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Five Freshmen : a Story of the Sixties by Steven S. Kussin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Five Freshmen : a Story of the Sixties about?
In the fall of 1999, I bring my son to enter the new freshman class at Cornell University just the way my parents had delivered me to that strikingly beautiful campus some 34 years earlier. It is the beginning of September, a quintessential early autumn day, also the first day of orientation. As the band and glee club deliver a stirring rendition of Cornells famous alma mater, Far Above Cayugas Waters, I start to drift back to the time when I was an entering freshman more than three decades earlier on the eve of a campus revolution. Five a Story of the Sixties chronicles the lives of five of us from totally different backgrounds who set out together in what turns out to be the most turbulent period in American college history. As entering freshmen, our biggest worry is following the proctors edict to have three feet on the floor at all times when entertaining co-eds. How times had changed! By senior year, our very lives are on the line and we couldnt care less about those rules. From fraternity house hi-jinx to draft card burnings and building takeovers, the juxtaposition of a fun-filled campus existence, coupled with life and death issues, is startling. What happens to each of the
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- Author
- Steven S. Kussin
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform; CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781530788897
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.25 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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