As the Super Bowl approaches, names like James Grabowski and Victoria Snelgrove are again becoming buzz words on campus. Other words like “riot” and “Hemenway Street” are also floating around.

For a group of upperclassmen students still rolling out of the national spotlight, “expulsion” and “canceled Springfest concert” are the ones being passed along.

But in the game of “Telephone” that is Northeastern, the message may have gotten jumbled somewhere along the line with freshmen.

Several Northeastern organizations are offering students the chance to stay inside after the Super Bowl. They are trying to lure them in with prizes like a plasma screen television, but still, rumors of a wondrous celebration and the chance to gather with 2,000 of their closest friends and flip cars could win out.

What these freshmen probably haven’t heard is that several students were expelled from school after being caught on camera during last year’s “celebration.” They did not have the chance to look at the nearly 25 pictures posted on a Web site by Public Safety that put the nail in some students’ academic coffins.

They have never felt the sting of disappointment that washed over campus shortly after the Super Bowl victory, when President Richard Freeland announced the students’ anticipated Springfest concert was no more.

And they did not walk around the city and hear and see headlines screaming Northeastern’s faults. Everything and anything Northeastern students did became cause for national attention, and even when riots broke out at the University of Connecticut after the NCAA basketball championship, Northeastern’s name was splashed throughout the stories.

Make absolutely no mistake about it: This time, everyone will be prepared. The police, who completely blew the crowd control situation last year, won’t be playing nice again. They will line the streets and they will take people away.

So too will Northeastern. They will have cameramen outside, keeping tabs on who gets out of control.

You may think it is appropriate to jump and scream in front of any camera you see on the street, but wait until Public Safety Director James Ferrier calls your friend up and demands his tape.

And if you have a car on campus, you better remember to secure it safely in a garage and make sure it is somebody else’s car your classmates could flip.

Beyond that, what is the appeal of rioting anymore? Does the cold weather, the possibility of suspension or even DEATH not keep you inside with your friends?

Or will your name become the next buzz word?

Make sure the message that gets passed this time is clear: It’s really, really not worth it.