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virus: Controverisial Snow Penis
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In a message dated 2/26/2003 8:33:55 PM Central Standard Time,=20
rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com writes:
An amusing article and perhaps of interest to those at Harvard, but I don't=20
think you can justify its presence on this list without some extreme=20
stretching.
Ray Recchia
At 05:42 PM 2/26/2003 -0500, you wrote: Originally published on Wednesday,=20
February 26, 2003 in the News section of The Harvard Crimson.
Women's Group Debates Snow Penis By HERA A. ABBASI Crimson Staff Writer
The destroyers of the nine foot snow phallus explained their motivations to=20
the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) at a meeting last night, receiving a=20
mixed reaction from the feminist group.
The sculpture=E2=80=99s destroyers, Amy E. Keel =E2=80=9904 and her roommate=
Mary C.=20
Cardinale =E2=80=9903, said they leveled the ice penis in order to spare oth=
ers from=20
being offended by it.
=E2=80=9CI think that women or men who are walking to class should not be su=
bjected=20
to a penis,=E2=80=9D Keel said. =E2=80=9CIt was a structure put up to assert=
male dominance.=E2=80=9D
Cardinale said that she thought the sculpture was =E2=80=9Clewd=E2=80=9D and=
not=20
=E2=80=9Cappropriate.=E2=80=9D
The 20 students at the meeting debated the free speech rights of the=20
builders=E2=80=94and destroyers=E2=80=94of the giant penis and discussed how=
affronted=20
onlookers could have responded to its construction.
While some RUS members criticized the statue=E2=80=94which was erected in=20
Tercentenary Theater by members of the men=E2=80=99s crew team on Feb. 11=
=E2=80=94others=20
were less sure about its inappropriateness.
=E2=80=9CI didn=E2=80=99t really think of it that much,=E2=80=9D Ellenor J.=20=
Honig =E2=80=9904 said. =E2=80=9CThere=20
are things to me that are so much worse.=E2=80=9D
Fred O. Smith =E2=80=9904 said he thought other people might have been upset=
when the=20
sculpture was torn down because it took a great deal of work to construct.
=E2=80=9CI wonder how much people=E2=80=99s upsetness is due to how much tim=
e they put in=20
it,=E2=80=9D Smith said. =E2=80=9CI can think about it both ways.=E2=80=9D
However, Smith said that if Keel and Cardinale were threatened as they took=20
the sculpture down, then that would raise the issue of =E2=80=9Cmale dominat=
ion.=E2=80=9D
RUS members also discussed whether the First Amendment gave the sculptors th=
e=20
right to construct the snow phallus.
=E2=80=9CIt wasn=E2=80=99t anyone=E2=80=99s private property; it was snow,=
=E2=80=9D said Keel. =E2=80=9CTaking down=20
a penis... is not impeding anyone=E2=80=99s free speech.=E2=80=9D
RUS Co-President Ilana J. Sichel =E2=80=9905 said she believed the most effe=
ctive way=20
to protest the sculpture would have been to put up signs with differing=20
opinions.
=E2=80=9CI don=E2=80=99t think we have a right to take down things that offe=
nd us,=E2=80=9D Sichel=20
said. =E2=80=9CWe have to put up posters to the contrary.=E2=80=9D
The group also threw out possible actions that could have been carried out i=
n=20
protest of the snow phallus=E2=80=99 construction.
Some who were present said they had thought about building a snow vagina, bu=
t=20
quickly dismissed that type of artistic protest because the two symbols woul=
d=20
be construed differently.
=E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s a fundamental misunderstanding or ignorance what an er=
ect penis means=20
as opposed to a vagina,=E2=80=9D said RUS Vice President Rebeccah G. Watson=20=
=E2=80=9904.
Honig argued that the group would not have taken the destruction of a snow=20
vagina well=E2=80=94 just as the snow phallus builders were upset by Keel an=
d=20
Cardinale=E2=80=99s nighttime castration of their sculpture.
=E2=80=9CI feel like we=E2=80=99d be having the same discussion,=E2=80=9D Ho=
nig said.
Copyright =C2=A9 2003, The Harvard Crimson Inc. All rights reserved.
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