Word: hrsfa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting begins with an announcement about the Masque, an annual dancing fundraiser for HRSFA (pronounced "hearse-fa") "It's kind of like Halloween," Co-chair Christopher J. Hernandez '96, who is a Crimson editor, explained later...
After an unexpected pause in the meeting, Sammells' voice becomes even as she enigmatically proclaims "Star Trek schism," which she later repeats several times. Star Trek really sets the stage for HRSFA, which was actually founded eight years ago to coincide with the premiere episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation...
Claudia Mastroianni ('91-'94) joined HRSFA two episodes alter, though she is known as a "Founding Member." She graduated last year, but she still comes to weekly meeting and gets together often with HRSFA members to watch movies. She is planning to line up at 3:00 a.m. this coming weekend for 24-hour sci-fi movie marathon in Brookline. When she invites any other members to join her, a couple replies that they would come just to see how much she'll pay for coffee...
...HRSFA was originally founded as an umbrella organization for a number of SIGs. Eight years ago, an unwilling Dean vetoed the formation of a gaming club; and then of a comics club; a science-fiction association was okay, though, and came to embody all the fantasies that were not allowed in Harvard reality...
...jokingly tell Mastoianni about imagining laser beams and alien skin beneath the long trenchcoats and felt hats of the HRSFA members, Mastroianni responds, "Oh, I love all the cheesy sci-fi about gadgets and laser guns, but in my favorite sci-fi the gadgets should be integrated and not the focus. When I first read A Wrinkle in Time in fourth grade, amid all the magic, I could constantly ask the question 'What...