College 101 : a first-year reader / John D. Lawry

Contents:
Starting Out: The Journal - The Journey
Essay:
1. Tolbert McCarroll: The Journal.
Poem:
2. Mary Oliver: The Journey.
Section I Campus Culture
Academic Concerns
List:
3. John D. Lawry: What No One Ever Told Them About College
Essays:
4. Donna Farhi Schuster: On Becoming a Better Student,
5. Sam Sifton: John of Arc (student essay),
6. Malcolm X: Prison Studies,
7. Joan Didion: Why I Write,
8. Samuel Scudder: In the Laboratory with Agassiz,
9. Earl Shorris: On the Uses of a Liberal Education as a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor,
10. Robert Oliphant: Letter to a B Student,
11. Ethan Watters: Claude Steele Has Scores To Settle.
Students And Teachers
12. Dick Gregory: Shame,
13. Jean Houston: The Art of Acknowledgment,
14. Michael Kantor: Confessions of a Lonely TA,
15. Louis Schmier: The Power of Caring.
16. Langston Hughes: Theme for English B.
Short Story:
17. Rebecca Lee: The Banks of the Vistula.
Friendship And Romance
18. Ellen Goodman: Training for Real Life,
19. Lynn Darling: Sleeping with the Enemy,
20. Meghan Daum: Virtual Love.
21. Anonymous: After A While.
Community
22. Elvira Franco: A Magic Circle of Adult Students (student essay),
23. Rosalee Romano: Touching Lives (student essay),
24. Howard Rheingold: The Virtual Community.
Conflict
25. William Zinsser: College Pressures,
26. Paul Keegan: Inhuman Architecture, Bad Food, Boredom, Death by Fun and Games,
27. Nancy Gibbs: When Is It Rape?
Play:
28. Sylva Miller: Untitled (student production).
Resources
29. Philip Zimbardo: A Practical Guide to Sources of Help.
 
Includes bibliographical references and index.