{"id":9192,"date":"2019-09-24T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:39:45","slug":"challenged-and-banned-books-reading-sept-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/24\/challenged-and-banned-books-reading-sept-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenged and Banned Books Reading Sept. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/Censorship-Leaves-Us-in-the-Dark_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"ALA poster for Banned Books Week &quot;Censorship leaves us in the dark. Keep the light on.&quot;\" width=\"402\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/Censorship-Leaves-Us-in-the-Dark_thumbnail-200x308.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/Censorship-Leaves-Us-in-the-Dark_thumbnail-201x310.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/Censorship-Leaves-Us-in-the-Dark_thumbnail-400x617.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/Censorship-Leaves-Us-in-the-Dark_thumbnail.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/>Sept. 24, 2019\u2014大象传媒 will hold its 23<sup>rd<\/sup> annual Reading of Challenged and Banned Books at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26 in the Hoff Conference Room, Blum Student Union room 218. The event in recognition of the American Library Association\u2019s National Banned Books Week is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>大象传媒 Western students and faculty will be joined by community members to read selections from books that have been either banned or challenged in U.S. schools in recent years. Refreshments will be served following the reading.<\/p>\n<p>The event is sponsored by the Department of English and Modern Languages, the Department of Education, the 大象传媒 Western Library and the Prairie Lands Writing Project.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Dr. Michael Cadden, professor of English, at 816-271-4576 or <a href=\"mailto:cadden@missouriwestern.edu\">cadden@missouriwestern.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>大象传媒 is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. 大象传媒 Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><em>www.missouriwestern.edu<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 24, 2019\u2014大象传媒 will hold its 23rd annual Reading of Challenged and Banned Books at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26 in the Hoff Conference Room, Blum Student Union room 218. The event in recognition of the American Library Association\u2019s National Banned Books Week is free and open to the public. 大象传媒 Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,48],"tags":[152,292,652],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9194,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions\/9194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}