All posts tagged "censorship"
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Anderson’s ‘Speak’ leads readers to answers for addressing sexual trauma
“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” I was sexually assaulted on Oct. 14. Two days earlier the book club...
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English teachers express concern over increased national trends for book bans
Between July of 2021 and June of 2022, PEN America reported over 2,500 instances of banned books which included 1,648 individual books, and English teachers...
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Do not roll back First Amendment freedoms in effort to constrain proliferating fake news
Fake news is one of the most infamous phrases you could possibly utter in present day America. With both the left and right sides of...
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Easily offended to blame for censorship of Huck Finn
“But the truth is, that when a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age...
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Letter to Editor: Banning some sites does not ensure complete Internet safety
Lauren Bannon CFHS Senior A seventeen-year-old student walks into the library and cheerfully greets a librarian. Amiss nothing is. She sits down to a computer...
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School wrongly limits facebook access
Mike Targoff/Letter to the Editor This letter is a result of a unit done in Brian Winkel’s American Literature: 1930 to Today class where students...
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School blocking system overly restrictive
Monica Reida/Staff Writer Like a good journalist, I always research my articles before writing them. But one day, I went searching for information for an...
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Our View: ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ student within his free speech rights
By Robb Klassen 2007 In 1969, three high school students from Des Moines wore black armbands in peaceful protest of the Vietnam War. In response,...
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Model UN returns from Iowa Youth Symposium
CF’s Model United Nations attended the Iowa Youth Symposium in Des Moines for the first time two weeks ago. For those unfamiliar with how MUN works, it’s essentially a...
