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lairing or unrealistic
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bv Kllen Rosenberg offers some
honest, real-life advice to new
students about how to deal
with the first year of school
The txiok's cover describes it
as a "down-to-earth guide to
dealing with being away from
home, long-distance relation
ships. roommates, academic ex
pectations, alcohol and other
drugs, and dating and sex "
There's also advice on how
to keep in touch with old
friends, the greek system, date
rape, racial Issues and how to
get involved on campus
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ability to live it is rooted in lin
ing able to feel terrific about
you — and not needing to
count on anyone else's love for
you or on what anyone else
thinks of you in order to tx>
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stand how important you are."
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book
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one who has spent more than a
few months in school.
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hopefully — will have worked
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these problems on ihoir own. If
they haven't, then their prob
lem* .ire probably deep-rooted
(enough to make this advice too
simplistic.
So, assuming the book is. for
brand-new, shiny freshman
faces, it's a decent, insightful
book.
Rosenberg has written the
book using a question-and-an
swer format. Students provide
the questions and she answers
them. And much of the book
has lengthy quotes and inter
views with students relating
their experiences.
The interviews provide a re
alistic look at some of the prob
lems new students encounter,
but at times the b<x>k goes a bit
far and the reader ran feel like
a voyeur (This is entertaining, 1
suppose, but offers little help
ful information because some
of the questions are so ridic
ulous.)
Here's an example of a dumb
question. "I've only boon here
for two days and I’ve cheated
on my girlfriend of three years,
two times I've never done this
before. Is that normal for col
lege students?"
This sounds like a person
wiio could better use a book on
relationships and needs to fig
ure out who he is and what he
really wants Rosenberg, who
knows nothing about him, is
not going to be able to help
him.
Another stupid question is
"Is it tacky to leave a stick of
deodorant on the hod of u
smelly roommate?" This per
son probably knows the answer
to this already.
but there are also some good
questions that reflect the times
we re living in from students
who maybe haven't had to con
front these issues before.
A couple of the good ques
tions are: "Is it alright to ask a
possible sexual parlnor to get a
blood test for AIDS7" or “I have
a lot of pressure in college
Them is loo much work. I don't
think 1 will be able to handle
it."
Another student asks, "My
roommate is a foreigner and he
does not talk much. I am going
crazy and talking to the walls I
believe one of them responded
What should I do about my
rooiTimato?"
Rosenberg gives gcxxl advice
in most of the areas
Much of the book's richness
comes from students relating
their experiences. They speak
openly about drugs — "Mari
juana can be a powerful experi
ence" — to racism.
"Even in the dining com
mons, the black people sit on
ono side of the cafeteria, basi
cally all together and the white
people sit in the rest of the
cafeteria," one student said.
"There isn't much racism on
campus that I've seen," she
said. "But still you see the sep
aration so much."
It’s a book of worth that pre
sents a very accurate picture of
all the pros and cons of the first
year of school.
It's a lot of straightforward
advice from students who've
been through tho painful, some
times embarrassing and thrill
ing experiences that now stu
dents have yet to discover.
It’s something that you won’t
find in the glossy pamphlets
produced by university depart
ments. In short, if you want tho
truth about what goes on at
school, read this book.