First papayas, now cabbage heads, is no vegetable at Yale safe?

Thursday, cigarette #2

Any time the Yale Political Union debates free speech (like Resolved: Yale should not regulate student speech last night), this quote comes to mind:

With regard to the arousal of ‘undesirable’ emotions by art, the twentieth century would be inclined either to invoke censorship or to appeal to the vocation of art as something above such consideration of local effects. The eighteenth century could afford to be more permissive with regard to the source of aesthetic pleasure: art was not their religion, religion was.

And if you think free speech isn't a live issue at Yale, please travel one year back in time with me. ("The new restrictions do not ban all types of stage weapons, Trachtenberg said. She said she did not prevent an instructor in theater studies who talked to her on Friday from using a dulled knife to cut a cabbage head in a production, for example...")

(Papaya explanation here.)