4.19.2004
Daily Collegian crush column hits Washington Post
Everybody remembers that Daily Collegian column where the UMass Amherst guy writes about his crush on this girl, right?
Looks like the Washington Post decided to use it as an anchor in their article about crushes:
Looks like the Washington Post decided to use it as an anchor in their article about crushes:
"When Brochu's column ran in the University of Massachusetts paper in November, a cry of recognition arose from the young people of this nation. At last, someone had given voice to their silent suffering. Through instant messaging, the column spread from Amherst, Mass., to Boston to Austin to Muncie to Berkeley. It spread to England and Belgium and to a Navy enlistee in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and to a woman in eastern Canada who "almost cried" when she read it.
The Web site for the Massachusetts Daily Collegian, where Brochu's column was posted, was flooded. A typical column gets at most 1,000 readers in one month. Brochu's got 570,000 hits from November to March..."
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