Name: Joey Howard
Graduation Year: 2017
Age: 19
Hometown: Salisbury, NH
Major: Political Science
PCC Affiliation: Sigma Phi Epsilon
Activities: RA, works for ticket office, Intramural Basketball, Soccer, and Flag Football, Club Rugby and Soccer, and Sig-Ep Kitchen Manager
Joey walks up the stairs to his domain, 3rd South, in clothing that suggests he was coming from an athletic endeavor, to see me sitting in the lounge awaiting his arrival (heâs my RA). He pokes his head in. âJust give me a sec to change,â he grins. If you donât know him, Joey is a lover of sports, and even won this yearâs intramural flag football championshipâŠand wore his victory shirt for the week after under all of his clothes. Kind, funny, and big-hearted, with a âbroad shoulder to cry on,â this cutie had one request for the interview: âmake me look like a huge stud.â So collegiettes, howâs he looking?
Favorite part of Davidson:Â Dock ball at the lake, except now the dock is gone, so thatâs a bummer.
Favorite place on campus: The Imac fields.
Three words his friends would use to describe him: Outgoing, confident, and silly.
Ideal Friday night:Â Going out to dinner with some friends, like Sabi or something like that, and then go dance for a while. Anywhere, doesnât matter. And then be asleep by one oâclock in the morning. No matter what happens before, sleep is the crucial part.
If he was given a million dollars and couldnât spend it on anything âpracticalâ he wouldâŠbuy a ton of scuba diving gear and scuba dive all over the world. I went to Hawaii to dive once and got to dive with some seals that just happened to be there and it was the coolest thing.
Favorite drink: Milk.
Favorite emoji: I use the dolphin emoji a lot when itâs not applicable. Thatâs my favorite one for sure, no question.Â
Thoughts on the word âfrattyâ: I love it ironically.
Music preferences: I like all kinds of music, basically my criteria is based on what I can listen to in a certain state of emotion. Iâm not like, âI only listen to rockâ or âI only listen to country.â My highest played song is probably âAll Rightâ by Darius Rucker.
Neckties or bowties: Neckties.
Funny nicknames: My Spanish teacher in high school called me Chewy Chewy because I had curly hair and my name is Joey, which kind of sounds like Chewy like Chewbacca, which is where the curly hair comes in. Once my friends heard him call me that was it. I was Chewy.
You may not know: I did ballet in high school.
Thoughts on Yik Yak: Iâm not on Yik Yak. Iâm a firm believer that Yik Yak is a terrible thing. It is pretty funny sometimes, but Iâm generally not a fan. I like not having Yik Yak because is somethingâs funny enough that itâs important to know, then someone is going to show it to me.
Favorite phone app: The only one I really use is Facebook. I know the guy who started Wigo because he went to St. Paulâs. He was in my dorm actually. But the Gameboy Advance app is my favorite. I had to cut myself off for a while.
Thoughts on pickup lines: I wish that I was comfortable using a pickup line, but there is no way. I would just stumble over my words and it wouldnât make sense. I would go with Brick from Anchorman though and ask her if she would go to a pants party.
What he looks for in a girl: Confidence is really important. But also not so set in her ways that she isnât flexible. Spontaneous isnât the right word because I donât want someone who is just like, super spontaneous. I guess be accommodating.
Go-to first date: Probably ice cream.
Strangest place heâs kissed someone at Davidson: See the problem with this is that I havenât really kissed a lot of people at DavidsonâŠYeah I donât have a good answer for this. Iâm so disappointed in myself!