I i . f,:,iii>. :•-.;! {::.:••'.•: V.::-:-: v^is:is •iti The Beacon I!) MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2000 William Paterson University"•• Volume 66 No. 21 http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/beacon FREE Ben Shahn to feature Health and Wellness Center says /love IS ' Vagina Monologues' carefully' during National Condom Week By Ryan Caiazzo . Resource Center in Oakland, want to begin a relationship by lay- Ii By Jonathan Berkemeyer Valentine's day or anti-Violence," News Editor •California, "whose purpose is to ing, out the details of our sexual ii News Contributor said Eve Ensler creator of "The provide organization, ideas and past," Ellson continued. m • Vagina. Monologues" in 1998. She "Cover your stuinp before you resources which encourage and Ellson said that some people "To love women, to love our continued by saying, "If, by* the hump. She won't get sick if you support creative community-based may be honest about their sexual vaginas, to know them and touch year 2005, rape, incest, battery and wrap your dick." programs," National Condom history, but "if one were to be total- them and be familiar with who genital mutilation hasn't ended, These phrases and others have Week participants include many ly frank about [his/her] past, they who we are and what we need. To we're' going to call a global strike of been circulating through world- colleges and universities around may not know. They could gen- women to stop it. That's our agen- the nation, including William uinely not know they are infected I satisfy ourselves, to teach our wide email this week as America lovers to satisfy us, to be present in da." suits up for Condom Week 2000. Paterson University. The center's [with an STD] and quite innocently our vaginas..." is a quote that will V-Day 2000 will be held in the As Valentine's shoppers trek mission is to promote one short infect another," Ellson added. be read on Monday, Feb. 14 in Ben Ben Shahn Galleries at 12:30 p.m., into busy gift shops on Feb. 14 message: "Love carefully." Trust is a major factor in sexual Shahn Hall as part of the Vagina and will feature a performance of searching for that last minute pur- This week, .the WPU Health and health and wellness, said Ellson. Monologues. "The Vagina Monologues". The chase of a chocolate-filled heart or Wellness Center has scheduled "Most college students tend to By the time you finish reading Monologues were created by cute, stuffed animal for your numerous events to promote safer trust where trust may not be merit- i this article, somewhere in America Ensler and are based on interviews sweetheart, it may be wise to stop sex through condom use. ed or [many people] are simply a women will have been raped, or of hundreds of women about how by the prophylactics section and Nurse practitioner Nancy Ellson cavalier about their own personal sexually assaulted. the feel about their vaginas. pick up a box of condoms - if you says that Valentine's Day is an safety. Using condoms is about I This Monday, Willam Paterson Over fifteen female students of are sexually active. That purchase appropriate time of year to address two people. It's about protecting I will be sponsoring, V-Day 2000, a William Paterson will be reading could save your life, doctors say. condom use, since many people your partner, but the fundamental •campaign to stop sexual- abuse parts they adapted for "The Vagina Condoms save lives like seat- • believe that if they are in a commit- issue is caring about yourself. against women. Monologues". belts and airbags. That's the mes- ted relationship that they are safe. Ellson says that college is the Somewhere in America, a Admission to the event is free, sage that safer sex advocates are "A person could be the love of time to take responsibility of good w.omen is raped every two miiv- and optional donations to the declaring these next few days dur- [someone's] life, but without pro- decision making. II! utes. Approximately 28-percent of Passaic County Women's Center ing National Condom Week. tection they might truly not even "Many people arrive at age 18 victims of sexual violence are will be accepted. V-day will be Begun in the -1970's, National now that they have been infected and come to college with a not too raped by their husbands or approximately 1 to 1-1/2 hours Condom Week, which starts on with a variety of STDs or the AIDS well developed sense of self-care boyfriends, 35-precent by acquain- long. Valentine's Day, is a week to pro- virus, said Ellson. and self-efficacy." ! tances and 5-percent by other rela- "I am reading a monologue mote the necessity of people to "Over the years, I have read that Condoms can be purchased i tives. because lesbian sex needs to be protect themselves against sexual- people may be in a relationship almost anywhere these days - from V-day is held on Valentine's Day represented. It's good because ly transmitted diseases (STDs) with someone up to two years grocery stores to department stores as a day to celebrate women and vaginas are not spoken of, they are with information and resources on before they are genuinely and com- and even online. On demand the end of abuse. "The V safer sex practices. pletely candid about their sexual, see WPU page 3 past. None of us, men or women, stands for Vagina, Victory, Coordinated by the Condom see RUBBER page 3 • • iiii Shadow Puppet Play set for Shea 29,000 rubber duckies I Did you ever think that a capti- vating play could be performed wash ashore, are studied using only shadow puppets? Well, it can and it will at William By Melissa Robertson marine plants and animals.: But Paterson University this National Environmental Wire for some of it is a boon for scientists Wednesday. Students . like Ebbesmeyer, who use it to If. track ocean On Feb. 16 at 12:30 p.m., a free currents. theatrical performance entitled In October, Curtis Ebbesmeyer, |r "Tamara and the Shadow Theatre an oceanographer and beach- In fact, plastic ducks and Nike shoes that have been washing up of Javai" will transform the stage comber from Seattle, Wash.; was w strolling along Melbourne Beach, on Pacific beaches for nearly ten in Shea Center at William Paterson years are "the greatest thing that ?! University into a roomful of ornate Florida. During a half-hour trip down a 100-yard section of beach, ever happened in terms of track-. and colorful puppet shadows. Part ing efforts," said Jonathan Amson, ii of Campus Activities' Sounds of he collected 20 discarded shoes, an average of one every 15 feet. the senior marine scientist at the Century Series, the play will encom- Oceans Division of the U.S. Office And this beach is not unique. I- pass the Indonesian talent of of Wetlands and Oceans. Wayangkulir. "There's a shoe for every mile of i Wayang kulit, an evocative art beach in the world," he said. Ocean currents drive the weath- form dating back to the 10th centu- Shoes aren't the only things litter- er. El Nino, for example, begins in the Pacific, when trade winds that ry, is rooted in.the ancient belief photo courtesy Campus Activities ing the beaches. Lost fishing nets 1 Tamara will present-the Indonesan Art of Shadow Puppets in a and equipment, plastic and push currents, west from Peru that ancestors' spirits return to relax, allowing water to flow east. 4 . Earth at night and inhabit the pup- play entitled "Tamara and the Shadow Theatre of Javai." Styrofoam containers, toys and sporting gear, and all manner of The 1997-1998 El Nino caused pets' shadows. The stories, the Traditionally, shadow plays last Her collection of shadow puppets, flooding in California, fewer hurri- most well-known of which is the other flotsam and jetsam wash up from sunset to dawn without inter- begun in 1975 with a used set from on shores around the world. canes on the East Coast and Hindu epic, the Ramayana, trans- mission, but Tamara has found a a dalang who no longer needed it, drought in Indonesia. mit religious and moral codes as way to distill the essence of these now numbers 500. Most of the time, beach debris is well as mythology and ancient his- tales into hour-long, presentations. at best an eyesore. At worst, it is tory see SHADOW page 16 costly to people and deadly to see OCEAN page 3 I 4 Condom Pioneer Slogans Snowday Ice Hockey Page 7 •••is Page 14 Page 20 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2000 PAGE 2 • THE BEACON SEX. NIVERSITY LOVE. Hi! Performing MARRIAGE. Arts OEATH. Monday, February 14 Theatre Nothing's "The Vagina Monologues": WPUNJ students & Faculty in perform in Eve Series Ensler's Obie Award winning play. 12:30 p.m. -.1:50 p.m. Ben Shahn presents sacred in Galleries. Contact Meryle Kaplan @ x2946. these six satirical Tuesday, February 15 comedies! Women's Center: Keep talking about vaginas, sexuality, and healing at this week's Women's Discussion Group. 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. at teh Women's Center SC 214. Contact Meryle Kaplan @ x2946. S.A.B.L.E. : African Dance Lessons by: Zanzel, Creative Source Dance by Ensemble, (and February 16th) 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. in the Hillside Gazebo. Christopher Contact Takia Campbell @ x4678. Directed by Thursday, February 17 Durang HA.S.A. (Haitian American Student Association): La 'Jeunesse Philip author of Extravaganza (Hatian Culture Night) 7 p.m.