisis. He said merely that he was "just delighted" that Carolyn was going
to Stanford, the West Coast's answer to high-flying Harvard and Yale.
Classes start at Stanford for the autumn term on 23 September, and there was no sign of the Clintons showing up again this year. The Clintons and the Starrs might
possibly cross paths at Parents' Weekend in February, but the Clintons skipped the event this year - as the Lewinsky story was breaking - in favour of taking Chelsea on a
ski-iing holiday for her 18th birthday.
Stanford University declined any comment on Carolyn Starr's arrival, in keeping with its policy of strictly respecting students' privacy. While a crush of media followed
Chelsea's arrival, there was relatively little press attention this time.
"The cosmic forces are really at work, aren't they?" quipped a Stanford student, Alejandro Rubio yesterday.
Last year, Mr Starr accepted and then, after an outcry, turned down a teaching post at Pepperdine University, in Malibu, several hours drive south of Stanford. That
offer, it appears, is still on the table when the Clinton investigation finally reaches a close.
Stanford's police chief, Marvin Herrington, said that Mr Starr "is just another parent as far as we're concerned, and we'll protect him the same way as we will other
parents who will be here".
The Clintons have for years fiercely protected the privacy of their only child, and Chelsea has kept a low profile at Stanford. The student newspaper, the Stanford Daily,
made it official policy not to print anything about the president's daughter, even sacking a columnist who broke the rule.
The White House and Hillary Clinton's office have also made it their business to offer only the slenderest information on Chelsea, and even through the height of the sex
scandal that threatened to disgrace her father, the American press have largely left her alone.
Beyond reporting that Chelsea Clinton invited the Reverend Jesse Jackson to the White House after the president made his confession of an affair, press reports have done
little more than note that Chelsea took a male friend to meet her parents, or spent a night in hospital with flu.
If Chelsea was hoping to escape her parents' troubles and bury herself in college life, the arrival of Mr Starr's daughter -not to mention the imminent broadcast of tapes of
her father answering graphic questions on his sexual behaviour - seem certain to make it that much harder.
On the other hand, she may take solace in polls showing that Carolyn Starr's father is, if anything, less popular than hers. |
