Ben W. Dreyfus
Ben Dreyfus wears a tie-dye shirt, a pony-tail, and has that
distinguishable awkward feel to him that only a gifted science student
could possess. Most importantly, however, he rocks back and forth with
his torso, constantly gyrating when searching for an answer and
sometimes even stops the tape to ease the pressure that seems to come
out of nowhere. His answers are never immediate, but when they are
uttered they are shot out at rapid fire, so fast the answers are
sometimes confusing. To get a sense of Dreyfus' platform check
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dreyfus. And if you want a better feel of
Dreyfus, check out his personal web-page at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dreyfus/index2.html
Fifteen Minutes: If you could kick any student group off campus which
would it be?
Ben Dreyfus: The Harvard Juggling Team, since their juggling is
dangerous to pedestrians.
FM: What's the first thing you'll do if elected? (as a person)
BD: I'm going to Walt Disney World.
FM: You're driving a train with the entire student body on it when you
see a roadblock up ahead. You could keep going and kill everyone on the
train, or swerve and just kill your roommate. what do you do?
BD: I have a single.  I don't have a roommate.
FM: What body part of yours do you dislike the most?
BD: The left part.
FM: Did you ever have a crush on a cartoon figure?
BD: Lisa Simpson.
FM: What's the worst thing that could go wrong in the election?
BD: The apocalypse.
FM: What's the biggest vocab word you know and what does it mean?
BD: "Wall." A structural edifice partitioning two rooms.
FM: What's in your pockets at this very moment?
BD: (pulls out some keys, a kazoo, and a Pez dispenser)
FM: How many pushups can you do?
BD: As few as possible.
FM: Do you wear tighty whiteys or boxers?
BD:(hesitatingly) tighty whiteys.
FM: Talk about your vice president?
BD: I don't have a running mate.
FM: Why is that?
BD: The default is not to have one. The others choose to have one,
because they are weak as individuals and need to rely on others.
FM: Where do you get your hair cut in the Square?
BD: I don't.
FM: Most embarrassing moment in high school?
BD: In high school or like during high school?
FM: Yeah, in high school.
BD: Not when its really at the high school?
FM: Right, during high school.
BD: [One time I was on a plane.] So, I wanted to open the little
window-shade thing and when I did that the window itself actually popped
out. So all the pressure started getting sucked out of the cabin and it
was weird. So I could feel the air being sucked out and I was being like
sucked out of the window.  And I was like calling the flight attendant
for help. So I was holding on to the seat in front of me. So the flight
attendant comes by and so I am like holding on to her arm and I'm like
help, help. And eventually we both got sucked out of the plane and we
started like falling down and I was using my shirt as a parachute
whatever. We land in this field in the middle of Ohio, and then my pants
fell down. It was really embarrassing.  
FM: A living wage? Discuss.
BD: Wages are generally in the form of money which is generally in paper
form, or in coins occasionally, and more oftenly in the electronic form
which is in a bank somewhere and by definition these forms are not
living. In the past wages were paid in sheep and camels and things that
were in fact living, but I think we moved beyond that and I don't think
we should like go backwards towards the whole barter economic systems.
FM: What's the worst grade you've ever gotten at Harvard (on a test,
quiz, prob. set, course, etc.?).
BD: It has yet to happen. It'll be this semester.
FM: Which would mean what?
BD: I have several courses that are competing for that.
FM: Many people complain that the UC candidates are all boring. Do you
have an piercings, body art or any other distinguish physical features?
Please show me.
BD: I have a random patch of hair on my back. Only that patch, I don't
know how it got there.
FM: What do you concentrate in and what do you concentrate most on at
Harvard?
BD: My concentration is physics and I have the official endorsement of
the Society of Physics Students.
FM: And what do you concentrate most on at Harvard?
BD:  Waking up. It's difficult.
FM: How many requirements have you fulfilled (i.e. sex in the stacks,
running around the yard naked)?
BD:  Depends on your definition of naked. Last year during the primal
scream I participated in running wearing a suit and tie to make a
statement about modern society in the sense that which of us is truly
naked. It was sort of a "Where's Waldo" thing, this person amongst all
the naked, in a more literal sense, people.
FM: What do you think of the Crimson?
BD: I support the Crimson and I look forward to discussing them at the
time they're considering whom to endorse. So I'm a big fan of the
Crimson.
FM: And FM?
BD: Does FM do endorsements?
FM: Not that I know of, but (awkward silence)
BD: In that case I have no opinion.
-- Eliot I. Hodges