April 18, 2003
Theater of Cruelty
Students at the University of California at Berkeley cried foul last month, when an art student slaughtered a chicken in front of 20 classmates for a project in the undergraduate "New Genres" course.
"He was making the point that we're ... so removed from the production of food that we see it as Kentucky Fried Chicken," Loren Partridge, acting chairman of the art-practice department, told the Contra Costa Times. Neither he nor the course's instructor, returned calls from The
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