A number of people have asked t h a t ACTFL's budget b e published. I would welcomt letters from you suggesting questions or issues which you would like m e t o consider, ,My address and telephone number appear at t h e end of t h e article. Provide information concerning ACTFL affairs, and to serve as a medium wherebyt as your president can express views on foreign language education. For t h e next year, we would pay half of t W e have rent-free space from MLA a t t h e presenl address until I September 1976. Some members a r e under t h e impression t h a t t h e ACTFL Headquarters will changc I x a t i o n in t h e near future. The one f o r 1976 wi! appear in t h e April 1976 issue of &. R' budget will b e published in t h e f u t u r e as a routine procedure. When ACTFL became independent of MLA, a simple budget system was designed by our ow accountant, according to established procedures and especially for our needs. GradeSaver, 30 September 2009 Web.A Message from the President A Message from the President
"The Catcher in the Rye Catcher in the Rye: A History of Censorship". Soman Chainani and Adam Kissel, Octoand ed.
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Next Section Related Links Previous Section Chapters 21-26 Summary and Analysis Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Ross, J.J. Parents tend to call the book a sort of anti-social Bible that deserves to be exterminated from school curricula. And Robert John Bardo, who murdered Rebecca Schaeffer, was found carrying the book when he visited her apartment. John Hinckley, Jr., who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was also alleged to have been obsessed with the book. Chapman also read a passage from the book at his sentencing. These fans include Mark David Chapman, who assassinated John Lennon and was found carrying the book afterwards. Many of these parents point to the known obsessive fans of Salinger’s novel, who have gone on to destructive infamy. Some object to the frank discussion of sexuality, others to the main character’s godlessness, and some simply to the portrayal of misanthropy. Parents in Ohio, Alabama, Florida, North Dakota, California, Mississippi, Illinois, and New Hampshire have all complained to their school boards and had the book banned for a variety of reasons. Capitalizing on anti-Communist sentiment, the parents quickly saw their complaints validated when the school board banned the book. They even stated boldly that it was part of a Communist plot, one that was gaining such a foothold in the schools that “a lot of people are used and may not even be aware of it” (Sova 3). Parents in a small Washington town asserted that the book had nearly 800 instances of profanity. In the 1970s and 1980s, the book again became the subject of intense censorship. Still, parents were given the right to prevent their children from reading the book. The board ultimately relented, banning the book for everyone but Advanced Placement students, who they ruled could understand and appreciate the novel’s universal message. They also claimed that it was “explicitly pornographic” and, predictably, “immoral” (Sova 2). Soon after, parents in New Jersey complained to their school board about the book’s “filthy and profane” language and its apparent promotion of premarital sex, homosexuality, and perversion. Parents objected, and the school board voted to ban the book. Ten years later, controversy emerged again in Pennsylvania when the book was assigned in a local literature class.
Ultimately the bookseller dropped the book from his inventory in order to avoid further scandal. The group went so far as to take vigilante action, parking a “Smutmobile” outside the hearing in the hopes of swaying the decision. In 1976, a legislative hearing in Oklahoma City involved a local censorship group seeking to prevent a bookseller from vending the book. Teachers were fired for assigning the book to students, and numerous boards debated the book’s place in the classroom. Between 19, it was the most frequently banned book in schools. The Catcher in the Rye has long been a lightning rod for controversy over the years, generating many calls for censorship, some of them successful, thus making it a central work in 20th-century and even censorship debates.
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