Despite some resistance from high schools, the good folks at the Common Application, those in charge of the your life from age 17 on, have gone ahead again with a revised form, which asks students about their criminal records and other past indiscretions. Smart students who spent a little time in detention for keying the principal’s car are being forced to hide their errant pasts from nosey college admissions officers. A FreeP investigation reveals these young punks aren’t the only ones hiding compromising facts from their critics. Everybody does it.
Dining Services is hiding what makes its latkes so tasty — shellfish and bacon bits!
Fearing they are overqualified for admission, CGS applicants are hiding their high school diplomas.
In a locked box no one knows about, Dean Elmore secretly stashes his Michael Bolton collection.
BU is hiding its minority students (except for Asians).
Tipsy from long COM classes, some professors are hiding their inebriation with thick Russian accents. No one is fooled.
The Terrier hockey team is hiding its defense.
BU Today is hiding its room filled with monkeys and typewriters and calling it a newswriting staff.
Already partially complete, the BU Biolab is hiding deadly strains of ebola and Black Plague. Oh wait . . .
Late on an Allston patrol, a Boston Police unit sees a group of vagrants hiding cheap wine in a paper bag. On closer inspection, officers find they are just pretentious COM students.
The Daily Free Press has been hiding its sharp sense of humor for 37 years.
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