Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mapplethorpe show became notorious last year after a protest from North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms forced Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art to cancel it. Well in advance of its April 7 opening in Cincinnati, Citizens for Community Values, a powerful and well-funded 16,000-member organization, sponsored full-page ads in local papers and a massive letter-writing campaign. "We think the exhibit is irresponsible, and we think ((the arts center)) should be accountable," says Monty Lobb Jr., president of Citizens for Community Values. "The gallery is open to the public; it's on public land and receives...
...letter, Clark told the professors not to cancel classes, stressing the importance of academics and requesting to speak with any professor who was thinking about canceling classes...
...least one professor who was not going to cancel class is going to because of the letter," said Marie E. Arnold, the Women's Law Association representative to the Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR), an organization composed of all the minority student groups on campus...
...Deans are never enchanted with the idea ofcancelling classes," said Weiler, who said thateven if he were teaching classes tomorrow, hewould not cancel them...
...leaders of the movement say they have been somewhat successful in their attempts to persuade professors to cancel classes tomorrow. Some professors, however, have said they prefer to hold their classes anyway, so that the boycott will make a greater statement, according to protest organizers...