In reference to the picture on the front page of the Sept. 7 edition of the Daily Egyptian. I am the person pictured in that photo. While I am flattered to be on the front page, as a 42-year-old mother of two, I resent the (deliberate?) misrepresentation of what my t-shirt says and the implications of it for myself and my department.

The word in question is truck. I do not own, and would not wear in public, any garment that bears the profanity that papears to be written on the shirt. I can hardly send this to my aged parents; and my two high school daughters can hardly share this would-be honor for their sculptor mom with their friends and teachers at home. While my friends can attest to the fact that I possess a sometimes ribald sense of humor, I am not without a sense of appropriate time and place. The front page of the DE is not that place.

I have long despaired the lack of journalistic integrity in this country, but even a college newspaper should be above such junior high school shenanigans.

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I believe apologies are due to myself, to President and Mrs. Guyon for what I am sure they would not want associated with this project, and to Dean John Jackson, Director Robert Paulson and Professor Thomas Walsh for the poor reflection on their school and program.

Graduate student, School of Art and Design