JULIE HILDEN Censorship at Yale: Why the University's Refusal to Exhibit Student Aliza Shvarts's Senior Art Project Violated Its Speech Code FindLaw columnist, attorney, and author Julie Hilden contends that Yale University betrayed its own stated commitment to free speech when it recently denied senior Aliza Shvarts the ability to display her senior project in an end-of-year exhibit. Shvarts's controversial project stemmed from her decision to repeatedly inseminate herself and then use an abortifacient at a time when any embryo she might have carried would have existed for about two to three weeks. Hilden argues that Art Department faculty should have had the last word on whether Shvarts's project was high enough in quality to display, and that administrators' rationales for denying Shvarts access to the exhibit were post-hoc rationalizations that do not hold water, when they are more closely examined.