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Martha Nesbitt, president of Gainesville State College and the person responsible for removing the painting stated that it was the depiction of a lynching that led to her to remove the work, and that lynching “has been perceived as aggressively hostile in other areas of the contry and other academic institutions”. | Martha Nesbitt, president of Gainesville State College and the person responsible for removing the painting stated that it was the depiction of a lynching that led to her to remove the work, and that lynching “has been perceived as aggressively hostile in other areas of the contry and other academic institutions”. | ||
|description_of_result=“Heritage?” was not re-hung at Gainesville State College. Following controversy and accusations that the work had been removed in violation of constitutional rights, Martha Nesbitt stated that student and faculty art would never again be subject to this kind of censorship. | |description_of_result=“Heritage?” was not re-hung at Gainesville State College. Following controversy and accusations that the work had been removed in violation of constitutional rights, Martha Nesbitt stated that student and faculty art would never again be subject to this kind of censorship. | ||
|source= | |source=http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/46015, http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/in-censoring-art-gainseville-state-college-president-violates-academic-freedom/ | ||
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