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VDay Articles Censored and Protesting students suspended
UPDATED: Read NCAC's joint letter with the Student Press Law Center to the Principal and
Students at Grover Cleveland High School decided to use the Valentine's Day issue of their school paper to talk about VDay, a national movement to raise awareness about violence toward women. The article featured a diagram of a vagina and accompanying articles about the 10th anniversary of VDay and nation-wide performances of The Vagaina Monologues. Concerned about this content, the principal confiscated all copies of the paper.
The next day students wore homemade t-shirts labeled "My Vagina is Obscene" to protest censorship of the paper. Teachers ordered them to remove the shirts, and when they refused, they were suspended.
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» Feb 19, 2008 - Papers at L.A. high school confiscated over V-Day spread (SPLC) Several students were suspended from Grover Cleveland High School Friday for wearing T-shirts that opposed the confiscation of their newspaper, Le Sabre. According to Editor in Chief Richard Edmond, Thursday's issue was confiscated because a front-page headline included the word "vagina," and a medical diagram of the vagina's anatomy accompanied the article.
» Feb 19, 2008 - School newspaper drops a V-bomb (LA Times) Grover Cleveland High School Principal Bob Marks has his limits.
On Thursday, it was the labeled diagram of a vagina splashed across the front page of the student newspaper's Valentine's Day issue.
Flustered teachers rushed to confiscate the publication, but with some copies already in circulation and the Reseda campus in an uproar, it quickly became a hot read for the school's roughly 3,700 students.
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