Artwork Showing Virgin Mary as Stripper Stirs Up Catholic Campus


	Artwork Showing Virgin Mary as Stripper Stirs Up Catholic Campus

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3-9-2008 10:33 PM

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  The print was part of an exhibit last month at the University of Dallas that featured the work of students at Murray State University in Kentucky. Joanna Gianulis, a senior art major at Murray State, said she was trying to raise questions about perceptions of saints and sinners and didn't intend to be sacrilegious.
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  Gianulis said she has no digital image of the print. Others who have seen it say it includes a veiled young woman wearing pasties and a G-string with money stuck in it.
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  The display went up Feb. 8 and prompted complaints within a couple of days. University President Frank Lazarus said he found the print objectionable but didn't remove it because of concerns about restricting academic freedom.
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  Instead, he and other officials decided to put up signs warning that some items might be considered offensive.
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