Interview

I chose to do this blog post about my interview with Dr. Rudolph Almasy, which is why this post doesn't have a quote as the title. I'm going to be honest, I was very apprehensive about doing this interview or profile for this class. I've never actually done an interview, apart from my senior project in high school. My biggest fear for this project, was trying to find someone who actually does something about my topic. Censorship and book banning are not topics that you hear about all of the time, so I was concerned about not getting the right person, or getting a person who was... against my topic.

I had heard about the organization Sigma Tau Delta and then I heard about the sponsor, Dr. Almasy. I knew already that Sigma Tau Delta took part in Banned Books Week, so I figured that Dr. Almasy would at least have an opinion on censorship and book banning. I was right. I'm not going to include anything from the interview, because I'm sure the profile essay itself will be plastered on here at some point, but I had a reall enjoyable time interviewing Dr. Almasy. He was very humble and modest and also quite hilarious. He had the same concerns I have about censorship and book banning, but as it will say in the essay, he doesn't have the harsh "I'm for book banning" or "Down with book banning" attitude. He's understanding of the certain situation.

I'm not going to go into the details, but he really opened my eyes to many different websites and ideas about censorship and book banning. He also gave me this book to borrow that has an essay on censorship
included in it. I haven't read it yet, but he explained it to me and I really think that it will help out my project. He gave me a lot of information that can use for this project and I was excited about this. Dr. Almasy is a very interesting person and I think that everyone should meet him and have a chance to sit down and talk with him. I had a really great experience doing this interview and I really hope that it pays off and helps in the growing problem of censorship and book banning.