• Thursday, February 16, 2012
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Yale Art Student Submits an Alternate Senior Project

The Yale University student whose senior art project caused an uproar last month has decided to submit an alternative project, the Yale Daily News reported today.

The student, Aliza Shvarts, told the student newspaper nearly two weeks ago that her project documented a series of self-induced miscarriages. The project was said to include video of Ms. Shvarts aborting pregnancies achieved through artificial insemination and a display of the resulting blood.

Shortly after the news broke, Yale officials said Ms. Shvarts admitted to them that she had not actually impregnated herself and induced miscarriages. Ms. Shvarts, however, made no public comment, and apparently refused to meet the university’s condition that it would display the project only if she admitted it was a hoax.

When an exhibition of senior art projects opened last week, Ms. Shvarts’s project was not among them. It is unclear whether she would have graduated if she failed the project.

While the university and Ms. Shvarts appear to have reached an agreement, the exact nature of her original project is still murky. And there is no word on what the substitute project entails. —Beckie Supiano