NC College: Art with cigar counters tobacco policy
NEW BERN, N.C. — A North Carolina college cracking down on smoking says artwork depicting an instructor with a cigar goes against the campus tobacco policy.
The Sun Journal of New Bern reports officials asked Craven Community College automotive instructor Robert Hall to remove the image. Students had airbrushed the hood of a drag racing car with a portrait of Hall gripping wrenches and smoking a cigar.
School spokesman Sandy Wall says the depiction of someone smoking sends a message that officials don’t want. The school has cracked down on campus smoking, initially banning it from all areas of campus but this month revising rules to allow designated smoking
areas.
Some of Hall’s students expressed disappointment that the image was removed from the student center.
Information from: The Sun Journal
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