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OF TWO MINDS ON `FREAKNIK' ATLANTA WEATHERS COLLEGIATE WEEKEND

The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | April 20, 1998 | Copyright

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…

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