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We remember when we first got all that spam from Cal the summer before our freshman year.
If we remember correctly, we got shit from CalSO and the Alumni Association, a really shitty DVD and some reading list from the library.
It turns out the library gives the incoming freshman class a summer reading list as it has done for the last 25 years. It’s happened for such a long time that the Oakland Tribune thought it be nice to “do a little story on it”:http://origin.insidebayarea.com/ci_6076181.
The Trib reports that this year’s “reading list is about (oh no!) disaster”:http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/readinglist.php.
So, pretty much, UC Berkeley faculty and staff members suggest that you incoming freshmen read books about depressing topics or about men devolving into beasts or about how horrible the next natural disaster is going to be.
Some notable books on the list include the always horrifying “Lord of the Flies,” some “book about Teddy Roosevelt”:http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/readinglist.php/2007/05/30/the_river_of_doubt_theodore_roosevelt_s_ and “77 Dream Songs.”
How that last book is supposed to instill fear in young freshmen, we don’t know. We hope it’s good though.
Doom, gloom and survival: Welcome to UC Berkeley [Inside Bay Area]
Survival! UC Berkeley Summer Reading [UC Berkeley Library]
