Word: pappin
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...Pappin that most people don’t know spends his weekend nights going out to dinner (Harvest is his favorite restaurant in the Square) and attending classical music concerts (Bach is his favorite composer). The only parties he frequents are Salient parties, he says. On campus social life, the principle of final clubs (exclusive, male-only social clubs, as he defines them) doesn’t bother him, but their evolution to a “less honorable” state from 50 years ago does. In a wife he’s looking for a good sense...
...interior decorating and fashion aren’t the only elements of Gladden J. Pappin that scream conservative. Ideological differences between Pappin and the rest of the student body were brought into sharp relief in December of last year when he sent a letter to The Crimson, entitled “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality,” in which he denounced Harvard’s tolerance and support for homosexuals, about whom he wrote, “[their] activities are not merely immoral but perverted and unnatural.” With one letter to the editor, the floodgates...
...Pappin says he received dozens of e-mails after the letter was printed, though few confronted him personally—mostly, he says, because most people don’t know what he looks like. Occasionally students who did recognize him responded. He says he remembers “walking out of Leverett Dining Hall and someone [running] by yelling, ‘Gladden Pappin hates faggots!’ Which, of course, is not true.” His name recognition has begun dialogue on airplanes, sparked conversations at meetings, and affiliated his name with several gay websites...
...devout Catholic, Pappin spends his Sunday mornings at a traditional Catholic church in Boston. Even the Catholic Students Association (CSA), a group that shares more religious beliefs with Pappin than the general public, doesn’t quite cut it for him. “The CSA is actually more willing to stand up for political positions on which Catholics may disagree, like economics, rather than positions upon which Catholics may not disagree, like life,” he says. The Republican Club gets his support mostly for being a conservative group on campus, but he doesn?...
...something in common with man-about-town Rudi G. Patitucci, despite the latter’s known indulgence in the sin of gambling: both hold aspirations to work in professional baseball. The same topic has even managed to bridge the gap between Patitucci and infamous conservative Gladden J. Pappin, though it takes a combination of psychobabble and reverence: “Baseball would be more self-actualizing than basically being a gambler,” says Patitucci. “It’s the national pastime and the most beautiful game I’ve ever seen...