Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...successor to Picasso and Miro -- a nationalist illusion. The British pavilion, which in previous Biennales walked away with the show -- Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin and the sculptor Tony Cragg -- contains a disappointing survey of recent work by one of the fathers of Pop art, Richard Hamilton, who split the Golden Lion, or main prize, with Tapies...
Other events have split the Penn campus. In 1988 Hackney defended a campus visit by hatemongering Louis Farrakhan. In April, when gay advocates chalked sexually explicit and antireligious phrases on the main campus sidewalk, maintenance workers were forbidden to wash off the graffiti in the interest of gay free speech...
Members of both groups insist the split is not a reflection of the national division between conservatives and moderates. Instead, says N. Van Taylor '96, president of the new group, the split was caused by a basic difference in opinion about the role of campus political groups...
...think it's a little bit silly to draw such grandiose analogies to the split-off," says Christopher B. Brown '94, co-sponsor of the anti-abortion resolution. "People in the Republican Club just wanted to hold positions in their own organization...
Calling the split "a shame," Boyle said that much more could be accomplished if Republicans all worked together...