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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Simple everyday tasks around the family take on aspects of college life as well. For example, the seniors out there may well find themselves accustomed to treating every conversation with a family member older than 25 as if it were part of the grueling interview process currently preoccupying most of...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: Home: An Acculturation Guide | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

Furthermore, it goes without saying that there is a whole vocabulary of vulgar words and phrases that are commonplace in college conversation but are less than appreciated in the daily interactions of home life. Terms like "response paper," "UC elections" and "Loker Commons" come to mind most immediately, but there...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: Home: An Acculturation Guide | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

I love horror movies and I love a good scare. So, being too impatient to wait for the Thanksgiving release of Tim Burton's new horror film Sleepy Hollow, I figured I would visit the source of inspiration for Washington Irving's story and now, the new movie. I would...

Author: By Warren Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "I Want to See Dead People": A Tour of Sleepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

I don't intend to mislead you. This was not an out-of-the-way excursion for me. For most of my childhood, I lived a mere pumpkin toss away from the woods that the Headless Horseman and other ghosts are rumored to have haunted. I passed through Sleepy Hollow...

Author: By Warren Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "I Want to See Dead People": A Tour of Sleepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

So far, I had been entirely unsuccessful. I will admit that I was even beginning to have my doubts that I would see anything that qualified as otherworldly. But I figured if what I needed was instruction in how to scare myself out of my wits, whom better to turn...

Author: By Warren Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "I Want to See Dead People": A Tour of Sleepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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