First year students are often called freshers during their first couple of weeks at university Freshers have the opportunity to find out more about the university and societies on offer during a Freshers Fair or Freshers Week
Freshers are students who have just started their first year at university or college. a student who has just started at a college or university (freshman)
This refers to a member of the College in their first year, and is normally applied to first year undergraduates [University]
A first year or novice debater MAD loves freshers so much (no, not like that - well, not most of us anyway) that we run the freshers competition early in first semester, offer training sessions, hold social functions for you to meet each other and all the old hacks, send you to Easters, and generally let you get away with anything cause you're young and impressionable (yeah right...)