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a* ? . m b 5X8VS8 HSICKS CO IK By Kelley Sraithwaite The announcement was aired on the radio only hours before the concert was to begin. To the surprise and dismay of ticket holders throughout the South Carolina area, the Stevie Nicks' concert, scheduled for Friday, October 22, was cancelled late Friday afternoon. The reason for the cancellation, according to radio reports, was a mild case of jjii^uiiivsiiia. A Coliseum production agent claims that the cancellation was a surprise. "Friday mornino thp staap. was. all set up, ready to go. I guess that at that time, tney were prawning iu put her up there." The show, which sold out Friday afternoon, has been rescheduled for November 24, Thanksgiving Day. "The date is a little c Humorist college guides By College Press Service AMHERST, Mass. ? If you've been too busy with 15 credit hours a week to learn the dangers of intermajor dating, how to pull a succesSsful all-nighter, or the Ten Rules of Tanning, you can now relax. You can find it all between the covers of "How to College: A Humorous Guide to the Four Years." You can find just about everything about college life put between covers humorously these days. "How to College" is just the latest in a seemingly-endless series of campus life parodies to appear in bookstores over the last few years. ! ? Since the seminal "Preppy Handbook" J appeared in 1980 with its guide to the campus preppy movement, publishers have been taking more stabs at the college humor market, a market that didn't exist commercially a few years ago. 4tI THINK you can look to 'The Preppy Handbook' as the start of the trend," said Susan Moldow, editor of "Alma Matters," Dell Publishing's entry in this fall's humor market. The Handbook inspired all sorts of spinous, in 1V81 came a preppy calendar, a s preppy notebook, and a preppy photo album in college bookstores. Then, inevitably, came "The I Hate Preppies Handbook." In succession came regional "guides" ? one to Texas colleges, for example ? and generic guides like 1982's "MBA Handbook." "Welcome to Mount Merry College" was a send-up of all small, private college '* *L O I tlf-11 I <.aiaiug:>. lib auinoii, t^aiui waiiace ana Mason Wiley, were two of the original collaborators on "The Preppy Handbook." .1 They sold their shares in the book before it was published to Lisa Birnbach, who not only got to keep all the authors' royalties from Ig the books and products, but also made two ^ highly-successful nationwide campus lecture tours. THIS FALL, besides "How to College" and "Alma Matters," students can also pick up "How to Survive Your College Daze." There are "non-book books" without character, plot or, often, much meaning, said Pat Benson, reference book buyer for the B. Dalton chain of bookstores. Benson speculates they appeal to students on all sorts of levels because they are often "witty" and oddly nostalgic. j "There's actually a market for kids to go IX out and buy the whole feeling of the '50s," she said. SOMETIMES THE guides can even be helpful. "Publishers have always known" how-to books have sold. Now, "they've kind of dipped down to a younger age," she said. I,f RaiifbowV UHnHnBOMET' r\^\r\ c u.- * 1 TONIGHT AND E\ IS IMPOI J ALL IMPORTS ONLY $ I j I ;ert rescheduled bad because of the holidays, but if you'd looked at the Coliseum programming book for November, we had very few dates open," said a Coliseum official. There Have hppn rnanv cnmnlolntr ? ? wvi? niMiij wiiipiuiui} auuui the cancellation of the concert as well as the rescheduled date and many students are disappointed about the incident. One student and Stevie Nicks' fan said, "I can't believe she cancelled. It was so lastminute. I planned my whole weekend around the concert, and now I can't even go to the rescheduled show because I'll be at home over Thanksgiving." win uc given out at the box office for ticketholders unable to attend the concert. So far, only a small number of people have shown up to turn in their tickets said a Coliseum official. swamp book market "We've seen it before in the getting-in (to college) level. But this (selling to students) once they're in is a new trend." Such books are not, in fact, always the top sellers. In "Search of Excellence," a nonfiction inquiry into what certain well-run American companies have in common, is the bestseliing book on campus as well as noncampus bookstores, according to the most recent book survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education. But they are good enough sellers to keep publishers interested in trying to market even campus cafeteria talk. "We had been making our friends laugh sitting around the dining table for years," said Eugene Reardon, one of three coauthors of "How to College." ALTHOUGH STILL students at Stanford, Reardon, Bill Jeakle and Ed Wyatt decided to put it all down in writing. Their book is an accurate and witty translation of many a typical dinner table goof-off session, including features like a list of the top 50 state schools (beginning with Alabama and ending with Wyoming.)" In 208 pages, the topics range from the history of the university ("...Bologna and Paris became known as universities in the modern sense when they began to admit lorejgn and secular students, and when their football team began to have winning seasons...") to applying for jobs ("Most people realize that going into an interview with potato salad breath could hurt their chances..."). The students decided to publish the book on their own and formed the Primer Press. The three sold limited partnerships in the firm for $1,000 each and printed 10,000 copies of the book. THEY DESIGNED a cover and format reminiscent of "The Preppy Handbook." They've since ordered a second Drintinc and are about to break even, Reardon said. "How to College" has been noticed by commercial publishers. New American Library has offered to buy the rights to the book, but the authors said no. "It's ours," Reardon said. "We put a lot of work into it, and we're not ready to give up yet." Reardon said the authors are negotiating with New American Library to do another project, and have signed a contract to write a national college guide for Simon and Schuster. * FEATURING * Pool Tables Top Video Games \ Screen featuring in Stereo As Always No Cover! /ERY WEDNESDAY IT NIGHT! 00 from 8 p.m.-12 midnight k W^~~{wa^ til you try | f jr"Vfiloodvcl8cr. j Ideas & Issues Presents: YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX, BUT YOU WERE AFRAID TO ASK? fiSK DR. 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