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What freshmen are reading

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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.

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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.

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—Larry Gordon

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