Sanitization and Self-Censorship in the Arts

October 11, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes A board consisting of educators from UVU’s arts programs held a panel discussing self-sanitation in the arts September 27 as part of UVU’s Ethics Awareness Week. The focus of this panel was self-imposed restrictions. “Are there themes or content that are avoided in the arts because of the fear of offending or creating backlash?” Courtney […]

Piracy is bad, censorship is worse

January 18, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Twitter feeds are buzzing with chatter, hashtagged with words like SOPA, PIPA, censorship and blackout. Wikipedia, with estimated daily web traffic numbering in the tens of millions, was dark Wednesday in protest of current legislature working its way through the US House Judiciary Committee. The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act […]

Banned Book Week: fighting against censorship

September 26, 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutes Imagine walking down the street and encountering a rally. People are holding signs and echoing the slogans shouted from an unseen blow horn. Everyone is gathered around a giant bonfire whose smoke billows upward, tainting the blue sky. Weaving around the angry protestors reveals a bonfire composed not of wood, but of hundreds of books, […]