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...outs. After that season, Steve said, "The players told the administration that they were tired of going out and playing games no one cared about." Last year under new coach Peter Alvanos, Swarthmore was competitive in several games. This summer the players arrived on campus two weeks early to prep for the opener...
...masse to high school, offering a quartet of new takes on socialization and its discontents. On NBC's 1980 period piece Freaks and Geeks (scheduled for a Sept. 25 debut, 8 p.m. E.T.), the pencil-necked latter scurry from gym-class bruisers wielding dodge balls. On Fox's Manchester Prep (not yet scheduled), the tormentors are the rich preppies in the secret society the Manchester Tribunal, their weapon psychological cruelty. And the WB's Popular (to bow Sept. 29 and 30; regularly Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) has outsiders alienated by social castes and beauty-magazine standards; the network's Roswell...
...purvey the myth that much as there were suddenly no Nazis in Germany after V-E day, there are now apparently almost no former popular high school kids. "I very much identified myself as an outsider [in high school]," says Katims. "I was king of the geeks," says Manchester Prep creator Roger Kumble. "I totally think I'm a geek," says Leslie Bibb, who plays a knockout cheerleader on Popular...
Vice President Al Gore Jr. '69 appears to be employing a modified version of Carter's approach. Eager to reminisce about his days as a farmer in Tennessee, Gore has been noticeably reticent about his prep school and Harvard education...
...groups on campus. He or she is probably going to think it's because their writing sample wasn't good enough. Maybe, in their innocence, they'd never think it had something to do with whom the person who got the post is dating, or where they went to prep school...