Word: fopper
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...voicing what I know to be the unpopular position, let me say once and for all: I hated FOP. Every grimy, sweaty, exhausting, hungry moment of it. Since I’ve never been known as a born athlete, people often find it hard to believe I was a FOPper, but I’ve hiked many times before, and love the great outdoors. What I soon discovered on FOP, however, was that my love of nature is predicated on the ability to shower after a long hike. Slowly watching my leg hair grow out over the course of five...
...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...
...should be more fair. The joys of freshman year (sorry, first year, or is it first-year year?) go beyond mere labels. From the minute a young frosh (is that PC?) enters the Yard s/he is absorbed into the Harvard experience, whether or not he or she was a FOPper. He has all the riches of the university in front of her. (I'm switching pronouns, just to be fair.) That is, if s/he can get past the confusion of gender neutrality and political correctness. By that time, he or she may not even be sure if s/he...
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