Keystone Books
eBook - PDF

Keystone Books

A Survival Guide for Living in a College Town

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Keystone Books

A Survival Guide for Living in a College Town

Book details
Table of contents
Citations

About This Book

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, the often-chaotic home of Penn State University.

This humorous peek at life in a college town smack-dab in the middle of rural Pennsylvania chronicles a changing community over the course of two eventful decades. A professor of journalism, former columnist for the Centre Daily Times, and contributor to StateCollege.com, Frank has a unique perspective on living in the shadow of a university—especially on the tribe of nomadic young adults known as the "Woo people, " so named for their signature mode of celebratory communication. He invites readers into the routines of his hectic household as they embrace their new home, skewers the culture of intercollegiate sports, relates the challenges and peculiarities of teaching at one of the nation's largest universities, and, most important, teaches us to be amused at college-kid antics and to appreciate their academic and real-world accomplishments, even as we anxiously tick off the days until semester's end.

From tales of missing porch furniture and red plastic cups in the bushes to a "Nude Year's Eve" run by an octet of forty-somethings to the sweet relief of summer, Frank's hilarious, insightful essays are indispensable for anyone who wants to survive, appreciate, and enjoy college-town life.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes, you can access Keystone Books by Russell Frank in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Journalist Biographies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780271080451
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Journalist Biographies

Table of contents

  1. COVER front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. We Arrive
  6. “We’re About Beer”
  7. The President Buys an Ice Cream
  8. Too Many Choices
  9. First Fall
  10. The Big Coat
  11. The Lecture Circuit
  12. Snow Bowl
  13. Hold the Foam
  14. Goodbye Newsroom, Hello Classroom
  15. The Case of the Disappearing Porch Furniture
  16. Freeze!
  17. Go! Be! Do!
  18. Cooties
  19. Images from Kosovo
  20. The Provost Was Not Amused
  21. Pyropetrics
  22. Year of the Ant
  23. Lies My Students Tell
  24. We Need to Remember
  25. Old Eyes
  26. Let There Be Laundry
  27. Lifeways of the Yard People
  28. Naked Run
  29. Toss It!
  30. Mob Scene
  31. When It Rains, It Floods
  32. Don’t Expect to Be Bored
  33. Back to School and Out the Door
  34. Not Quite Business as Usual
  35. Nothing But a Pack of Cards
  36. The Solace of Routines
  37. Little Idiot Children
  38. Under a Dark Sky
  39. Let Us Commence
  40. No Magic Circles
  41. Ship of Fuels
  42. Questioning Authority
  43. Zen and the Art of Driver Training
  44. Keeping the Streak Alive
  45. Movie Dog’s Last Reel
  46. The Brats in the Frats
  47. RIP, Bop the Movie Dog
  48. Welcome to the Diploma Store
  49. Things Fall Apart
  50. Liberals on the Loose
  51. The Invisible Poor
  52. Meet the Woo People
  53. Leaf Ballet
  54. All the Classroom’s a Stage
  55. The Flower Within the Flower
  56. In Defense of Those Pesky Gen Eds
  57. The Pursuit of Liveliness
  58. Tow Story
  59. Straight from the Lion’s Mouth
  60. I’ve Sneezed and I Can’t Get Up
  61. Stand-Up Guy Seeks Position
  62. Return of the Woo People
  63. Must You Go?
  64. Football’s Terrible Beauty
  65. How to Rein in the Woo People, Part 1
  66. How to Rein in the Woo People, Part 2
  67. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Drunkenness
  68. Secrets of the Woo People Revealed
  69. Let the Joyous News Be Spread
  70. Noise Essential to Woo Life, Researcher Says
  71. We Are—Going to Be OK
  72. Seeing Something and Saying Something
  73. We’ve Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden
  74. So Many Opinions, So Few Facts
  75. THON (Jekyll) vs. State Patty’s (Hyde)
  76. The Fumbler and the Furnisher
  77. Farewell to the Woo People
  78. Things are Just Peachy Around Here
  79. As I Was Saying . . .
  80. Greetings from Zombie Nation!
  81. Welcome to Alt-State College!
  82. Ten Things to Be Thankful For
  83. Who’s Naked Now?
  84. Apples vs. Icebergs: Who’s Right?
  85. Battle of the Bamboo
  86. To Weed, or Not to Weed
  87. In Search of the Cure for the Summertime Blues
  88. Don’t Be Rattled
  89. It’s Wonderful to Be Here, It’s Certainly a Thrill