Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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And porch people have bring your own leaves and wine and cheese parties in the fall, shovel sidewalks in winter and make friends with roof people in the spring and summer who also can scan the land; they are stroller scopers and sunset hopers too (like most of us). Tarn Walrath Tarn Walrath 25

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y Hl Bob Sorino At its best, porch life is a delicate hybrid of leisure and labor reserved for summer. Everything is easier, somehow more romantic on a porch, including studying, as Marc Collins and his cat Ivory demonstrate from their hammock on South Lincoln (above). Those lucky enough to have a flat porch roof are just that much nearer the rays (top), while under the roof on South Water, the Bettys hold a summer jam (opposite left). And at the front door, a magician polishes his act with a rather specialized brand of pet (opposite right). Tarn Walrath Porch People can scan the land . . . they are stroller scopers, and sunset hopers. They hangout clothes, and grow plants to enhance porch furniture — i.e. porch swings and funky things like tree stump stools and rocks and flea-infested couches. Many porch people are animal lovers . . . they feed birds bread, pizza, and, of course, black squirrels peanut butter, and stray cats nothing and many times they have their own pets. Such as Rastig the cat or Scooter the feret — but landlords don ' t like pets — they make flea-infested couches, mind you, so porch people go for nonmammals like Cleo the clam and Sidney the snake and Polly the parrot and Credence the crayfish. But anyway, porch people cook on grills, too, and for more thrills have keg parties outside (this way the kitchen floor doesn ' t warp under the spilled beer). 24

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Bob Sorino When you move off campus, you begin to realize that working means more than emptying the wastebasket and making your own bed. Unless you ' re lucky enough to rent a house with a washing machine, you have to hike your clothes to the laundromat, although you can always dry them on the ever- versatile front porch (this page, top). The cafeteria doesn ' t do your dishes anymore, but at least you have a kitchen ... or a boyfriend ' s kitchen, like the one Judy McGlinchy uses at College Towers (above). Houses themselves have to be made presentable, and winterized when the cold weather threatens (opposite top). And all that wonderful furniture from Grandma ' s attic and the garage sale has to be cleaned or your apartment ends up smelling like a hybrid attic garage; back at College Towers, Tammy Thomas performs the honors on her couch (opposite bottom). 26