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CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2013
1 — mater
5 Bill
8 Philosopher Immanuel
12 Victoria's Secret wares
14 Needle case
15 Skin cream ingredient
16 Oxen's burden
17 Born
18 Caught some z's
20 "Surprise Symphony" composer
23 Humane org.
24 Neighborhood
25 Many, many
28 Wire measure
29 Vodka brand, for short
30 Pal of Wynken and Blynken
32 Popular
Hawaiian song
34 Stage show
35 Grate
36 Blank verse's lack
37 Write illegibly
40 Sticky stuff
41 Prayer ending
42 French song about plucking a lark
47 Amateur night prop
48 Loose-leaf, e.g.
49 Initial stake
50 Pair
51 Sea eagle
DOWN
DOWN
1 — carte
2 “— Abner”
3 Sequence after JKL
4 To-do list
5 Genealogy chart
6 Melody
7 Scrawny person
8 Calculator component
9 On
10 Microwave, slangily
11 Neck and neck
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13 Neck and neck
19 Antioxidant berry
20 Emoter
21 Met solo
22 Scream
23 One-masted ship
25 Not upright
26 Sole
27 Lather
29 “Pygma lion” play-wright
31 Coloring agent
33 Valencia, for one
34 “Friends” role
36 Libertine
37 Long story
38 “Be a sport”
39 Landlord’s due
40 Attend
43 Depressed
44 Rocky peak
45 Heavy weight
46 — out a living
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Next year's Common Book will hit close to home — literally.
"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."
"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.
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.
Incoming first-year and
"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."
receive a copy, Graham said this builds a community and creates a shared academic experience that helps students transition into college.
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
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.
degrees at the University.
Index
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GEORGE MULLINIX/KANSAN
CLASSIFIEDS 2B
CROSSWORD 5A
CRYPTOQUIPS 5A
OPINION 4A
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SPORTS 1B
SUDOKU 5A
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