{"id":3914,"date":"2018-10-05T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3914"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:00:18","slug":"frat-brother-loves-litter-critter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3914","title":{"rendered":"Frat Brother Loves Litter Critter!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Zoe Manoukian<\/em><\/p>\n

Family Weekend often invokes fond memories among Roanoke College students. Sophomore\u00a0<\/span>and Pi Kappa Phi president of the Alpha Alpha class William Carol Olson is especially\u00a0<\/span>enthusiastic about the holiday this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLast year my parents, who met and graduated here at Roanoke College came for a visit. They\u00a0<\/span>couldn\u2019t make it this year, but I feel that I still had a rewarding weekend. Possibly an even more\u00a0<\/span>insightful one of that!\u201d He kept his reflections brief and vague. Naturally, he was hiding\u00a0<\/span>something.<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon further ethical probing, he led me to his dorm room, where I discovered an abundance of\u00a0<\/span>organic snacks and cages fit for a large marsupial of the western hemisphere, and Jack Hanna\u00a0<\/span>inspired portraits command stripped to the cinder block.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI adopted Winston in the final weeks of 2017. At first, I wasn\u2019t very keen about him. Actually, I\u00a0<\/span>was terrified of him. But the more we talked, the more I realized that he was an alright kid just\u00a0<\/span>hankering for leftovers in the bushes outside of Fox\u2019s first floor window. I thought about how\u00a0<\/span>that used to be me, and I thought, \u2018why not?\u2019 And here we are now!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Winston, I learned, is a Didelphis Virginiana Opossum, or North American Opossum.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI\u2019m not embarrassed by our family photos.\u201d Olson glanced up at a series of Jack Hanna inspired portraits command stripped to the cinder block. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not ashamed to turn down a party to spend time with him. When I\u2019m not in class, I like to toss the baseball and talk about girls with him. This Family Weekend was especially exciting for us, as this was our first year as a family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As complex as his new paternal role may be, Olson gracefully pulls off the \u201ccool dad\u201d persona.\u00a0<\/span>His bleached tips and \u201cWillieC\u201d lip tattoo will attest to that. Olson locked eyes with Winston,\u00a0<\/span>and before walking me out of his room, gave him a kiss on the nose. Their bond truly is\u00a0<\/span>remarkable.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Zoe Manoukian Family Weekend often invokes fond memories among Roanoke College students. Sophomore\u00a0and Pi Kappa Phi president of the Alpha Alpha class William Carol Olson is especially\u00a0enthusiastic about the holiday this year. \u201cLast year my parents, who met and graduated here at Roanoke College came for a visit. They\u00a0couldn\u2019t make it this year,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}