The Patriotism and Penis art in Boulder by Hannah Nordhaus, was a very interesting article to read as a resident of Colorado, The Patriotism and Penis art in Boulder covered an older news story from December 27 2001. The news story discussed how only a few months after the September 11th terrorist attacks people across the US were brandishing the American flag a lot more, so in reaction to the terrorist attacks, some local employees at a public library in Boulder wanted to hang a 10 by 15 foot American flag in the building's south entrance. This trouble began when they asked the library director Marcelee Gralapp if the could follow through on the idea, her response was that the flag would compromise the library's “objectivity” explaining to
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This section of the article is interesting because it shows a little hypocrisy on the side of the library because Gralapp didn’t like the idea of hanging the flag because it might offend those of different cultures, or faiths but she never took into consideration that an art exhibit in a public library dedicated to domestic violence that displayed various private body parts would offend some people. Gralapp’s actions sure did offend some people one of those being city “hero” 49-year-old Bob Rowan who entered the art gallery on a Saturday afternoon early in November of 2001 and proceeded to take down the penises and replaced them with a small cloth flag and his …show more content…
Rowan’s decision was very foolish because it caused him to get into legal trouble and also influenced another anonymous individual to steal from the library forcing them to invest in security guards to patrol around the area costing Boulder $1600 to protect the gallery. The article then informed us on that later that November Colorado Republican congressman Tom Tancredo introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would deny Federal funding to any entity that banned US flags, as a reader looking back on his decision I and many others as shown in the article believe his decision for the bill was in some way influenced by the controversy in Boulder. Lastly the article finishes on by giving the readers small bits of information like how when the art show closed on November, 26 2001 it had received more visitors than any in the gallery’s history, and how after the whole situation people looked at Rowan’s as a hero in the battle to expose the enemies of freedom in America and for
This section of the article is interesting because it shows a little hypocrisy on the side of the library because Gralapp didn’t like the idea of hanging the flag because it might offend those of different cultures, or faiths but she never took into consideration that an art exhibit in a public library dedicated to domestic violence that displayed various private body parts would offend some people. Gralapp’s actions sure did offend some people one of those being city “hero” 49-year-old Bob Rowan who entered the art gallery on a Saturday afternoon early in November of 2001 and proceeded to take down the penises and replaced them with a small cloth flag and his …show more content…
Rowan’s decision was very foolish because it caused him to get into legal trouble and also influenced another anonymous individual to steal from the library forcing them to invest in security guards to patrol around the area costing Boulder $1600 to protect the gallery. The article then informed us on that later that November Colorado Republican congressman Tom Tancredo introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would deny Federal funding to any entity that banned US flags, as a reader looking back on his decision I and many others as shown in the article believe his decision for the bill was in some way influenced by the controversy in Boulder. Lastly the article finishes on by giving the readers small bits of information like how when the art show closed on November, 26 2001 it had received more visitors than any in the gallery’s history, and how after the whole situation people looked at Rowan’s as a hero in the battle to expose the enemies of freedom in America and for