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...over the snow phallus is not the first time college students have applied free-speech arguments to similarly degrading examples. For example, at Wesleyan University last fall, College President Douglas S. Bennet finally banned the practice of “chalking,” a euphemism for students scribbling smut on campus sidewalks, and a mainstream medium of expression at a lot of other schools nationwide. Bennet worried that the chalked slogans on Wesleyan’s campus were getting too obscene; some made pornographic references to faculty members. Opponents of his decision equate the chalked obscenities with free expression...

Author: By Luke Smith, | Title: Free Speech Hijacked | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...vandals’ commitment to free speech is even more suspect. As Los Angeles Times columnist Norah Vincent notes, the same students chalking their campuses with tasteless drawings and slogans also push for speech codes and steal conservative campus publications from the newsstands. Vincent aptly describes students who defend smut like the snow penis and then shift the debate from decency to free speech rights: “self-entitled, sophomoric pranksters falling back on high principles when it suits them.” Student “artists” of the snow-phallus variety have hijacked the meaning...

Author: By Luke Smith, | Title: Free Speech Hijacked | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...result of nearly five years of effort by Daniel Gluck, who sold his software company in 1996 and used part of his money to start this project. Gluck is very eager to make sure everyone knows he has a degree in art history and is not just some smut-happy computer geek. "I was aware of this material because of my interest in the arts," he says. "The standard computer dotcom guy would know porn sites, but that's not where I'm coming from. I know about it from the arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Sex, Museum-Style | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...result of nearly five years of effort by Daniel Gluck, who sold his software company in 1996 and used part of his money to start this project. Gluck is very eager to make sure everyone knows he has a degree in art history and is not just some smut-happy computer geek. "I was aware of this material because of my interest in the arts," he says. "The standard computer dotcom guy would know porn sites, but that's not where I'm coming from. I know about it from the arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Sex, Museum-Style | 10/15/2002 | See Source »

...medium, porn comix seem spent. With dullness and utilitarianism, they whore themselves out to men who no longer find the Batman and Robin relationship satisfying. Recently, though, the "Dirty Stories" series of books, by putting the intelligence and talent of today's top comix artists toward the pursuit of smut, reinvigorates the tired old stud into something approaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fresh Look at Porn Comix | 6/5/2002 | See Source »

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