Many college students face food insecurity. The feature article of the winter 2024 issue of Washington State Magazine, written by Adriana Janovich, explores how the WSU Common Reading Program educates and assists.
The WSU Common Reading Program welcomes Priya Fielding-Singh, author of this year’s book, How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America, for an invited lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 15, at the CUB Senior Ballroom on the WSU Pullman campus, followed by a book-signing. The talk will be streamed live. The event is free and open to the public. At noon that day, a special question-and-answer session is offered to WSU students systemwide who register prior to the Q&A.
Paperback copies of How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America are available at no cost from the Common Reading Program for instructors and staff at four campuses who are considering using the book for first-year students’ courses and programming. “Thanks to support from Provost and Executive Vice President and WSU Pullman Chancellor Elizabeth Chilton, copies of the book will be provided this summer to first-time, first-year students at the WSU Pullman, Vancouver, Tri-Cities, and Global campuses,” said Karen Weathermon, program director.
The nonfiction book, “How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America,” has been selected as the common reading book to be used by first-year and other Washington State University students across classes throughout 2024-25. “One of the many honors of serving as Provost is the opportunity to select the Common Read for all incoming students,” said Provost and Executive Vice President and WSU Pullman Chancellor Elizabeth Chilton. “‘How the Other Half Eats‘ explores the many ways that food—and access to food—underscores issues of social inequality in American society.”
