The Student: Variation
 

•      The title is a pun on Yo Garcia's use of Lou Castellucci's short story on football. In Yo's account, she introduces a Latino baseball  player and his Tio and father.
•      Professor Garcia is an anomaly in the New Hampshire college (which is based on Alvarez's own tenure at the elite Middlebury College in Vermont).
•      The comments are standard for writing classes: Please come see me,  You're onto rich material here.
•      Reference to tenure process: "My first-year review board feels my publications aren't substantial enough. They want a major
•      publisher" (175)
•      At the end of the chapter, Yo faces the tenure decision: " She's published a new book with Norton and seems happy here now." 183