University forced to remove campus wrecking ball sculpture due to Miley Cyrus parodies
An American university has been forced to remove a campus sculpture of a ‘wrecking ball’ for safety reasons after students kept riding it naked to recreate Miley Cyrus’ controversial new music video.
Following the release of the video for Cyrus’ hit Wrecking Ball, students at Michigan’s Grand Valley State University (GVSU) began filming and photographing themselves on the 18-year-old statue in various states of undress.
However, their fun was cut short by GVSU’s facility services department who have now removed the ball and taken it to a secure, off-campus location.
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‘We became concerned, just from a safety and structural integrity standpoint,’ said the department’s Tim Thimmesch. ‘So we elected to go ahead and remove the ball for now.’
The decision has caused outrage among the alumni, however, with students staging several protests at the former site of the wrecking ball – otherwise known as the work of art ‘Untitled’ by local artist Dale Eldred.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/18/university-removes-wrecking-ball-sculpture-over-naked-miley-cyrus-video-tributes-4048084/
An American university has been forced to remove a campus sculpture of a ‘wrecking ball’ for safety reasons after students kept riding it naked to recreate Miley Cyrus’ controversial new music video.
Following the release of the video for Cyrus’ hit Wrecking Ball, students at Michigan’s Grand Valley State University (GVSU) began filming and photographing themselves on the 18-year-old statue in various states of undress.
However, their fun was cut short by GVSU’s facility services department who have now removed the ball and taken it to a secure, off-campus location.
https://twitter.com/ablackturtle22/status/378570067144761344
‘We became concerned, just from a safety and structural integrity standpoint,’ said the department’s Tim Thimmesch. ‘So we elected to go ahead and remove the ball for now.’
The decision has caused outrage among the alumni, however, with students staging several protests at the former site of the wrecking ball – otherwise known as the work of art ‘Untitled’ by local artist Dale Eldred.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/18/university-removes-wrecking-ball-sculpture-over-naked-miley-cyrus-video-tributes-4048084/