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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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Stories and content by Jason Thurkill

Vagina Monologues take center stage

By Jason Thurkill / February 15, 2005
The Feminist Majority, a student organization promoting women’s equality and reproductive rights, treated attendees to its annual V-Day Celebration with vagina-shaped cookies, a production of the Vagina Monologues, and a climatic raffle of a vibrator in an effort to raise awareness of violence against women. The event, held at Hutch Commons Monday night at 8:30...

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart: In the crossfire on media and politics

By Jason Thurkill / October 27, 2004
If you didn’t watch CNN this past week or one of the clips making the rounds on the Internet, you missed The Daily Show host Jon Stewart deliver a damning critique on the media and how it covers politics. In a tense, heated exchange with co-hosts Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson, Stewart not-so-tactfully alleged that...
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