Calm down
"Slightly more fancily than usual". Lol! Who cares whether they are long-planned? That wasn't part of the author's argument for the sociopathy.
I'm sure the committee members slog like navvies, but are you sure this statement is correct? It would imply that if a student who can't afford to buy a full ticket to their college's May Ball applies to get in by the work route, by doing some paid skivvying, they're told "No, sorry, we'll employ students from other colleges but not members of this one".
How common of them. I knew there was something that distinguished them from those who try to do one every night who can afford it.