CU Benson portrait defaced

[Hawkeye-X]

Source: Rocky Mountain News

The portrait of University of Colorado presidential finalist Bruce Benson that hangs in the campus building bearing his name was vandalized over the weekend, CU police said this morning.

Police said they discovered the vandalism to the oil painting in the Benson Earth Sciences Building today, just hours before Benson — the sole finalist for CU's top job — was scheduled to visit the Boulder campus.

Somebody scrawled the message "I've given CU enough $ for an individual right-wing nut like me to be CU's president" on the painting with Wite-Out, CU police Cmdr. Brad Weisley said.

"The Wite-Out is right on the oil portrait," he said.

Weisley said the painting last was seen in good condition about noon Sunday.

Read more: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/feb/04/cu-benson-portrait-defaced/

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Bruce Benson is the *ONLY* finalist to the CU President job? Someone needs to re-start the search committee and dump Benson's oily ass out of the clear. The comments at the RMN is quite right-wing hateful comments denigrating the liberals. I suggest we counter.

Hawkeye-X

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[Robbien]

2. Filling school/university boards with far right wingers

has been a huge plan pushed throughout the last ten years by the conservative movement. There are only two Democrats left on the Board and they were overruled in this presidential selection.

By the way, the entire pool of potential presidential candidates the board was considering was made up of far right wingers. Lynn Cheney was one of the candidates being considered.