While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught.
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.
The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.
A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.
I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.
I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.
High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
