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Apr 30, 2008 06:24 PM
Cover Story
Ready or Not, Here They Come: Nine college students you don't know, but will. For now they're walking amongst us on campus but pretty soon they'll be making it big time.
Other Features
The Smarter Sex?: More females are applying to college, and with better GPAs, than their male peers. What that's doing to the gender ratio and how college admissions officers are reacting.
Bring Out the Body Paint: These college sports fans take their loyalty to the extreme. A look at some of the intense traditions and why college basketball provokes such madness.
Columns
Your Opinions, Your words
Relationships: One co-ed is determined to take things from BF to BFF, no matter how long it takes.
Health: Why we should take over-the-counter painkillers with a heavy dose of caution.
Sports: A look at what it's like to be made immortal by college basketball video games. Trends: Reflections on struggles with those indie scenesters you love to hate..even if you're sort of one of them.
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Current's quick takes on the news you care aboutDrinking and politicking...The superdelegate we relate to...Celeb campaign endorsements...LGBTQ sanctuary on Jesuit ground...Solving the English Major's Dilemma...Forget the credit card - charge it to my cellphone...Avoiding the textbook price hike...Professors' paychecks going to the 2008 election...Dr. Money! cures your wallet woes...Explaining the health care debate...Presidential firsts...A precursor to Watergate...Remember Legends of the Hidden Temple? We do too!...Taking Facebook stalking to a new level...Don't be that guy...
Interview
Amy Poehler is mad rich.
Backspin
Arts & culture, both highbrow and low
Fashion: Even ad campaigns play the race card.
Kick those ankle boots to the curb.
Film: Donnie Darko's wormhole isn't as farfetched as you think
Books: Some summer reading you'll actually enjoy
Book picks from Sunil Gulati, an econ prof and president of the U.S. Soccer Federation
Bloggers talk books
Music: An indie band from North Carolina gets national fame.
With no vocals, they have plenty of dance appeal.
Two 13-year olds with a dream keep on rocking, seven years later.
Food & Drink: A summer drink with a college price tag.
Mo's Bacon Bar looks like it's right up Homer's alley.
Gaming: Dive into the primordial ooze with "Spore."
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Isia Jasiewicz // Princeton University with Kiki Von Glinow // New York University and Adrienne Jeffries // William & Mary College College admissions officers have an estrogen problem. No, we’re not talking about them battling hot flashes or mood...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Jennifer Pelly // Fordham University Rescuing a kitten while on tour in Detroit may not be a particularly rock and roll thing to do, but don’t let that fool you: the New York City alt-rock four-piece Vision Through Sound is decidedly rock and roll....
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Apr 20, 2008 12:30 PM
Don't you just hate when you hear about someone doing ridiculously
impressive things, and then you meet her and not only is she
accomplished but she's also charming and fun and has it all together,
and then you find out that she's your age? Doesn't it make you feel kind of like a pathetic waste of space?
Yeah, us too.
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Alicia Sacramone, 20 Brown University by David Tao // Harvard For many athletes, competing before a crowd of thousands is an intimidating prospect—flashes and loud cheering can throw off even the most stone-cold competitors. For American gymnast and Olympic...
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1 Liter Vodka 12 Cans Beer 1 Can Lemonade or Limeade Concentrate With a taste that’s perfect for summer and a price tag suited for college, this drink is pleasantly potent and surprisingly delicious. So polish off that last exam, gather some friends,...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Stephen Montemayor // University of Kansas Move over Prius: Vosges Haut-Chocolat ( www.vosgeschocolate.com ) has created the ultimate hybrid: Mo’s Bacon Bar. It’s chocolate with bits of bacon and smoked salt inside. It’s wrong on so many levels, but...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Olivia Scott // Georgetown University In the academic shuffle of lengthy Russian novels, dense chemistry textbooks and convoluted philosophical prose, reading went from a pleasure to just another obstacle between you and your bed. Here are some picks...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Marielle Messing // Syracuse University Gamers and science nerds, rejoice. After three years of salivating over Internet rumors and 30-second trailers, EA Games has finally announced the date of the next Big Bang in gaming. “Spore,” the latest game...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Katherine Evans // UNC-Chapel Hill It's where new media meets old-school paper pages: the book blog. Below are some of our favorite spots to read people writing about reading. With any luck, you'll find some new picks for your Facebook profile before...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Or at least that's what Daniela Bloch keeps telling her ex. by Daniela Bloch // Northwestern University It’s right before Thanksgiving when I dial his number. He’s in Pennsylvania when I, safely nestled under a fleece in Chicago, call it quits. I can’t...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Kevin Scheitrum describes the surreal transformation of college athletes into video game characters. They got it right, Shaun Wynn says. They got it right, from his jersey to the way he moved to his ability to stick on the guy he was guarding like bad...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
A 1957 Newsweek cover story looked at the trend of—gasp—ladies on college campuses! But fear not; these beauties manage to stay fetching and marriage-oriented, even with all that fancy college learnin’. Here’s Newsweek’s take on two of them: Nanci Browning...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Erin Geld // Cornell University They had been waiting for me, those Brooklyn hipsters. I was the ideal victim: an eager beaver undergrad from upstate; an out-of-towner visiting Brooklyn, the coolest place in the world. Wide-eyed and guileless, with...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Molly Finkelstein // Vassar College The first time someone called me a hipster, I was secretly pleased. Of course I denied the allegation: I would never call myself a hipster. But then again, nor would any self-respecting hipster. I’m a suburban girl...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Olivia Scott // Georgetown University They are the Cameron Crazies, camping out on a tiny lawn for three months for a ticket to a single Duke-UNC game or the blindingly bright Orange Krush at the University of Illinois or the 4,000-strong Izzone at...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Tina Peng // Northwestern University College mascots hold a sacred place in undergrads’ hearts. Duke has its leering Blue Devil and UCLA its burly Bruin, while some make due with less intimidating sideline cheerers: Syracuse has Otto the Orange—literally...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Adam Eaglin // Duke University Six months ago, a Stella by Starlight show would have looked a little something like this: a few dozen devoted followers, the band members' girlfriends, and several curious listeners sipping their drinks at the bar. But...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Matt Harper // Dickinson College “College students pop pain relievers like candy.” That’s how a friend put it to me recently. I didn’t disagree. We all know the brand names —Advil, Motrin, Aleve—of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Lindsay Funston // University of Oregon Miles Davenport stood crammed at the bar, just trying to get a drink. Shirt off, standing in tight spandex tiger-print shorts and sporting an impressive Mohawk, he smiled, asking the twenty-somethings around...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Lauren Ashley Golt // University of Delaware About two years ago a posse of troubled young starlets began showing up at black-tie events sporting a familiar look: the ankle boot. An awkward cross between a boot and a shoe, the ankle boot is the mule...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Rebecca Wallace // University of California at Berkeley American Apparel’s advertising campaigns touch upon two of the most sensitive subjects in our society: sex and race. Their highly sexualized photographs have already received ample media attention,...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
David Burstein, 19 Haverford College by Jennifer Pelly // Fordham University David Burstein is a pretty normal guy. We actually have a lot in common—Burstein and I share the same favorite Bob Dylan album (“Blood on the Tracks”) and the same favorite Spice...
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Shareeka Epps, 18 Broome Community College by Brittani Manzo // New York University Actress Shareeka Epps was nicknamed “Grandma” long before film critics said she had an old soul. “My grandparents say I carry myself like I’m a grandma,” says Epps, who...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Johnny Lin, 22 Brown University by Taylor Barnes // Brown University One look at Johnny Lin’s casual style—the silver hoop in his ear, thin leather choker around his neck—and you can tell he’s a southern California boy. But Lin, now at school in Rhode...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Kamran Munshi, 17 Cornell University by Annie Tsao // Cornell University While most of the other fifteen-year-olds at his high school were absorbed in Marissa Cooper’s latest overdose on The OC , Kamran Munshi was busy founding Terabitz.com, a website...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Stephanie Nyombayire, 21 Swarthmore College by Tina Peng // Northwestern University Stephanie Nyombayire wasn't in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide-she was living in Congo, both of her parents having been expelled from their Kigali home decades earlier-but...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Hillary Brody // Barnard College Economics lecturer at an Ivy League institution by day and president of the United States Soccer Federation by night—all just part of the gig for Sunil Gulati, who is able to bridge his two worlds in his Sports Economics...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Max Schroeder, 21 Ohio Wesleyan by Jonathan Peters // Swarthmore College It takes a colorful guy to study parrot feathers, but Max Schroeder is just quirky enough to fit the bill. As one of the few undergrads answering tough questions in the field of...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Kate Voegele, 21 Miami University, Ohio by April Qian // Harvard University Kate Voegele is the anti-celeb. When I first meet her, she is clad in a black jacket, denim miniskirt with tights, and scruffy red cowgirl boots, and preoccupied with checking...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Three years ago we picked 15 college students for our first College Vanguard issue, and warned you that these young all-stars were people to watch in the coming years. But in case you lost track of them, here’s an update on what a few of these elite up-and-comers...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Amy Poehler of 'SNL' on Impersonating Hanson Boys and Being Mad Rich by Souleo // Brown University To stand out on a classic television program such as “Saturday Night Live,” it helps to have timing that delivers better and faster than UPS, a willingness...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Arcynta Ali Childs // New York University With an election this tight, every endorsement counts—particularly when coming from the celebrities who bring media attention and draw voters to rallies. And if you thought cliques would die down after high...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Heather Schwedel // University of Pennsylvania Nothing prompts more chatter around the proverbial college journalism water cooler than a plagiarism scandal. But what happens when coverage of plagiarism turns out to be…plagiarized? At Texas Tech University,...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Is it true that graduates who join certain professions can have their student loans cancelled out? What about joining the Peace Corps? Are there “strings” attached? Also, what’s the difference between federal student loans and loans given out by private...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Jordan McCord // Dickinson College If you’re one of those liberal arts undergrads who just couldn’t pick a major—study Norse poetry like you always wanted or major in business to make Grandpa proud?—there’s good news: now you can extend your indecision...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Natasha Saiyed // University of Illinois at Chicago Rumors of prospective employers and campus police informally browsing social networking sites have run rampant for several years, but a new program does the work for them, allowing universities to...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by April Girouard // University of California in Los Angeles Lime goes with tequila and cranberry juice goes with vodka, but any bartender will tell you never to chase your alcohol with politics. But for some indulgent politicos, the presidential race...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Matt Harper // Dickinson College, Rachel Hurnyak // Dickinson College, Jon Peters // Swarthmore College Approximately 47 million Americans-16 percent of the population-do not have health insurance, and the front-running presidential candidates have...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Souleo // Brown University This fall, Brown University Adjunct Professor of Computer Science Donald Stanford hopes to make credit cards and cash obsolete for Rhode Island college students with the introduction of mPay, a free mobile phone payment system....
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Heather Schwedel // University of Pennsylvania For any mildly clued-in undergrad, the word "Watergate" is synonymous with the '70s scandal that led to the president's resignation-but are you savvy enough to name-drop that other Nixon-era investigative...
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