Si ANNE- DE-BELLEVUE (CUP) - A Painting of a nude woman has sparked complaints from Students and teachers at John Abbott College since exhibited in the school li- brary this term.
The artwork depicts a nude woman with her legs “part. The university pur- chased the work — and two ce ~ for $450 from artist tuart Fletcher, a former Student at the college.
Mike Williams, chair of
aia fine arts department, he did not feel the li-
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place for the painting, be- cause of the “sort of brazen pose” on the artwork.
Several students also complained, their com- ments on the painting rang- ing from “rude” and “sexist” to “pornographic”, and “dis- gusting”.
Head librarian Janette Wygergangs said however
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place for the painting be- cause the college has no art gallery. She added that the painting could be damaged if exposed instead in a hallway or a student lounge. x
Bruce Curtis comes home
NEW YORK (CUP) - Alice Curtis’ son is coming home. battle to Bruce Curtis to a Canadian jail finally paid off February 26, when New Jer- sey Governor Thomas Kean announced the 24-year-old Nova Scotian will be moved to a Kingston, Ontario peni- tentiary.
In Canada, Curtis will be eligible for parole in Decem- ber, 1989. He could get day parole even sooner. Under American law, he would not qualify for release until 1992.
But while Alice Curtis is happy Bruce will be in the country by May, she still doesn’t believe justice has been served.
A five-year transfer
‘““While we’re celebrating that he’s going to get away from that vindictive environ- ment in New Jersey, we did not get justice. He’s still coming home with a 20-year
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sentence,” she said.
A then-18-year-old Bruce was hit with the max- imum, two-decade jail term for aggravated manslaughter in the 1982 death of Rose-
mary Podgis, the mother of his schoolmate Scott Franz. The two boys had gone to Loch Arbour, to visit Franz’ parents that summer.
New Jersey
Franz pleaded guilty to shooting his stepfather Al, and was promised the mini- mum sentence — 20 years — for first degree murder in return for testifying against Bruce.
Bruce testified that after hearing gunshots, he picked up one of the many rifles Al Podgis left lying around the house and ran. But he col- lided with Rosemary Podgis: The rifle misfired, he said, and killed her.
The same gun went off accidently demonstration.
Said Bruce’s New York lawyer,“I’ve never doubted
in a courtroom
his innocence. The trial was
a complete travesty.” Joanne Legano took on the case two years ago, refus- ing any payment. The was made against the advice
transfer approval
of the state prosecutor’s of-
fice and the New Jersey com- missioner of corrections.
Legislative assistant Dan Donovan says Curtis’ parole hearing will be complicated. Donovan said New Jersey of- ficials demanded a guarantee Bruce would spend at least 10 years behind bars before a transfer was granted.
“(Canadians) told them in a very diplomtic way to shove it,” Donovan said. But he suspects prison authori- ties will keep that in mind when Bruce comes up for pa-_ role.
Officials at Kingston Penitentiary will assess Bruce, and Alice Cur- tis hopes her son will be to Springhill, Nova Scotia, just a few miles away from the family home.
moved
Bruce had been slated to attend Dalhousie Univer- sity in Halifax when he was jailed. Since then, he has maintained an A average ina correspondence courses from Queen’s, according to Lor- raine Peever, his aunt. =
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