Despite the mixed reactions with faculty and students divided on whether or not it should be even be on the campus of Wellesley College in the Boston, MA, there is a petition to get it off its current property.
A brand new statue installed at the all-women Wellesley College outside of Boston is causing quite the commotion.. mainly because it’s of a man in his tighty-whities. Are the complaints justified, or just dumb?
The hyper-realistic sculpture by artist Tony Matelli depicts a middle-aged man sleepwalking through the snow in his underwear, a creation that was installed near the campus center in order to draw attention to the upcoming New Gravity art exhibit, but Sleepwalker hasn’t been well-received by the students at all. As of today, there are well over a hundred signatures calling for it’s removal from campus.
Zoe Magid, a Wellesley College junior majoring in political science, started the petition to have Sleepwalker removed.
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