No Match for This Art

Administrators at Wake Forest University hope that students will find a renovated cigarette machine addictive.

Installed in the student center, it offers miniature objets d'art, no larger than packs of smokes. For $5, a student can unwrap a handmade painting, a drawing, a sculpture, a piece of jewelry, or a poem by one of 20 contributors.

James R. Buckley, the student center's director, read a newspaper article about the local artist who created the Art-o-mat machines and says

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