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...conference drew approximately 70 participants total from the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth University, Emerson College, Cornell University and Columbia University...
...altar boy, then a Catholic-school renegade. "By the time I was 13, I knew I didn't believe the stuff they were telling us," he recalls. "That was part of the fun of it, getting caught doing stuff you weren't supposed to be doing." At Boston's Emerson College, he majored in English and helped found the Emerson Comedy Workshop. After graduating in 1979, he played local clubs while teaching classes at Emerson in comedy and acting. "Leary really inspired me," says actor and comic Anthony Clark, Emerson '86. "You'd see comics doing all the safe stuff...
...Emerson alumni have provided Leary with a formidable network: Norman Lear, '44; Spalding Gray, '65; Henry Winkler, '67; Jay Leno, '73; Steven Wright, '78; and, not least, Doug Herzog, '81 (senior vice president for programming at MTV). "I don't specifically look for Emerson people," says Herzog, "but they tend to be a little edgier. They rise to the top, so they're easier to find." Still, admiration has its limits. Herzog says MTV will play Leary's new comedy video Ahole only after midnight: "We think it's a funny video, but clearly people might...
Moreover, Harvard has a number of underused libraries (Tozzer Library, Robinson Hall's history library, Emerson Hall's Robbins Library); it's just a matter of knowing where to find them. And the Committee on Undergraduate Education is contemplating increasing the number of late-night study spaces...
...Angeles districts torn by last year's riots can provide an example to a nation which needs to take responsibility for its youth, Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told a crowd of 70 gathered in Emerson Hall last night...