Word: upperclasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hypothesis is that the upper-class students are just really nice people. Barney, the oversized purple potato of a dinosaur, seems nice too. But who's kidding whom? Inside that eggplant exterior lies a thought-controlling devil worshipper, just as behind that calm, friendly upperclass facade is the visage of a maniacal killer, waiting to snare some naive, unsuspecting sophomore for use as a sacrificial offering to the thesis gods...
...game also reflects the current "rich-get-richer" trend in the American economy; the asshole and vice-asshole (read, "the lower and working classes") are stripped of their most prized possessions by the president and vice-president (read "white upperclass America...
...pleased to see first-year enthusiasm in Yard contests for the council, even if those hotly contested races may simply result from a profound ignorance of the council's historical ineffectiveness. However, we are disappointed to learn that the upperclass elections are pathetically non-competitive. In Adams, Cabot, Lowell, Mather and Winthrop Houses, there appear to be tens of uncontested seats. Nevertheless, we encourage all students to vote as a show of support for the council...
More astonishing, perhaps, than the discrimination against young students is the lottery restriction against those upperclass students who have already satisfied the Core requirement. Such students got the same marginal priority as first-years in this particular lottery. The College, it seems, penalizes those students who enroll in classes for pleasure...
According to the lottery of that class, they both got seats. I did not. First-years like me, most of whom were desperate to learn that material from that professor, were forced to defer to the passing curiosity of some upperclass students. While something is to be said for an upperclass student's "last shot at taking a class," genuine interest in a course must outweigh seniority...