Press Releases

Nov 08, 2000
Who's the President? Student "Billionaires" Say Bush (or Gore)

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Darren Johnson
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Friends World students using the aliases I. M. Rich, Billy O'Nair, Mrs. Gottway-Tewmuch, Miss Lotta Dough, Vera Rich and Ivana Lott-Moore stormed Sag Harbor, Southampton and East Hampton in the days before the election mocking campaign finance as a student-activism project. Friends World is a program of international study based at Southampton College of Long Island University.

The Friends World students, acting as a group called Billionaires for Bush (or Gore), dressed the part, put on street-theater performances and handed out pamphlets detailing the millions of dollars large corporations have given both presidential candidates. They are pictured here on the Southampton College campus.