Title: Hell Year
Description: It's 1977. The fall semester for Dave Watson and his roommates has just begun at Camden University, a mid-sized college in Plainfield, Ohio known for its excellent business school and rambunctious fraternity parties. Dave lives in one south, the rowdiest corridor in Benton Hall. Long before he and his roommates start rushing fraternities, Dave trudges through a dizzying stream of roommate conflicts and dating woes. And from the very first day, he's in love with a beautiful girl he has practically no chance of dating.His troubles have just begun when he meets Dick Hines, an obese, beer-guzzling goof-off with the lowest G.P.A. around, whose nightly visits and antics lead Dave and his roommates into more trouble than they can handle. All year, Dave struggles with his G.P.A. and a resident manager who makes life miserable with his constant cleaning and KP duties.Can Dave ultimately survive his freshman year and win the girl of his dreams? Find out in this hilarious and entertaining saga that will take you through an entire year of fun and frustration, including some memorable scenes of hell week as it was in the spring of 1978. The brothers of Delta Beta Phi await you.
Subjects: humor; fraternity; hell week; college life; beer drinking; Greek life; walk out; frat life; fraternity initiation
Places: Plainfield, Ohio; Champaign, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio
Time periods: Fall 1977