Because of budget cutbacks, ASU President Michael Crow's "office" has been relocated to Cady Mall.
Theatre senior Brandon Goldsmith spent about 100 hours building a display titled "Crow's New Office" that he set up on Cady Mall on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Goldsmith said the goal of the display is to create dialogue among students about the issues of censorship at ASU.
He said his piece asks the question, "How much influence should donors have on censorship?" In particular, he focuses on how much influence Ira A. Fulton and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should have.
The display features a wall made entirely out of pages from the Book of Mormon and a desk with examples of censorship at ASU, such as the postponement of the controversial play "Banging the Bishop" and conflict over a picture of a pierced nipple on the cover of The State Press Magazine in October.
The display also included a running video camera where observers could record a commentary on the piece.
"Censorship to me on a campus like this is kind of like a cancer," Goldsmith said. "With the piece, I'm looking at the complex relationships between Crow, Fulton and at the perceived goal of making ASU 'Mormon friendly.' "
Goldsmith said he is not trying to offer any solutions with his piece, but only ask questions. He said he does not know answers to the questions himself, but he is interested in making people think.
Theatre senior Meg Brice-Heames said she found Goldsmith's piece very engaging because of all the information it presented.
"It touched on stuff I wasn't aware of like Ira Fulton and his wanting to get The State Press cover pulled," Brice-Heames said.
"The wall was fascinating and I was waiting for somebody to get really pissed off about that," she said. "From what I saw, nobody got really angry about it [the wall], although I don't know if they realized its pages were from the Book of Mormon."
ASU officials were unavailable for comment at press time.
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