This is not the first time Hillary Clinton made history as the first female to top a presidential ticket. Back in high school, she ran for president of the student government, surprising her classmates because no girl had ever done that before. They always served as secretary instead.
Nor is this the first time that Donald Trump has been called names — though perhaps not quite the ones he’s being called now. An alpha male even back in high school, he was voted a “Ladies’ Man” in his yearbook and described as a brawler by his classmates. He also seems to have let it be known that he was rich.
If all the world is a re-creation of high school, then this election is between two candidates who as teenagers already embodied the traits for which they have become famous, and, it’s safe to say, they would not have liked each other very much.
Nor is this the first time that Donald Trump has been called names — though perhaps not quite the ones he’s being called now. An alpha male even back in high school, he was voted a “Ladies’ Man” in his yearbook and described as a brawler by his classmates. He also seems to have let it be known that he was rich.
If all the world is a re-creation of high school, then this election is between two candidates who as teenagers already embodied the traits for which they have become famous, and, it’s safe to say, they would not have liked each other very much.
Clinton was by all accounts an earnest, nerdy, uber-involved student. Think Hermione Granger at Hogwarts. Or Patty Simcox at Rydell. A Buzzfeed list of her high school activities runs 17 printed pages, but to name just a few, she was on the student newspaper, the “It’s Academic” TV quiz show team, the cultural values committee, the committee to write a new school constitution and the antivandalism committee.
She was also director of the school’s Republican organization (yes, she was an ardent Goldwater girl), vice president of the Honor Society, and vice president of the junior class (where she was regularly ticked off, friends say, that she ended up running most of the meetings because the president – the guy she would run against for president as a senior — was away at football practice.) She wasn’t valedictorian, but according to an article in the Boston Globe during her 2008 run, she told the student who was chosen that she thought she was smarter.
Trump, on the other hand, was the Biff Tannen of his crowd (somewhat literally, in fact — “Back to the Future” writer Bob Gale has said the character is based on Trump.) Sent to boarding school at 13 to “channel his energy in a positive manner,” according to the Washington Post, he seems to have poured much of that energy into sports. He played varsity soccer, baseball (the talk back then, his classmates say today, was that he could have gone pro) and football as well as JV wrestling, and intramural basketball and bowling.
He marched a lot too — serving as the commanding officer of the school honor guard for the New York City Columbus Day Parade — and was also a member of the committee for the fall dance, the Driver Education Club and the Hobby and Model Club. He received no academic awards to speak of, but he did win the Neatness and Order Medal in ‘60 and ’61, along with many athletic letters from ‘60 to ‘64. He got into occasional fights, classmates have recalled to reporters recently, because, as one told Business Insider last fall, “that’s common ground in that school. [It was] a little ‘Lord of the Flies.’” Oh, and he was voted “Ladies’ Man” in the yearbook because, as one of his classmates recalled to Business Insider, “He was a very good-looking, handsome guy, and he held himself in a way that everyone thought he’d be very desirable for the opposite sex.”
She was also director of the school’s Republican organization (yes, she was an ardent Goldwater girl), vice president of the Honor Society, and vice president of the junior class (where she was regularly ticked off, friends say, that she ended up running most of the meetings because the president – the guy she would run against for president as a senior — was away at football practice.) She wasn’t valedictorian, but according to an article in the Boston Globe during her 2008 run, she told the student who was chosen that she thought she was smarter.
Trump, on the other hand, was the Biff Tannen of his crowd (somewhat literally, in fact — “Back to the Future” writer Bob Gale has said the character is based on Trump.) Sent to boarding school at 13 to “channel his energy in a positive manner,” according to the Washington Post, he seems to have poured much of that energy into sports. He played varsity soccer, baseball (the talk back then, his classmates say today, was that he could have gone pro) and football as well as JV wrestling, and intramural basketball and bowling.
He marched a lot too — serving as the commanding officer of the school honor guard for the New York City Columbus Day Parade — and was also a member of the committee for the fall dance, the Driver Education Club and the Hobby and Model Club. He received no academic awards to speak of, but he did win the Neatness and Order Medal in ‘60 and ’61, along with many athletic letters from ‘60 to ‘64. He got into occasional fights, classmates have recalled to reporters recently, because, as one told Business Insider last fall, “that’s common ground in that school. [It was] a little ‘Lord of the Flies.’” Oh, and he was voted “Ladies’ Man” in the yearbook because, as one of his classmates recalled to Business Insider, “He was a very good-looking, handsome guy, and he held himself in a way that everyone thought he’d be very desirable for the opposite sex.”
So what are the libertarians?
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