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...laureate. The Library of Congress has named New Hampshire writer Donald Hall the U.S.'s new poet in chief. Hall has published 18 books of poetry--including a 1988 collection called The One Day that took 17 years to write, and two books about his late wife, poet Jane Kenyon. A "grateful" and "frantic" Hall says he would like to start a poetry channel on satellite radio or get poetry some airtime on cable TV. Can versifying reality stars be far behind...
...think these are extremely interesting long-term trends,” Goldin says. “All the while, boys were disadvantaged, and nobody noticed it.”AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR MEN?Well, at least one college has noticed it. The dean of admissions and financial aid at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, Jennifer Delahunty Britz, wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in March describing her school’s efforts to maintain a male-female balance. She wrote that 55 percent of applicants to Kenyon are women, “a proportion that...
...Instead, student stand-ups prefer to riff on more personal themes like their obsession with pop culture (from Brown's Dustin Foley: "You know who I think is having an affair? Waldo and Carmen San Diego. Has anyone seen either of them lately?") or their dating habits (from Kenyon College's Rubin Miller: "Girls always say they want a man who speaks his mind. But I have a friend back home who has Tourette's, and he hasn't been laid in years...
...some campus groups steer clear of political commentary. Members of Two Drink Minimum, a stand-up troupe formed three years ago at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, say their primary comic mission is to get laughs by exploring the daily lives of their fellow students. "Being on a liberal campus, it would be far too easy to do a Bush bash," says Davy Andrews, 22, co-president of the troupe. "We've taken our shots at authority, but being funny is by far our first concern...
...Being funny is also a way for some students to ease into life at college. Max Reisman, a freshman at Kenyon, joined Two Drink Minimum during orientation week because he had performed stand-up in high school."I met a lot of people who I had something in common with through the group," says Reisman, 19. They all know the value of a good laugh...