William Urban

• May-2013
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Briarpatch College has all the problems of American higher education in the nineties, at least as many as can be packed onto one small semirural campus. Unfortunately, Briarpatch also has had a multitude of other problems the administration would rat...

• Nov-2010
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Allentown starts off on a comic note with an ice storm on Sunday morning, December 14, 1956. But the comedy is short lived, and the heart and soul of Allentown, Pennsylvania, is soon revealed. Inspired as much by the song “Allentown,” b...

• Feb-2010
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In the fall semester of 1995 Professor Donahue and Chief Biggs investigated the murder of Dean Wooda. The surprising result became stranger as new bodies and new suspicions appeared each semester. By 1997 even those who had seen the deans corpse off ...

• Jan-2009
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Strange goings-on at Briarpatch College have left a string of corpses across campus. It might be argued that a string must have more than two connected points, but at Briarpatch College everything is connected. Now we have a missing woman, two studen...

• Oct-2008
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In the fall semester of 1995 Professor Donahue and Chief Biggs investigated the watery demise of Dean Wooda, murdered as part of an insurance scam intended to resolve Briarpatch College's financial problems. Now, only a few months later, they have it...

• Jun-2007
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He was political, she was correct. He was an ex-cop, she considered policemen an unnecessary danger to people like her or anybody. It was not a relationship made in heaven. But no one would think of Briarpatch College in that context, much less the i...