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The Vagina Monologues: A Meredith Tradition, A Worldwide Celebration Aleigha Page, Staff Writer Meredith College’s Extra Theater Company performed their annual product of The Vagina Monologues on Sunday, February 28 at 8:00 in Jones Auditorium. The money raised by the perfor mance was donated to the Interact Agency of Wake County, a local organization who helps women in need. Amanda Eubanks, a Meredith Senior, will be address ing a panel at the Union Nations explaining the significance of the Interact Organization to Wake County. The organization is one of a kind in the county, and possibly the world. The Vagina Monologues is a book written by Eve Ensler; as written on the official Vagina Monologues website: “[the novel] is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery, [it] is an anthology of women’s atti tudes towards their sexuality, their greatest fantasies and fears, their loves and heartbreaks”. To write the novel, Ensler interviewed 200 diverse women about their sexual ity past and present; she explained that “at first the women were a little shy. But once they got going, you couldn’t stop them.” The Va gina Monologues is clearly a novel meant to celebrate the spirit of femininity and to bring women of all walks of life together. The Vagina Monologues has been performed by college campuses across the nation. The purpose for all the excitement is the cause behind The Monologues: Vday, the day the Monologues are performed, is meant to raise awareness to end violence against women. The movement was founded in 1998, and has flour- ' , ished ever since. The name “Vagina Mono logues” sounds scandalous, some thing our grandmother wouldn’t approve of. But strip away the word, and what you find is a play composed of the narratives of over 200 women. And those 200 women are not merely individu als, but the sum of the woman’s spirit. Every woman has her story of heartache, joy, and pleasure, and the play encompasses every Love and Other Angel Antics Aleigha Page, Staff Writer We are all so pressed for times these days that sometimes it doesn’t seem possible to maintain a relationship. On weekends when you have don’t liave a workload to accomplish; your honey has a workload and vice-versa. I am currently in a relationship veiy restricted by our busy schedules. Even though my boy is only five minutes down the road, it seems like five hours on weeks when we don’t have time for each other. The bottom line is that you haw to learn to make time to allow your relationship to grow'and flourish. Mere is a list of tricks I find helpful to bridging the gap'^ between you two: 1. liave cnoug^i confidence in your relationship to not need to see each other all the time. Sometimes a little space apart is very' healthy. : 2. Send each other a cute or funny YouTube video in the middle of the week. 3. Be understanding of what is going on in their life. 4. Make weekend plans early in the week so it can be secured in the schedule! woman in one way or another. There are times during the play that will make one blush, burst out in laughter, chant, and even ciy. The . play vrill make one feel uncomfort able at times, but with the discom fort comes the comfort of learning that a woman is a most beautiful being. Every single last detail of the female body is meant to be loved, cherished, and celebrated. Blast provided by Martha Fonville,' Meredith ^Archivist an ad placed in the October 20th, 1950 issue of The Meredith Herald, then called The Twig What's Up In Raleigh The Wednesday Bhiegrass Series: 3/3/10 at 8 p.m. at Six String Cafe Cat's Cradle Presents: March 5: Bowling for Soup Cinderella at the Progress Energy Center: Saturday Matinee. March 6, 2010 2 pm, tickets $18 Cat’s Cradle Presents: March 25: Joanna Newsom at Carolina Theatre, Dur ham “Reciprocity: Cedric Chattciicy's Handmade Cameras” Exhibit: Free, through May 21,2010 at Center for Documentaiy Studies at Duke, 1317 W. Pet tigrew St. Dual/I'ocus at Miriam Block Galleiy: Free, 222 W. Hargett St., Raleigh, XC ' NC Museum of History': Basketball Exhibit; “Learn about the history of basketball and the beginnings of March Madness. Make a handheld hoop to take home to practice your shot! This program is presented with Cameron Village Regional Library” “Under the Influence" Art Exhibit: Abstract paintings in aciylic by Don Mertz. Free. Through March 21, 2010, Durham Arts Council, 120 Morris St. “Creativity Expressed in Stitches” Art Exhibit: Through May 31, 2010: Quills from the African American Quilt Circle. FREE admission.Januaiy 4- 2010 - May 31, 2010 at the National Humanities Center, 7TW Alexander Dr. Enjoy the time that you do spend get to spend together!
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