Mural

he's full of ideas, and his arms look like horns, which is suggestive. He is stretching toward his mother, but his weak father and a bull are in the way."

Another self-styled critic thinks that the painting looks like the work of someone in late puberty or early senility, probably the latter, as it shows "a deep knowledge of sex." "It is obviously obscene," he added.

Many of the comments were snide, but several serious students said the "entire affair is in bad taste, and it's often sickening to eat facing it."

Others found that their dates were "extremely interested in the thing, and spent much time examining it." Women graduate students polled, however, refused to comment on the mural.

Among those defending the mural, however, one remarked that "oftentimes opinions on the content of a painting reflect more the mind of the viewer than the intent of the artist."

A Law student added that the world tree, monumental steel structure directly outside the window of the dining room, casts a shadow on the work in the morning which "brings out the full sexual significance of the phallicism in the painting." He felt that the University was going too far in the name of modern art.

"In short," concluded a diner, "the University seems to be trying to satisfy all of the poet Schiller's requirements for life."

"Hunger, thirst, and sex," said Schiller, "make the world go round."