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OFFICIALS AT Villanova University have a message for students studying literature: Read the books. To that end, the university has banned Cliffs Notes' guidebooks from the campus store.
"We're trying to make a statement," says John R. Johannes, vice-president for academic affairs. "We want to encourage students to plunge into a piece of literature. It is more important that they ask questions than get the right answers."
The decision has triggered a torrent of criticism from Cliffs Notes and from some students, who call the policy "censorship." Representatives of Cliffs Notes lashed out at the university in a letter that was printed as an advertisement in the student newspaper.
"It is disappointing when students are subjected to book banning and censorship in...