HAMPSHIRE STUDENTS READ BANNED BOOKS!

Fight censorship!! Pick out a banned book to read this week!!

THE LORD OF THE RINGS

BELOVED

THE CALL OF THE WILD

A FAREWELL TO ARMS

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST

CATCH 22

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

 

Did you know that these are just a few of the most frequently banned or censored books in the U.S. over the past decades?

Banned Books Week 2013, September 22-28, celebrates more than thirty years of the freedom to read – not only to choose what we read, but also to select from a full range of possibilities.

Here at Hampshire we are celebrating Banned Books Week with a book display in the library of the most frequently banned classic books (see how many you have read!)  and a film series that explores the theme of censorship in four popular movies:  Farhenheit 451, Good Night and Good Luck, The People vs. Larry Flynt and Cinema Paradiso.  Films will be shown in the library basement screening room at 7pm, Monday through Thursday.