Opinion: Book nazis—Keep your mitts off my reading lists!
Sunday, October 21st, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Opinion: Book nazis—Keep your mitts off my reading lists!By Ted Pease It’s incredible to me that busy-bodies spent so much of their time and energy last year trying to banish books from library shelves. “Incredible” in its literal sense: I can’t believe that anyone in 2012 a) is still ...
Banned books: ‘Are we still talking about this?’ asks First Amendment ‘absolutist’
Friday, October 5th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »By D. Whitney Smith LOGAN—While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney debated their platforms in Denver, another exercise in democracy took place at the Logan Library concerning First Amendment rights and book banning. Librarian Joseph Anderson invited Ted Pease, USU’s journalism and communication ...
Banned Books Week: ‘Boneheaded, wrong-headed & un-American’
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Banned Books Week: ‘Boneheaded, wrong-headed & un-American’LOGAN—The 30th National Banned Books Week will be observed at the Logan Library this week with a talk by journalism professor Ted Pease, head of the USU Department of Journalism & Communication. [caption id="attachment_8263" align="alignleft" width="300"] New York Society for the ...