Ethics
Her project would never pass ethics review -- required for all projects involving humans as subjects in research in North America and any country that is a signatory to the convention on the ethical treatment in research. Even though this is a artistic project, it would require an ethics review because it involves a violation of the principle of informed consent.
So she would fail, and her faulty advisor would be disciplined, possibly even fired, for not ensuring that she had all the required paper work for approval before beginning her project.
Discuss.
Fun movie though.
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RIGOLETTO: I'm denied that common human right, to weep.