To attack (someone) unfairly, especially in an underhand, deceitful manner: “Some backstab each other and threaten to settle their differences with a punch” (Thomas Boswell).
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They lived in the dorms with all the rest of the students, and while the rest of us were discovering keg parties, they were casually busy being the most interesting people there.
So my university would be a kind of salon, except with less backstabbing, professional jealousy and periodicals.
Of all the places I've worked since college, Interval Research was most like that.
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