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  • Student's Journal Used for Reading Program Records Three Month Journey in East Africa, Ml Kenya OPI Before members of Western Carolina University's incoming freshman class hit campus in August, they'll be spending time this summer exploring the jungles of East Africa and the summit of Mount Kenya with a fellow WCU student as their tour guide. The approximately 1,300 freshmen expected in Cullowhee this fall won't be visiting Africa in person, but through the words of Western junior Worth Allen, a criminal justice major from Charlotte who chronicled his three-month trip abroad in a journal selected for this year's Freshman Reading Program. Under the program, now in its second year, incoming freshmen each summer receive copies of a book selected by a university committee. The students are expected to read the book before they arrive at WCU in late August, and will discuss and write about the book as it is incorporated into their fall semester studies, said Richard Cameron, director of WCU orientation programs and reading program committee chairman. "Last year we reached a reasonable consensus for selecting our first summer reading title, 'Into Thin Air.' However, this year we were struggling to find the right book," Cameron said. "That's when Brian Railsback (acting dean of WCU's Honors College) brought up the possibility of looking at a journal that one of his Honors College students had done based on his travels to Africa." While many colleges and universities across the nation have implemented summer reading programs for their new freshmen, Western's selection of a previously unpublished work written by a student is unique, said Railsback. "I don't think this has been done anywhere else before," Railsback said. "There are many freshman reading programs at universities and colleges across the country, but we haven't been able to find one that has used a student-written book. It was such a radical idea that our committee spent weeks Island," the book is being published by Thomson-Shore Inc. of Dexter, Mich. Allen will receive $1 for every book printed; the initial run is 1,700 copies. Photo courtesy OPI Western Carolina University student Worth Allen (center) pauses during a climb of Mount Kenya with National Outdoor Leadership School instructors Lloyd Stetson (left) and Muhia Karian Jahi. Allen, a junior criminal justice major from Charlotte, chronicled his three month trip to East Africa in a journal selected for this year's Freshman Reading Program at Western. While many universities have implemented similar summer reading programs for incoming students, organizers of the program at WCU believe the selection of a previously unpublished student work to be unique. debating it, and we had some serious discussions among committee members." Railsback, an associate professor of English, helped Allen edit his personal record of three months with the National Outdoor Leadership School in East Africa into a more polished and readable work. Now titled "In Mind/In Country: From Mount Kenya to Tenewi Railsback was inspired to champion the journal after reading it himself, and being drawn into, as he writes in the book's foreword, "the story of a Western Carolina University sophomore who decided to enjoy a semester without walls, a semester loose from the safety net of middle-class American society." Railsback, Cameron and other committee members believe freshmen will identify both with the story and the story-teller. "Universities have been experimenting with summer reading programs for a while," Railsback said. "They don't always work out because, quite frankly, the students just don't read the book. That's why we decided to take a different approach as a possible solution." "One of the keys is relevance," Cameron said. "A freshman will say, 'Hey, I'm reading about someone my age who is a student at the university where I'm going.' That provides immediacy and relevance," he said. "Worth goes through what nearly all freshmen go through," Railsback said. "He leaves home and goes to a strange place. He struggles with homesickness and with feelings of self-doubt. Readers of Worth's journal will be struggling with some of the same issues as college freshmen." Railsback also believes readers will find the book to be as fascinating as he did when he first looked at Allen's hand-written journal. "I couldn't put it down," he said. "I asked the program assistant to hold my calls and I shut my door. The reading of the journal had £5 pm 30 w&id& Im alt (dkeM>. GlaAUlfie<h.Mi4Aik> >wieiu4(i m- latm Umm 5f3M on ike fynddcuf f^t^i t& fuddiccrfioM. l
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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