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...embarrassing enough when my parents, crying, holding baby pictures and stuffing a flowery note into my carry-on bag, dropped me off at Newark Airport eight years ago for my freshman year at Stanford. But Chelsea Clinton's parents showed up at her Stanford dorm last Friday night not only mushy but also in a motorcade flanked by security guards and nearly 250 of their closest journalists. I would have died...
Despite her celebrity, Chelsea will experience a development similar to that of her peers. She will never really be a part of her parents' home again, she will get used to living away from her mother and father and she will realize that what lies ahead of her is a life that she will have to define...
...arrival of Chelsea Clinton at Stanford University last week was a closely-covered media event, garnering front-page photos and stories nationwide. Chelsea's departure has greatly interested the American public. But aside from the logistics of the Secret Service and more pertinent to the rest of us, Chelsea's departure from the White House (read: home) has focused national attention on the American college system's impact on the nuclear family and the change college imposes on the relationship between parents and their children...
Naturally, the arrival of the President's daughter at college was a more newsworthy event than yours was, unless you were accompained by an entourage of 200 people, but the core of her experience has been and will be the same as that of thousands of other college freshmen. Chelsea spent the last few weeks vacationing before packing up the part of her life that would fit into brown boxes. The fact that she flew to California in Air Force One simply makes her arrival unusual, but like many of the other 1,649 first-years who arrived at Stanford...
This four-year trajectory, as it were, occupies the pages of American press every fall, because college in America creates adulthood. Chelsea Clinton has occupied the national spotlight for a brief moment, not because she is the daughter of the President, but because she is a daughter about to become a young woman; parents, students and future parents can relate to what the First Family is going through because the college experience is an integral part of growing up in America. Her celebrity has brought college once again to front pages across the country, but her status as a Clinton...