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  1.                                                                                 THE WEEK, Page 17MISCELLANYStarting Fresh
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  5. In keeping with the widespread effort to cleanse the English
  6. language of any word that might offend anybody, any animal or,
  7. for that matter, any thing, officials at Nebraska Wesleyan
  8. University have decided to avoid "freshman," deemed by a
  9. sufficient number of people to be a filthy, sexist term if there
  10. ever was one. "Freshperson" was presumably considered an
  11. insulting substitute, and so, perhaps, were "freshindividual,"
  12. "freshhuman," "freshgirl" and "freshboy." Henceforth, a
  13. first-year student at Nebraska Wesleyan will be a "first-year
  14. student." A second-year student will continue to be called
  15. "sophomore" -- from the Greek sophos (wise) and moros (foolish).
  16. The adjective form, sophomoric, may at times be used to modify
  17. "college official."
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