Among the Woo People : A Survival Guide for Living in a College Town /

In the mid-nineties, Russell Frank left a peaceful life in rural California to raise three kids in a town saturated with fraternities, late-night undergrad fast food haunts, and rowdy football crowds. Among the Woo People recounts his two decades living--and surviving--in State College, Pennsylvania...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Frank, Russell (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: "We'll Take It"
  • We Arrive.
  • "We're About Beer"
  • The President Buys an Ice Cream
  • Too Many Choices
  • First Fall
  • The Big Coat
  • The Lecture Circuit
  • Snow Bowl
  • Hold the Foam
  • Goodbye Newsroom, Hello Classroom
  • The Case of the Disappearing Porch Furniture
  • Freeze
  • Go! Be! Do
  • Cooties
  • Images from Kosovo
  • The Provost Was Not Amused
  • Pyropetrics
  • Year of the Ant
  • Lies My Students Tell
  • We Need to Remember
  • Old Eyes
  • Let There Be Laundry
  • Lifeways of the Yard People
  • Naked Run
  • Toss It
  • Mob Scene
  • When It Rains, It Floods
  • Don't Expect to Be Bored
  • Back to School and Out the Door
  • Not Quite Business as Usual
  • Nothing But a Pack of Cards
  • The Solace of Routines
  • Little Idiot Children
  • Under a Dark Sky
  • Let Us Commence
  • No Magic Circles
  • Ship of Fuels
  • Questioning Authority
  • Zen and the Art of Driver Training
  • Keeping the Streak Alive
  • Movie Dog's Last Reel
  • The Brats in the Frats
  • RIP, Bop the Movie Dog
  • Welcome to the Diploma Store
  • Things Fall Apart
  • Liberals on the Loose
  • The Invisible Poor
  • Meet the Woo People
  • Leaf Ballet
  • All the Classroom's a Stage
  • The Flower Within the Flower
  • In Defense of Those Pesky Gen Eds
  • The Pursuit of Liveliness
  • Tow Story
  • Straight from the Lion's Mouth
  • I've Sneezed and I Can't Get Up
  • Stand-Up Guy Seeks Position
  • Return of the Woo People
  • Must You Go
  • Football's Terrible Beauty
  • How to Rein in the Woo People, Part 1
  • How to Rein in the Woo People, Part 2
  • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Drunkenness
  • Secrets of the Woo People Revealed
  • Let the Joyous News Be Spread
  • Noise Essential to Woo Life, Researcher Says
  • We Are--Going to Be OK
  • Seeing Something and Saying Something
  • We've Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden
  • So Many Opinions, So Few Facts
  • THON (Jekyll) vs. State Patty's (Hyde)
  • The Fumbler and the Furnisher
  • Farewell to the Woo People
  • Things are Just Peachy Around Here
  • As I Was Saying
  • Greetings from Zombie Nation
  • Welcome to Alt-State College
  • Ten Things to Be Thankful For
  • Who's Naked Now
  • Apples vs. Icebergs: Who's Right
  • Battle of the Bamboo
  • To Weed, or Not to Weed
  • In Search of the Cure for the Summertime Blues
  • Don't Be Rattled
  • It's Wonderful to Be Here, It's Certainly a Thrill

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