We, the fifth-year students at UD, don't have it as good as it's made out to be. Think about: not only did a majority of our friends graduate last year, we have to shell out an extra $30,000-plus for tuition and board, but now, when it comes to the Dayton to Daytona lottery, we're considered freshmen.

Inconceivable? This fifth-year thought so. After corresponding with D2D trip coordinator, Maggie Schnering, this undergraduate student (note "undergraduate") learned the reason his group drew the fourth hotel in the lottery is because the fifth-years who make up his group were ranked as freshmen, according to the poorly communicated terms of the lottery.

Lo and behold, in an e-mail recently received from Ms. Schnering, she wrote that as trip coordinator, "It is my job to try to appease not only the majority of the student body, but also what the administration views as the traditional student." Schnering continues, writing "the traditional student, according to the administration, is still seen as only staying for four years."

Let's think; the administration, if the writer of this letter understands correctly, is the same organization that organizes the housing lottery and class registration - both of which give priority to upperclassman undergraduates. Perhaps the committee failed to realize this when drafting the lottery's terms.

Heaven forbid if Ms. Schnering played the Marianist philosophy card in her reasoning with us. Wait, she did.

"Also, as a Marianist institution we do not believe in singling out one class of students and therefore we do our best to give everyone a fair chance at the first hotel," one of her e-mails reads.

Now by "everyone," surely she includes freshmen and sophomores, whom, the last time this undergraduate checked, were mostly under 21.

Logically, by the committee's standard of logic, it makes sense to put these underage people at the epicenter of a weeklong binge drinking festival. Very Marianist of you, Ms. Schnering!

Oh, but Ms. Schnering assured us, however, that the "Ocean Shore hotel (the fourth hotel) is actually one of the nicer hotels in Daytona Beach." I'll be sure to look for her there and the rest of the D2D committee lounging on deck chairs in their VIP section.

No wait, they'll be at the first hotel, the Plaza Ocean Club. But hey, they deserve it. All that hard work and seniority has to pay off somewhere, right?