Free expression for a price

Kelsey and Kayse,

I felt your responses on the "In the Making" and "Art of Protest" readings were interesting because they discussed ideas within the Civil Rights Movement and free expression. I'm actually taking a class this semester to finish up my Electronic Journalism minor called COMM 454: Free Speech and Ethics where we also discuss these ideas. We haven't discussed the Civil Rights Movement in detail yet, but we've been addressing theories and how free speech is contained today.

I always wonder about the Free Speech Zone out by the clock tower. It sparked an exciting side note about Mr. Bibleman who shows up every semester to pass out Biblical literature to tell us that we're all going to hell. He's somewhat of a pleasant man, I hope...haha.

As I discussed earlier in another blog entry, religious pieces are effective but also weird. Sometimes I wonder if artists just make things to be noticed. I find the animal feces rather resourceful, but odd. I guess I need to look more into the artist's techniques and processes before I can get a grasp of what they're trying to say.

For me, I have a conservative background despite being very liberal so I found works like this pushing the envelope of what I've grown up with to what I'm going into. A weird segway, I'm sure.