Profiles in Columbia: 11 p.m. on the first Saturday in Carman

So this is college? For their entire lives the floor has heard that college is a nonstop party. And yet, for the past two nights, nothing has happened. Sure, there have been brief moments of hope --- that guy on the end said he knew someone who could get them alcohol---a third cousin once removed he never met until they ran into each other at Hebrew school. Or that sketchy liquor store up in Harlem that has the sign which reads, "21 Means 21ish." But all of that has come to naught.

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