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From: [e-mail] (EMIL CHUCK)
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Subject: Re: Of all the oddest things...
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][e-mail] (EMIL CHUCK) writes:
]>Article taken from "U. The National College Magazine" for Nov 1992.
]>Published by American Collegiate Network, Inc.
]>
]>It takes a lot of balls to be this artistic at St. Mary's
]>
]>[Picture included]
]>
]>It's just four balls of polyurethane, but it's caused the most heated
]>controversy at St. Mary's College in 15 years.
]>
]>The Great Bulbous Sculpture Controversy began when the untitled work by
]>artist Marcia Kaplan was put on outdoor display at the all women's
]>Catholic college in Indiana.
]>
]>And reaction to the sculpture has run the gamut. "The sculpture is so
]>blatantly sexual that the law was not the appropriate place to display
]>it," says junior Jennifer Rasmussen.
]>
]>But senior Christine Makarewicz says the sculpture has artistic merit.
]>"I was glad to see that it was on our campus," she says.
]>
]>Hard times -- or a hard body -- broke the sculpture and St. Mary's
]>administration leapt to the rescue. President William Hickey decided to
]>move the art indoors where it could be protected.
]>
]>The saga ended in September three weeks later when faculty pressure
]>forced the administrators to move the work back outside.
]>
]>But students like Makarewicz are still bitter. "If you're going to put
]>something that has a possible controversial content, a college campus is
]>the ideal setting."
]>
]
]Why did the artist stop there. They should have added a few breasts and
]perhaps a towering penis. Or perhaps a living sculpture of two men
]having anal sex would have been dandy.  Of course, they would have
]had to move that indoors during the winter months.

Well, I thought that the original sculpture was meant to be a fountain.
A large towering fountain... (Perfect for a Catholic girls college,
huh.)
--
Emil Thomas Chuck    [e-mail]    Biomedical Engineering 1993
    THANK GOD IT'S BASKETBALL SEASON!!!!!
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