The media circus surrounding Aliza Shvarts, a senior art major at Yale, has sparked a national protest in response to her senior thesis presentation. Documented over a nine-month period, Shvarts artificially inseminated herself as often as possible, and then took legal, herbal remedies to induce a miscarriage, according to the Yale Daily News.   According to Yale Daily News, "the tapes depict Shvarts, sometimes naked, sometimes clothed, alone in a shower stall bleeding into a cup." She designed a giant cube to hang from the ceiling, wrapped in plastic with the blood from her miscarriages between the sheets. The videos would be projected off the cube, and off the walls of the gallery.  [read more]

   Buffalo natives know the secret: that snow, sleet and hail aren't all there is to our beloved hometown. Tainted by the weather, with a football team on a mega-rollercoaster and an economy and government that have yet to be a positive force in the Queen City, we have one thing to look forward to through it all: super summers.  [read more]

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