Bryan Jolly, a freshman general studies major, entrusts a small fortune to the click of a mouse and the glare of a computer monitor. "Between the swings I've lost as much as $400 and won as much as $2,000," Jolly said.

For Craig Thompson, love is a wonderful thing filled with pain and joy. The innocence of first love is countered at every turn by the haunting warnings of temptation that the Bible has taught since his childhood. In "Blankets," an almost 600 page autobiographical comic book, Thompson recounts his first love among other memories of his childhood.