Taylor Smith had already made friends with everyone he cared to know by the time he was a junior in college, including the theater people, writers, visual artists, and comp lit majors, as well as a variety of other oddball characters and a small group of students who shared his own major, Latin and Greek. The jocks were another group he was certain to stay away from. The jocks, who had baseball caps and crowded the dining hall's raucous tables,...