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<p>Yes, but what if her advisers and department head approved the project with the understanding that the deception was part of the “art”? That having been the case, she carried out all of her academic approval responsibilities to the t, as far as I can tell. Her advisers, on the other hand, probably should’ve known better.</p>
<p>Her advisor was a first year temp. (So much for that special personal service at Yale!)</p>
<p>^well, that’s not her fault. Maybe the rules of advising should be changed…</p>
<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - With Shvarts silent, project will not go up](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24609]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24609)</p>
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<p>That was the point I was trying to make a page or two ago. For the sake of both students and institutions, regular faculty should be in charge of approving and monitoring significant projects.</p>
<p>And I think barron’s sarcasm in post 82 is entirely warranted.</p>
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<p>This could explain the very hard line being assumed by the administration.</p>
<p>Ironically, this whole hullabaloo will probably hep her art career more than any exhibit possibly could.</p>
<p>Look, I think the project was a lousy idea. (I am anti-abortion, which should give you an idea of what I think of this “art.”) But based on what I’ve read, I think that Yale is being unfairly criticized for failing to have procedures to review senior projects in place. </p>
<p>If you read Salovey’s statement–he’s the provost, BTW, the person who is in charge of the faculty–TWO faculty members have been disciplined. One is probably the adviser. While it was her first year teaching at Yale, I think it’s a bit much to refer to her as a “first year temp.” That may be technically true, but she’s a known artist with teaching experience elsewhere, including MIT. She had experience with “thesis evaluations” at Columbia. See resume. <a href=“Brooklyn Museum: EASCFA Exhibitions”>http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/archive/cvs/249.pdf</a></p>
<p>Based on it, she was a natural choice for an adviser for any feminist art project. </p>
<p>However, TWO faculty members were disciplined. The speculation is that the other was the DUS–Director of Undergraduate Studies–for the art department, Henk Van Assen. Van Assen has been on Yale’s faculty since 1999. I suspect that part of Yale’s internal investigation will include just much Van Assen knew–and when he knew it. </p>
<p>Thus, based on what I’ve read–including on Fox News, which I wouldn’t exactly describe as pro-Yale–it seems probable that Pia Lindman was NOT the only person to sign off on this senior project. The DUS did–and the DUS is the person who has that obligation. </p>
<p>So, I would hazard a guess that Ms. Lindman (the adviser) thought the project was perfectly appropriate–particularly, as I think probable, she knew it was a hoax and no insemination had occured. And then the DUS either also thought it was okay or shirked his duties as DUS. </p>
<p>There’s really not much any university can do BEFORE an incident like this to insure that each faculty member is living up to his job responsibiities and exercising good judgment. And when you get into areas like music, theatre and art, you’re going to have a lot of trouble luring good faculty and students if you exercise too much censorship. This CLEARLY passed any reasonable line in my book, but it looks like two faculty members disagreed with that. </p>
<p>I think a lot of what I’ve seen at MoMA is pure unadultered trash and not “art” either–but obviously the MoMA staff disagrees with me. That stupid donkey excrement on Madonna piece of trash was also “art” allegedly. And we can all argue for hours as to whether Marplethorpe’s --sorry if I misspelled it-- photography is art or porn. </p>
<p>I suspect this will make the lecturer–who already has a job for next year lined up in Germany–a heroine to the feminist art world. She’ll probably benefit more from it than Ms. Shvarts.</p>
<p>Here is Shvarts’s explanation of her art. She is evidently really taken with the word “normative.”</p>
<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - Shvarts explains her ?repeated self-induced miscarriages?](<a href=“http://yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24559]Yale”>http://yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24559)</p>
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<p>“As an intervention into our normative understanding of “the real” and its accompanying politics of convention, this performance piece has numerous conceptual goals. The first is to assert that often, normative understandings of biological function are a mythology imposed on form. It is this mythology that creates the sexist, racist, ableist, nationalist and homophobic perspective, distinguishing what body parts are “meant” to do from their physical capability. The myth that a certain set of functions are “natural” (while all the other potential functions are “unnatural”) undermines that sense of capability, confining lifestyle choices to the bounds of normatively defined narratives.”</p>
<p>^^^Well, call me intellectually limited if you’d like to, but I’m having trouble coming up with any functions for a uterus other than the one normally considered the “natural” one.</p>
<p>If all she is saying is women are not mere baby-making machines, that was old news back in the 1970s, when I was an undergraduate.</p>
<p>I’m sure that I am sexist, racist, ableist, nationalist and homophobic, but the only expression that keeps coming to mind is “nutcase.”</p>
<p>This is the best descrption of the project I have read–from the Yale Daily News:</p>
<p>“The most likely scenario,” said Dr. Edward Funai, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and chief of obstetrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital, “is that all Shvarts was seeing every month was her own menstrual blood. Half of the Yale community sees art of similar quality when taking care of their monthly hygiene.”</p>
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<p>Unless that contravened Yale’s rules (it didn’t - at least not under the rules as they stand now; I suspect it will be a different matter relatively soon), she still did nothing against the rules. What was your point again?</p>
<p>Send her in for a mental evaluation. I’m sure she’d fail. Then they could have her get help, while she rests away from school.</p>
<p>I’m going to take a screenshot of all the pages from this thread and call it “art”. :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>Washdad, I think you may want to rephrase this, as the pronoun in the two different sets of adjectives seem to be the same and both pointing at you rather than the Yale student in the second. ;)</p>
<h1>92:ROFL. Maybe my being post-menopausal is responsible for my failure to see the “art” in that project.</h1>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/nyregion/23yale.html?ref=nyregion[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/nyregion/23yale.html?ref=nyregion</a></p>
<p>Some doozies others have proposed, too…</p>
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<p>Oh no! Yet another decline attributable to menopause.</p>
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<p>I don’t think she is suffering from true mental illness. She’s just a little over the top with her post-modernism. I think she is merely way too full of herself and trying too hard to play what she imagines to be the role of the political artiste making a Statement of cosmic importance.</p>