From the Denver Post, February 3, 2005
Norwood schools ban book
"Superintendent Bob Conder said some parents were offended by obscene language and paganistic practices in 'Bless Me, Ultima,' a 1972 coming-of-age novel by Rudolfo Anaya about a 7-year-old boy who experiences life through the different prisms of his staunch-Catholic mother Luna and Ultima, a curandera who uses herbs and magic to heal. 'There weren't so many parents who were concerned, but when it was brought to my attention I was concerned,' Conder said Wednesday. 'It's less a matter of censorship than a matter of sponsorship. That's not the kind of garbage I want to sponsor at this high school.'"
More here.
And an update here (from the Grand Junction Sentinal, 2/4/2005) about student actions to protest the ban.
