Well, I'm glad to see that someone is finally standing up for pervasive censorship and intolerance in the Viewpoint section. I'm referring to Friday's letter encouraging us to yell bad things at the administration for allowing "The Vagina Monologues" to be produced here.

It was a warm reminder that those who are deathly afraid of having their "beliefs" challenged on this campus will not be kept silent. Thank you for trying to protect us from being corrupted by dirty language.

Hey, where were you guys when "The Mandrake," where I learned that lying and cheating will get me any woman I want, was produced? Or when ND Cinema showed "Y Tu Mama Tambien" in the Hesburgh Library. Oh yeah, and we could use you guys to help shut down the "verbally pornographic" film that SUB is showing this weekend, "Animal House."

Come to think of it, I think this is the first time this year Mary's Advocates have spoken out against something. There have been a number of films and plays shown here that have been as vulgar as you make "The Vagina Monologues" sound.

You should protest more often. Then no one would accuse you of only attacking feminism while choosing to ignore vulgarity when it comes in a male-dominated form.

You know, maybe I'll go see these "Vagina Monologues." Maybe I'll allow myself to be caught off guard so I can learn something worthwhile that might not have occurred to me. I have no idea if I'll agree with everything I hear, but something tells me the last thing I should do is hide from it.

David Tull

freshman

Knott Hall

Feb. 14

• Examining the military's role in a post-war Iraq
  
• Defending V-Day
  
• Defending V-Day
  
• Students betrayed
  
• More like Junior Raisins Weekend