Posted on 04/22/2008 12:07:35 PM PDT by 14erClimb
Yale University followed through on its warning Tuesday and banned a student's "abortion art" project from the opening of a campus exhibit after she continued to deny that she fabricated shocking stories of multiple inseminations and self-induced miscarriages.
Senior Aliza Shvarts' controversial piece still could be included in the student show, which runs through May 1, Yale officials indicated.
"Her exhibit is not on display, but it's unresolved as to whether it will be," said Yale spokesman Tom Conroy, suggesting discussions were in progress between the university and Shvarts.
Shvarts kept mum through the weekend and early this week despite the school's calls for her to confess that she lied in describing how she constructed the project. She didn't respond to repeated calls or e-mails requesting comment.
Yale officials warned that unless the art major agreed to say in writing that she hadn't told the truth about artificially inseminating herself and then taking herbal drugs to try to induce miscarriages, they'd yank her piece from the student exhibit, which opened Tuesday morning and closes May 1.
"In this case, we will not permit her to install the project unless she submits a clear and unambiguous written statement that her installation is a work of fiction: that she did not try to inseminate herself and induce miscarriages, and that no human blood will be physically displayed in her installation," Yale College Dean Peter Salovey said in a statement released Monday.
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Watch what Yale’s high standards will demand for punishment of this looser-ess: She’l get either nothing or nothing.
Why pull it - it’s everything Yale stands for.
I’m saying she did this. It was not a hoax. And even the most vehement liberal leftie knows that this is totally abhorrent.
We all have the same sense of right and wrong written into our souls, but some are better at suppressing it.
This act simply pushes past the barriers that most people have built up.
And, there are those that think this is perfectly OK, but know that it is so over the top that it will hurt their “pro-choice” stance.
That's academia code word for psychopath.
Ditto to what you said.
Equally repulsive is that this is called “ART”.
Murder = art. Now that’s the new frontier of “ART”.
In other words, if it’s real, then they won’t display it... at least somebody has some tiny bit of standards left in the world.
Personally I still don't think she did it. The denial is part of the act. But I could be wrong.
I really don’t think that it’s a matter of “standards” at all.
They just know that this is so repulsive that it hurts the pro-choice movement.
Confusing, isn't it? Would the exhibit have been permitted if she had actually inseminated herself and induced abortions? Inquiring minds want to know.
I'm not so sure. If this stunt doesn't get her job offers from Planned Parenthood, it should at least put her on the fast track for a doctorate in Women's Studies.
I am starting to think of her as Miss Yale.
Miss Yale of 2008
Ahh...no mum there...that what all of those 'herbs' made her not be. Actually, real or hoax, she is one sick puppy and needs massive amounts of therapy and non-herbals meds to function in the real world. Yale would be wise get gf some help...
High school students taking abstinence classes ought to be required to view "Four Months, Three Weeks, and Two Days". Any unwed woman who becomes pregnant after viewing this film deserves to be committed to a mental institution.
Howdy, MM! Good to see ya. ;-)
Why do most aborted pregnancies occur??? Because it’s an option.
Wow, MM, didn’t think you’d be in favor of abstinence...
welcome back.
gnip...
Hey there MM...’Happy PA Primary Day’ to you!!! Good seeing you on a thread :)
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