The Valpo Core Reader (formerly the Freshman Reader: A Magazine of Student Writing) collects and honors excellent writing from Valparaiso University students who have been through the Valpo Core Program the previous year. These essays address a wide variety of texts and topics and include many genres of writing, including argumentative papers, personal narratives, and more. Main themes are drawn from the curriculum of the Core Program, which is arranged according to important aspects of human experience: origins, education, love, leadership and service, work and vocation, and matters of "life and death."
Work and Vocation Essays
"...And Justice for All" (2008), Mackenzie Flaharty
Making the World A Better Place (2007), Jackie Kondratko
Behind the Badge (2012), Nicole Maenza
The Poop-Eating Bug Doctor (2007), Tony Martinelli
One Sweet Job (2008), Melanie Mosher
The Wonderful Cellist of Oz (2008), Jeffrey Ragauskis
WDSO (2001), Liz Recchia
Not a Teach--An Actor (2006), Alison L. Russell
"We're in Disneyland": Educating America's Youth, One Student at a Time (2007), Kirsten Swanson
Wearing Blue (2011), Brooke Vail
Jeanne Wittmann, PTA: Patient, Temperate, Admirable (2011), Travis Wittmann