Dorm Rats: Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll in the 70s Dorms

In his latest reality tome, author Jay Morrow recounts the antics of a pack of exuberant young people convened to pursue a common goal in what now seems a quaint, auspicious era, the 1970s. Dorm Rats brims with universal truths about social adhesions among complete strangers thrown together in close circles by shared circumstances. Morrow's wry chronicling positions the reader as a fly on the wall as a dormitory floor of co-eds rise above excesses and conflicts to form treasured lifelong bonds. It's a touchstone reflection of the comparatively carefree mindset of those times.
Byron Acohido, journalist, author, speaker at LastWatchdog.com; technology reporter at USA TODAY; winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.

The decade between 1969 and 1979 was a time of turmoil and enormous changes within the United States. For those of us who lived through it, it seemed normal and we were mainly concerned with living within the new environment and mores of that time. Remember, that at that time:
• There was no "Great Depression" in our past
• The Vietnam War & the draft were ending.
• Tapes, CDs, DVDs, MTV or cable TV had not been invented.
• AIDS did not exist
• Music was on vinyl LPs
• There were no cell phones or personal computers
• There was no internet
• Watergate was just beginning
• The drugs of choice were alcohol and Marijuana
• Cocaine and Meth were not in regular use
• Star Trek had just been cancelled
• Jaws was in theatres & Star Wars had not been created
• Most TVs were still black and white

With the complete lack of electronic entertainment we concentrated on our relationships with other people and our environment. It was the beginning of both the free love and the green revolutions. However, it is too easy for pundits to trivialize how this occurred. This manuscript details the everyday happenings that kept us occupied throughout the school year.