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…If you think the best way to pay for college is to put it off for a few years and join the military, you're half right. Because with the New GI Bill, you can join the Army National Guard and earn over $15,000 for college. But best of all, you serve part-time, as little as two days a month and two weeks a year. Which means you can go to school full-time. Right now. On us. So the question you have to ask yourself is not, can you afford to go to ...…

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… I I I IPLE Columbia's Mean Streak Call them the anti-fans. While their football team was losing to Princeton last month-its 35th straight defeat, a major-college rec- ord-Columbia "boosters" cheered-for Princeton. They sported "Beat Columbia" but- tons and "Strive for 35" ban- ners. And they were on their i ziCHOICE1z o0 U II feet when Princeton scored af- ter just 21 seconds. "I'm here to see my team doing what they do best," said Pa...…

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…BARRY STAVER Limerick conducts interview ence prof, even kicked Limer- ick out of his office. Limerick is not just clown- ing around. "There is a com- mon but inaccurate assump- tion that the fool is trying to make fun of something," says Limerick who, like Lear's fool, is playful yet insightful. "In fact, I am very serious." MICHI AEL M EHLE in Boulder A Pig Issue at Brandeis omething isn't kosher at Brandeis-the menu, to be precise. This fal...…

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…C A R E E I This Job Really Weathers Well The forecast for meteorologists is mostly sunny vision viewers may picture Mention meteorology, and tele- Willard Scott wearing bunch of bananas on his bald pate or a local airhead chirp- ing about the rain. But meteorology amounts to a lot more than happy talk. Meteorologists-even a growing number of TV weathercasters-are skilled profes- sionals trained in physics, chemistry and math. Their predicti...…

… national flag. Are we, as one melting pot of individual cultures, no longer believers in true diversity? Or is it that because we are so diverse, we fail to real- ize what plucked the stritgs so ourances- tors' hearts to create this wonderful nation? Although many would say America has many strengths and weaknesses, :1 would we not rather say that throughout it all, our national flag has been a symbol of what the entire world has sought to be...…

…Laura Kennedy, 31, who is get- ting her Ph.D. at Texas A&M. Most meteorologists earn a relatively modest income. "You won't become the richest in the world, but it's not bad," says Biedinger of the National Weather Service. Be- ginning government salaries range from $15,500 to $18,300, not including overtime, and within three or four years in- crease to about $28,000. Em- ployees at private companies may well earn more. "If you're a good consu...…

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…C A R 4 A Black Leader for Army West Point names an old grad to a top job- and polishes its appeal When Fred Gorden graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1962, he was the only black among 600 cadets. This fall he returned to the Point-as Brig. Gen. Frederick Augus- tus Gorden, the first black officer ever to command the cadet corps. As commandant of cadets, Gorden, 47, holds one of the most significant posts in the Army:...…

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…I I I I IT'S ALL RELATIVE Mankato State U., Minnesota GOOD THINGS ALWAYS HAPPEN in threes. It was diplomas all around for the Sogge family when father, daughter and son all gradu- ated on the same day this spring. Coincidence? Maybe, but only two years before that, their aunt, uncle and grandmother also crossed the Mankato State stage within hours of each other to receive their diplo- mas. Didn't Sister Sledge sing about these guys? DRINK UP!...…

…C L A S S I F I E D S THE BRITISH AMERICAN DRAMA ACADEMY and SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE present THE LONDON DRAMA f t r. PROGRAM ti 1 i iit! 1 REGENTS COLLEGE, LONDON i i BADA's programs offer unique opportunities to study classical theatre with Britain's finest actors and directors. Those taking part in 1987 included: Sir John Gielgud - Jeremy Irons . Rosemary Harris Simon Callow " John Schlesinger . Paul Rogers The program includes courses in dr...…

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… A R3 RESUMES Getting Carded A search for new blood When you care enough to send the very best, as its saying goes, there is Hallmark Cards, Inc., of Kansas City, which pioneered greeting cards 77 years ago and now has a 40 per- cent share of the market. And there are also Cleveland-based American Greetings, which has an estimated 30 percent of the $3.4 billion business, and Cincinnati-based Gibson Cards, which sells Garfield and Walt Disney-...…

… Rump Roast BRIEF BUT MEMORABLE EPIDEMIC OF FULL MOON fever struck Stanford U. in June when resource- ful psychology students turned a class project into a Guinness record. Well, almost. Pre- College Rx T HESE DAYS, IT'S NOT a question of ifyou are going to college but where - four-year uni- versity or community col- lege? But what if even that choice was taken away? Outrageous? Not to the Califor- nians for Community College Equi- ty, who ha...…

… gag and a punch line in a three-panel cartoon strip."r Artists work on a variety of company products including calendars, posters, T shirts and coffee mugs. Hallmark employs about 600 artists, American Greetings, 300 and Gibson, 50. Artists like Gibson's Carolyn Tagel, 23, don't feel they're selling out by working for card companies. Marty Roelandt, a senior art director for Gibson, agrees. "It's all problem solving in one way or another. It'...…

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…7 S 1 4 music ~Ji~i3 jJb iJi± li ever before has so much of the recorded history of jazz been available. In the past, as the popu- larity of jazz surged and bed, record companies would riodically reissue old treas- es and then drop them from eir catalogs. Now it seems as ?very company is blowing the ist off yesterday's master- ices and rushing them into record stores. To a certain ex- tent this phenomenon has been spurred by the compact-di...…

…The Man Behind The Mascot C HRIS ERNEST IS AT HIS BEST WHEN he's not himself. The junior from Michigan's Wayne State U. has played everything from McDonald's "Mac who. s that masked man? Tony Tonight" to Michigan State U.'s "Sparty" to the Tiger?No, it's Chris Ernest of the Detroit Tigers' "Paws." sWayne state u., honest. Ernest is clawing his way through There wasn't an actual tryout, just gan State to Wayne State this fall to school as a pro...…

…of Bird" (Warner Bros.) and "Bird / The Savoy Recordings (Master Takes)" (Savoy /Aris ta). "Bird on Verve, Vol. 2: Bird and Diz" (Verve or French Poly- gram) draws from a magnifi- cent pairing of Parker with an- other founder of bop, Dizzy Gillespie. Thelonius Monk. Although he played with many of the boppers and showed a few of the same stylistic intentions, Thelonius Monk soon became a musical style unto himself. A supreme iconoclast, Monk c...…

…Students Get the Last Laugh M AYBE YOU REMEMBER competing in the school talent show. Maybe you recall singing "Yesterday" in a voice- cracking pubescent howl. Maybe you think you were pretty good. Well.... Youth and exuberance fade, but the talent show will always be around. And the mother of them all was recently initiated by MasterCard and the National Association of Campus Activities. Featuring 10 finalists drawn from 81 schools and more t...…

…PHOTOS FROM THE FR f free form: Art Blakey at a New York City 3ood- a flair for writing. But he has, fro 'Min- for more than 30 years, hired a he, d on long list of promising young I a Sin- players-among the more re- sty 4), he cent, Wynton Marsalis-for his wo 3nges band, the Jazz Messengers. The Mi s. To open, funky sound of his group, do itless particularly on live recordings, ter out is an easy delight. "The Jazz Pa ginal Messengers at the ...…

…'I MAY THE CASH H IT YOU E VER FEEL SORRY FOr GI Joe? Yeah, GI Joe was there all right: being hurled off buildings, drowned and tested for flam- mability. If we'd known in the early '80s that the action figure would be worth up to $300 today, would we have gone easier on old Joe? Proba- bly not. But now we can rummage through the toys we didn't torch for some quick cash. Jim Bernard, a junior at the U. of Texas, Austin, preserved his childho...…

…k I I n I album difficult In the late .e of several he bonus of gave jazz-rock fusion credi- >ns of tracks bility. "Shhh / Peaceful" from r many, this "In a Silent Way" (CBS) shows vas summed the encroachment of electric A Love Su- instruments, but as one of MCA), an al- several stylistic elements. The t burns with music is still jazz, but with At intensity. a distinct rock flavor. Lis- ;o go beyond ten to "Spanish Key" on >rn, and the "...…

…Al RACADAD HA T'S A MAGICAL LAND, BUT IT SURE ISN'T Oz. It's Dominia - and ruby slippers and good witches offer no solace when play- ing Magic: The Gathering. Invented by Richard Garfield, a former mathematics professor at Whitman Col- lege in Washington, Magic is a role-play- ing fantasy game a la Dungeons and Drag- ons that uses poker-deck-sized playing cards to cast spells, summon creatures and conquer lands. "Magic combines the natural fu...…

…T H E A R T S 4 THEA TER The Art of Making Sense Spalding Gray becomes more than a talking head Sitting in his loft apartment in New York's artsy Soho district, Spalding Gray conducts a snapshot tour of the horrible house he used to own upstate in Krumville, N.Y. As.he talks, he's flipping through images of decay. "See the exposed log beams," he says, "with the pinholes that turned out to be powder-post beetles." Flip. "Here's the collap...…

…TRANSFERITIS: A NEW U.? F AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, transfer, transfer again. At least that's what some students say after unsuccessful attempts to choose the perfect college. Glossy brochures and admissions coun- selors don't always paint a realistic picture - some students find that the college they picked doesn't add up to their ideal institute. Suzanne Cobban, a senior at Ramapo College in New Jersey, has made transferring an art form -...…

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…DON'T MYTH DHT IDDKSTDRE BACKLASH T'S AS CERTAIN AS DEATH AND TAXES - SHELLING OUT BIG BUCKS FOR textbooks. Traditionally, students have cut their losses in part by reselling their books at the end of the semester. Bookstores, wholesalers and used-book clearinghouses are the most frequent buyers, but they rarely pay even 50 percent of the retail price. "It's at the buyback where they screw you," says U. of Alabama senior Stacy Cohen. "When th...…

…ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Jocular Jugglers The Flying Karamazovs pitch pies, pins and puns For the first time all night the stage is quiet. Quiet, that is, except for the sound of 15 Indian clubs swishing 1 through the air. As the clubs dance faster and faster in the juggling equivalent of a jam sesssion, the Flying Karamazov Brothers improvise tosses while trying to maintain an intricate rhythm. For a few transfixing moments, chaos and order...…

…Pmo ass duCOtiOl BY KAREN BRADDOM istants PHOTO BY BARRY SCHWARTZ, OREGON STATE U. 3ofer it VER DREAM OF WORKING SIDE BY side with Martin Scorsese? Can you imagine Quentin Tarantino asking your advice on whether to leave in the ear-slicing scene? Would you be willing to risk an ulcer to give stardom a chance? If you're one of the risk-takers, chances are you're heading toward your first position: production assistant - a.k.a. the glorified, u...…

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…Ididn't have a vacation. Ihad an adventure. Remote? T endsot the earth. New muscles. * New attitude. What can you say about rapids named Upper Disaster and Lower Disaster? Companionship. 4 Until this summer, my only experience with the wilderness was demanding to go home early from summer camp. Outward Bound changed all that. I had more than a great time-I had fun. There were 8 in my group. Strangers from all over the country who turned out ...…

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…BOOKS - _ So Chic, So Glossy Art history on the run know I've succeeded when my work is talked about as though it were a movie that had just been seen," says the artist Eric Fischl. His strange, voyeuristic paint- ings of suburban family life provoke a lot of conversation-as do surprising works by several other celebrated contemporary art- ists. But how can you keep up with what's hot and what's not now that art talk is as fashionable as cine...…

…College: The Choice Of A New, Older Generation In the evenings, they hand cayon and pa per to Liv, and the rest of the family sits down together to do homework. BY SHARON LAROWE PHOTO BY BRENT A. SMITH, UTAH STATE U. '94-'95 U. PHOTO CONTEST WINNER XPECTING TO SEE A LOT OF FRESH young faces in your classes this year? Well, we've got news for you - the face of America's col- lege student is changing. It's growing older, with more wrinkles and ...…

…M Y T U R 4 Can Engineers BeHumanists? I can't talk math to the people in my core classes; it's like telling a joke to someone who doesn't get it BY MARK W. KELLER and rationality personified, but when it comes to my Engineering students are supposed to be practicality college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course, any sensible student with my aims would have chosen a colle...…

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…or BY ROSS ALLEN ILL USRATIONS BY JOSH WILKES, MURRAY STATE U., KY. ANE STUDENT, COME ON D O W N ! ! ! ! " Jane - wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with a college crest or Greek letters - jumps up and runs down to the stage, her heart pumping with excitement. Cash and fabulous prizes await. The only question is whether she'll win the car she can't park on campus, the money to pay last semester's tuition or the bedroom set that won't fit in her ...…