COLLEGIAN TIMES
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2021 SPRING-SUMMER
University of California, Berkeley (Selected by faculty) Fiction: “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens Science: “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson The Arts: “Borderwall as Architecture” by Ronald Rael History: “Two Weeks in November” by Douglas Rogers Psychology: “The Righteous Mind” by Jonathan Haidt
STEAL AWAY WITH BOOKS THIS SUMMER BY JOHN JOHNS
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ILLUSTRATION BY CASSANDRA MUNOZ
ou’ve done well. Now, you are ready to take the next step. But to what college or university? Every website seems alike, with smart looking students, stately campuses with perfectly manicured lawns, leafy trees in autumn colors and red brick walls covered with ivy. They practically shout, “You belong here!” But, how do you know it is the right place for you? Especially, if your knowledge of the prospective college is limited to the website. One of the best ways to learn what campus might be a good fit is to figure out the culture or subculture of a campus by seeing what the faculty expects incoming students to read. Your intrepid Collegian Times staff has assembled short lists of five books each from eight different schools that range from three of America’s great public universities, to a small historically black women’s college, two Ivy League schools and finally two of the service academies. For consistency, we focused on the academic fields of literature (fiction), the Arts, science, history and psychology. Where no selection was made and a title is not listed in the category, it is because no selection was made by the faculty or students. Hence, it wasn’t important to the recommenders. Finally, we compiled a separate list of books that are on every school’s list.∫ Plus, an interesting surprise. ∫
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Selected by the library staff ) Fiction: “The Cellist of Sarajevo” by Steven Galloway Science: “The Weather Makers” by Tim Flannery The Arts: “Satchmo” by Gary Giddins History: “One Vast Winter Count” by Colin G. Calloway Psychology: “Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)” by Carol Tavris; Elliot Aronson Spelman College (Selected by the student body) Fiction: “They Tell Me of a Home” by Daniel Black Science: (no offering in this subject area) The Arts: “My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race and Defiance” by Harry Belafonte History: “The Firebrand and the First Lady” by Patricia Bell-Scott Psychology: “Heavy” by Kiese Laymon University of Texas, Austin (Selected by the faculty) Fiction: “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain Science: “Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines” by Richard Muller The Arts: (no offering in this subject area) History: “The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus” by Richard Preston Psychology: “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains” by Nicholas Carr
