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Scrapbook The Singer Publicity Machine An article in the March 10 Chronicle of Higher Education takes THE WEEKLY STANDARD to task for our Nov. 1 editorial that suggested Princeton University...
...I have worked very hard over the last six years or so in every way I could to further the peace process in Northern Ireland," Mrs...
...He holds a chair at Princeton's curiously named "Center for Human Values," from which he pronounces that utilitarian ethical theory gives you the necessity to legalize euthanasia—which gives you, in turn, the requirement to practice infanticide, which gives you the moral correctness of vegetarianism, which gives you, well, an ideal world of hungry utilitarians who'd kill their elderly mothers and baby daughters at the drop of a hat...
...or so the artist explains...
...Some of them belong to "a group of disabled-rights activists called Not Dead Yet," and some to "a group called the Roman Catholic Church...
...Yegge quit the Art Institute, on principle, March 1. "I'm just shocked and appalled that you can't do certain things in art school," he announced...
...You remember Singer, of course...
...Only it wasn't...
...Patrick's Day parade...
...The Scrapbook wonders how he could tell...
...I had given him an enema, and I had taken a...
...As currently drafted, S. 1712, a rewrite of the lapsed "Export Administration Act," ends effective controls over the export of potentially dangerous technologies...
...So she apparently decided the only way out was to insult everyone's intelligence...
...All of which "was videoed," Yegge now remembers...
...Well, no, in fact it seems almost too bad to be true...
...1 editorial that suggested Princeton University professor Peter Singer was suffering from "megalomania" for holding "a vision of himself in which the gigantic figure of Peter Singer sits across from the pope at the chessboard of humankind, locked in a grim battle for the future of all us little folk...
...At that point, Thompson and the other senators made clear that they would fight the bill...
...He has his opponents, of course, but they're just "conservatives"—killjoys who want more unhappiness for everyone...
...The Scrapbook will paraphrase what Yegge had taken: He had taken a page from Heidegger's previously unknown manuscript on the artistic uses of solid human waste and...
...The Chronicle's reporter adds, "The idea excites him...
...At which point Yegge and his partner moved to an open-air stage, where about 20 other students, two professors, and random passersby watched as Art Piece No...
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...1 dramatized "Heidegger, Derrida—[and] all this stuff" about Hegel's master-slave dialectic and Kant's theories of freedom...
...But it turns out, the Chronicle assures its readers in a glowing sketch of Singer, that everybody has the man wrong...
...Not unless you're Hillary Clinton, running a tin-eared campaign for Senate in New York...
...Efforts by the chairmen to work with Gramm to craft a bill that would have addressed their concerns went nowhere, and on Wednesday of last week, Gramm brought the measure to the floor...
...Senate majority leader Trent Lott, worried that the Senate would be tied up by the debate, pulled the bill . . . and, at least for one day in this Senate, trade didn't trump national security...
...But bringing peace to Northern Ireland isn't one of them...
...He secured that volunteer's written consent to participate in acts "including and up to a sexual or violent nature...
...The volunteer] was tied up," Yegge has since elaborated...
...He's Shocked and Appalled Jonathan Yegge spent months preparing his performance project for a class in the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute...
...Not so long ago, this same San Francisco Art Institute awarded controversial performance artist Karen Finley an honorary doctorate for her own audienceparticipation experiments with candied yams and bowel movements...
...25 incident (and did nothing to stop it...
...He asked another student to volunteer as his assistant...
...Correction Fred Barnes reported last week that Bob Dole had declined to meet with Cardinal O'Connor of New York during the 1996 presidential campaign ("George W. Bush's Catholic Problem...
...Seemingly unaware of this history, Mrs...
...He's the Australian animal-rights activist who proclaims that a baby is of less value than a pig and who advocates a 28-day trial period before accepting newborns into the human race...
...export controls that was detailed on this page three weeks ago has been put on hold, thanks to senators Fred Thompson, Jesse Helms, John Warner, Richard Shelby, Jon Kyl, and Pat Roberts—chairmen of key national security committees and subcommittees...
...Yegge's volunteer soon developed misgivings about what he'd done and complained to Art Institute administrators, who, fearing a lawsuit, decided they needed to make clear how horrified they were...
...Yegge was placed on probation, kicked out of his performance art class, advised to seek counseling and an AIDS test, and ordered not to have sex on campus...
...A Touch o' Hillary THE SCRAPBOOK can think of several reasons why a person might want to march in New York's St...
...I think if the heavens fall, then the result is likely to be unjust for everyone...
...I want to continue to lend my support to it, and I think [that] marching in the parade here is one way of demonstrating that...
...Yeah, right...
...Clinton happily announced in December that she would be marching...
...Gadzooks, Yegge hadn't worn a condom...
...He sees himself instead as locked in a titanic battle with Jesus Christ...
...analyzed it...
...And anyway, all Singer is doing is applying in a rigorous way Jeremy Bentham's unexceptionable principle of utilitarianism: "Each to count for one and none for more than one"—except if you happen to be one of the ones who don't count: the weak, the lame, the young, the old, and so on...
...Clinton explained to angry gay activists last week...
...And everything went just as Yegge had planned...
...All that "the world's most reviled philosopher" really wants is "more happiness for everyone...
...Art Piece No...
...He had a blindfold and gag, but he could see and talk through it...
...Nonetheless it had sailed through Phil Gramm's Banking committee...
...Except, of course, that if we reject the ideal of justice, then we become like Peter Singer—unable to understand what a word like "justice" or a word like "mercy" means...
...Dole informs us that he did in fact meet with O'Connor...
...He had freedom of movement of his pelvis...
...Quality is the difference, says Yegge's former instructor, Tony Labat, who witnessed the Jan...
...So what's the difference...
...25, the big day arrived...
...1, Labat offers, was "bad art, absolutely...
...I reject the view that says let justice be done though the heavens fall," Singer explains...
...Finley's art is similarly "unprotected...
...His latest book, A Darwinian Left, he reports, "amounts to nothing less than an experimental refutation of Jesus' celebrated teaching about turning the other cheek...
...In fact, it seems almost too good to be true...
...It was too much for a 24-year-old artist to bear...
...THE SCRAPBOOK is shocked, too...
...Stalled Exports The effort to gut U.S...
...I engaged in oral sex with him and he engaged in oral sex with me...
...It is considered a serious violation for you or any individual to participate in any activity, sexual or not, which involves exposing yourself or others to any bodily fluids or excretions including but not limited to feces, urine, semen, saliva and blood," academic affairs dean Larry Thomas informed Yegge in a letter...
...Then, Jan...
...Gay activists are miffed because ever since the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization failed to force its way into the parade a decade ago, Democratic pols, with a handful of exceptions, have boycotted the event...
...And the piece was over...
...It even turns out that Singer can't be a megalomaniac, because he doesn't see himself as locked in a titanic battle with the pope...
...Now she's looking for a high-minded sounding reason to explain the insult to one of her constituencies without insulting another...
Vol. 5 • March 2000 • No. 26
