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...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...
...James heads over to Stoughton to visit a friend from his FOP trip to Maine. The first-floor room soon fills up with fellow boarding school grads. “We mostly went to private schools, but we’re not exclusive,” says one guy earnestly. Shortly after, a gaggle of Abercrombie-clad women make an entrance and Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” blares from the stereo. Captain Morgan flows freely and the conversation turns to the oversized Head of the Charles poster on the wall and the semi...
...work from my overly ambitious freshman schedule piled on, I began to wonder whether my FOP leader had been right. Maybe I could only successfully juggle two. The question then became, what to sacrifice? Surely not academics, my freshman self thought, you’re here to become enlightened (oh, the naive thoughts one has when young). That meant I could either have a social life or participate in an activity—not much of a choice...