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Students will be even more convinced when they hear the story of Jacalyn R. Blume, the Lowell House librarian. "I do feel very strongly that the House collections need to go on HOLLIS to keep them vital and useful, and to keep interest in developing the collections," she wrote in an e-mail message. "I particularly realized this when in a single term, a few springs ago, there were over 700 students enrolled in classes about the Renaissance"--'The Renaissance in Florence' and 'Michelangelo'--"and I heard students complaining that all the books in Lamont and Fine Arts were...
...anxiety begins when the girls are about eight years old. "Did you notice so-and-so is developing?" one mom whispers to another as they scan their daughters' classmates for signs of breast buds--and reassurance that their own girls are perfectly normal. Maybe it's time for Judy Blume to write a sequel to her 1970 classic about training bras and first periods. She could call it Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret's Mother...
...those girls who are now old enough to be Margaret's mother, Blume says she didn't give the poor woman much thought when she wrote the book. Thankfully for that generation of girls--and now their daughters--Blume's main concern was Margaret...
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While Judy Blume has already risen to young Potter's defense, asking, "What's next, the Babysitters Club banned?" there are more practical reasons to prevent the censoring of the Rowling's tales...