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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Russell, 1954- author.

Series:

Keystone books in medicine.

Keystone Bks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pennsylvania State University--Humor.

Pennsylvania State University.

College students--Humor.

College students.

American wit and humor.

State College (Pa.)--Humor.

State College (Pa.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271080451

0271080450

OCLC:

1309034619