2009.09.27
Trejbal: A reading assignment in Blacksburg
A common book for Tech and Blacksburg
By Christian Trejbal
Trejbal is an editorial writer. He works out of the paper's New River Valley bureau in Christiansburg.
Heading off to college for the first time often is a stressful experience. Unless some of your buddies from high school are going and land in the same dorm, freshmen dive headlong into a sea of mysterious strangers.
Virginia Tech tries to ease that transition as much as it can, and one innovative way it does so is by giving all new students something to share — a book. Think of it as newbie initiation but with fewer paddles, less verbal abuse and binge drinking, and more intellectual stimulation.
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