Antonio Aloisi, from a High School Newspaper to Bocconi Board Meetings

During the elections held on 18-19 May, which renewed the entire Bocconi student delegation, he received 55% of valid student votes. A few weeks later, he was officially appointed to represent his classmates at the University Board. For the next two years, Antonio Aloisi, 22 years old and in his third year of the Combined Bachelor and Master of Science in Law, will sit on the board next to Monti, Pavesi and Tabellini, but also Profumo, Passera and Tronchetti Provera, among others. Is he excited? "A little, but I'm also calm."

Antonio reached the highest chair in delegation during his second electoral campaign, but he decided to get involved in campus politics starting in his first year, when he had just started university. Yet, the word politics is a word he doesn't like, maybe because his generation "is faced with the true failure of politics as it is commonly understood, which at this point makes us twenty-somethings turn up our noses." He would rather talk about the duty of representation ("Policy, not politics, as is clear in Anglo-Saxon culture and language"), especially because, he stresses, "here at Bocconi, it's all about handmade politics, working with everybody, especially people from other groups (Antonio ran with B.Lab, the others were Alternativa Democratica e Obiettivo Studenti), aimimg to resolve very concrete issues in student life. There is just a desire to challenge yourself and get involved in something with added responsibility."

Antonio takes his responsibility seriously, but he seems to have a talent for it. During his years at liceo (completing classical studies in Galatina in the Province of Lecce), he was editor of the school newspaper, LiberaMente, while at the same time starting his service to his classmates by becoming a part of the Student Provincial Council ("An organization without much influentual power," he says). After moving to Milan and starting Bocconi, he immediately discovered the existence of the B.Lab group and starting attending meetings. "Student elections were held that same year and I was elected to the council of the School of Law," he says.

A passion for civil service is something he experienced through his family as well: his father, an educator, has held several local positions in the world of volunteer service. Seeing the political machine in concrete terms places him in a position of experience: "I don't want to wear the mask of a political party and play a role within the political system. This system is not very open to young people anyway. I think my generation has had enough of not having a voice."

This view of civil service is also reflected in his ambitions for the future: after finishing university, Antonio sees himself as a journalist. "It's a path that I would like to take and I'm trying to get experience in the field," he explains. In recent years he has created a blog on current events and politics and he collaborates with Linkiesta, an online newspaper. He has already written a review of Il gioiellino, the movie directed by Molaioli on the Parmalat case for the newspaper, and he is finishing up some small investigations on renewable energy and the role of new media. In addition, his blog was noticed by the Cortina InConTra press office, the political and cultural fair in the Veneto Region, which co-opted him for the 2010 and 2011 summer editions. "I kept a log of the event for their website and I did a few interviews." And if a career in journalism doesn't provide any openings? "Then I'd like to go into labor law: this area of law has been my favorite subject so far. I don't know if I'd like to work only as a lawyer, I hope I have a few choices. And that I can elect to do what I want."