Word: junior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tall, thin Thomas Fitzgerald, 19, a junior at Queens College, stood in the crisp night air on Indian Island, a 50-acre patch of scrub just 50 feet off Long Island's South Shore. From his neck, in front of his chest, hung a strip of 2-by-4 wood, 20 inches long. On it was scrawled "P.O.W." Fitzgerald, a member of the St. John's University Reserve Officers Training Corps program (Queens College has no ROTC unit) was trying to get into the corps' Pershing Rifles fraternity. According to police, he and nine other pledges were...
...growing number of today's students, however, there seems to be no excuse for hazing, except perhaps to provide a trip for a junior Marquis de Sade. Hazing is clearly much less prevalent than it was during the college days of the current undergraduates' parents. One reason: whether it is outlawed or not, most students will not accept it. Says Senior Steve Taylor, president of the Zeta Psi house at the University of California at Berkeley (a position his father held 25 years ago after being branded on the arm as a pledge): "All that stuff, tubbing, paddling...
Schimmel said the decision to cut back on singles was partly influenced by recent studies demonstrating the overcrowding problem in undergraduate houses. She added that most Lowell residents were willing to forego senior singles to lessen overcrowding during their sophomore and junior years...
...Jimmy Fund, a charity to help children with cancer, also features Scott Hamilton, a skater who was in a Jimmy Fund hospital nine years ago and was told he had only six months to live. Since then, he has won a slew of championships, including the 1976 United States Junior Men's Championship...
Otis's senior counselors, Brad and Lester, have more realistic grips on reality, but are indulgent enough never to pop their employer's fantasy bubble. They watch but they do not touch. The junior counselor, Tyler, in his first year at Edgewater, is downy, gangly and innocent. One would think that his fall would be the main tension of the play and one would be wrong...