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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed. , 1st printing ; 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780874831542, 9780874831610, 0874831547, 087483161X ; OCLC 21875317 ; LCCN 90039590 ; LOC No LA229 .B66 1990 ; Dewey 378.1/98/0973 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Folklorist Simon J. Bronner takes a long, engaging look at the experience of American campus life, and how it shapes the cultural and social values of those who pass through it. The menacing profs, the fumbling jocks, the curve-setting dweebs are all here, along with a rich assortment of tales, rituals, and practical jokes. ; Simon J. Bronner (born April 7, 1954 in Haifa, Israel) is an American folklorist, ethnologist, historian, sociologist, educator, college dean, and author. Bronner's parents were Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the United States from Israel in 1960. His childhood in the U.S. was spent in Chicago and New York City. His undergraduate study was in political science, history, and folklore at Binghamton University, and then he received his M.A. in American Folk Culture at the Cooperstown Graduate Programs of the State University of New York (1977), where he also studied social history, ethnology, and museum studies. In 1990, he was founding director of the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies (now the Pennsylvania Center for Folklore) and in 2007, the Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at thePennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He served as Coordinator of the American Studies Program at the college from 1987 to 2002. ; FINE. Book.