Rhymes with "Luck"

It's 1993, and the start of a new fall semester on the Northern Oregon University campus. Robert Brinkerhoff is content yet unfulfilled and sitting on a bench eating lunch while watching the students (let's be honest—just the females) move into the dorms. At 42, he's only an Assistant Professor in Communications. The only thing he's ever thrown himself into was his pursuit of an advanced degree, and even that went unfinished, as he stopped short of completing his dissertation. His relations...