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- From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Of all the oddest things...
- Message-ID: <7117@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:56:59 GMT
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- Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
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- 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.
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- 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."
-
- -- Monica Yant and Anna Marie Tabor, The _Observer_, U. of Notre Dame /
- St. Mary's College.
-
- --
- Emil Thomas Chuck eyc@acpub.duke.edu Biomedical Engineering 1993
- THANK GOD IT'S BASKETBALL SEASON!!!!!
- I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm
- good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
-