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From Yale women to Shvarts: Consider the repercussions
To the Editor: Dear Aliza, Upon hearing the extent of your enterprising senior art project, a few of your sisters and fellow travelers in the academy would like to respond to you, as a woman and a young academic. This week, you have sparked a heightened level of consideration of the limits of modern artistic expression, and we are struck by the extent to which you have...
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Shvarts’ stunt disregards human life, embarrasses Yale
To the Editor: Aliza Shvarts’ supremely inelegant stunt embarrassed herself and Yale, showed a shockingly callous disregard for the sanctity of human life and served as a blatant act of cruelty to all women who have endured the pain and sadness of miscarriage. The reputation of Yale and its student body has been incalculably damaged. Franklin Raff April 18 The...
Yalies give back to city beyond Community Service Week
To the Editor: Chris Merriman’s article (“Day of service expands to week-long volunteering,” 4/22) starts with a misleading statement: “This year, Yalies will have not just a day, but a whole week to give back to New Haven.” While Community Service Week has indeed been expanded, Yale students already spend thousands of hours teaching in New Haven schools...
Pro-choice groups: Shvarts within her rights, but wrong
To the Editor: Free speech invites counter-speech, so we, the members of the pro-choice community at Yale, are issuing this response to the actions of Aliza Shvarts ’08. Although we stand by the right to reproductive freedom, we cannot approve of her approach and presentation. The facts concerning the controversy remain unclear, but the consequences are very real and...
Shvarts’ self-aggrandizing art project is evidence of a brain without a conscience
To the Editor: Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement. And legally speaking, she unfortunately has every right to do so. But by aborting as many pregnancies as possible, the intention of her statement is not “to scandalize anyone.” Hogwash. I’m tempted to speculate that when the magnificent The Interventionist’s Twizzlers-in-the-British-Art-Gallery-Plan...
Shvarts’ actions offensive on multiple levels, trivialize ‘right to choose’ to boot
To the Editor: Aliza Shvarts’ actions are repellent on every level: Physical: Obviously, one of the more viscerally disgusting things ever. She might as well have repeatedly induced tumor growth and received chemotherapy. It could be no more insulting. Intellectual: An egregious negligence of advisorial responsibility. [Adviser] Pia Lindman should be fired, not only...
Schvarts’ senior project ‘not art,’ detached from ‘authentically human experience’
To the Editor: Beginning Tuesday, April 22, Yale College senior Aliza Shvarts will open her senior art project for an exhibition. The project is self-billed as one which “lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be.” I will not attend, and I hope no one does. It is not art. For nine months, Shvarts has been artificially inseminating herself “as often as...
‘Mindlessly transplanting’ stereotypes, Fulmer erred
To the Editor: In his column, “Either go big, Bulldogs, or just go home” (4/15), Ned Fulmer claims that the athlete/non-athlete divide that exists at Yale is the byproduct of athletic recruiting and that we live with this necessary evil even though that athletic recruiting which causes it is only gingerly pursued. The column overlooks, however, the fundamental...
In other news, Richard Levin may rank as greatest Yale president of all time
To the Editor: RE: “In 1993, a search for one to put the wheels back on” (4/15), President Levin will go down in history as one of the great presidents of Yale, if not its greatest one. Dan Ward April 15 The writer is a 1955 graduate of Yale College.
