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Article: OF TWO MINDS ON `FREAKNIK' ATLANTA WEATHERS COLLEGIATE WEEKEND
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 20, 1998
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ATLANTA -- The sense that something was amiss started on the
train ride from the airport early Saturday.
Every street the train passed was bumper to bumper with cars,
the way it had been getting to Logan. Only now it was just after
midnight.
Every car on MARTA, Atlanta's much-maligned transit system, was
full, which is unheard of at off hours.
And every entrance to nearly every hotel downtown had a
uniformed guard questioning anyone trying to get in.
Welcome to Freaknik, the 16th annual Black College Spring Break
weekend.
Welcome, however, isn't the sentiment much of Atlanta has been
feeling about Freaknik. What began in 1982 as a gathering of
African-American college students for a sedate ...