Welcome New Lovely Geese?

ON the first few days of the University, a few of the staff started to notice signs posted everywhere. "WELCOME NEW LOVELY GEESE!" they shouted in capital letters. I wondered if this was a prank by one of the staff members and how the students would react to being called geese.
Today (October 29) I discovered that I was wrong and am returning to edit and post. It seems this is a sort of local joke. Students in upper years call the first year students geese as they are supposedly equally clueless about university life. One new student said that this makes some of the first year students shy, but judging from my class, clearly not all of them!