Multimedia Collection
Frosh: Student Identity on a Changing Campus
VHS
98 minutes
LB3607 .F761 1993 + guide
Freshman year. What could be more demanding, disorienting, exhilarating and depressing? Two award-winning filmmakers spent a year living with a diverse group of freshmen in a co-ed, multicultural residence hall at Stanford University. They videotaped 2:00 A.M. bull sessions, classes, inside a co-ed bathroom and trips home for Christmas and spring break. The result is an unprecedented look inside today's freshman world of scary freedoms and challenging new lifestyles.
These 1990s freshman face such age-old student problems as alcohol, drugs, dating, grade anxiety, work overload. But they must also deal with new issues like multicultarism, "hate speech" codes and gender confusion. In Frosh, tomorrow's Americans confront the question of who they are, how they'll relate to each other and what values they'll bring to the society of the future. In a sense, they form a microcosm of the uncertainties and opportunities all Americans face in their searches for new identities and communities.
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