<p>Thelonius,
The common reading changed this year. It is a book not the articles that the new students had to read last year. I would be very impressed if you were able to read that in two hours. I guess it isn't "required" the coordinators at Sid told its advisors that it was required. Here is a link <a href="http://oweek.rice.edu/undergrad.cfm?doc_id=10959%5B/url%5D">http://oweek.rice.edu/undergrad.cfm?doc_id=10959</a> Everyone I hear talk about the book says that it is quite good. The book is called Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, by Elizabeth Kolbert. </p>
<p>me.duh: My job gives me a lot of freedom with the hours. I do the advertisements for the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance, so I work as long as it takes me to do the ad. I also take care of some administrative stuff.</p>