The last bit is interesting...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove#College_years_at_the_University_of_Utah.2C_and_the_Dixon_campaign_incident"College years at the University of Utah, and the Dixon campaign incident
In the fall of 1969, aged 18, Rove entered the University of Utah, on a $1,000 scholarship,<4> as a political science major and joined the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Through the University's Hinckley Institute of Politics, Rove got an internship with the Utah Republican Party. That position and contacts from the 1968 Bennett campaign, helped Rove land a job in 1970 in Illinois, helping on the unsuccessful re-election campaign of Ralph Tyler Smith for the Senate. Smith lost to Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson III.
In the fall of 1970, Rove used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Democrat Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Illinois State Treasurer, and stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead. Rove then printed fake campaign rally fliers promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing", and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters, with the effect of disrupting Dixon's rally (Dixon eventually won the election). Rove's role would not become publicly known until August 1973. Rove told the Dallas Morning News in 1999, "It was a youthful prank at the age of 19 and I regret it."<5>"