Freshmen: They don’t tell you this but your Orientation Leaders have a training guide. It covers things like making you feel comfortable in college, helping you make friends and getting along with your roommate. It also categorizes ice-breakers on a level from one to three, with the most intimate being level three. So for instance, going around in a circle and saying what you did over the summer might be a level one. Sitting on your neighbor’s lap in a circle could be a level two. And the most revered of all ice breakers, huggy bear, is most definitely a level three. But that’s so pre-swine flu. So, without further ado, we present The Sun’s reinvigorated list of — gasp! — level four ice-breakers ...

Who Can Find a House Party?

First group member to successfully get his fellow orientation buddies into a Collegetown house party wins. Frat annex? Gold star. Sorority annex? Two gold stars. Townie party? Go back home.

Chugalug

All members of orientation group shotgun a beer. Last one to finish is officially termed least fratastic, and is shunned from group. Remaining members repeat process until everyone is either outcast or drunk. Helps teach freshman their place on campus.

Huggy Bear: Immunization Edition

With so much anxiety over the outbreak of the swine flu, contracting the disease is just a matter of time. So hug up until you get the sniffles today, and be disease resistant tomorrow.

Ticket Tally

The rules of this game are simple: Run around Collegetown in an effort to accrue the most tickets for your team. Open container violation, under-age intoxication — all’s fair that ends not-so-well in this classic competition. A ticket from Cornell Police: one point. Ticket from Ithaca Police: five points.

I Swear!

Convince the most fellow freshman that you were cool in high school and earn a trip to a lucky fellow freshman’s dorm for the night. Earn the right to not make shit up about high school anymore.