Word: shmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshman who didn't get to play in the Brown game was Nick Branca, who had been awarded the coveted "'Shmen of the Year" title Friday night...
...issue at Canaday is the bell that ringsat 8:45 every morning," said Mark Marmar '90 ofCanaday Hall. He added that he has already made uphis mind as to which lucky 'shmen will get hisvotes...
...green-grass-conscious University has long prohibited freshmen frisbee fanatics from frolicking in spring weather. But now, thanks to the "open university," the irate 'shmen are fighting back. If they can't have their frisbees on the smelly fertilizer, then divestment activists certainly can't have an ivory tower--taking up the space of thousands of frisbees but not helping anyone burn off calories...
Predictably, most of the outcry against post-Noel exams comes from freshmen. Hah. There's reason enough for preserving the status quo. As Friedrich Nietzsche once said, we only grow through suffering and affliction. This is why 'shmen have Expos, the mixer, vomit-inducing Weld Hall keg parties and the Union salad bar. This is also why freshmen, by tradition, suffer through a semester of doing all the work, only to get C-pluses...
...first infected Yardlings in epidemic proportions this fall when the gales of Gloria dared them to stand up or get blown away. Droves of afflicted 'shmen braved the furious gusts--racing the wind and playing dodge the falling tree branches. Mother Nature's second curve ball this year drew out sun-bathers and frisbee fans alike under the summery trance of sunny weather. And now the third installment in this year's series of climatic climaxes once again lured swarms of freshmen out of their brick-insulated homes--this time into the winter-white expanse stretching from John Harvard...