The year is 1961, and college life is brimming with wild, new, and unexpected experiences-particularly for someone as introverted and painfully shy as Harvey, a good southern boy who has just embarked on his freshman year at Zebulon Kincaid State College.

But after a brutal fraternity hazing ritual leaves him humiliated, he winds up transferring to North Texas State University in Denton, living in a two-story rooming house known as Crud Hall, where he'll spend the next three years.

It is at this residence that Harvey meets the wonderfully weird cast of characters who become his...