Research Unplugged continues its line-up of lively community discussions with a presentation on Nov. 8 by Simon Bronner, who will discuss "Campus Traditions: Folklore from the Old-Time College to the Modern University." Bronner, Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore and chair of the American Studies program at Penn State Harrisburg, is the author or editor of more than 30 books on American folklore and tradition. His recent book, Campus Traditions: Folklore from the Old-Time College to the Modern Mega-University, examines student traditions in college culture, including hazing, cheating, drugs and alcohol abuse, sports and extreme college rivalries, and sexuality, and tracks their changes over time.

"Landscape" to some people is a beautiful view. Others use it as a verb, for an elaborate kind of gardening.

To the anthropologists, archaeologists, demographers, geographers, and economists who met last weekend at Dartmouth College for the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology, "landscape" is shorthand for how people perceive their environment and interact with it.