I think those new little guys are first-years. The red-headed guy is one of the three or four central characters - Michael Slackenerny. He once had some of the other grad students ask him to settle a bet they had placed on how long he had been a student, but he put the condition that if they had all guessed too low then he got to keep all the money, which he won.
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