By: Travis Archie<\/p>\n
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Giver, Lord of The Rings, The Harry Potter series, and The Hunger Game Trilogy; all of these books have something in common, they are banned.<\/p>\n
Even in the 21st<\/sup> century, books are still being banned because their content is deemed inappropriate for certain age groups. Banned books week began in 1982 by library activist Judith King.<\/p>\n The movement is supported by the American Library Association, the American Booksellers Association , American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression Association, American Society of Journalist and Authors, National Association of College Stores and The Center for the Book by The Library of Congress.<\/p>\n \u201cFor a book to be labeled \u2018banned,\u2019 the book usually contains sex, religion and violence,\u201d Dr. Shea Stuart said.<\/p>\n Stuart is a professor of English at Gardner Webb, who is supervising the banned books week, September 22 through September 26, along with Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors Society.<\/p>\n Banned books reading on the quad has expanded to a full week rather than last year\u2019s day event.<\/p>\n \u201cThere will be a display in the library, a movie night and Reading on the Quad,\u201d said Stuart. Wednesday, September 24 at 8 p.m. there will be an Open Mic session at the Broad River Coffee Shop and students are encouraged to read a banned poem or a passage from a banned book.<\/p>\n Thursday, September 25 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. there will be Reading on The Quad. At 7 p.m. on Friday, September 26, banned books week will conclude with a movie, Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, in Stewart Hall of the Tucker Student Center.<\/p>\n Stuart said popcorn will be provided but you have to bring your own wand.<\/p>\n What Stuart hopes students will take away from this week is for people to know that the banning of books still happen and for people to think for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Travis Archie To Kill a Mockingbird, The Giver, Lord of The Rings, The Harry Potter series, and The Hunger Game Trilogy; all of these books have something in common, they are banned. Even in […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwu-today.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwu-today.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwu-today.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwu-today.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwu-today.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gwu-today.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwu-today.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwu-today.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwu-today.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwu-today.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}