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Article: Saturday Night Live ex-star, Northwestern U. alum talks campus, comedy
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- University Wire
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- May 20, 2003
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Jerome C. Pandell
University Wire
05-20-2003
(Daily Northwestern) (U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill. -- Former Saturday Night Live star Ana Gasteyer might have been the second act of the Northwestern University's new Alumni Speaker Series, but she barely graduated with a degree.
"I graduated by the f---ing skin of my teeth," Gasteyer, Communication '89, told about 950 students Monday night at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. "My [diploma case] was empty because of two pending credits."
If any student gets stuck in a similar situation, Gasteyer said she recommends they do what she did: Get cast in a summer play -- with no exams -- and receive two credits and an "A."
The cast of Mee-Ow Show -- the student ...