Book club adresses addiction with new reading selection
Leslie Philip
The MCC community houses many different clubs for students to get involved in.”This is such a great opportunity for our students, faculty and staff members to mix and mingle together on campus,” said Kate Mohler, a full-time faculty member in the English department.
“Book Club provides a unique community-building college experience. “
Book Club also offers extra credit opportunities for students that join.
“We always provide two sets of discussion questions to all Book Club members.in other cases, students simply write out answers to the discussion questions and submit those to their instructor,” Mohler said.
Mohler also feels that Book Club will help participants develop and exercise analytical skills, and will help students feel active and involved.
“On a campus like ours, sometimes it’s difficult to develop friendships and contacts.
“Book Club provides an important social opportunity as well. We want students to feel that they belong here,” Mohler said.
The book Methland was chosen because of the subtitle, “The Death and Life of an American Small Town.”
“We chose this book in order to bring what is often a hidden or shameful topic, as addiction often is, out in the open,” Mohler said.
