It looks as though the law school formally informally known as Boalt Hall has finally removed the Botero paintings of US atrocities at Abu Ghraib that were on display. I think they should go the other way and display all 56 paintings that the artist donated to the university's art museum due to Berkeley's supposed commitment to free speech and civil liberties. It would kind of be a contemporary equivalent of Orozco's epic La epica de la civilizacion americana permanently displayed in the basement of Dartmouth's library. I hung out all night around the campus just to see them one time, and it was quite worth it.
After all, it's not as though there are people at or near Berkeley's law school who have horrifically enabled discredited CIA-sponsored psychological torture that has no useful purpose and only serves to disgrace our nation and its government by exposing its fundamental hypocrisy and cruelty. And if they were originally from Canada, it would be even worse, given the atrocities committed at McGill.
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