New Home Suggested for Defaced MLK Statue
/The Martin Luther King Jr. statue on the
University of Texas campus in Austin has been vandalized twice in 19
months. It was egged on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2003, and last
month it was defaced with silver spray paint. So why not send the
statue of the civil rights leader to a school that would respect and
love it? That's what a UT management and sociology professor, John
Butler, has proposed -- somewhat in jest but also to make a serious
point. In a recent e-mail to university President Larry R. Faulkner,
the African American professor suggested moving the 12-foot statue to
Morehouse College, King's alma mater in Atlanta, "where he is loved."
He said Faulkner responded and politely disagreed with him. [more 
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