{"id":5009,"date":"2021-04-19T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2021-09-24T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:02:18","slug":"uchicago-student-running-from-college-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/19\/uchicago-student-running-from-college-council\/","title":{"rendered":"UChicago Student Running From College Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">While the beginning of Spring Quarter has marked numerous announcements of\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">ambitious<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0students running for College Council, one student has decided\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">to rival this long-standing\u00a0tradition by running from College Council.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Simon\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Jorgensen<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">, a second year in The College, ha<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">been sprinting across th<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">e campus for over a week in hopes of avoiding\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">the election entirely<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The origins of this activity are accidental. Jorgensen explained,\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cI started this initially as a joke<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">. I would either see a poster in the quad or one of my friends would<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0mention\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">the campaigns\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">and I would\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">pretend to bolt.\u201d However<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">, Jorgensen<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0started taking an<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0earnest approach<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">after college council students began to<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0follow him<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0in order to get his vote.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Jorgensen explained,\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cCollege Council\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">candidates<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0are like<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0a<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">n over<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">ly\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">eager<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0parent\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">chaperon<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">in<wbr \/>g<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0your elementary school field trip<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">The more you<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0try to pretend they are not there, the more they will attempt\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">to make forced small talk with you and your friends<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">This has been both a physical and mental challenge for Jorgensen. In a close call, Jorgen<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">sen had to\u00a0submerge himself in Botany\u00a0Pond to avoid a relentless first<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0year dressed in a sports coat explain\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">bipartisanship.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u2019\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Addi<wbr \/>tionally,\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">he<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0has had to put extra locks on his doors<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">after a series of multiple\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">break-ins<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">C<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">andidates<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><wbr \/>\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">tried to\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">bust down his door\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">to place stickers\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">and printed out Instagram infographics un<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">d<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">er his pillow.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0When asked for comment, Matthew Haverford, one of the candidates who broke into his room\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">stated<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">, \u201c<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">E<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">very vote\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">counts<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">,\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">and I am<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0doing\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">my civic duty\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">by getting that<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0bastard\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Simon\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">to get that through his\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">fucking\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">head<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Jorgensen said<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0he has no plans to stop running until this election ends.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">H<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">e still is undecided\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">at this time<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0on whether\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">to<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0pursue legal action<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0against the students\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">who<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">trespassed<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">,\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">but<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0i<wbr \/>s currently looking into pressing charges against writer and director\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Aaron Sorkin for creating the \u201cWest Wing to Poli-Sci pipeline.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the beginning of Spring Quarter has marked numerous announcements of\u00a0ambitious\u00a0students running for College Council, one student has decided\u00a0to rival this long-standing\u00a0tradition by running from College Council.\u00a0Simon\u00a0Jorgensen, a second year in The College, has\u00a0been sprinting across the campus for over a week in hopes of avoiding\u00a0the election entirely.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-komono","category-favorites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}