Fixes #26

UChicago culture also strongly preferred first-year, etc., but I was never
told of a motivation other than "that's how we do it". It's quite possible
that it originated with gender nonspecificity; I never even thought of that.

The...the Kaiser?


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Jim Puls <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In player.md:
>
> > @@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ A `Player` object has basic information about a player.
> >    <tr class="optional">
> >      <th>year</th>
> >      <td class="type">Number</td>
> > -    <td>The player's year in school.</td>
> > +    <td>The player's year in school. Use <code>0</code> for kindergarten, <code>1</code> for first grade, &#133;, <code>12</code> for twelfth grade (senior in high school), <code>13</code> for college freshman, &#133;, <code>16</code> for college senior, <code>17</code> for college post-senior, and <code>18</code> for graduate student. Omit or use <code>-1</code> when inapplicable (e.g. for non-enrolled players).</td>
>
> (Part of me bristles at the term "freshman" as well, but maybe that's just
> because CMU trained me to call them "first-year students" to be less
> gender-specific.)
>
> (We weren't allowed to call it "CMU" back then, either, because the Kaiser
> had stolen our abbreviation "CMU".)
>
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