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From the pages to the big screen - to the Wall
Committee hopes Wall of Reading will 'build a culture of reading on campus'
Kimberly Tsao
Issue date: 3/18/08 Section: News
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The wall is a large piece of paper that allows students and employees to scribble down their thoughts on a literature-related theme. This semester, the theme is "books made into movies."
"The committee just thought that was going to grab the most attention," said Annette Nellen, director of the campus reading program. They considered other themes, such as books about immigrants, science fiction, mothers and daughters as well as books about fathers and sons.
When the wall first went up, there were already comments about books such as "Harry Potter" and "Gone with the Wind" to jumpstart responses. Now, the space is filling up.
"There's a remark about the 'Artemis Fowl' series," said Kim Nguyen, a junior accounting major. "So I supported that remark."
"The lobby of Clark Hall seems to be working for us," Nellen said. "It's a high-traffic area there both for students and employees."
In the future, the campus reading program committee might put the wall on wheels and move it around campus.
"It should be moved around so it's more accessible to students 'cause I didn't even know what it was 'cause I don't even go to Clark Hall," said Sharmika Higgins, a graduate social work major. "I just haven't been in there I guess since they changed it into, like, a study room."
She said she goes to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library or the Student Union instead.
"One of our goals in the reading committee is to help build a culture of reading on campus," Nellen said. "We run into people who have never heard of the campus reading program."
"I don't know much about it," Nguyen, 21, said. "It's good that it's out there because nowadays people don't take time to actually read out of enjoyment. It's more of just reading textbooks because you have to - if that."
The wall will stay up until April 1. The committee started it last Spring to tie into SJSU's 150th anniversary celebration. The theme was "great novels of the past 150 years."
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