Students baffled by art that makes sense

At the opening of the first senior art show on April 25, an unusual sculpture installed in Dittman sparked a flurry of campus-wide discussion.

This new bronze construction is not making waves with its deep, obscure message or bewildering passersby with crafty moveable parts;  instead the work is sparking debate with its unusually clear meaning.

"It just ... makes so much sense," a baffled student said while walking through Dittman. "I didn't think you were supposed to understand this kind of thing."

Fellow art students blame what they have come to know as "the incident" on the weakness of the senior artist's journal and his entirely normal wardrobe choices throughout the year.

"He just never got it. We thought something like this might happen," a dismayed senior said.

Unfortunately, the uproar has earned the inspired artist but a failing grade on this breakthrough project.

"It's just too obvious," an anonymous professor said. "Not only does it represent something recognizable, its message is entirely comprehensible!"

Sources report that the student is now required to re-take his entire senior studies class.

"Editor's note: this article appeared in the April 30, 2010 satire issue of the Messenger."