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Vyom Khan, a second-year in the College, was declared winner of the Institute of Politics on Tuesday when he successfully caressed David Axelrod\u2019scalf during that afternoon\u2019s Fellows Seminar, \u201cAt War Over the World.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an exclusive interview with the Dealer following his victory, Kahn reflected, \u201cIt was a great contest out there, you know? Everyone wants to stand near David Axelrod. That\u2019s why we all come out to the IOP. I just don\u2019t let the competition faze me. I\u2019ve gotta keep my eyes on the prize, and that\u2019s what I did today. When the line of first-years trying to get Snapchat selfies with Axelrod in the background got blocked by the event organizers and had to sit down, I saw my opening, and I went for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kahn\u2019s main competitor heading into Tuesday\u2019s seminar was fellowCollege second-year Bobby \u201cCeleb Hunter\u201d Peterson. According to Peterson\u2019s parents\u2019 friends, \u201cThe Petersons never shut up about the big shots their kid is meeting at school. Yesterday, at brunch, they made us look at pictures of him with old, mustachioed white people for fifteen minutes!\u201d Peterson is known among University faculty for his catchphrases: \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m meeting you in real life!\u201d and \u201cHow about a picture with tongues out?\u201d<\/p>\n
With less than a minute remaining before Axelrod was scheduled to take the stage Tuesday afternoon to introduce the program\u2019s featured speakers, it seemed the event would go without definitive victory. Peterson approached Axelrod from the left aisle, while Kahn pushed through first-years from the right, but at least seven IOP administrators surrounded Axelrod at the front of the room. Fortune turned in Kahn’\ufeffs favor, though, when Peterson \u2013 hoping to claim a picture of Axelrod to add to his collection\ufeff rather than attempting a rush past the IOP staff in order to stand directly next to hiim \u2013 took out his iPhone. Unaware that his camera was in “selfie” orientation, Peterson hastily clicked the “photo capture” button, firing the camera’s flash into his eyes and stun him. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I saw Bobby Peterson go down, I knew this was my shot,\u201d said Kahn. Witnesses say they saw Kahn drop kick his pen toward Axelrod\u2019s feet, perfectly clearing the legs of the other IOP admins. Kahn then crawled on his hands and knees between the IOP admins to \u201cretrieve his pen,\u201d and when he got there, caressed Axelrod\u2019s leg.<\/p>\n
Axelrod looked down and immediately declared Kahn winner of the IOP, cancelling the rest of the seminar and all future IOP events . The IOP released a statement congratulating Kahn and praising all the competitors who participated.<\/p>\n
Asked about his latest plans , Kahn said, \u201cThe way I see it, the height of my career is still ahead of me. Who knows what\u2019ll happen? Maybe in ten years I\u2019ll use a urinal next to Nic Cage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Alex Foster Nov. 9, 2013 Vyom Khan, a second-year in the College, was declared winner of the Institute of Politics on Tuesday when he successfully caressed David Axelrod\u2019scalf during that afternoon\u2019s Fellows Seminar, \u201cAt War Over the World.\u201d In an exclusive interview with the Dealer following his victory, Kahn reflected, \u201cIt was a great contest out there, you know? Everyone wants to stand near David Axelrod. That\u2019s why we all come out to the IOP. I just don\u2019t let the competition faze me. I\u2019ve gotta keep my eyes on the prize, and that\u2019s what I did today. When the line of first-years trying to get Snapchat selfies with Axelrod in the background got blocked by the event organizers and had to sit down, I saw my opening, and I went for it.\u201d Kahn\u2019s main competitor heading into Tuesday\u2019s seminar was fellowCollege second-year Bobby \u201cCeleb Hunter\u201d Peterson. According to Peterson\u2019s parents\u2019 friends, \u201cThe Petersons never shut up about the big shots their kid is meeting at school. Yesterday, at brunch, they made us look at pictures of him with old, mustachioed white people for fifteen minutes!\u201d Peterson is known among University faculty for his catchphrases: \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m meeting you in real life!\u201d and \u201cHow about a picture with tongues out?\u201d With less than a minute remaining before Axelrod was scheduled to take the stage Tuesday afternoon to introduce the program\u2019s featured speakers, it seemed the event would go without definitive victory. Peterson approached Axelrod from the left aisle, while Kahn pushed through first-years from the right, but at least seven IOP administrators surrounded Axelrod at the front of the room. Fortune turned in Kahn’\ufeffs favor, though, when Peterson \u2013 hoping to claim a picture of Axelrod to add to his collection\ufeff rather than attempting a rush past the IOP staff in order to stand directly next to hiim \u2013 took out his iPhone. Unaware that his camera was in “selfie” orientation, Peterson hastily clicked the “photo capture” button, firing the camera’s flash into his eyes and stun him. \u201cWhen I saw Bobby Peterson go down, I knew this was my shot,\u201d said Kahn. Witnesses say they saw Kahn drop kick his pen toward Axelrod\u2019s feet, perfectly clearing the legs of the other IOP admins. Kahn then crawled on his hands and knees between the IOP admins to \u201cretrieve his pen,\u201d and when he got there, caressed Axelrod\u2019s leg. Axelrod looked down and immediately declared Kahn winner of the IOP, cancelling the rest of the seminar and all future IOP events . The IOP released a statement congratulating Kahn and praising all the competitors who participated. Asked about his latest plans , Kahn said, \u201cThe way I see it, the height of my career is still ahead of me. Who knows what\u2019ll happen? Maybe in ten years I\u2019ll use a urinal next to Nic Cage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}