Here are a few quotes lifted from the Yale Daily News article about the hoax:
http://yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24530
““No one can say with 100-percent certainty that anything in the piece did or did not happen,” Shvarts said, adding that she does not know whether she was ever pregnant. “The nature of the piece is that it did not consist of certainties.””
““I’m not going to absolve them by saying it was some sort of hoax when it wasn’t,” she said. “I started out with the University on board with what I was doing, and because of the media frenzy they’ve been trying to dissociate with me. Ultimately I want to get back to a point where they renew their support because ultimately this was something they supported.””
“And while some news stories late Thursday dismissed Shvarts’s exhibition as a wholesale hoax, the Davenport senior showed elements of her planned exhibition to News reporters, including footage from tapes she plans to play at the exhibit. The tapes depict Shvarts, sometimes naked, sometimes clothed, alone in a shower stall bleeding into a cup. It was all part of a project that Shvarts said had the backing of the dean of her residential college and at least two faculty members within the School of Art. “
Personally, I think Yale needs to do more than call this a hoax. The student, the dean, and the two faculty members all have a lot to answer for. I’d fire any Yale employees who sanctioned this project and I wouldn’t give the girl any credit for doing it, at a minimum.
But that’s me. I’m not a liberal left-wing nut who thinks morals are relative and that anything that is labeled art is actually art.
Even if she perpetrated only a hoax, this is a story with legs. By now even Osama bin Laden and Ahmadinejad must know this schande's name. What a disgrace to her, to Yale, to her family, to the country, to higher education.