Last Full Day of "Please Remind Us...." at APU

My teaching assistant and sometime student, Eric Bleicher, and I went over to Alaska Pacific University this afternoon, to take a look at Mariano Gonzales' controversial installation at Grant Hall.

On the way, we found this moose in the parking lot. Apparently, he couldn't remember where he had parked his car:


APU President Doug North's letter has elicited a lot of comments:

Other people have emulated his idea of pinning one's thoughts to the board, rather than using the available pens and going at it. This is a fairly eloquent protest to the exhibit:

Someone has posted new examples of questioned flag display, including flags signed by former President George Bush, and by Sen. John McCain:

Here's a terse defense of Prof. Gonzales:

The current wall, from the east:

Eric reading, from the west:
Mariano Gonzales will remove the exhibit tomorrow late afternoon. I will be performing a version of Shards there at 4:00 p.m.


Update - 10:00 p.m: Krestia deGeorge at the Anchorage Press has posted an article at the Press Web Site, questioning whether my call - that the removal of Mariano Gonzales' installation is censorship - is accurate. He and I had exchanged emails over the past two days on this, but, for three reasons, I was reluctant to participate in his article.

The exchange only raised more questions, and my final reply, which attempted to answer his initial query on what my working definition of censorship is, came too late to be included, according to Krestia.

I've invited him to come listen to Shards Thursday, and witness the installation's removal. His email response indicated that he won't be able to do that.