To the editor:
Sad, isn't it, that the NEA is gone? The arts as we knew them (or didn't want to know them) have been indefinitely banished from our country. It's bad now. And the future looks worse. Our country will be sucked, yes, slurped and salivated on, SUCKED into an abysmal void of creative production. All those Freaks and Co., who we might have otherwise loved, hated, but NEVER ignored, will instead hide in the shadows and work in impoverished isolation or emigrate to Europe, "because it's so much better over there," and our children will feed off of the sanitized brain candy of Today... soon it will be the only food we know.
Sad, isn't it? Excuse me, if I sound sarcastic. (I excuse you, if you didn't pick up on my sarcasm.) I'm sounding sarcastic to avoid cynicism because cynicism tends to make me apathetic, and when I get apathetic I don't get jack done, and when I don't get jack done, nothing changes, and I'm sure as hell not gonna let MY kids eat brain candy. So what are your kids gonna eat?
For the rest of the semester, all semester long, seniors in the studio and visual arts will be having their shows in the art building, in their homes, in the streets... whereever they can find a space where the ghost of the NEA can't get `em. Wherever the Void can't dribble on `em. Come to the senior shows, stick your noses in the art building, and READ the CAMPUS ARTS CALENDER IN THE REVIEW. We will appreciate it, you might enjoy it. Otherwise, it's all really quite sad, isn't it?
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Volume 125, Number 18; March 28, 1997
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