The Century Project has been around for a long time and most of the pictures featuring ages zero (the crowning head of a Baby Girl being born) up to the age of eighteen are now women of majority age.
The display is an artists rendition of women that have consented voluntarily to the project to celebrate women's beauty through the ages. I find the oppression by Ms. DePaolo egregious and she should be held responsible for her POLITICAL agenda for the UNCW Campus.
Perhaps the USA should sue the world to ban all nudity including "Micheangelo's David" or "Da Vinci's Madonna and Child." I mean what's next?
Jennie Klahre: News Editor
Issue date: 2/26/09
UNCW administration recently banned specific nude pictures of women under the age of 18 from The Century Project photo exhibit that will be displayed in the Warwick Ballroom March 2-6.
According to a news release that was sent out Feb. 24, "The ban was declared after receipt of a complaint from Oklahoma. It claimed that The Century Project is pornographic and harms women. It was sent to colleges where the project is to appear, telling them to reject it."
John Foubert, Associate Professor at Oklahoma State University, issued these six letters to colleges hosting the exhibit, imploring them to reconsider.
Marketing and Communications spokesperson Cindy Lawson issued a statement on behalf of the university that reads, "Because the exhibit does include women and girls of all ages, we wanted to be sensitive to concerns raised about nude photos of young people under the age of consent. Due to these concerns, the university requested that Century Project photographer Frank Cordelle remove any photos of minors from the exhibit when it runs at UNCW; he has agreed."
Disappointed by this news, Cordelle regrets UNCW's decision of cutting 18% of his photographs.
"If it weren't for the fact that it happened at the last minute, I would have pulled the entire exhibit," Cordelle said. "It's a real violation of the first amendment and to academic freedom."...
