New Home Suggested for Defaced MLK Statue

The Martin Luther King Jr. statue on the University of Texas campus in Austin has been vandalized twice in 19 months. It was egged on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2003, and last month it was defaced with silver spray paint. So why not send the statue of the civil rights leader to a school that would respect and love it?  That's what a UT management and sociology professor, John Butler, has proposed -- somewhat in jest but also to make a serious point. In a recent e-mail to university President Larry R. Faulkner, the African American professor suggested moving the 12-foot statue to Morehouse College, King's alma mater in Atlanta, "where he is loved." He said Faulkner responded and politely disagreed with him. [more ]