September 2012 - University of Oklahoma

This Month at OU’s Honors College
September 2012
Joe C. and Carole Kerr McClendon Honors College
New Semester Opens With 33 Reading
Groups, Three Film Series,
Two New Student Organizations and
One Weekly Workshop
Fall Semester has begun with a flurry
of activity in the Honors College. The
informal reading groups program enters
its fourth year, with a total of 33 reading
groups and approximately 400 students
participating. Fourteen of these groups
are led by Honors students serving as
moderators, while the moderators of the
remaining groups are Honors College
faculty members. A complete listing of
the reading groups can be found in the
last pages of this issue of the monthly
e-newsletter. Thirty of the groups are well
under way, but three will begin later in the
semester, on October 4th, October 10th,
and November 1st, respectively.
The College has also seen an expansion
in its numerous student-initiated and
student-organized programs. The two
ongoing film series have seen a successful
transition to new student leadership
after the graduation in May of the student
founders/organizers. Leadership of the
documentary watch group has passed
successfully from Evan DeFilippis and
Jared Coker to Connor Walters and
Julie Hall. This semester the weekly
documentary screenings will be on
Mondays at 7 PM in 180/181 David L.
Boren Hall.
Last year’s successful WIRE WATCH
group, founded by graduating seniors
Jake Ruper and Cliff Marroquin, is
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Important
Upcoming
Events
•Julius Ceasar by William
Shakespeare
September 21, 23, 28, 29
8:00pm
Weitzenhoffer Theatre
September 23, 30
3:00 pm
Weitzenhoffer Theatre
•Neustadt Festival opening
reception—Indian dancers,
poetry readings, and
refreshments.
Tuesday, September 25 7:30pm
Norman Depot
•Documentary
This is a Music—Prof. Zoe
Sherinian’s documentary on
outcast Dalit female drummers
in India. Prof. Sherinian will attend
to answer
questions.
Wednesday, September 26
6-8:30pm
Pittman Hall
•Panel discussion of Indian
Society and Culture
Thursday, September
10:00-10:50am
Meacham Auditorium

now under the leadership of Ivana Jaworski and William
Lonn. Having watched the first season of the very successful
HBO series, the group will watch and discuss the entire
second season during this semester. The screenings are on
Tuesdays at 7 PM, also in 180/181 David L. Boren Hall.
These two established film series have been joined by a new
third series, Classic International Films, organized under
the guidance of Honors student Daniel Meschter. Meeting
on Fridays at 6 PM, this series began with a capacity crowd
on August 31st, viewing THE SEVENTH SEAL, considered
by many as the masterpiece of Swedish director Ingmar
Bergman. On Friday, September 7th, the group watched
part One of the Russian classic ANDREI RUBLEV, and will
view Part Two this Friday, September 14th, also in 180/181
David L. Boren Hall.
In addition to a revitalized Honors Student Association, led
by newly elected President Helga Skaftason, two new student
organizations have been created by Honors students,
beginning the process in Spring semester and bringing it to
fruition over the summer.
The Honors Peer Mentoring Community, or HPMC, is
a student-led initiative to connect the best and brightest
within the OU community. By bringing together 50 of the
University’s most outstanding upperclassmen, the HPMC
works to ensure that freshmen National Merit Scholars, Regents
Scholars, and Honors students have the best possible
first-year experience at OU. It does this by hosting several
large-scale events throughout each semester , as well as by
forming ‘Pods’ of 6-8 freshmen and 2-3 upperclassmen that
will get together more frequently on a less formal basis.
If you have any questions about the HPMC or how to get
involved, contact Evan Fry at Evan.J.Fry@ou.edu.
The second organization, the Oklahoma Teaching Alliance,
is a campus-wide endeavor, not limited in any way to the
Honors College, but it is the initiative of Honors students,
and has received the strong support of the College in every
way possible. OTA is a burgeoning student organization
that seeks to provide OU students access to peer-oriented
learning experiences through the creation of student-led
learning communities.
The program was created after a specialized statistics study
group led by the organization's founder, Jake Morgan,
resulted in significantly higher grades for the students that
participated; those students scored at least a letter grade
higher in the course compared to the course's average.
Working from the model, OTA started learning communities
for general chemistry, introductory zoology and macroeconomics
on September 10. In the communities, student
academic mentors guide group interaction and provide
a base of knowledge for the group. Aside from covering
subject material, the communities also discuss and provide
input for topics common to new students at OU such as
dorm life, professors and enrollment.
Current Learning Community Schedule:
Monday: Macroeconomics
Tuesday: General Chemistry
Wednesday: General Chemistry and Introductory Zoology
Thursday: General Chemistry
Most sessions are held in Wagner Hall. More details can be
found on the organization's Facebook page at http://www.
facebook.com/OklahomaTeachingAlliance.
OTA is still in the process of recruiting new mentors for a
variety of subjects. Students interested in leading a learning
community should contact Jake Morgan or Daniel Meschter
at jakemorgan@ou.edu and daniel.meschter@ou.edu
respectively.
A final new initiative of the Honors College is the weekly
Presentation Skills Workshop, currently scheduled for Mondays
from 4:30 to 5:30. Honors students may volunteer to
make a brief (five to ten minutes) presentation on a subject
of their choice, either raising a question or advocating a
proposal. The presentation will be followed by a gentle
commentary from an Honors faculty member, suggesting
how the presentation could be made more effective, and
then a more general discussion of the topic by whatever students
are present. While topics are wide open, the weekly
workshops will begin with a focus on “how university-level
education can be improved for talented students in the early
21st century.”

Focus on
Faculty
Sarah Tracy
Associate Professor of History of Medicine
When did you join OU?
Fall 1999
Where did you go to school and what degrees do you
hold?
AB in History and Science, Harvard and Radcliffe
Colleges; MA and PhD in History and Sociology of
Science, University of Pennsylvania
What are your areas of research?
The history of medicine, with a particular focus on
the history of chronic disease in the 20th and 21st
centuries; food studies; addiction studies. I’m especially
interested in the intersection of diet and health
in America.
What courses do you teach at the Honors College?
I've taught a great number of courses for the Honors
College. They include Perspectives courses "What
is Science?", "Science and Public Policy", and most
recently “Food and Culture.” Colloquia include "Psychoactive
Substances in American Culture", "Food,
Culture, and Sign", "Measuring Humankind: the
Politics of Human Classification in 19th-- and 20thcentury
America", “Lives in Science: Biography and
the History of Science,” “American Lives: Biography
and American History” and "Historical and Ethical
Issues in American Medicine".
What is your favorite aspect of teaching at the Honors
College?
The opportunity to teach great students and to offer
an evolving array of courses – ones that morph to
reflect my own and students’ interests. I’ve also been
fortunate to direct the Medical Humanities Program
at OU. Any students interested in a broader perspective
on medicine and society should come and see
me.
What do you like most about OU?
The great students and faculty.
What do you like to do for fun?
Bike riding (raced in college, now I ride for fitness);
hiking; kayaking; travelling; cooking; home renovation
and decorating; and doing research on nutritional
physiologist and epidemiologist Ancel Keys (which I
also do for work!).
What is the most interesting book that you have read
lately?
Ancel Keys, Eat Well and Stay Well.
Tell us something that most people would never guess
about you.
I am a rev head. I love sports cars (although, regrettably,
I do not own one); I test drive fast cars whenever
I get the chance. Happy to “talk cars” with anyone,
anytime.
What is the best way to reach you at the Honors College?
Email: (swtracy@ou.edu).
Prof. Sarah Tracy at the Ancel Keys Culinary Institute,
Castelnuovo, Italy, June 2012

Honors News
THURJ HRAP
THURJ announces a call for applications for the editorial board,
2012-13:
Each year, a selection of scholarly essays written by Honors
Students is published in THURJ (The Honors Undergraduate
Research Journal). A group of dedicated and motivated students
works together to produce this peer-reviewed publication---soliciting
submissions, evaluating papers from all academic disciplines,
and designing the finished product.
We are looking for Honors students from a variety of years and
majors to serve on this year's THURJ board. No previous experience
is necessary and we always need designers and artists as well
as people interested in editing and publishing.
The board will begin its work this fall, but interested students
should be prepared for a year-long commitment that is particularly
labor-intensive in the early part of the Spring semester.
If you are interested in applying for this year's editorial board,
please send the following:
• A short essay, 1-2 pages, that explains your interest in
working on the THURJ board. Please tell us about your academic
interests, and list any relevant experience.
• Include your major(s) and minor, and your year at OU.
• Include your preference for serving on the review board
or the executive committee. The review board members will read
submissions, rank them, and discuss criteria for publication; their
bulk of their work will take place from January through March.
The executive committee will have more responsibility in the
production process and overall decision making; their work will
be spread throughout the 2012-13 academic year.
Email this information as an attached document to both Dr.
Marie Dallam (mwdallam@ou.edu) and Dr. Daniel Mains (dcmains@ou.edu).
Deadline: Friday Sept. 28, 2012
Interested? Curious? If you want to learn more about THURJ, you
may pick up copies of previous issues in the Honors College main
office or email one of us.
Professor Marie Dallam
Professor Daniel Mains
THURJ Faculty Advisors
The Honors College is pleased to announce the Honors Research
Assistant Program that provides an opportunity for students to
work with professors as research assistants on specific projects.
The purpose of the program is to involve students in a faculty
research project, and teach them how to develop research into a
completed project. The focus is on the research process in action,
and the connection between research and teaching.
Faculty descriptions of projects and applications are available on
our web page at http://www.ou.edu/honors/hrap/hrap.htm.
The professor for the project will contact applicants and choose
whom to hire. Student assistants are expected to work 10 hours
a week for ten weeks; at $9.00 an hour, the total for a ten-week
period is $900.00.
Honors College students with at least 15 hours of college credit
and at least a 3.40 GPA are eligible to apply. For the Fall 2012
semester, incoming freshmen, regardless of advanced standing
hours, are not eligible to apply. They may apply for Spring 2013
positions, which will be posted in January.
Contact Dr. Melanie Wright if you have questions, mwright@
ou.edu.
FACULTY NEWS
You can view all courses with Honors attributes for Spring 2013
at http://honors.ou.edu/office/coursedesc.asp
Daniel Mains received a New Faculty Fellowship to fund
research on a project titled "Culture, Infrastructural Development
and Governance in Ethiopia". During the summer of 2012
Dr. Mains will conduct preliminary research in support of a
long-term ethnographic research project that examines the connections
between infrastructural development and relations of
power between citizens and state in southwestern Ethiopia. The
Ethiopian government is currently working with private companies
and international lenders to carry out large scale infrastructural
development, for example the construction of roads,
hydroelectric dams, and cellular communications networks. Dr.
Mains' research will explore, first, how people perceive largescale
infrastructural development projects in relation to their
own lives and the future of Ethiopia, and second, the specific
implications of infrastructural development for urban youth.
Ultimately this research project will result in a book manuscript
that examines the implications of infrastructure for economic
development and the legitimation of political relations of power.

Honors
Recommendations
• Major writers, scientists and
artists
• Great music, films, books
• Recommended by Honors
faculty, staff, and students
• Stretch your brain, take a
chance, change your life...
Hannah Arendt has been called “one of the most
influential political philosophers of the Twentieth
Century.” Born into a German-Jewish family in 1906, she
studied under two great philosophers, Martin Heidegger
(with whom she had an intense but short love affair)
and Karl Jaspers (who became a lifelong personal and
intellectual friend).
Arendt fled Germany in 1933 upon Hitler’s rise to
power and lived in Paris until 1941, when she was forced
to leave France and came to the US. During her lifetime
she published a dozen books and many articles and essays.
Her style was independent, passionately original, usually
provocative, and always lucid.
Probably her two most important books are THE
ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM and THE HUMAN
CONDITION. Both are massive and dense, but knowing
about them and perhaps sampling their analyses can be
very rewarding. ORIGINS explored both Nazism and
Stalinism, the twin disasters of the mid-20th century as
something unprecedented and “a problem of modernity
itself,” not something explicable
by reference to either German or
Russian culture or history.
A third well-known Arendt book
was EICHMAN IN JERUSALEM,
a five-part article she wrote for
THE NEW YORKER in 1963,
while observing the trial of Adolf
Eichman, a Nazi war criminal
who had escaped to Argentina
but later had been apprehended there by Israeli intelligence
and spirited out of the country to stand trial in Jerusalem.
Eichman had been a mid-level SS bureaucrat who had
played a key role in implementing the Nazi effort to
exterminate Jews, although he himself had killed nobody.
The phrase for which Arendt is most widely known
comes from the subtitle of her book about the Eichman
trial: A REPORT ON THE BANALITY OF EVIL. What
Arendt exactly meant by “the banality of evil” has generated
considerable controversy. For a clear interpretation of
the controversy and an excellent introduction to Arendt’s
life and works, the best place to turn is WHY ARENDT
MATTERS by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (Yale University
Press, 2006).
This small book has been written by Arendt’s
principal biographer, the author of HANNAH ARENDT:

FOR LOVE OF THE WORLD. It makes the argument that
Arendt’s focus on “radical evil” is not just highly relevant
for our times, but also useful in clarifying one’s attempt to
analyze and understand those times. It’s a perfect place to
start, and is guaranteed to stretch your brain.
David Ray
Is there a book, film, musical performance, painting, or
scientific achievement that means a great deal to you, and
you would recommend to others? Works that you love or
that have changed your life or how you think? All Honors
College students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit
very short essays (about the length of the one above) for
consideration.
Major Works of Hannah Arendt
• The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
• The Human Condition, 1958
• Between Past and Future, 1961
• On Revolution, 1962
• Eichmann in Jerusalem: a Report on the
Banality of Evil, 1963
• On Men in Dark Times, 1968
• Violence, 1970
• Crisis of the Republic, 1972
• The Life of the Mind, 2 vols., 1978
• Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy,
1982
• Love and St. Augustin, 1996

HSA News
The Honors Student Association exists to serve Honors
Students and to assist in maintaining and improving
the overall experience for students at the Honors
College. In order to do so, the HSA encourages students
to contact their HSA President with their ideas
at hkskaftason@ou.edu. Going on past input, events
this year include a service opportunities meeting, a research
opportunities meeting, a potentially off-campus
fall party, gingerbread house making, Valentine’s cards
making for an area nursing home, TEDtalks, and a pre
Big Event service week. If you want to see something
more or something different, contact HSA! In addition
to regular events, HSA is teaming up with HPMC
(Honors Peer Mentoring Community) to better reach
honors students and to give them access to a more
personal and available mentor at the honors college.
To stay abreast of current HSA event information, join
“OU Honors Student Association” on Facebook! Email
us, and we’ll see you soon!
Helga Skaftason
General Calendar
September 2012
◊ Sept 13th - Music: Masala World Music Workshop- Grupo
Afro-Caribeño: Afro-Caribbean Music & Dance. 4:30
p.m. to 6:30 at Pitman Recital Hall, Catlett Music Center,
500 W. Boyd. For more information, please contact Zoe
Sherinian, zsherinian@ou.edu. FREE!
◊ Sept 14th - Film: UPB presents MOONRISE KINGDOM.
6p, 9p, and midnight at Meacham Auditorium
◊ - Art a la Carte, featuring Live Music w/ BYX- OU a capella
group and The Assignment, a short film. 6-9p at the Fred
Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
◊ Sept 15th - Music: Masala World Music Series- Grupo Afro-Caribeño:
Afro-Caribbean Music and Dance. 8:00 p.m.
to 10:00 p.m at Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center,
500 W. Boyd. Fine Arts Box Office at (405) 325-4101.
◊ Sept 18th -Music: OPOLIS and CAC/UPB present: The
Walkmen, Milo Greene at the Fred Jones Museum
◊ Sept 19th - Art a la Carte, featuring live music w/ the
Dizzy Pickers and Magpiet, a short film. 6-9p at the Fred
Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
◊ Sept 21st -Music: Sutton Artist Series presents Dan
Schwartz, Oboe. 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m at Pitman
Recital Hall, Catlett Music Center, 500 W. Boyd. Fine Arts
Box Office at (405) 325-4101.
◊ - Film: UPB presents BRAVE. 6p, 9p, and midnight at
Meacham Auditorium
◊ - Theatre: Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare. 8p at
the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. Box office: 3251-4101
◊ Sept 23rd -Theatre: Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare.
3p at the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. Box office:
3251-4101
◊ - Theatre: Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare. 8p at
the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. Box office: 3251-4101
◊ Sept 24th -Music: Sutton Concert Series presents OU
Symphony Orchestra. 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at Sharp
Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center, 500 W. Boyd. Fine
Arts Box Office at (405) 325-4101
◊ Sept 26th - Film: Dalit (outcast) Drummers of India.
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Pitman Recital Hall, Catlett Music
Center, 500 W. Boyd. For more information, please
contact Zoe Sherinian, zsherinian@ou.edu. FREE!
◊ Sept 27th - Music: Masala World Music Series presents
Sangeet Millennium Ensemble: Hindustani and
Indo-Jazz Fusion. 2:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Catlett Music
Center, 500 W. Boyd. Fine Arts Box Office at (405) 325-
4101.
◊ - Theatre: Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare. 8p at
the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. Box office: 3251-4101
◊ Sept 28th -Music: Sutton Artist Series presents Suzanne
Tirk, Clarinet 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at Pitman
Recital Hall, Catlett Music Center, 500 W. Boyd. Fine Arts
Box Office at (405) 325-4101.
◊ - Lecture: College of Arts and Sciences presents Greek
Author & Filmmaker Alexandra Belegrati
◊ - Theatre: Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare. 8p at
the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. Box office: 3251-4101
◊ - Theatre: Man of La Mancha. 8p at The Sooner Theatre
◊ Sept 29th - Lecture: A Conversation with Metropolitan
Opera Soprano Molly Fillmore. 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at
Pitman Recital Hall, Catlett Music Center, 500 W. Boyd.
Info: Voice Area, music@ou.edu
◊ - Theatre: Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare. 8p at
the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. Box office: 3251-4101
◊ - Theatre: Man of La Mancha. 8p at The Sooner Theatre
◊ Sept 30th - Music: Sutton Concert Series-Accademia
Filarmonica & OU Chorale. 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at
Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center, 500 W. Boyd.
Fine Arts Box Office at (405) 325-4101.
◊ - Theatre: Man of La Mancha. 2p at The Sooner Theatre
◊ - Music: New Century Ensemble. 8:00 p.m. to 10:00
p.m. at Pitman Recital Hall, Catlett Music Center, 500 W.
Elm Ave. “Chopped Composer Concert” series #1 of 3.
Information: music@ou.edu (405) 325-2081. FREE!
◊ - Theatre: Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare. 3p at
the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. Box office: 3251-4101!
.
For a complete listing of events, go to
http://www.ou.edu/ourpage/

Feed Your Inner Auteur
The Classic Films Watch Group
Every Friday at 6 PM
Room 180/181 David L. Boren Hall
More Information: daniel.meschter@ou.edu

The Wire: Season Two
In a continuation of last semester’s successful watch group, the Honor’s College is
hosting the second season of The Wire discussion series. Critically and academically acclaimed,
The Wire has been described as a “visual novel” and deals with the effects of organized crime,
corruption, and economic decline in the shrinking city of Baltimore. The second season extends
the scope of the first beyond the projects to the docks, throughout the city, and across the
Atlantic.
Structured like other Honor’s College reading groups, we will watch one episode a week
and discuss it afterwards. The group meets each Tuesday at 7:00 PM in Boren Hall (the Honors
College) 180/181.
Haven’t seen the first season? Don’t worry, the seasons are largely independent and
we’ll recap the first one at the first meeting (second week of school, August 28 th ) never-the-less.

You Are Invited!
WaTER Center Symposium
“Critical Water Issues in Today’s World”
The symposium will include discussions with a distinguished panel of jurors for the University
of Oklahoma Water Prize. The University of Oklahoma Water Prize Recipient will give the
Plenary Lecture at the 2013 OU International WaTER Conference
to be held September 23-25, 2013.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Governors and Regents Rooms (Oklahoma Memorial Union): Norman, Okla.
TIME TOPIC
SCHEDULE
1:30-1:45 Overview of Water and Sanitation
Issues and Panel Introduction
1:45-2:45 Opening Statements from Panelists
(Jurors)
2:45-3:00 BREAK
3:00-4:30 Question and Answer Session with
Panelists
4:30-5:00 Announcement of University of
Oklahoma Water Prize Recipient
2012 OU INTERNATIONAL
WATER PRIZE JURORS
Rita Colwell, University of Maryland, former NSF
director
Idrissa Doucoure, Director, Water and Sanitation
for Africa, formerly of WaterAid
Ravi Jayakaran, Vice President, Global Programs,
MAP International
Christine Moe, Director of the Center for Global
Safe Water at Emory University
Marc Parlange, Professor of Hydrology and Dean,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
Switzerland
Dennis Warner, Senior Technical Advisor for
Catholic Relief Services, formerly with WHO in
Geneva, Switzerland
PLEASE NOTE: The symposium is free and open to the public. For catering purposes, we ask that you pre-register
by Monday, September 17 online at http://watersymposium.eventbrite.com/
For additional information or for accommodations on the basis of disability, please call (405) 325-5913.
Hosted by:
Office of the President University Research Cabinet
The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. www.ou.edu/eoo

Joe C. and Carole Kerr McClendon
Honors College
Informal Reading Groups
Fall Semester 2012
Meet just one hour per week with 10-15 students from the Honors College to discuss about
50 pages of reading from specific books on the topics described in the following pages.
The only commitment you make is a good-faith effort to get the reading done and come
to the group meeting as often as you can, with the understanding there may be one or two
weeks when you need to do other things. Meet other Honors students with similar interests.
Our goals are “maximum information and enjoyment, with zero stress.” Books are
distributed at the first meeting of each group.
No tuition or fees
No quizzes or tests
No grades
Free books
Read, think, discuss with other Honors College students
on important topics of mutual interest
Signing up for reading groups begins August 15th. Thirty of the listed
groups begin the week of August 27th - August 31st, and meet from 3 to 14
weeks as indicated in this brochure. There are three groups that begin later in
the semester, as specified. These groups are listed at the end of the brochure.
Books (or, in one case, a flash drive) will be distributed at the first meeting. To
participate in any of these groups, email your request on or after August 15th
to HonorsReading@ou.edu. Groups are filled on a “first-come, first-served
basis, so it’s helpful to indicate a second choice.

Selections from
HERODOTUS
“The first
historian”
Mondays, 2:30 to 3:20
160-E David l. Boren Hall
6 weeks
Written during the Fifth Century BCE,
the Histories of Herodotus are the earliest
Greek prose to have survived intact.
He is often called “the Father of History”
because he was the first historian known
to collect his materials systematically, test
their accuracy to a certain extent, report
their sources, and arrange them in a vivid
and well-constructed narrative. As the
work is massive, this group will read selections
focused on the wars between the
Persian Empire and the Greek city-states.
It is hoped this sampling will encourage
students to read more of the book on their
own. Each participant will be given a
beautiful and wonderfully annotated edition
of the full book.
This group will be moderated by Prof.
David Ray.
Leo Tolstoy’s
Greatest Work
WAR AND
PEACE
Mondays, 12:30 to 1:20
182 David L. Boren Hall
14 weeks
Regarded by many as the greatest novel
ever written, War and Peace describes in
graphic detail events and battles during the
French invasion of Russia, and the impact
of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as
seen through the eyes of five Russian families.
Written over five years and published
in 1869, the novel opens in the year 1805
during the reign of Tsar Alexander I and
leads up to the 1812 French invasion. The
group will read a newly revised version
of the definitive translation by Louise and
Aylmer Maude whose translation was the
one approved by Tolstoy himself.
This group will be moderated by Prof.
David Ray.
NOTE: Because this book is about 1350
pages in length, the group is envisioned
as a two-semester effort. We will read the
first half of the book during Fall semester
and the second half in Spring 2013.
Pulitzer-Prize
winner
Anthony Shadid’s
posthumous
HOUSE OF STONE
Thursdays, 3:30 to 4:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
7 weeks
Born in Oklahoma City, Anthony Shadid
was one of the most intelligent and
talented journalists of his generation. He
twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 2004 and
2010, for his reporting on the Iraq War.
OU had already decided to award him
an honorary doctorate degree at the 2012
Commencement when he died in February
at the age of 43 while reporting the
crisis in Syria. In May, OU awarded the
degree posthumously. This book was also
published after his death, and describes
his effort to rebuild the abandoned house
of his great grandfather in Marjayoun,
a largely Christian town in southern
Lebanon that, after a century of wars, was
battered and decayed. Critics describe the
book as “beautifully written, haunting,
poignant, lyrical.”
This group will be moderated by Dr. Vicki
Schaeffer, Honors College Director of
Recruitment.

TRiUmPH OF
THE CiTy:
mankind's
Greatest
invention
Mondays, 11:30 to 12:20
182 David L. Boren Hall
6 weeks
Written by Edward Glaeser, this brilliantly
written book makes the counter-intuitive
argument that cities make mankind richer,
smarter, greener, healthier, and happier.
In a review by Steven Levitt, the author
of Freakonomics, Glaeser is called “one of
the world’s most brilliant economists” and
the book is called “a masterpiece.” It has
also been described as thrilling, terrific,
gripping, and magisterial. Recommended
highly by both conservative and liberal
journals, as well as Jon Stewart, host of
The Daily Show.
This group is moderated by Honors
alumnus and current doctoral student in
Chemical Engineering, Javen Weston
TimE TO START
THiNkiNG:
America in the
Age of Decline
Mondays, 3:30 to 4:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
7 weeks
Published in May 2012, this book is by
Edward Luce, a British journalist educated
at Oxford and a regular reporter for The Financial
Times. He has written a disturbing
inventory of the challenges and crises facing
America at a time of rapidly growing
economic competition. He argues the US
is in danger of losing its lead in innovation
because of the declining quality of education
and a growing failure to attract and
retain some of the smartest minds from
the rest of the world. Very high and rising
levels of debt combined with an almost
total paralysis in government complete
the bleak picture. Luce argues there are
obvious ways to stop America’s accelerating
decline, but he believes that achieving
them will be very difficult.
This group will be moderated by Prof.
David Ray.
LOvE iN THE AGE
OF CHOLERA:
by Nobel laureate
Gabriel García
márquez
Wednesdays, 8:00 to 9:00 pm
182 David L. Boren Hall
8 weeks
Gabriel Garcia Márquez is a Colombian
novelist, known affectionately as Gabo
throughout Latin America. Considered
one of the most significant authors of the
20th century, he was awarded the 1972
Neustadt International Prize for Literature
and the 1982 Nobel Prize. This book tells
the story of a love triangle over the span of
fifty years, and is written in a style consistent
with “magical realism,” a genre pioneered
by Garcia Márquez. One reviewer
says the book is about love in all its forms:
erotic love, unrequited love, marital love,
platonic love, angry love, jealous love,
adulterous love. It has been praised as
“stunning and heartbreaking” by Thomas
Pynchon, the author of Gravity’s Rainbow.
This group will be moderated by Honors
senior William Lonn.

HiTCHHikER'S
GUiDE TO THE
GALAxy–
the Sci Fi Classic
Wednesdays, 2:30 to 3:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
5 weeks
This is the first of five books in the comedy
science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas
Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the
first four parts of Adams' BBC radio series
of the same name. Join hapless hero
Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with
his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into
horrible messes and generally wreaking
hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from
Earth moments before a cosmic construction
team obliterates the planet to build
a freeway. One reviewer writes: “You'll
never read funnier science fiction; Adams
is a master of intelligent satire, barbed
wit, and comedic dialogue.” A massive
bestseller translated into 30 languages,
over the years it has gradually become an
international multi-media phenomenon.
This group will be moderated by Honors
students Christi Connolly and Taylor
Jensen
THE HOUSE
OF GOD
Life and Death in
an American
Hospital
Tuesdays, 4:30 to 5:20
180/181 David L. Boren Hall
6 weeks
This raunchy, troubling and hilarious
novel has turned into a cult phenomenon
devoured by a legion of medical students,
interns, residents and doctors. It tells the
story of six interns who go from the top
of their medical school class to the bottom
of the hospital staff to serve a year in
the time-honored tradition. Written by
a psychiatrist, Stephen Bergman, under
the pen name Samuel Shem, the novel is
based on his grueling, often dehumanizing
experiences as an intern at Harvard
Medical School’s Beth Israel Hospital in
1974. More than two million copies have
been sold, and the book has served as a
required guidebook for medical neophytes
and a clarion call for the old guard to make
striking changes in the way we train young
physicians.
This group will be moderated by Honors
student Gretchen Scheel.
THE LAST
mUGHAL–
Fall of a Dynasty:
Delhi, 1857
Wednesdays, 3:30 to 4:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
10 weeks
Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal
Emperor, was a mystic, an accomplished
poet and a skilled calligrapher. But while
his Mughal ancestors had controlled most
of India, the aged Zafar was king in name
only. Deprived of real political power by
the British East India Company, he gave
his blessing to a rebellion among the
Company’s own Indian troops in 1857,
thereby transforming an army mutiny
into the largest uprising any empire had
to face. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj’s
Stalingrad: one of the most horrific events
in the history of Empire. This is a “compulsively
readable masterpiece, brilliantly
nuanced. Every chapter has historical
echoes that are still desperately relevant
today.”
This group will be moderated by Prof.
David Ray

GALiLEO:
HERETiC
intrigue and
Controversy in the
17th century
Tuesdays, 11:30 to 12:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
6 weeks
The story of Galileo Galilei and his
condemnation by the Catholic Church is
fairly well known. The Roman Inquisition
and the Pope himself persecuted him for
rejecting Aristotle’s theory of the universe
and embracing heliocentricism. In this
compelling and thoroughly researched
book, Pietro Redondi claims this is all
wrong. While yes, the heliocentric theory
was a point of contention with religious
authorities, the real reason Galileo was
persecuted had to do with his view on
atomism and the way this challenged contemporary
beliefs of transubstantiation
This group is moderated by Dr. Rich
Hamerla, Associate Dean of the Honors
College.
iNSiDE NATiONAL
HEALTH REFORm:
How and Why the
Affordable Care Act
Became "Ten Laws
in One"
Fridays, 12:30 to 1:20
182 David L. Boren Hall
7 weeks
This book is written by John McDonough,
a professor at the Harvard School of Public
Health, who served as senior advisor to
Senator Kennedy during the legislative
struggle to pass the Affordable Care Act
and who also played a major role in the
2006 Massachusetts health reform law.
While he favors health reform, this book
is mainly descriptive. The first third of the
book is a case study of the actual legislative
process as it happened in 2009 and 2010,
while the final two-thirds are an introduction
to the ten different Titles within the
new law, which is truly “ten different pieces
of legislation rolled into one.”
This group will be moderated by Prof.
David Ray.
Neil Gaiman and
Terry Pratchett,
THE GOOD
OmENS
"Fast-paced and
hilarious"
Thursdays, 1:30 to 2:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
9 weeks
As one reviewer writes, “Pratchett (of
Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman
fame) may seem an unlikely combination,
but the topic (Armageddon) of this fastpaced
novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's
wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's
morbid humor; the result is a delight to
be savored and reread again and again.”
When a scatterbrained Satanist nun goofs
up a baby-switching scheme and delivers
the infant Antichrist to the wrong couple,
it's just the beginning of the comic errors
in the divine plan for Armageddon which
this fast-paced novel by two British writers
zanily details.
This group will be moderated by Honors
student Whitney Thompson.

Stephen kinzer's
ALL THE SHAH'S
mEN:
An American Coup
and the Roots of
middle East Terror
Monday, 10:30 to 11:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
6 weeks
New York Times reporter Stephen Kinzer
examines the 1953 CIA-sponsored coup
that removed from power democraticallyelected
Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed
Mossadegh. After nationalizing the
oil industry, previously run by the British,
Mossadegh was the target of the CIA's first
successful major operation to overthrow
a government. Kinzer also notes that the
1953 conspiracy plunged the C.I.A. into
the regime-change business, leading to
coups in Guatemala, Chile and South
Vietnam, as well as to the Bay of Pigs.
This group will be moderated by Prof.
David Ray
mETHLAND:
The Death and
Life of an
American Small
Town
NOTE: First meeting for this group will
be Sept 4th
Tuesdays, 3:30 to 4:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
8 weeks
This dramatic story of the methamphetamine
epidemic as it sweeps the American
heartland is a timely, moving, very human
account of one community s attempt to
battle its way to a brighter future.
Methland tells the heroic story of the small
town of Oelwein, Iowa–and, through it,
the story of drug abuse in Rural America.
During a period of four years, journalist
Nick Reding brings us into the heart
of Oelwein through a cast of intimately
drawn characters, including: the town
doctor, the town prosecutor, and the
mayor as they struggle against the meth
epidemic. Reviewers called the book
“powerful” and “stunning.”
This group is moderated by Dr. Sarah
Tracy, Honors College professor and
Director of the Medical Humanities program.
ASPiRE;
Discovering your
Purpose Through
the Power of
Words
Tuesdays, 1:30 to 2:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
5 weeks
Written by Kevin Hall. noted business
consultant and an adviser on organizational
skills, this best-selling book has
been very highly praised.
According to one reviewer, “this masterfully
written book helps you understand
that words have an inherent power. Used
correctly and positively, words are the
first building blocks for success and inner
peace. Used incorrectly and negatively,
they are capable of undermining even the
best of intentions." By focusing on eleven
words-one per chapter--Aspire! shows
how to use these words as building blocks
for success and inner peace.
This group will be moderated by Honors
sophomore Jake Morgan.

Rudy Rucker's
POSTSiNGULAR
Cyberpunk sci-fi
and the "Rapture
of the Nerds"
Wednesdays, 12:30 to 1:20
180/181 David L. Boren Hall
7 weeks
In his 2007 hard science fiction novel
Postsingular, Rudy Rucker imagines a
bizarre, troubling, invigorating near future
in which humans come to grips with the
technologically mediated evolution which
transcend our biological limitations.
Rucker, a former professor of mathematics,
combines a solid understanding of
hard science with a wildly imagined vision
of humanity immediately after a major
and largely unanticipated intervention of
sentient machines. This novel is both farfetched
and quite plausible, and will give
us an opportunity to examine the ongoing
and inevitable marriage of humans and
machines.
This group is moderated by Dr. Brian
Johnson, Director of the Honors College
Writing Center.
Richard Dawkins,
THE GOD
DELUSiON
The Controversial
Best-Seller
Fridays, 11:30 to 12:20
182 David L. Boren Hall
10 weeks
This international bestseller argues that
there is a conflict between science and
religion, and comes down strongly in
favor of science. Called by The Times of
London “an entertaining, wildly informative,
splendidly written polemic,” the book
has been translated into 20 languages
and has stirred intense discussion around
the globe. One reviewer argues that the
book “challenges all of us to examine our
beliefs, no matter what beliefs one holds:
it is a book that forces us to think.” Penn
and Teller said the book is “smart, compassionate,
true like ice, true like fire. If
this book doesn’t change the world, we’re
all screwed.”
This group will be moderated by Dr,
Marie Dallam, Honors College professor
of religion and culture.
HEmiNGWAy
vs.
FiTzGERALD
The Rise and Fall of
A Literary
Friendship
Fridays, 10:30 to 11:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
8 weeks
Expatriates together in 1920s Paris, F.
Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
forged a close friendship that was fueled
by admiration, liquor, and jealousy. The
author of biographies of each of these two
men has now written an account of their
intense and sometimes stormy friendship
which played a pivotal role in their
development as writers. Reviewers have
described the book as “written with style,
grace, and clarity” and as “bold, risky, and
ultimately brilliant.” Another said that
the author’s “stunning achievement is that
he makes us want to return to Hemingway’s
s and Fitzgerald’s work, the one
place where their unique flames cannot be
extinguished.”
This group will be moderated by Prof.
David Ray.

kurt vonnegut's Novel
GALÁPAGOS
and Collection of
Short Stories
WELCOmE TO THE
mONkEy HOUSE
Tuesdays, 12:30 to 1:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
12 weeks
This group will read two books consecutively, both by the highly
regarded American writer Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse
Five and Cat’s Cradle.Galápagos was published in 1985, and
is the eleventh of Vonnegut’s fourteen novels. The novel questions
the merit of the human brain from an evolutionary perspective.
The title is both a reference to the islands on which part of the
story plays out, and a tribute to Charles Darwin on whose theory
Vonnegut relies to reach his own conclusions. Galápagos is the
story of a small band of mismatched humans who are shipwrecked
on the fictional island of Santa Rosalia in the Galápagos
Islands after a global financial crisis cripples the world's economy.
Shortly thereafter, a disease renders all humans on Earth infertile,
with the exception of the people on Santa Rosalia, making them
the last specimens of humankind. Over the next million years,
their descendants, the only fertile humans left on the planet,
eventually evolve into something quite strange. After reading this
novel, the group will read a collection of Vonnegut’s best short
stories, including some of his earliest and most hilarious work.
The moderator of this group will be Honors student Travis Bates.
Winner of Both the
Pulitzer Prize and the
National Book Award-
THE SWERvE:
HOW THE WORLD BECAmE mODERN
and
Lucretius, ON THE NATURE
OF THiNGS
Wednesdays, 4:30 to 5:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
14 weeks
This group will read two books consecutively, with the second
book actually being the subject of the first book. Stephen Grenblatt’s
THE SWERVE won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction
AND the National Book Award. It tells the story of how, nearly
600 years ago, an alert man took a very old manuscript off a
library shelf, and saw with excitement that he had discovered the
last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic,
On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius-a beautiful poem filled with
the most dangerous ideas. This “greatest discovery of the greatest
book-hunter of the 15th century fueled the Renaissance, inspiring
artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno;
shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein;
and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne
and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson. After reading the
exciting story of the chance discovery of this long-lost work, the
group will read the work itself – De rerum natura – in which the
poet Lucretius discusses the nature of the universe and the mind.
The co-moderators of this group will be Prof. David Ray and Honors
student Daniel Meschter.

GRAviTy'S RAiNBOW
by Thomas Pynchon
and
PICTURES SHOWING WHAT
HAPPENS ON EACH PAGE OF
THOMAS PYNCHON'S NOVEL
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
Mondays, 1:30 to 2:20
160-E David . Boren Hall
14 weeks
This group will read two books simultaneously.
GRAVITY’S RAINBOW is a complex, sprawling novel that has
often been compared to ULYSSES or MOBY DICK. It attained
cult status among college students in the 1970s and 1980s. The
narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II
and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets
by the German military, and, in particular, the quest undertaken
by several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device
named the "Schwarzgerät" ("black device") that is to be installed in
one specific rocket. The book has inspired an enormous amount
of commentary, including two online concordances. In addition
to reading the novel, the group will consider and discuss artist
Zak Smith’s book Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of
Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow.
WARNiNG: This book contains profanity and some graphic
scenes many would consider obscene. if you find such material
offensive, DO NOT sign up to read this book.
This group will be moderated by Honors College students Alex
Aria and Jackson Haffener..
RUSSiAN SHORT STORiES
by Tolstoy and Chekhov,
including
THE kREUTzER SONATA
and
THE DEATH OF ivAN iLyiCH
Thursdays, 10:30 to 11:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
5 weeks
This group will read two books consecutively. The first contains
two novellas by Leo Tolstoy, both of them regarded as short masterpieces.
In Ivan Ilyich, the approaching death of a 45 year-old
judge makes him examine the meaning of his life. In The Kreutzer
Sonata, Tolstoy struggles with the relationships among love,
carnal sex, and jealousy. When published in 1889, it was banned
throughout much of Europe for indecency and has been inspiring
debate about feminist issues and women characters in literature
ever since that time. In a second book, the group will read and
discuss five of the best short stories by Anton Chekhov. All from
his mature work. The stories delve beneath the surface of Tsarist
Russian society, and examine the hidden motives of Chekhov’s
characters and the ways in which social forces shape their lives.
The stories include “The Black Monk,” “The Peasants,” and “The
Lady with the Toy Dog.”
This group will be moderated by Prof. David Ray

v FOR
vENDETTA
by Alan moore
and David Lloyd
Thursdays, 2:30 to 3:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
4 weeks
A frightening and powerful tale of the
loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly
believable totalitarian world, V For Vendetta
stands as one of the highest achievements
of the graphic novel medium, and a
defining work for its creators, Alan Moore
(author of Watchmen and frequently described
as the best graphic novel writer in
history), and David Lloyd, who illustrated
in cinematic chiaroscuro and devised V's
Guy Fawkes-inspired appearance which
has transcended the story and made its
way into the real world, frequently being
used by protesters demonstrating against
the perceived injustices of governments,
financial institutions and other powerful
organizations.
This group will be moderated by Honors
student Michael Wilkinson.
David Wong's
jOHN DiES
AT THE END
"Hilarious and
Genuinely Scary"
Tuesdays, 2:30 to 3:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
10 weeks
Author David Wong has been described
as “a mash-up of Douglas Adams and
Stephen King.” This highly praised work
adroitly spoofs the horror genre while
simultaneously offering up a genuinely
horrifying story. The terror is rooted in a
substance known as soy sauce, a paranormal
psychoactive that opens video store
clerk Wong's—and his penis-obsessed
friend John's—minds to higher levels of
consciousness. Or is it just hell seeping
into the unnamed Midwestern town where
Wong and the others live? One reviewer
notes the book “blends horror and suspense
with comedy – a tricky combination
– and pulls it off effortlessly.”
This group will be moderated by Honors
student Michael Wilkinson.
ESCAPE FROm
CAmP 14:
One man's
Remarkable
Odyssey from
North korea to
Freedom
Tuesdays, 10:30 to 11:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
5 weeks
North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt
and belligerent. Between 150,000
and 200,000 people are being held in its
political prison camps. Very few born and
raised in these camps have escaped, but
Shin Donghyuk did. In Escape from Camp
14, journalist Blaine Harden tells the story
of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens
of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the
world's most repressive totalitarian state.
A book without parallel, this is a riveting
nightmare that bears witness to the worst
horrors, and yet includes a moving testament
to one man's courageous struggle to
retrieve his own lost humanity.
This group will be moderated by Honors
student Kevin Hadley.

THE
UNFORGiviNG
miNUTE:
A SOLDiER'S
EDUCATiON
Tuesdays, 6:00pm to 6:50
182 David L. Boren Hall
8 weeks
The book details author Craig Mullaney's
journey from West Point cadet, to Ranger
School, to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar,
then to Afghanistan, and highlights the
key moments along the way that shaped
his mind and future. Mullaney discusses
a wide range of engaging issues, such as
violence conditioning in military training,
the unique benefits and challenges
of interracial dating and marriage, and
the value of education abroad. I found
his frank description of life as a Rhodes
Scholar particularly insightful, and his
portrayal of leadership during "the unforgiving
minute" in modern combat was
inspiring to say the least. The book has
received substantial praise from critics,
including President Boren.
This group will be moderated by Honors
student Conor McBride
POETRy AND
mUSiC-
A Listening Group
That Explores
the Connections
Between Them
Fridays, 2:30 to 3:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
7 weeks
In addition to reading certain poems, this
group will listen to those poems and also
to selected music that relates to the same
subject as the poem or that suggests parallels
between the poet and the musician (for
example, the group will discuss parallels
between Emily Dickinson and Adele).
Instead of a book, students will be given a
flash drive onto which the music will have
been loaded. Each week the group will
consider five poems and five songs relating
to topics like love, war, or poverty. Poets
like Frost, Wordsworth, Adriene Rich,
Allen Ginsberg, and Langston Hughes will
be considered, and musicians including
Goyte, Bon Iver, Fun, the Black-Eyed Peas
and the Postal Service.
This group will be moderated by Honors
student Kevin Hadley.
Shakespeare's
jULiUS
CAESAR
Read the Play,
Then See the Play
Fridays, 3:30 to 4:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
4 weeks
This group will read and discuss one of
Shakespeare’s best known plays, and one
that is a link between his histories and his
tragedies.
This play is a story primarily about a conspiracy
to murder Ceasar. The conspirators'
plan has many flaws and they must
struggle with the aftermath of what they
have done. Shakespeare uses contrasts
between characters and relationships
to paint a picture of severe differences,
strengths, and weaknesses.
After reading the play, the group will attend
the final dress rehearsal of the OU
School of Drama’s late September production
of Julius Caesar, in which the play is
set in modern times. In addition to seeing
the final dress rehersal, those who wish
to do so may also attend a formal performance.
This group will be moderated by Prof.
David Ray.

THE GiRL ON
THE FRiDGE:
Short Stories
by Etgar keret
NOTE: This group begins
on October 4th and will run through
October 25th.
Thursdays, 10:30 to 11:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
4 weeks (Oct 4-25)
Avant-garde short stories by an author
“who may be the most important writer
working in Israel right now; certainly he
is the closest observer of its post-intifada,
post-Oslo spiritual condition. Kafka said
that literature should be an ax to break
the frozen sea within us. Kerek is a writer
whaling at the ice with a Wiffle ball bat”
[Stephen Marche]. The stories have been
described as “shorty, strange, funny, and
deceptively casual.”
This group will be moderated by Prof.
David Ray.
THE WORST
HARD TimE:
The Untold Story
of Those Who
Survived
the Dust Bowl
NOTE: This group will consist of up to
10 students and 10 older adults who are
part of OU’s Osher Lifelong Learning
institute (OLLi). This intergenerational
reading group will meet in the CCE Forum
Building. The group begins October
10 and runs through November 14.
Wednesdays, 10:30 to 11:30
CCE Forum Bldg, 1704 Asp
6 weeks
Winner of the National Book Award,
this highly acclaimed book “masterfully
captures the story of our nation’s greatest
environmental disaster.” Reviewers
have called it “dramatic, vivid, and
heart-wrenching.” One said “it haunts
the reader from the first page” and “this is
can’t-put-it-down history.”
This group will be moderated by Prof.
David Ray.
EiNSTEiN'S
DREAmS
"A collage of
short stories
about time"
NOTE: This group begins
on November 1st and will run through
November 29th.
Thursdays, 10:30 to 11:20
160-E David L. Boren Hall
4 weeks (Nov. 1-29)
This book became a best-seller by delighting
both scientists and humanists. Author
Alan Lightman, who teaches both physics
and writing at MIT, uses simple, lyrical,
and literal details to locate Einstein
precisely in a place and time -- Berne,
Switzerland, spring 1905, when he was a
patent clerk privately working on his bizarre,
unheard-of theory of relativity. The
book takes flight when Einstein takes to
his bed and we share his dreams, 30 little
fables about places where time behaves
quite differently. It's a mind-stretching
meditation by a scientist who's been to
the far edge of physics and is back with
wilder tales than Marco Polo's. This is a
repeat of what has been the most successful
and popular reading group at the
Honors College.
This group will be moderated by Prof.
David Ray.

The University of Oklahoma
Joe C. and Carole Kerr McClendon Honors College
1300 Asp Ave.
Norman, Oklahoma 73019-6061
PHONE
(405) 325-5291
WEBPAGE
http://www.ou.edu/honors/
DEAN
David Ray
ASSOCIATE DEAN
Rich Hamerla
EDITOR
Cindy Sohl