Freshers are our future
A warm hello to all the freshers out there picking up Nouse for the very first time and breathing in the heady vapours of student journalism. Strange isn’t it? Like a real newspaper only shoddier. Well it’s free, what did you expect? Clearly this is an exciting time for you chaps, new people to meet and so forth. Personally I dislike new people, so don’t envy you one bit, but none of you have any real work to do for the next year, so I suppose it all works out in the end.
You may have noticed by now that York doesn’t exactly enjoy a reputation as a party university. This may well be the reason you are here, clutching your hot water bottle and home phone number tightly. But if that’s not the case, and if you do love a good party, then read closely. Freshers week sets the tone for the year. The patterns of these first seven days will likely be echoed many times over the next three terms. Remember also that it may only take one single act of excess to tip 2005/06 from a dusty academic procession into a feast of wine and debauchery not seen since Roman times. It’s up to you. I’m not saying you shouldn’t be careful of course, and doubtless that’s a message the SU will ram down your throat often enough. But make sure to max the fun. Rave safe, but rave naked.
The challenge of the most hedonistic week of your life is a daunting one, but I’m sure you’re ready for it. Personally I like to be in bed before eleven these days (it’s when Radio 4 really starts getting good), but the rest of you young ‘uns, make sure to fight for your right, and tell me how it all went.
