{"id":534,"date":"2012-09-24T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamp1.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=534"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:17:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:17:45","slug":"banned-books-reading-scheduled-oct-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2012\/09\/24\/banned-books-reading-scheduled-oct-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Reading Scheduled Oct. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western State University will hold its 16<sup>th<\/sup> annual Reading of Challenged and Banned Books at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2 in the Enright Community Rooms, Spratt Hall 214-216.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Western students and faculty and members of the St. Joseph community will hold a reading of books that have been either banned or challenged in U.S. schools in recent years. Refreshments will be served following the readings.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The reading, in observance of the American Library Association\u2019s Banned Books Week, is sponsored by the department of English, foreign languages and journalism; the department of education; the Missouri Western State University Library; Prairie Lands Writing Project; and SNCTE, the Student Affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Dr. Michael Cadden, professor of English, at 816-271-4576; Dr. Michael Smith, professor of education, at 816-271-4514; or Julia Schneider, library director, at 816-271-4369.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University 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. Missouri 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>Missouri Western State University will hold its 16th annual Reading of Challenged and Banned Books at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2 in the Enright Community Rooms, Spratt Hall 214-216. Missouri Western students and faculty and members of the St. Joseph community will hold a reading of books that have been either banned or challenged in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[152,329,342,499,634,652,686],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}