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From: Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk>
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Peter Moylan wrote:

> In my student days (Melbourne University, Victoria) the first-year
> students were freshers and freshettes. The plural for both sexes was frosh.
> 
> The culture was such that the second-year students felt themselves to be
> very mature, and superior to the raw beginners.

I think that that is the same in many countries and cultures. The
difference is what they do to the newcommers.

-- 
Bertel
Kolt, Denmark