The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Special Events

August

• Educator Workshops (full details of the workshops)

September

• Library display case devoted to Vietnam materials and materials related to other wars (on display throughout the month of September).

• September 21
  "Tour of Duty" presented by Bobby Muller, Nobel Prize Winner (sponsored by the Honors Program). 202B BTSU, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  

  Bobby Muller seeks to provoke thoughtful and penetrating conversation about a host of national security issues, including our national security and the war against terrorism, our foreign policy and America's role in world politics, the real consequences of war, and the possibility of the draft. There will be ample time for audience questions after the presentation.

  Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Bobby is a Vietnam veteran who, while leading an assault, became paralyzed from the chest down when a bullet severed his spinal cord. He is founder and President of Vietnam Veterans of America, co-founder of the prize-winning Campaign to Ban Landmines, and the Nuclear Threat Reduction Campaign. Bobby is a speaker of exceptional quality, and we are very fortunate to have him on campus.

• September 23-26
  BGSU Theater department production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons

October

• October 1
  Educator Workshop facilitated by Dr. Brett Holden from 11:30-1:00 in the Pallister Conference Room of Jerome Library.
• October 20 (full details of author visit)
  Tim O'Brien will speak from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in 101 Olscamp with a book signing in the lobby immediately following.
• October 15-16
  Alumni Book Discussions

November

• Discussion with Joe Mahr, one of the Toledo Blade's Pulitzer Prize winning journalists responsible for the Special Report on Tiger Force, an elite fighting unit in Vietnam.

Resources

Library Resources

• Research Aid: The Sixties
• Research Aid: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Modern Warfare

Web Resources

Book discussion questions

• Random House Reader's Companion, http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/thingstheycarried_bgc.html
• Reading Group Guides, http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/things_they_carried.asp
• Discussion questions by Todd Pierce, instructor at Florida State University, http://mailer.fsu.edu/~tjp4773/thingsquestions.html

Vietnam

• The Toledo Blade's Pulitzer Prize winning Special Report on Tiger Force, an elite fighting unit in Vietnam, http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SRTIGERFORCE
• Women of the Vietnam War: Visit to the Vietnam Wall Experience will have special meaning for Fremont military nurse by Ann Weber, The Blade staff writer. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73176050552293&Avis=TO&Dato=20040627&Kategori=ART16&Lopenr=40627013&Ref=AR
• The Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/
• Vietnam Wall Memorial, http://thewall-usa.com/
• Military/Nam Language Site--Glossary of Army Lingo used in Vietnam, http://www.ov-1.com/misc/lingo.html
• Photojournal site about Vietnam, http://www.vietnampix.com/
• PBS Series about Vietnam, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/
• Viet NOW--A National Veterans Group, http://www.vietnow.com/vietnow.htm
• Glossary of Vietnam terms, http://www.refstar.com/vietnam/glossary.html
• Glossary of Military Terms & Slang from the Vietnam War, http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Glossary/Sixties_Term_Gloss_A_C.html
• Studying the Vietnam War Online, http://www.refstar.com/vietnam/online_study.html
• A Study Guide to the Vietnam War, http://www.refstar.com/vietnam/index.htm

Related Sites

• Selective Service System, http://www.sss.gov

Video Resources

• War Movie Database, http://www.geocities.com/warmoviedatabase/mvietnam.html

2004 CRE Summary

Known Participants

• Approximately 2,500
• All sections of Univ-100
• Select sections of English 110/111, ACS
• BG eXperience, Chapman Learning Community, Honors
• Bowling Green High School students in Humanities AP class

Assessment or Evaluation

Committee Members

• Colleen Boff, First-Year Experience Librarian
• Kristin Colella, student
• Susan Darrow, Honors
• Meredith Flynn, Chapman Learning Community and Theater
• Brady Gaskins, Recreational Sports, Asst. Dir./ Progs & Prmtns
• Brett Holden, Chapman Learning Community
• Lynn Houtz, Arts and Sciences
• Tom Klein, Chapman Learning Community, Director
• Holly Myers-Jones, Environmental Programs, Director
• Donna Nelson-Beane, General Studies Writing Program, Director
• Ryan Schroeder, Graduate Student
• Lucy Shetzer, GSW
• Mary Beth Skelly, Academic Enhancement, Assistant Director
• Yvonne Stoner, Bookstore
• Roger Thibault, College of Arts and Sciences, Associate Dean
• Jodi Webb, First-Year Experience Program, Director
• Matt Webb, Health and Human Services, Assoc. Dir. Program Advisement
• Margaret Weinberger, Sociology

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