Free Speech: Feingold Talks Campaign Finance at Amherst Colloquium
Submitted on Thursday, 5/3/2012, at 2:46 PM
May 3, 2012
by Adam Gerchick ’13
“Speech doesn’t corrupt. Money corrupts. Money isn’t speech.” So argued former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold during his keynote address at an Amherst political science conference on April 20.
The line snaked from the northwest corner of Frost Library’s first floor almost to the main entrance, the Amherst students, faculty and staff watching as those ahead of them reached the counter, collected what they’d come for and excitedly left the building for their 2 p.m. classes.