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UW-Platteville student forced to modify artwork (AP)

PLATTEVILLE, Wis. (AP) — An art display at a southwestern Wisconsin college has prompted free-speech debates after campus police ordered it modified.

Student Michael Hannigan wanted to juxtapose the innocence of teddy bears against the ferocity of real bears. So he lined up 25 stuffed bears in the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Art Building — with kitchen knives in their laps.