Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Committee               Calendar of Events for Summer 2008

SPECIAL SUMMER EVENT!!!

The Great American Pastime on film and in Person: 
American Pastime movie showing and a Lowell Spinners Game!
American Pastime is a 2007 film about the role of baseball in the Topaz Internment Camp, a Utah camp which housed
thousands of people during the Japanese-American internment in World War II *.  After the viewing of the film, participants
will travel to a Lowell Spinners minor league baseball game - 1:30 pm. start time! 

We are asking for a $10 donation to cover the cost of the baseball game.  
Please e-mail Tom Laughlin of MCC at laughlint@middlesex.mass.edu or Steve Nishino of NEJACL at
nishino@nejacl.org for baseball game ticket information.   The film is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by MCC’s Writing Across the Curriculum Program, MCC’s Office of Student Life, and the
New England Chapter of the Japanese-American Citizens League
Sunday, August 10^th, 10:00 am, MCC’s Lowell Campus, Federal Building, Assembly Room

*NOTES: Topaz is the same internment camp where the fictional family in Julie Otsuka’s novel,
When the Emperor Was Divine (the MCC Common Book) end up.  While the film is fiction, it depicts life inside the
internment camps, where baseball was one of the major diversions from the reality of the internees' lives.
Also, watch the movie preview, view movie photos, or read about the history of baseball among Japanese-Americans at the
Warner Bros. Studios official American Pastime website: http://www.warnervideo.com/americanpastime/

*The Common Book

As part of WAC activities, each year, a Common Book is recommended for the whole college, selected for literary quality and
relevance to many subject areas.  Faculty can choose to assign the book to be read independently or teach appropriate
elements within a given discipline.

For further information about WAC and our activities, please contact
Tom Laughlin at ext. 3839 or laughlint@middlesex.mass.edu