Each semester, the First-Year Writing program invites program faculty to nominate student writers whose work shines for features like idea development, critical thinking, organization, voice, creativity, language use, and writing and research processes. A faculty panel reviewed the nominated works and selected thirteen pieces reflecting a variety of genres, including Narrative, Profile Writing, and Research Argument. This semester’s selections represent writers enrolled in ENGL 11100 College Writing 1; and ENGL 11200 College Writing 2. We hope you enjoy meeting these writers and listening to their voices and ideas through their written work! ( HERE )
"Some want to ban books that voice diverse communities’ lived experiences; other want to make these books accessible to everyone. Yet, as a society that has built its liberal education off of Socrates’ belief that a life well-lived is one well-examined, we need to understand that reading is a liberatory act because it provides readers with cognitive development in the form of healthy escapism."
Read more from Alexis Santana's essay on how we are Liberated through Reading
Make sure to take note of the local Lewis University professors Alexis interviews, along with the bibliography created for idea on where you can start your censorship research!
Whether you knew it already or not, libraries are created to house as many publications as possible for those seeking them for research purposes. So, limiting which titles a library provides would deter the power of research created from them.
And our own policies include the most up-to-date regulations against censorship and in promotion of intellectual freedom, for the sake of our Lasallian commitments of Fidelity to Truth and Wisdom. To quote, we say:
"In accordance with these statements, the library thus endeavors to purchase materials that represent differing opinions on controversial matters, and will select materials without partisanship towards race, gender, sexual orientation, religion."
-- Section IX, Intellectual Freedom, p. 8