Controversy Over Student's Art Exhibit at Yale Raises Issues of Academic Freedom

A controversy surrounding a Yale University art student who told the campus newspaper that she had repeatedly inseminated herself artificially and then induced abortions as part of her senior thesis last week has created massive reverberations throughout academe, especially in the already hotly contested arena of academic freedom.

A university spokesperson stated that the student, Aliza Shvarts, admitted to senior officials at Yale that she had not impregnated herself and had not

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