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From: Roanoke Times & World News | Date: October 28, 2007| Author: Kevin Kittredge kevin.kittredge@roanoke.com 981-3323 "It's big. It's bold. It looks like it was painted yesterday." Art professor Laura Katzman | about "Men of the Docks," by George Bellows. | Copyright information

Have you heard? Randolph College is selling a few paintings.

Silly question. Of course you've heard. The Lynchburg school's efforts to solve its money woes by cashing in valuable art have been written about in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, to name a few. It has drawn the censure of museum associations, the ire of students and the scorn of academics and museum workers, some of whom have resigned in protest.

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