Scoops

Scoops was a nickname devised for GFS student Ben Silver (see also: Techno Benjamin) in 2014, and used ever since. The name was implemented with the original intention that in one full year, Ben's real name would no longer remain in memory. Even before the nickname emerged, Scoops was a prominent member of the community. Scoops can also be identified by his unbelievably large forehead and picture to the right is actually a baby picture. Scoops is also noticeable for being a world famous scat rapper.

Etymology
During the Oscar ceremony in 2014, the actor John Travolta publicly and accidentally mispronounced vocalist Idina Menzel's name as "Adele Dazeem". This then became a worldwide news story and a pop culture phenomenon. In tandem with this, a site emerged with a generator that transformed a regular name into the Travoltified, mangled version. When the name was entered into the generator, the result was "Brian Scooper", leading the name "Scoops" to be a widely used way to refer to Ben.