After Aung San entered Rangoon University in 1933, he quickly became involved in student politics, but was not at not at first successful. U Nu, Aung San's close friend and the future prime minister of Burma, admitted after independence that his first impression of Aung San in 1934 was that he was "a really queer character", and he became widely known for being very eccentric. In his first attempt to run for a student office, a committee representative for his dormitory association, he was not successful. The same year Aung San attempted to run as a member of the student union, but was not elected because some members thought he "lacked friendliness and respect for others". His admitted goal at the time was to eventually be elected president of the student union, but he lacked the social skills needed to do so. In 1935, after U Nu was elected the student union's general secretary, Aung San was appointed the editor of "Oway" ("Peacock's Call"), the student union's magazine. While he was enrolled in university his heroes included Abraham Lincoln, the nationalist nineteenth-century Mexican politician Benito Juarez, and Edmund Burke, whose parliamentary speeches he memorized.