Marshall University does not ban books! The information is provided to let people know what has been banned/challenged elsewhere.
2011
Pulled from circulation at the Cheatham (TN) Middle School. The anthology contains a selection from Paul Monette’s Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir, chronicling how Monette coped with a Lover’s death from AIDS. The book talks frankly about past promiscuity and uses profanity. School policy was changed after the complaint. The previous policy kept challenged books available in the library until two weeks after the review process was complete. Now the book is removed and a decision is made within forty-eight hours.
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A Banned book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.
A Challenged book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.
For additional information contact
Ron Titus, titus@marshall.edu
304-696-6575
Last updated
September 14, 2011