His best friends are his grandma and his truck. He once rigged his high school superlative elections just to mix things up a bit. He raised a skunk as if it were his own child. If you’re lucky, you’ve caught a glimpse of his golden-blonde locks bouncing around campus. However, he spends a fair amount of time adventuring off-campus and chilling at the Eco-house, so he can sometimes be hard to find. Her Campus decided to track down Davidson’s favorite South Dakotian and ask him a few questions so you don’t have to. Get to know the one, the only, Chase Conrad!
Name: Chase Franklin Conrad
Year: Sophomore
Major: “Procrastinating on declaring polysci.”
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Hometown: Rapid City, South Dakota
PCC affiliation: Fiji
Relationship Status: Single!
Favorite farm animal: I had lots of bottle calves growing up, so they were always my favorite. But I also love horses and skunks!
Favorite season: I like all seasons! Probably winter the best.
Favorite color: For a long time it was scarlet, but recently I’ve made the transition to purple.
Favorite sweater: My lambs being abducted by UFOs sweater.
Favorite place to study: Lake Norman
Favorite ice cream flavor: It’s hard to go wrong with vanilla, but I’m also a sucker for coffee.
Favorite expletive: I don’t know what the fuck an expletive is!
One of our previous Campus Cuties is known for having saved someone’s life. Who is the last person whose life you saved? One time I was hammock-camping with my friends and we heard someone screaming for help across a gorge. So we called the police and told them how to get over the gorge. Apparently there were a bunch of 8-year-olds that had gotten lost. We definitely helped save them, but we didn’t get any recognition in the newspaper. (Here’s your recognition, Chase!)
If you could live in any period of time, what would it be? Probably the 80s, if they didn’t have so much ignorance and social inequality.
Which Hogwarts house do you belong in? Hufflepuff.
What’s the worst injury you’ve ever received? Does heartache count?
Have you ever been embarassed? If so, when? Once a friend and I went on a Spring Break trip and we thought we could just hitckhike to wherever. I knew 80 percent of people who passed us by and none of them picked us up. Later, this trucker named Charisma told us to take a Megabus and I gave up my pride and booked a megabus.
How do you keep your hair clean? I havent shampooed in years. I use cleansing conditioner!
What’s your biggest pet peeve? When people obnoxiously crack parts of their body, or when at Davidson people have tunnel vision and only focus on their life at Davidson.
Have you ever been arrested? This one time, in Italy… (see Chase for the full story!)
How do you feel about being Campus Cutie? There are worse things.
Now I don’t know much about South Dakota, but if Chase is any indication, it must be a pretty cool state! So next time you see him hitchhiking, think about pulling over and giving him a ride! Who knows, you may be in store for an excellent adventure.