Word: upperclassman
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...Crimson appears to have the edge in the diving events--and that, too, could be one of the keys to the meet. For the past several years Billy Heinz from Princeton over- shadowed the competition in each meet he was in. He won all of his events as a upperclassman with almost machine-like regularity and capped off his career last spring by nabbing the diving laurels in the NCAA swimming and diving championships...
Dean Griffin describes the ordinary Yale student as "a quite straightforward, cheerful type of person." An upperclassman who leans more toward the abnormality theory of life at Yale puts it differently: "Your average Joe Blow student fucks around in the library for four hours pretending to study and then goes to a bar and gets drunk...
...more serious decadence," this upperclassman says significantly, "is off campus." It is difficult for a visitor to Yale to understand what this can mean, beyond the usual serious drug use; and it is here, too, that the imaginations of the believers in normalcy reach their limit. One example of the extent of depravity at Yale is a group of about ten seniors called the Buttfucks, most of whom live together off campus...
...thing. Two years ago they elected a parking meter named Pancho Valdez to a post in student government. (For months afterwards, "Free Pancho Valdez" graffiti could be seen all over the Yale campus.) But their major foray into public depravity on a grand scale, an event every Yale upperclassman remembers, was something called BUTTFUCK...
...beneficial in both directions in providing perspective on one's college education and on life in general. If I had less respect for the privacy of my friends, I would quote specific examples of advice which I, as a freshman, received from upperclassmen and have since, as an upperclassman, been able to pass on to freshmen (and other upperclassmen). Such advice has been academic, extra-curricular, and personal. And, I might add, much of it, having been based on prior college experience, could not have been given to me by another freshman...