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TV graduates to higher ed - calendarlive.com

'); document.write(' '); document.write(''); document.write(''); } else if (!(navigator.appName && navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 && navigator.appVersion.indexOf("2.")>=0)){ document.write(''); } //--> And at Black Entertainment Television, where the top-rated show follows the lives of eight university students, executives are keenly aware that college is fast becoming TV's new high school. For decades, pop culture has relied on the rule-bound, awkward and frustrating high school years as The Foundation for iconic coming-of-age movies and shows such as "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "Dazed and Confused" and "Beverly Hills, 90210." But lately, that venue is shifting to the college campus, where freedom is new, identities take shape and the possibilities for danger and frolicking — not to mention notes from censors — are boundless. Where high school shows focus on the gawkiness of the half-child/half-adult, college represents "the prime moment of fun," said Evangeline Morphos, Columbia University professor and Consulting producer on the WB's "Bedford Diaries," an ensemble drama that will debut in March. "You're liberated from your parents, you're liberated from pimples. You come into the person you are." College is "the reward for surviving high school," said director Judd Apatow, creator of 2001's one-season comedy "Undeclared," about a college freshman whose father moves into the - More available

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