Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uproar was an incident in a University of Amsterdam student club, inappropriately called "Nos Inngit Amicitia" (Friendship Ties Us Together). When a freshman complained because a plate of hot soup was poured over him, he was told to keep quiet or face "the Dachau treatment," in which upperclassmen shout, "Jews stand up!" (or "Negroes stand up!" or "Are there any Chinese here?"), then taunt the victims. "I lost my parents there during the war," protested the freshman, but he was ordered to go through with the game. An indignant parent wrote a letter to a Rotterdam newspaper describing the incident...
...Students endure hazing so they can get into the Student Corps, social clubs that count roughly one-fourth of Holland's 45,000 college students as their members. For two weeks each fall, freshmen, called "foetuses," go about with shaven heads, submitting to insults and even beatings from upperclassmen. Since they are considered "greenhorns," the process is known as "ontgroening" (de-greening). Girls go through a mild form of hazing, though when Princess Beatrix was at Leiden University, authorities considered even that too rough and ordered special treatment for her. But the boys get the works...
...earning areas for the students, which include 38 per cent of the undergraduate body, featured the dining halls with 478 students making $1.47 an hour plus meal for upperclassmen ($1.52 an hour for this year). Other large employment areas included the dorm crew (with 405 students), the HSA (321 students earning $100,000), Faculty Aide (91 students assisting faculty members), various libraries (247 students), and 339 students doing miscellaneous jobs for the University, such as meteorite analysts or clerks in University offices...
Harold C. Martin, Director of General Education A. has ruled that upperclassmen and graduate students may not audit sections of the required freshman course...
Martin acted after fifteen upperclassmen and grad students attended the first meeting of Frederick A. Pennington's Honors Gen Ed section. "They were overwhelming the freshmen," Martin said...