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Thayer, apparently the Trump Tower of freshman dorms, brought out Domna, Petros, and the Opportunes, among other campus celebs, to liven up a dorm-wide masquerade ball held at the Natural History Museum last Thursday...
...ones. This is a story typical of overeager freshman politicos. Harvard students have a deep antipathy to transparent displays of ambition. Nowhere is this clearer than in UC campaigns. The last three presidents of the UC have projected a laid-back, hippie vibe. They’ve loped around campus in faded jeans, sporting stubble and shocks of long hair. Purely on image, it would be harder to get farther away from the student council Type-A suit. Chris was upbeat about his defeat, ever, he said, the “cock-eyed optimist...
...said, ‘I think this is from Karl Rove,’ and [Caleb’s mother] and I looked at each other and wondered ,” Steve C. Weatherl told me. Caleb had arranged for the Republican Club to bring Karl Rove to campus that April. The high-profile speaking event had gone very smoothly, but Rove had already written Caleb a thank-you note. When their son finally arrived home, they watched him open the letter. Caleb said that he had to read it a few times before he really understood what...
...throw everyone off their game because I’m open about it,” she said. Andrea was the only upperclassmen I could find who had made her political goals public. She was also the only woman. Hillary or not, transparent political ambition—and campus speculation about it—is still largely limited to men. “Our freshman class on the UC, we were all incredibly intense, but no one was open about it,” Andrea told me. “I didn’t find out anyone...
...were in a trendy little Georgetown restaurant, all sharp lines and arctic surfaces. Caleb had already told me that his postgraduate plan is to work in the private sector. He will always be involved in politics, he said, but maybe just as a donor or volunteer. Many people on campus seem to think you aspire to the presidency, I told him. “That’s hilarious,” he said. “That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.” Up to this point, he?...