Word: fop
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...conspicuous absence of Elmer’s Glue and popsicle stick crafts, Harvard does bear some resemblance to summer camp. There’s the awful food, for one thing. FM asked seasoned veterans of the world of lanyards and macramé—camp counselors and FOP leaders—for their thoughts...
...free T-shirt,” writes Michal G. Cohen ’06 in an e-mail. “This year, I’ve made it my personal mission to acquire as many ‘free’ T-shirts as possible—from FOP, giving blood at MGH, one of the career fairs, tie-dye brunch, and most recently the house T-shirts.” She concludes, “If you look at it that way, Harvard is not only camp, it’s really camp times five because the possibilities...
...story is too good to be true. It’s one of those. The freshman outdoor program (FOP) is involved, as is the freshman union. In all the milling about before the orientation trips set off for the woods, Pottinger met a girl with whom she became friendly. This girl later broke her arm on FOP. Pottinger and her wounded friend were dining in the freshman union when they both recognized their FOP leaders, who turned out to be roommates. “One day I called Jeremy [her FOP leader] for dinner and his roommate said...
Pottinger and her FOP-leader freshman week boyfriend are now married and the parents of a 3-year-old girl and all has ended happily. But the reaction from her parents to the news of their daughter’s serious relationship so early in college is somewhat surprising, in an antiquated way. “At first my parents thought I was too young,” she says, “but it was 1988 and AIDS had just come into the public consciousness in a big way. Once my parents grasped what AIDS meant, they thought...
...anti-Kabbalah system of Qlippoth where she encounters the demon Asmodeus. In this world of rage and hate, he appears to her as a giant spider. Then, with a typically clever bit humor, once Promethea gets a hold of herself and apologizes for intruding, Asmodeus changes into a English fop...