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More than 3,000 incoming first-year students will explore how events of 50 years ago may affect the lives of modern women during this year\u2019s Common Read discussions Friday, Aug. 31.<\/p>\n

This is the seventh annual \u201cCommon Read<\/a>\u201d for new students, and this year the text is an article from Smithsonian Magazine about protests at the 1968 Miss America pageant. The goal of the program, which is part of Panther Academic Welcome, is to give new students a chance to get to know other incoming first-year students, to be exposed to the experience of college-level academic discussion and to meet faculty and staff from around campus. This year, for the first time, students will be grouped by schools and colleges.<\/p>\n

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Roxane Gay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year\u2019s Common Read will focus on a January 2018 Smithsonian article by Roxane Gay, \u00a0\u201cFifty Years Ago, Protesters Took on the Miss America Pageant and Electrified the Feminist Movement<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article explores how protests at the 1968 Miss America Pageant brought the conversation about images and attitudes toward women into the mainstream.<\/p>\n

51ÁÔÆæ students, with the help of 56 facilitators from 51ÁÔÆæ faculty and staff, will have an opportunity to discuss how the protests shaped the modern feminist movement. They will also be able to look at how such current events as the Women\u2019s Marches and the #MeToo movement are focusing on similar themes today, and how these changes have affected women of color and other marginalized groups.<\/p>\n

Gay, the author of the Smithsonian article, will speak on campus<\/a> Thursday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Wisconsin Room of the 51ÁÔÆæ Union. Gay is the award-winning author of \u201cHunger\u201d and \u201cBad Feminist,\u201d which NPR named one of the best books of the year in 2014. A professor of English at Purdue University, her work analyzes issues around feminism, race, gender and sexuality.<\/p>\n

The event, sponsored by Zeta Sigma Chi Multicultural Sorority and Student Involvement, is free to 51ÁÔÆæ students; $5 for non-51ÁÔÆæ students; $8 for the campus community and $10 for the general public. Advance tickets are available at the 51ÁÔÆæ Union Information Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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