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Discuss “ACLU's Banned Book Reading”

CMU kids like to take risks. According to the facebook, 287 CMU students list The Catcher in the Rye as one of their favorite books. More than 500 like Catch-22; the same goes for 1984.

Coincidentally, all of these books distracting students from their programming homework were at some point in their literary careers banned. Yes, banned. Deemed offensive, inappropriate, unsuitable, and likely to corrupt minors.

Maybe CMU kids do know how to get wild on a Saturday night.

Last Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh recently had a night to ?celebrate our right to read.? But this wasn?t any ordinary book chat. This one was replete with sex, racism, fetishes, and talking animals. At the 10th...

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