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  1. <text id=92TT1894>
  2. <title>
  3. Aug. 24, 1992: Starting Fresh
  4. </title>
  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992               
  7. Aug. 24, 1992  George Bush: The Fight of His Life    
  8. </history>
  9. <article>
  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. THE WEEK, Page 17
  13. MISCELLANY
  14. Starting Fresh
  15. </hdr><body>
  16. <p>     In keeping with the widespread effort to cleanse the English
  17. language of any word that might offend anybody, any animal or,
  18. for that matter, any thing, officials at Nebraska Wesleyan
  19. University have decided to avoid "freshman," deemed by a
  20. sufficient number of people to be a filthy, sexist term if there
  21. ever was one. "Freshperson" was presumably considered an
  22. insulting substitute, and so, perhaps, were "freshindividual,"
  23. "freshhuman," "freshgirl" and "freshboy." Henceforth, a
  24. first-year student at Nebraska Wesleyan will be a "first-year
  25. student." A second-year student will continue to be called
  26. "sophomore"--from the Greek sophos (wise) and moros (foolish).
  27. The adjective form, sophomoric, may at times be used to modify
  28. "college official."
  29. </p>
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  31. </body></article>
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