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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
CROSSWORD
MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2013
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1 Nicklaus' game
5 Traffic noise
9 Swab the decks
12 Birthright barterer
13 Mimic
14 Lubricate
15 Back-woods beverage
17 Lennon's lady
18 Campus mil. org.
19 Tall and thin
21 Finished
24 "The Price Is Right" guesses
25 Verve
26 Theatrical
30 Once around
31 Lowly workers
32 Eggs
33 Advance performances
35 Pesky flier
36 Peel
37 Secluded valleys
38 Humorous
40 Gull-like predator
42 Past
43 Newly-weds' trip
48 In favor of
49 Black, in verse
50 Aware of
51 Corral
52 Firsties
53 CSA soldiers
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1 Jewel
2 Bear, in
Barce-
3 "7 Faces of Dr. —"
4 5K race, perhaps
5 Thai money
6 Monumental
7 Still, to poets
8 Bouts before the big one
9 Pearly feldspar
10 Pig's call
11 Strata-gem
16 Drunkard
20 Oklahoma city
21 Large brown seawee
23 Tatum O'Neal's Oscar film
24 Prohibits
26 Act
27 Line
28 Lendl of tennis
29 Longruning Broadway musical
31 Nipped
34 Half of XIV
35 Star quality (Var.)
37 Fellow
38 Li'l Abner's creator
39 Shrek, for one
40 Uppity one
41 Griffey Sr. and Jr.
44 Japanese sash
45 Indivisible
46 Wagering loc.
47 Ph. bk. data
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Next year's Common Book will hit close to home — literally.
"The Center of Everything," by university professor Laura Moriarty, set in the fictional town of Kerrville, Kan., during the 1980s, has been selected as the 2014-2015 Common Book.
"It's the first time that we've chosen a book that was written by a professor here at KU," said Howard Graham from the Office of First-Year Experience. "That lends itself to the community aspect of the goal in a really unique way."
receive a copy, Graham said this builds a community and creates a shared academic experience that helps students transition into college.
Incoming first-year and
The novel, the first fictional Common Book, is a coming-of-age story. It deals with poverty, religion, evolution, role models, family and Reagan-era politics, following the fictional character Evelyn Bucknow from 10 years old until going off to college.
"It's not exactly a high-concept plot," Laura Moriarty said. "The readers who like it tend to like it for the narrator's voice and the characters and the ideas."
Moriarty is an English
The University Daily Kansan:
What should KU students who read "The Center of Everything" take away from it?
Laura Moriarty: I would never want to tell a reader what he or she should take away from my book. But for me, the novel is very much about a girl who, at least when she's young, clings to black-and-white thinking as a survival skill. That kind of thinking does serve her for a while, when her circumstances are pretty desperate. But as she gets older, new experiences encourage her to consider a
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degrees at the University.
Laura Moriarty, a University english professor, shares her book, "The Center of Everything," which has been selected as next year's Common Book. The book is set in the fictional small Kansas town during the 1980s.
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CLASSIFIEDS 2B
CROSSWORD 5A
CRYPTOQUIPS 5A
OPINION 4A
SPORTS 1B
SUDOKU 5A
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