Aliza Shvarts is the grossest human alive.

As the Yale Daily News, IvyGate, and now the DP’s very own Mara Gordon report, for her senior art project at Yale, Shvarts artificially inseminated herself multiple times and herbally induced nine abortions in nine months. Film of the possible miscarriages, as well as the blood Shvarts collected from them, will constitute the art project.

The universal reaction to this news was: BLEEEARRRGH!

After everyone wiped the puke off their chins, naturally, they started arguing. “Is it art?” “Is it pro-choice?” “Is it pro-life?” Mara asks, “Is it ethical?” Her take, as I understand it, is that Shvarts’s work is unethical because it trivializes abortion and provides fodder for the pro-life cause.

My take’s a little different.

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Ron Paul’s name has been plastered all over our campus, and I finally found out who the hell he is, thanks to fellow columnist Stephen Krewson. After some research of my own, I’ve found he’s not the Vendetta-seeker Krewson makes him out to be. Not with white supremacists and Mel Gibson’s dad endorsing him, at least. That’s more crazy than I can handle.

While Krewson’s column about the parallels between Congressman Paul and Guy Fawkes of V for Vendetta fame was thought-provoking, for me, the most infuriating information about Paul was that (1) he’s an obstetrician/gynecologist and (2) he’s a Republican, and thus probably pro-life.

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