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Julie Miller

started out great with really interesting
characters and plot, but then it got to be
more dry and boring — too much fake
magical politics.

Secretary to the
Wayne State
University Board
of Governors,
Executive Assistant
to the President
Hometown: Oak
Park

Adam Herman

Marketing
Coordinator,
Honors College

I read mysteries,
usually with a
lady private eye.
Julie Miller
I think I was
a shamus in a
previous life. I just finished Fire Sale by Sara
Paretsky, which is one of the V.I. Warshawski
books, and Set Sail for Murder, a Henrie 0
novel by Carolyn Hart. Any Faye Kellerman
book, with Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, is
tops on my list.

Kalyan Sreeram
Rank: Freshman
Major:

Biomedical
physics

Hometown:

Novi

Guns, Germs,
and Steel: The
Fates of Human
Societies by Jared

M. Diamond,
and Saturday
by Ian McEwan;
anything sports-related; and random stuff
on Yahoo! and Google News.

Kalyan Sreeram

Lekshmi Nair
Rank: Junior
Major: Biology
Hometown: Ann Arbor

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked
Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. It

Hometown:

Ann Arbor

My current book

is Going Negative

by Stephen
Ansolabehere
and Shanto
lyengar. The
Adam Herman
authors make
it perfectly clear that one medium has
changed the way Americans look at
political candidates: television. The same
device that brings reality television and
24-hour commentary on world events
into our homes has a profound effect on
how we vote and who is voting. Despite
widespread acknowledgement of "election
season" starting sooner and sooner, we
rarely consider that our very democracy,
participation and electoral outcomes are
being shaped by negative advertisements.

Kristin Crider
Rank: Sophomore
Major: Secondary education
Hometown: South Lyon

Genesis of Shannara by Terry Brooks. This is
actually an ongoing fantasy series that is very
well-written and exciting.

Emanuela Bercea
Rank: Sophomore
Major: Biology
Hometown: Dearborn

I'm reading Icons of Evolution: Science or

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Myth? Why Much
of What We Teach
About Evolution
is Wrong by

Jonathan Wells.
Being a biology
major, it is
imperative for
me to investigate
the claims of
science and the
evolutionary
Emanuela Bercea
theory. It is
shocking to
find out that many "facts" within popular
thought are actually outdated. I enjoy
posing questions and then doing my own
research to answer them.

Howard Shapiro

Associate Vice President for Undergraduate
Programs and Professor of Mechanical
Engineering
Hometown: Detroit

I have just read

y no se lo trago
la tierra – And
the Earth Did Not
Devour Him by

Tomas Rivera.
It is assigned
to all incoming
freshmen at
Wayne State
this fall. It's
a gripping
account of the
Howard Shapiro
life of migrant farm
workers dealing with adversity, poverty
and discrimination, yet maintaining their
integrity and clinging to some small rays of
hope. The book includes both Spanish and
English versions, so I'm using this as a way
to brush up on my college Spanish.