3.25.2004

David Foster Who? -- In a chilling story of academic censorship, PR spin, and maybe greed, a college freshman at the Academy of Art in San Francisco was expelled for writing a short story full of over-the-top sexual violence. How did the administration find out about it? His professor asked for advice in evaluating the story, and possibly getting the student counseling. She was then not re-hired (the life of an adjunct), after admitting she had students read "The Girl With Curious Hair" by D.F. Wallace, who is himself a writing professor in California, and none too happy about this. Whither imaginative freedom these days?

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