Word: posterity
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...school like Harvard, the average student probably feels any number of these ways to a large degree on even the most average of days. Add to this the fact that stress itself may be a precipitating factor in the development of hyperthyroidism, and overachieving Ivy League undergraduates suddenly become poster child candidates for Graves' Disease. In fact, the closest thing America has to a poster child for Graves' Disease, President Bush, is himself a Yalie...
With dozens of students groups trying each week to advertise a wide variety of events, it's time for the College to re-evaluate their postering policies. First, allow posters to be hung on the green posts and strings roping off the Yard. Unsightly to begin with and intended only to keep students off the preserved-for-Commencement grass, these posts would serve a more significant function if used for legitimate postering. Second, return to the tradition of banners on Holworthy Hall, which were discontinued due to the 1994 renovations of that building. These banners would allow large-scale announcements...
Fritzner's background is an important factor in this controversy. Can one argue that the poster is racist, if the artist was depicting scenes from his own life in Haiti? Though it is more likely that Fritzner's work is honest and meaningful rather than a portrayal of blacks as watermelon-eaters, given the loaded image of this poster and the stereotype it evokes of Southern blacks, the Lowell House dining hall may be an inappropriate place to hang it, particularly because it was purchased by the former dining hall manager as a nice piece of decoration. Nonetheless, these issues...
...possible that Fritzner's print was hanging in an inappropriate location, that it belongs in a museum rather than next to steaming tray of General Wong's Chicken. But this is not an obvious conclusion; so before the poster is branded "racist" and permanently removed from the dining hall, the issues should be debated. In what ways can this print be read? Was Lowell House too hasty in its decision to remove the poster? Would a plaque providing information about the artist and his history be enough to allay fears of racism? And the crux of the matter, is Lowell...
Perhaps the print of Fritzner's painting should have been removed long ago because a five dollar poster among the many valuable portraits of dead white men that adorn the Lowell House dining Hall is out of place. But the issue of appropriateness never had the chance to come up, because the print was removed too quickly. Fritzner Alphonse and those who appreciate his art deserve a fair hearing...