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...word, of course, is ROTC. And as the dreaded acronym has been coming up more and more often in University Hall, the responses of administrators have been becoming, well, curioser and curioser...
...strategy was crafty but cruel. When Continental Can was trying to cut costs in its plants during the late 1970s, the company employed a secret computer program called BELL, a reverse acronym for Let's Limit Employee Benefits. Managers used the program to target and lay off employees just weeks or months before they were vested in the company pension plan. In that way, the company aimed to avoid millions of dollars in pension payments...
...interested to learn that the FOP Steering Committee has changed the meaning of its acronym to "First-Year" Outdoor Program, ridding themselves of the politically incorrect, gender un-neutral word "Freshman." I have also noticed that a similar decision has been made by the editorial powers-that-be at The Crimson. While I respect the motives behond such decisions, I wonder if too much concern for gender neutrality might lead to some confusion...
...takes is a change in the meaning of an acronym to spend a week in the woods, does that mean I can be a FOPper again? I am, after all, a fourth-year. We might as well be consistent with our terms and get rid of sophomore, junior and senior as well. It would also make it a little easier to figure out which of our friends have taken a little longer than usual to graduate--we'd have fifth and sixth-years. But I suppose that isn't what the chairman (excuse me, chairperson) of the steering committee...
With the line's success in its three games together, aficionadoes are already comparing the trio to the nationally feared H-E-M and S-A-M lines at crosstown B.C. and B.U. Too bad V-C-D isn't a convenient acronym...