{"id":152038,"date":"2018-03-22T12:06:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T16:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=152038"},"modified":"2019-07-30T14:32:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:32:27","slug":"uconns-fictional-student-body-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/03\/uconns-fictional-student-body-president\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn\u2019s Fictional Student Body President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the beginning, God created Bill Fraclas and Barry Berman, but he didn\u2019t create Bill X. Carlson,\u201d says Barry Berman \u201972 in this History Corner interview. Carlson, instead of being a divine creation, was the work of Berman and Fraclas who, during a time when student government was considerably unpopular, decided to invent the perfect political candidate as a prank. To their surprise, Bill X. Carlson not only caught on with their fellow students, but went on to win the student body presidential election by a landslide in 1972, prompting a complete overhaul of undergraduate government at UConn.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview Berman \u2013 by coincidence, the uncle of UConn 360 podcaster Julie Bartucca \u201910 \u2013 details how UConn\u2019s most famous non-existent student came to be.<\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to the podcast (from episode 3):<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-152038-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/History-Corner-3-Barry-Berman.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/History-Corner-3-Barry-Berman.mp3\">https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/History-Corner-3-Barry-Berman.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>For full episodes of the UConn 360 podcast, visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/uconn.edu\/uconn360-podcast\"><em>uconn.edu\/uconn360-podcast<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a podcast interview, Barry Berman \u201972 details how Bill X. Carlson, UConn\u2019s most famous non-existent student, came to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":152065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2141,2225,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1902],"class_list":["post-152038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life","series-heard-here-uconn-360"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 21:11:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152038"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152070,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152038\/revisions\/152070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/152065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152038"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=152038"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=152038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}