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REGION East Oregonian Page 2A Saturday, April 23, 2016 Banned books given voices Group reads excerpts from challenged literature allowed to do so. Mattie LeDay, for example, read from “And Tango Makes Three,” a children’s book in which two male penguins hatch and raise a baby penguin. “The whole premise of this book is to teach kids the basics of a homosexual rela- tionship through a family of penguins,” LeDay said. “The reason it was banned was for its whole purpose.” Other children’s books read included Shel Silver- stein’s “A Light in the Attic” — banned for being disrespectful toward parents and showing talking animals — and Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are,” banned for being too scary for the age group and showing a child going to bed without dinner. Andrea Simpson chose to read from “Charlotte’s Web” and said she loved the idea of a banned books reading. “It’s interesting to ¿nd out why books that I grew up with have been banned,” she said. “Some of them were made into movies that my grandchildren have seen. It’s sad.” By JENNIFER COLTON East Oregonian “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” — Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” The controversial, uncomfortable and censor- ship of ideas took center stage at the Eastern Oregon Higher Education Center on Wednesday as about 20 people gathered for a Banned Book Reading with the Smoke & Mirrors Literary Group. Alison Timmons, English and writing instructor for Blue Mountain Community College, facilitated the event. “Books are very powerful, but because they’re so powerful, there are times when someone has decided you don’t get to read that book,” Timmons said. “Even if things are controversial and Staff Photo by Jennifer Colton Andrea Simpson reads from “Charlotte’s Web” during a banned book reading at the Eastern Oregon Higher Education Center on Wednesday. even if there are things we don’t agree with, we should have the option to read it. Anyone can walk away, but they should have that option.” Recently, members of the Smoke & Mirrors Literary Group and a creative writing class were asked to research a book that had been chal- lenged or banned. Students could choose any book that had been banned from a library or school in any country. For the American Library Association, a group that publishes annual lists of the most banned and chal- lenged books, a challenge is “a formal, written complaint, ¿led with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness.” In 2015, the ALA recorded 275 challenges, down from 311 in 2014. Wednesday, any book that had been banned or chal- lenged was fair game for the reading, a part of BMCC’s Arts & Culture Festival. The event was also open to community members, and anyone interested in reading an excerpt from a book was Lawsuit over wolf delisting ruled ‘moot’ Even Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” a novel about censorship and the burning of books, has been banned and challenged and was read during the event. Other readings featured Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl,” “Son of Hamas” by Mosab Hassan Yousef and Ron Brackin, Anthony Burgess’ “A Clock- work Orange” and Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mocking- bird.” “To Kill a Mockingbird” is No. 4 on the ALA’s list of banned and challenged clas- sics, falling only behind “The Great Gatsby,” “The Catcher in the Rye” and “The Grapes of Wrath.” According to the ALA’s Of¿ce for Intellectual Freedom, 46 of the Radcliffe Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century have been banned or challenged. Before and in between readings, the group discussed the process of banning books. “It’s ultimately counter- productive,” said Jacelyn Keys, of Eastern Oregon University. “If we don’t own those and understand where we came from, then we will repeat them.” By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Bureau SALEM — An environ- mentalist legal challenge against Oregon’s decision to remove wolves from the state’s endangered species list has been dismissed due to legislation passed earlier this year. Wolves were delisted by state wildlife regulators last year, but three environmental groups — Cascadia Wild- lands, Center for Biological Diversity and Oregon Wild — asked the Oregon Court of Appeals to reverse that decision, claiming it wasn’t based on sound science. Earlier this year, lawmakers passed House Bill 4040, which held that the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife had followed the law in delisting wolves. Opponents of the bill claimed it would deny the environmentalists their day in court. Supporters, on the other hand, argued the lawsuit was ¿led to pressure wildlife regulators while Oregon’s wolf recovery plan is updated. Gov. Kate Brown signed the bill despite environ- mentalist calls for a veto in March, stating in a signing letter that the “trajectory of wolf populations in Oregon remains strong.” The legislation was expected to nullify the legal challenge, which proved correct — on April 22, the Oregon Court of Appeals held that HB 4040 rendered the environmentalist petition moot. Travel Pendleton turning hipsters into ‘tripsters’ Commissioners, said millennials — born between 1977 and 2000 — remain the target audience because they make up 25 percent of the country’s population and account for 21 percent of discretionary spending. And 80 percent of them took four or more “get-away trips” last year. Social media — namely Face- book and Instagram — remains the main tool Travel Pendleton uses to bring attention to the Round-Up City. The marketing effort at the end of 2015 reached 33,000 people with a post or video on Facebook, Beard told the board, and more than 5,000 people “took an action,” such as sharing a video or commenting. Those people, he said, are the most likely to visit Pendleton. Beard on Friday said larger numbers of visitors are showing up in Pendleton from the Portland area. That makes sense, given Interstate 84 is a direct route between the two cities and Pendleton already has some name recognition. An increase By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian Travel 3endleton is re¿ning its marketing messages from hipsters to tripsters. The committee of the Pendleton Chamber of Commerce launched a marketing campaign last year using $10,000 in Umatilla County economic funds to advertise to millennials in certain Seattle neigh- borhoods. At the time, Pat Beard, head of Travel Pendleton, dubbed it “the hipster project.” Now the campaign is shifting from Seattle to Portland, Beard said, and aiming for “tripsters.” He said those are the sort of folks who are keen for an authentic experience they cannot have right in their own back yard. Eastern Oregon offers craft beer, scenic road trips and a real sense of Americana, he said — “things that would appeal to millennials.” Beard, during a recent update to the Umatilla County Board of Didn’t receive your paper? &all 1--522-255 EeIore noon 7Xesday tKroXJK )riday or EeIore 1 a.m. SatXrday for same-day redelivery 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 2I¿Fe KoXrs Monday tKroXJK )riday, a.m. to 5 S.m. &losed maMor Kolidays To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East 2reJonian (USPS 164-980) is SXElisKed daily e[FeSt SXnday, Monday and 'eF. 25, Ey tKe E2 Media *roXS, 211 S.E. 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