Weird. I keep remembering new stuff.
"cap": To insult someone, mostly by calling them names. i.e. "capping on" them. Making fun of them. Frowned upon. The rules and standards for this seemed rather arbitrary, since it was perfectly ok to say very demeaning shit to someone in a rap. For instance, you could not call someone an asshole, but it was perfectly legitimate to say they were acting like one. The linguistic origin of the word, according to CEDU was that when you insult someone, you "put a cap" on their feelings.
"hard": being tough.
"soft": being vulnerable and sensitive.
Note that "hard" was always considered an "act", wheras "soft" was considered being authentic. Kids who had a tough sensibility about them were constantly given "direction" to be "soft". The goal of the school was to make everyone "soft", essentially.
"look good": a kid who is believed to be following the rules without sincerity. A non-programmie who tries to look like a real one.
"get a feel good": Essentially, copping a feel when "smooshing". Does not necessarily have to manifest itself in any overt physical action. It could simply be that someone is suspected of enjoying the intimacy for sexual gratification. Predictably, staff were mostly exempt from this scrutiny.
"Lugs": Part of the ice breaker in the Brother's Keeper propheet. A student is required to come up with a short performance that makes fun of themselves, and act it out for the entire peer group. This is done repeatedly, since every time a new member of the peer group comes up with and performs their "lug", all of the previous students who have already come up with theirs have to do it again. (Kind of the same structure as the "12 days of Christmas" song.) I believe, and I could be wrong on this, my memory is fuzzy, that it could also mean a staff member mimicking a student in an embarrassing manner. It essentially meant making fun of your behavior, or having someone else make fun of it.
"News and Goods": A list of things that are going on with you that are positive. Students were required to start their presentation by saying "here is what is new and good in my life."
"scum": Humiliating things you feel bad about. Students were often required to "cop" to their "scum" in raps. Different than "dirt" in that it wasn't necessarily something that was against the rules. I don't remember a whole lot about this term, I just recall seeing it mentioned repeatedly in my full-time notebook.
"flags": means pretty much the same in the real world that it did in there, albeit the criteria was far different. A warning sign. A student demonstrating unacceptable behavior was often told that "their flags were flying", and that it was indicative that something more sinister was going on with them. On full-times, students were sometimes given a writing assignment to list their "flags".
"stretch": Dual meaning. 1. Doing something that is difficult for you, or that makes you uncomfortable. 2. Part of the Summit workshop. (The costume party.) Students are assigned characters that they have to dress up as. Each character is expected to do specific things and behave in a certain way. The actions were normally a combination of doing something that was contrary to your (already heavily compromised) personae, in addition to a "lug". However, instead of calling these assignments "characters", they were called "stretches". Students were required to fashion their own costumes within a specific amount of time, and then participate in a "party" where everyone goes around and acts out their "stretch" repeatedly. Later, students were then required to perform their "stretch" solo, in front of the peer group, until they got it "right" and the staff were satisfied with their performance.
I believe the stretches exercise was the one thing that Wasserman didn't borrow from Lifespring, and came up with on his own. (Which was why the summit had 6 days and Lifespring only had 5.)
and... has anyone put this yet? I don't remember reading it.
"blown away": Being screamed at in a rap.
