An art college that milks $14K a year from its students but can't handle uncomfortable subject matter in student's submissions and who can't provide basic counseling or at least referrals but rather expells students and fires teachers for the umbrage of challenging the safe, staid, traditional subjects has no business being in business. We're not talking about a student who crosses the line by, say, bringing a gun to class as part of a performance art piece (that happened once at UK). We're talking about a story. Period. I might expect this sort of panic from a high school is a post-Columbine era. But from a college? Full of adults? When there's no evidence of threat? They might as well just assign their students to write about summer vacations and draw cartoon ducks.
A work of art or a harbinger of violence? / Grisly short story gets student expelled from S.F. academy -- and costs teacher her job
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