College rock is a term that was used in the United States to describe 1980s alternative rock before the term "alternative" came into common usage. "College" refers to campus radio stations located at institutions of higher education in Canada and the United States, where the term "college" is interchangeable with "university". The stations' playlists were often created by students who preferred underground rock music.
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“Jerry: She’s one of those third-year girls that gripe my liver.
Milo: Third-year girls?
Jerry: Yeah, you know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture. They give me a swift pain.
Milo: Why?
Jerry: They’re officious and dull. They’re always making profound observations they’ve overheard.”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)
“You have constantly urged the idea that you were persecuted because you did not come from West-Point, and you repeat it in these letters. This, my dear general, is I fear, the rock on which you have split.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)