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Editor:
In response to your front page story "Posters designed to be positive symbol of campus climate" (Oct. 21): I am no artist, and my ability to interpret art is suspect, but that will not keep me from making the following suggestion. Instead of searching far and wide for this "positive symbol," why not use the suggestive hate notes recently discovered at Maricopa Hall: "This is the last lesson we're going to give you spics and niggers," and, "If spics don't want to be called spics, they should go home to Mexico." ("Tension ending after attack on Maricopa resident," Oct. 16)
The stated goal of the "symbolic" posters is to remind us that "Curiosity drives us, Learning brings us here, Community sustains us. The University, A Great Place to be." I agree with UA Vice President and art critic Martha W. Gilliland that, "While each of us will interpret the look and feel of the symbol differently, we will all move in its direction." Exactly. What better choice, then, than to use real, student-generated "diversity in action" representations of the campus climate, which our administrators are eager to capture?
Using Maricopa Hall's hate notes as a kind of "Found Art" will satisfy vice provost and art critic Lynne Tronsdal's desire that the symbolic posters "visualize something which is not visual - how people feel about the campus." Our very own, home-grown hate notes might not please aesthetically, but they would certainly be more accurate depictions, something to which both art critics and administrators can aspire.
Michael R. Moore
English Ph.D student
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