The Office of First Year Initiatives is excited to announce that the next Book-in-Common is This I Believe!

Click here for more information on how you can get involved with the BinC program, and keep checking this website- we'll be updating it with event announcements, resources, and more in the coming months!

Variable Choices by Jacqlynn Hamilton was selected as the winner of the BinC category in the 2013 A&S Student Art Show! Jacqlynn used mixed media (digitally generated image decoupage overlay on canvas incorporated with acrylic) to convey her response to the following quote from The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore:

“What changed was that I found myself surrounded by people- starting with my mom, grandparents, uncles, and aunts, and leading to a string of wonderful role models and mentors – who kept pushing me to see more than what was directly in front of me, to see the boundless possibilities of the wider world and the unexplored possibilities within myself."

To read more about Jacqlynn's response to the prompt, check out her artist statement. Thank you to all of the entrants, and congratulations again to the winner!

"This is the story of two boys living in Baltimore with similar histories and an identical name: Wes Moore. One of us is free and has experienced things that he never even knew to dream about as a kid. The other will spend ever day  until his death behind bars for an armed robbery that left a police officer and father of five dead. The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his."

-Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, p. xi