April 21, 2008
Yale Student's Art Project Stirs Debate Over the Limits of Academic Freedom
A Yale University student's art project that portrays her as inducing her own abortions has drawn a firestorm of criticism from all along the ideological spectrum, but it is protected by intellectual and artistic freedom, said officials of groups that defend that principle.
Yale should not only refuse to bow to outside pressure to cancel a planned exhibition of the artwork, the officials said, but the university should also use the exhibit as a tool to explain the value of free
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