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COLLEGE PREP It's never too early to start envisioning the possibilities and payoffs of higher education...
...spokesperson or a leader, but nonetheless he's trying to pave the way for the next generation of comics. He's funding the Illtop Journal, a college humor magazine patterned after the Harvard Lampoon that will be based at Howard University in Washington. The Illtop Journal is set to start publication this fall. "In his various travels Chris has been frustrated by the lack of comedy writers of color," says Stepsun Records head Bill Stephney, an adviser on the journal. "So this is the best way to address that. He also noticed that many of the writers...
...more beers or drinks (four for women) at least once in the two-week period before the study. One-fifth of all college students are "frequent" binge drinkers, consuming an average of 17.9 drinks a week. The Harvard study also shows that nearly a third of all students start college with binge-drinking problems. "The kind of drinking going on today is very different from what parents might remember when they attended high school or college," Spanier said. And indeed, what I heard anecdotally is that these binge drinkers are drinking not to get silly but to pass...
...START OF CAREER...
DIED. LOUISE PATTERSON, 97, vigorous civil rights activist and cultural force in the Harlem Renaissance; in New York City. Patterson's myriad activities included helping her onetime boss and longtime friend Langston Hughes, left, start the Harlem Suitcase Theater and organizing a notable Marxist-friendly salon, Vanguard...