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Gordon Hunt ’13 has been loudly maintaining his sobriety over the past three weeks, making sure that those around him are sure of his lucidity at all times. It would appear as though the Biology concentrator can be taken at his word.
“Let me drive. I can drive,” Hunt was heard to say while entering his mid-size sedan on Thursday. Eye witnesses confirm that he made it home without incident.
On answering questions in class, waiting calmly in line for his morning coffee and speaking in cogent and articulate terms with his peers, Hunt has taken to repeating the phrase, “Could I do this if I was drunk? I don’t think so.” Last Tuesday he competently completed an exam and on Friday he made a pleasant phone call home to his parents.
“Gordon looks to be sober,” friend Sophia Thornton ’13 commented. “And he sounds to be sober, to listen to him. He’s a stand-up guy and wouldn’t lie about something like that.”
Hunt has volunteered to be designated driver for no fewer than 14 events in the past semester, including a late night study party during midterms and a Book Club meeting. He has been emotionally present for all social encounters and looks both fresh-eyed and well-rested at all times it might be reasonably expected for him to be so.
The senior has repeatedly volunteered to say the alphabet backwards without singing or anything while alternately touching his nose with first one finger and then another but it doesn’t seem worth the trouble to make him go through with it.
