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...hour joints on Connecticut Avenue any weekday after 5 p.m., when the Piedmont winds are racing through the marshes and lobbyists have dispersed their Benjamin Franklins to the elected officials who call this marbled burg home, and you're likely to have to face off some Pellegrino-bloated Republican freshperson, waving an assault weapon or, worse, a bill to bring those hand cannons back to every suburbanite with a dandelion-free lawn to defend. Which is when you have to talk fast or else prepare to exit feet first, and just hope it doesn't take the undertaker too long...
...effort to cleanse the English language of any word that might offend anybody, any animal or, for that matter, any thing, officials at Nebraska Wesleyan University have decided to avoid "freshman," deemed by a sufficient number of people to be a filthy, sexist term if there ever was one. "Freshperson" was presumably considered an insulting substitute, and so, perhaps, were "freshindividual," "freshhuman," "freshgirl" and "freshboy." Henceforth, a first-year student at Nebraska Wesleyan will be a "first-year student." A second-year student will ; continue to be called "sophomore" -- from the Greek sophos (wise) and moros (foolish). The adjective form...
...writing because I am a cranky old guy, and one of the things that really upset me is that geocentric spectacle hanging from a freshperson dorm in Harvard Yard--namely, the flag bearing a photograph print of the Earth...
...traditional math with the Yoruba number system. And that's just the beginning. The Jacobins of the multiculturalist movement, who are described derisively as P.C., or politically correct, are said to have launched a campus reign of terror against those who slip and innocently say "freshman" instead of "freshperson," "Indian" instead of "Native American" or, may the Goddess forgive them, "disabled" instead of "differently abled...
...issue. They even took the opportunity to get in some jibes at Cambridge's only breakfast-table daily. But in the Perspective's "calendar" of events to come this spring, they failed to get the joke quite right. They predicted that The Crimson would change its official form "freshperson" to "freshper-offspring." What they failed to note, however, is The Crimson's official/unofficial term for first-year students: freshperchild...