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If you’re new here and like what you read, subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!No word on what it was, at least not from the Daily News, but I’ll hazard a guess that it didn’t involve self-insemination:
Aliza Shvarts ’08 has submitted another art piece in place of her controversial senior project [...]

First, Yale women address Aliza in a letter published in the Yale Daily News:
To the Editor:
Dear Aliza,
Upon hearing the extent of your enterprising senior art project, a few of your sisters and fellow travelers in the academy would like to respond to you, as a woman and a young academic.
This week, you have sparked a [...]

Abortogate. You heard it here first!
Here’s the latest from the Yale Daily News:
On Sunday, Yale College Dean Peter Salovey said Shvarts would not be allowed to open her exhibit unless she issued a written statement admitting that her project — which she claimed comprised nine months of self-inseminations and subsequent induced miscarriages — was nothing [...]

It’s been a rough week for the Ivy League.
Yale’s still suffering from the fallout of art student Aliza Shvarts, who will be forever immortalized for her senior art project that depicts herb-induced abortions/miscarriages. Now the Yale administration is faced with the tough task of cleaning up after Shvarts’ mess, an endeavor that is made even [...]

Thought so, but hey. From Hot Air:
 
Well, who knows. It’s not like anyone’s going to sift through the evidence to make sure.
“Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art,” a Yale spokeswoman, Helaine Klasky, said. “She stated to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and that she did not [...]

I’m glad I waited to post this one, since a lot of bloggers and their respective commenters are crying foul.
First, the story, from Hot Air:
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient [...]