TO THE EDITOR:
The letter writer congratulating the University on putting its “affairs out in the open” in respect to the hermaphroditic cow has missed the underlying religious significance of the cow’s presence.
It is no chimera, rather, an aesthetic object imbued with time-honored, sacred symbolism.
Its stance consecrates the ground beneath it, and soon, we can expect a nascent Hermaphrobovine Worshippers Society to further legitimize this modern monument to a deity.
Though the autumnal timing of the hermaphrobovine display does seem a bit conspicuous, its arrival should be heralded by the initiated and uninitiated alike — and not swept up in the cheap and easy language of a thinly shrouded liberal politics.
Matthew Lynch
Ph.D. Student
Religious Studies
