there was one, university of wisconsin-parkside, assigned edgar allen poe and had a poe impersonator come to campus. [laughter] so if it's a dead author, you can always get an impersonator. [laughter] >> if the movie exists, they'll watch the movie and not red the book -- read the book, as often as not. >> well, you know what happened in seinfeld when the judge -- [inaudible] breakfast"breakfast at tiffany', of course, changes the whole plot of the book. >> i don't think i can repeat that, but -- [laughter] yes. >> a three-part question. has any thought been begin to why there's only -- been given to why there's only one common book assigned? why not two? and why not a rotation where one year you have something from the science department that they suggest and history another year, something from art and mathematics, literature, that way? and the third is why not, indeed, have some sort of testing or assignment that -- [inaudible] these kids are coming from high school whether the curriculum is good or not where they're used to accountability. >> so the three-part questions are why n

one university of wisconsin assigned edgar allan poe and had an impersonator, to campus. so for the dead author, you can always have an impersonator come to campus. >> if the movie exist, though watch the movie and not read the book. [inaudible] >> i don't think i can repeat that. >> yes. >> has any thought been given to why there's only one common book and why not a rotation where one year you have something from science department and history and the next year something from art and mathematics in literature. and why not have some sort of testing or assignment for these kids coming from high school, whether the curriculum is good or not but can assess them. >> the three part question are why not more the one book, why not rotation on discipline and the third one, on specific assignments. some colleges do assign more than one book. the question of whether they will actually read it magnifies the more reading is done so it's not very common but it does happen and some colleges do test and it seems to work well and there's a question of why more don't do it. the third, rot