Seven students facilitated the breakdown of racial and sexist slurs last night in the culmination of a COMS 405 class project.
For three days, Ohio University students were offered the chance to spray paint the worst slur or insult they had ever been called on a wall of 50 cinder blocks set up at Howard Hall Site, said OU senior William Tarter, one of the project's organizers. Last night at 7 p.m., those involved with the project and 15 observers destructed the wall.
An event, The Writing on the Wall
was organized for a meeting and event planning course and funded by OU Residence Life with $140, Tarter said. Group members began planning the project, inspired by a similar project at the University of Arizona in 2004, in April.
Many people don't realize the power of their words Tarter said. We were hoping that people will see the type of words that people are called here on campus.
-- Brittany Kress
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