Ever since the right-wing Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten stereotypically depicted Muslims and the Prophet Mohammed with 12 racist cartoons in February, most news coverage focused on the resulting protests in Muslim countries, often framing them as a global overreaction by practicing Muslims. By March, it was the consensus of practically every major American news source that the controversy was simply an issue of free speech breaking religious taboo or, failing that, a clash of cultures.

In the last week of the fall semester, FNews surveyed SAIC students, asking about their religion, spiritual beliefs, and politics, and when it comes to religion, many art students are undecided.

Because of the recent successful debut of online enrollment, most students won't be standing in painfully long lines on the seventh floor of the Sharp Building to enroll in classes anymore.

SAIC does have an unused pool in the second basement of the Michigan building—a leftover from the building’s former identity as the Charlie Club and Fitness Center.

Of Murakami’s six collected stories, Steppenwolf’s After the Quake blends “Super-frog Saves Tokyo” and “Honey Pie” into a one-act play where one’s imagination can keep a disaster resonating long after it’s over.

Do people get your art? Animator Chris Sullivan talks about how people should get his.

Shouldn’t every political cartoonist in the U.S. be drawing pictures of birds with little thermometers in their beaks by now? Shouldn’t the op ed section of the Tribune be cluttered with bombastic, call-in-radio-show-host type commentaries about why Avian Influenza isn’t being taken seriously? Shouldn’t shut-in art students who go out of their way to be uninvolved with current events and the world at large be making bleeding-heart pieces exploiting the idea of virus-riddled corpses by now?