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Briefs
North Texas Daily
Groups protest monologues
Andrew Gunter
jamaal o'neal
Interns
Two campus activist groups held dem-
onstrations outside of the Feminist Majority
Leadership Alliance's "Vagina Monologues"
production Friday night.
The Young Conservatives of Texas and
Student Action Initiative of North Texas held
a protest against the production, saying it was
vulgar and educates women poorly on domes-
tic violence.
The joint protest took place in front of the
Auditorium building on Hickory Street, where
the production was being held. According to
Tanar Dial, Richardson junior, the protest was
held because both groups believe the produc-
tion's message of education to prevent violence
against women is not entirely effective.
"If all that education and training doesn't
work, you need to be able to protect yourself
from attackers and rapists," Dial said. "The
main message we were trying to get out was
that women should take either defense classes
or purchase their own handguns."
FMLA recruitment chair Brittany McLean,
Grapevine senior, said she disagrees with the
young conservatives' stance that women should
protect themselves with weapons. McLean said
most women are raped by people they know,
not by strangers.
"Women are not going to shoot their co-
workers, they're not going to shoot their hus-
bands, and they're not going to shoot their boy-
friends," McLean said. "We think we should
arm ourselves with facts, not bullets."
The young conservative group's stance on
the issue also relates to its opinion on the pro-
duction's vulgarity.
"A lot of the more moderate groups think
[the Vagina Monologues] is a little too graphic,"
Dial said. "They think it's not the best way to go
about things."
Despite what some may call vulgarity, the
FMLA believes women are able to relate to
parts of the production and take that knowl-
edge with them.
"The whole point of the show is to raise
awareness of this issue," McLean said. "We
think the violence will stop with awareness. It's
kind of scary when in Texas, the feminist group
on campus is more rational and accomplished
than the conservative group. I thank them for
making themselves look extreme."
The conservatives disagree.
"All the FMLA accomplishes with the
'Vagina Monologues' is taking the serious issue
of women's rights and turning it into a carnival
of filthy language, disgusting merchandise and
bad acting," Dial said. "They do raise a lot of
money, but do the ends justify the means? I
think not."
Although they disagree, both sides know
that a message needs to be sent to women when
it comes to domestic violence.
"We're fighting the same battle," Dial said.
"We're just taking it from two different sides.
They're taking it from the education side; we're
taking it from the self-defense side."
FMLA raised approximately $20,000 from
the production. FMLA is donating 70 percent
of the money to Parkland Rape Crisis Center
in Dallas and 10 percent to abused women in
Iraq. Over 1,000 people attended the "Vagina
Monologues" production.
[[[ The Wire ]]]
Bush wants over $80 billion more to fight terror
WASHINGTON (AP)
- President Bush asked
Congress on Monday to pro-
vide $81.9 billion more for
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
and for other U.S. efforts over-
seas, pushing the total price
tag for the conflicts and anti-
terror fight past $300 billion.
Republicans hope to push
the package through Congress
by early spring, reflecting both
parties' desire to finance U.S.
troops in the field and give
Iraqis more responsibility
following their national elec-
tions. Bush asked lawmakers
to pay for the new spend-
ing by borrowing the money,
which will make huge federal
deficits even larger.
"The majority of this
request will ensure that our
troops continue to get what
they need to protect them-
selves and complete their
mission," Bush said in a
statement accompanying his
request.
He also said the money
would help continue the
pursuit of terrorists and
help the United States "seize
the opportunity to build
peace and democracy in the
Middle East."
Painkiller use declines among Americans
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - For
years, Americans have been
popping painkillers like they
were candy to treat everything
from headaches to arthritis.
But new data shows America's
love affair with the medica-
tions may have cooled off after
the blockbuster drug Vioxx
was pulled from the market
over safety concerns.
New data show sales of
prescription arthritis drugs
plunged at the end of 2004,
after Merck & Co. Inc. of
Whitehouse Station, N.J.,
pulled Vioxx from the market
Sept. 30 and a string of recent
studies raised safety concerns
about other widely used pain
medicines.
Nonprescription pain
reliever sales jumped more by
double digits in late 2004, but
doctors and other pain experts
believe many patients are sim-
ply suffering in silence, con-
fused about what pain medi-
cation is best for them.
"I've been in practice
for 30 years and I've never
seen such a mess," said Dr.
Michel Dubois, director of the
New York University Pain
Management Center.
He estimates about 20
percent of his patients have
switched from Cox-2 inhibi-
tors, the painkiller class includ-
ing Vioxx and Pfizer Inc.'s
Celebrex and Bextra, to narcot-
ic painkillers or nonprescrip-
tion ones. Another 20 percent
have stopped taking painkill-
ers altogether.
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