Rough Draught of History

It is familiar advice to scribes everywhere: "Write what you know."

In the winter of 2004, two seniors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign took those words to heart when they founded Booze News, a newspaper by and for college students who like to drink.

"It was like, hey, what if we just created our own paper and talked about the things that students were actually interested in?" says Derek Chin, who started the paper with a classmate, Atish Doshi. Neither Mr.

Print Subscription

Digital Subscription

Already have an account? Log In Now.