Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week after voting to punish seven freshmen with a year's suspension for a widely publicized computer prank, the Administrative Board yesterday overturned its decision, putting the students instead on disciplinary probation...
...BOARD has completely lost hold of its senses. Last week it voted to throw seven freshmen out of school for a year for making the Harvard computer print out "This computer test sucks" several dozen times in a row and perform other electronic tricks as a way of protesting the pesky QRR computer test. It was, said one insider, a prank that "any idiot could have done...
...dumb prank. And one that, from the facts that have emerged and have been confirmed by Core Curriculum and Science Center officials, clearly called for some kind of College punishment. But these freshmen didn't get a warning. They didn't get academic or disciplinary probation. They didn't get kicked out for one semester. They got a year--a permanent and possibly devastating smear on their records--and absolutely no chance to appeal to another body...
...Crimson has had to rely on freshmen and sophomores to lead its attack. And stop opponents' shots...
Lari defended the freshmen's characters, sayingthat one of the students was "the driving forcefor intramurals" in Weld Hall. "Most of them havenever done anything wrong in their lives," hesaid