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NEWS
| SEPTEMBER 23, 2005
Campus Briefs
Nursing Society celebrates
anniversary this weekend
Glitz and glamour will be the healing elixir of the evening Friday
at 6 p.m. as the Delta Theta chapter of the National Honor Society
of Nursing holds its 25th annual gala at the Renaissance Worthington
Hotel in Fort Worth.
The two-day event will include a guest speaking seminar Saturday
morning in the Rio Grande Ballroom in the University Center, with
speeches by Honor Society President Daniel Pesut, and other Sigma
Theta Tau representatives.
“It’s about visiting old friends, making new ones and
celebrating the field of nursing,” said Nursing Clinical Instructor
Suzan Kardong-Edgren.
The speaking portion of the gala will focus on “Evidence-based
Leadership in the Practice of Nursing,” a theme Pesut has
sought to reinforce throughout his presidential tenure.
Tickets to the dinner and seminar are $90 respectively, and $110
at the door for the seminar, but chapter sponsors are trying to
encourage attendance by offering nursing students free tickets to
both events.
“These students are our potential future members,” Kardong-Edgren
said. “We want to give them the chance to hear these expert
speakers they normally wouldn’t get to hear.”
For information, call 817-272-2776.
— Patrick Golightly
Central Library to display banned books Saturday
The beginning of Banned Book Week is Saturday, marking a nationwide
effort by libraries to promote debate and combat censorship.
The Central Library will put up a display in Sam’s Click Café,
with materials which have been challenged throughout the years as
either inappropriate or offensive.
The focus of this year’s Banned Book Week, according to the
American Library Association’s Web site (http://www.ala.org)
is books with homosexual themes.
The site listed banned titles including:
•Captain Underpants series — offensive language, modeling
bad behavior
•The Perks of Being a Wallflower — homosexuality, sexual
content, offensive language
•What My Mother Doesn’t Know — sexual content,
offensive language
•In the Night Kitchen — nudity, offensive language
•King & King — homosexuality
•I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — racism, homosexuality,
sexual content, offensive language, unsuited to age group
•Of Mice and Men — racism, offensive language, violence
— C J Patton
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