Campus Traditions : Folklore from the Old-Time College to the Modern Mega-University /

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Simon J. Bronner takes a long, engaging look at American campus life and how it is shaped by students and at the same time shapes the values of all who pass through it. The archetypes of absent-minded profs, fumbling jocks, and curve-setting dweebs are the stuff of legend and humor, along with the a...

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Autor principal: Bronner, Simon J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Folklore.
College students > Social life and customs.
College students.
College environment.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Folklore > États-Unis.
Milieu universitaire > États-Unis.
Étudiants > États-Unis > Moeurs et coutumes.
Étudiants > États-Unis.
Folklore > United States.
College environment > United States.
College students > United States > Social life and customs.
College students > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: "Here's the syllabus"
  • Getting in : orientation
  • The stress of grades : tests and papers
  • Professors, coaches, jocks, geeks, and other strange characters
  • Rushes, pranks, and dinks : the rough-and-tumble campus
  • College spirit : expressing loyalty and rivalry
  • Campus events : holidays, games, and sports
  • Greek life
  • Legendary locations, laughs, and horrors
  • Sex and the single student
  • Getting out : graduation.

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