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...thought back to high school, when I was a fairly typical extracurricular jock. Newspaper, student council, blah-blah-blah. All standard fare. I was sick of it by the end of senior year: sick of running meetings, sick of organizing committees, sick of calling people foractivities...
Twenty-five years ago, they seemed to be the classic college odd couple. William H. Vanderbilt '67 was the jock. John P. Bihldorff '67 was the mathematician. Vanderbilt was captain of several sports teams. Bihldorff was president of the Glee Club. "He couldn't sing a note," Bihldorff laughs about Vanderbilt...
...students seeking government office, the proper educational background is vital. Many student politicians concentrate in government, though they are quick to reject the sterotype of the overbearing, briefcase-toting "gov jock...
didn't want to be a typical student politician--the gov jock who plans out every year how he's going to become president of the United States," says Aronberg, a government concentrator who will be eligible for his first run for the presidency...
Some students say they take pride in breaking the "gov jock' mold...