summer book club

Quotes:
(referencing Tao Te Ching): If you’re going to only read one book that’s from the Chinese culture in your life, this might be the one. This might be it. ~ Scott Wyatt

I actually have a sweater, I shouldn’t say this, but I actually have a sweater that says, “Don’t bother me, I’m watching a Hallmark movie.” ~ Steve Meredith

Full Transcript:[https://www.suu.edu/presidentspodcast/57/] (https://www.suu.edu/presidentspodcast/57/)

Quotes:

"one of the things he did was he went out and told all kinds of groups—he was on Oprah, he was on every medium he could—to tell people just how dangerous this was."

"we’re seeing significant increases in the number of fatalities on the roadways in the United States. And that reverses a trend of over 50 years of declining crashes. And the most likely culprit is the fact that we’re becoming more and more of a distracted driving society."

"The current law in Utah is basically, it’s run like a DUI. If you kill somebody and you’re texting and driving, you’re looking at a second-degree felony now."

"if you’re on a phone, you can create something called “inattentional blindness” where something is right in front of you, but you don’t see it."

"you’re more than twice the level of impairment when you’re texting as you would have been at a .08 blood alcohol level. So twice the crash risk of a drunk driver."

"every aspect of life, including criminal cases or slight offenses, the quicker we forgive, the quicker we heal."

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Quotes:

"the idea is that we are going to have a summer reading list, one book each month, and we’ve chosen three different types of books"

"If I’m the president of a university where the values we have are teaching and learning, if I’m not learning, then there’s something wrong there."

"Where we’re inviting all of our students who are home for the summer or those that are still in Cedar City or from the Cedar City community, our alumni who are spread out all over the world, this might be a fun way to connect and hold true to SUU’s motto, “Learning lives forever.” Once a T-bird, we’ll always be there for you, and course you don’t have to be a T-bird to join in with us. We want everybody to join. "

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It’s finally time for the first Bossy Britches Book Club! Lisa and Jules have a lot of feelings about Harry Potter, the first book, the Trio, the rest of the books, the movies, Minerva McGonagall and Neville Longbottom, and deathless prose, but our biggest feel of all is reserved for THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS […]

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Jules and Lisa are starting a book club and you’re invited! This summer we’re re-reading the Harry Potter series, one book every other weeks, from the first owl in Privet Lane to the last kid’s kid bundled off to Hogwarts. Drop us a line on Twitter, Tumblr, or in email–or even here in the comments! […]

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