Hunger Games - The Movie - November 7

Be there or be square!

Campus Read Essay Contest - Scholarship Opportunity!

To All BSC Students:

You’re already reading, discussing, and writing about The Hunger Games, this year’s Campus Read selection. Shape up those ideas and submit an essay to the Campus Read essay contest!

Full-time students with the winning essay will be awarded a $500 scholarship from the BSC Foundation for the Spring 2013 semester. Note: Part-time or dual credit students will be awarded up to three credits of scholarship funds.

Guidelines

• Submit your best work of 600 words or more.
• The topic for your essay may be anything related to your consideration of the selection.
• The essay may be a critical response to the book or a narrative essay relating your own experiences that relate to the theme of the book.
•  Don’t be afraid to be creative with other ideas.
• Quoted, paraphrased, or summarized material must be correctly cited (any recognized format accepted).
• The essay must be typed.
• Include a cover page with your name, address, phone number, and email address.
• Essays that do not follow the guidelines will not be considered.
• The submission deadline is Friday, November 30, 2012. 
• Essays must be submitted electronically as an attachment and emailed to BSC.CampusRead@BismarckState.edu. 
• Essays will be judged anonymously by a committee of BSC staff, faculty, and administrators. 
• The winning essay will be published in the Mystician.

We look forward to hearing from you!

The BSC Campus Read Committee

More Literary Dystopias

If you liked The Hunger Games, here are a few more dystopian sagas to check out from the BSC Library:

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 
• The Dispossessed: an Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Blindness by Jose Saramago
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (film version in theatres on October 26)

Two Showings of "The Hunger Games" Movie

Mark your calendar! 

Who?  YOU
What?  The Hunger Games movie
When? Wednesday, November 7, 2012
What Time? 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Where? BSC's NECE (National Energy Center of Excellence) - Basin Electric Auditorium, Room 304