What freshmen are reading - Los Angeles Times


What freshmen are reading - Los Angeles Times

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Sept. 9, 2014 12 AM PT A sampling of colleges’ common readings for this year’s freshman class: Occidental College: “The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream,” by Gary


Younge. Cal State Bakersfield and University of Maryland, Baltimore County: “Enrique’s Journey,” by Sonia Nazario. Smith College and Northwestern University: “Whistling Vivaldi: How


Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do,” by Claude Steele. Colgate University and Miami University, Ohio: “Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 that Made Mississippi Burn and Made


America a Democracy,” by Bruce Watson. UC Berkeley: “Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s,” by Robert Cohen. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts: “The


Gods Themselves,” by Isaac Asimov. Stony Brook University, New York: “Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer,” by Mireya Mayor. —Larry


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