By now, you've no doubt heard about the senior art project of Aliza Shvarts, the Yale student who attempted to "spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body" by artificially inseminating herself a bunch of times, taking herbal drugs to induce a bunch of miscarriages, and then smearing "blood mixed with Vaseline" over a bunch of suspended cubes and calling it "art." Reaction, predictably, has thus far ranged from "no comment" (the Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale) to "this is an act of absurdism" (a classmate), to a whole bunch of "ewwwwws" (everyone I passed the story onto.)

Shvarts' project, while vile, has definitely gotten a lot of people talking, which we suppose was the intended goal. But just how controversial is it in the pantheon of "controversial college art projects"? We take a quick look back and rate recent collegiate attempts to facilitate "dialog" via "art" on a 1 to 10 "Scandal Scale."

• University of Maine student Susan Crane places hundreds of flags on the floor of her school's student center in a maze-like pattern to see if people will tramp all over them. Ninety-five percent of students sidestep the flags, but a bunch of Marines and Vietnam vets still accuse her of being an America-hating terrorist. SCANDAL RATING: 4

• A student Mount Holyoke takes 3,000 pictures off of her classmates' Facebook profiles and creates a public collage. Some complain of feeling "violated." SCANDAL RATING: 1. (Seriously, this is what passes for "controversy" at a Seven Sisters school?)

• A University of Rhode Island art student attempts to gauge how accepted homosexuality is on campus by suspending from the ceiling photos of a "man masturbating against a backdrop of gay pornography." Says one student: "Ballsy ... literally." Says another: "The statue of David is art, this is porno; I don't want to see your dick." SCANDAL RATING: 2

• An art piece titled "Low Rider Tables," consisting of "three low-to-the-ground reading tables with customized chairs ... to commemorate the low rider car culture of Latino Youth in California," splits the Chicano/Latino population of San Jose State when a student tries to install it on the fourth floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Joint Library. One of the customized chairs features a woman in short shorts and a midriff-bearing top. "Although car culture exists in our community, it certainly should not be the sole art piece representing our community," says one protester. On the flip side, a representative from Street Low Magazine who was contracted to give input on the tables claims, "customizing cars can be a family affair, where the car is worked on by all members of the family as an act of solidarity which is then entered into contests and becomes a symbol of pride." SCANDAL RATING: 5

• Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson, a student at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the son of a famous Icelandic sculptor, spends a night in jail and is suspended after he places a sculpture that looks like a bomb outside of the Royal Ontario Museum and posts footage of the fake bombing on YouTube. Most students protest the suspension; a retired Icelandic government official even pitches in $25,00 for bail. SCANDAL RATING: 6 (Bonus point because the Royal Ontario Museum had to cancel a black-tie AIDS benefit that night.)

Okay, babykiller, you win this round. But as sure as there's a God in heaven, some kid at Dartmouth is probably busy boffing her brother for a forthcoming multimedia installation on incest as we speak.