One more go-around with the "Vagina Monologues":
Los Angeles — Grover Cleveland High School Principal Bob Marks has his limits.
On Thursday, it was the illustration of a vagina splashed across the front page of the student newspaper on Valentine's Day.
Teachers rushed to confiscate the issue, but with some copies already in circulation and the campus in the city's San Fernando Valley area in an uproar, it quickly became a hot read for the school's roughly 3,700 students.
Some of the contraband issues made their way home, getting a quick reaction from parents.
“My phone's been ringing off the hook,” Marks said. Only one parent, he said, asked why the paper was taken away. The others called to say they were offended, he said.
The drawing in question ran under the hot pink headline “Have a happy Vagina Day!” and the four-page edition included stories titled “Ending shame for nature's gift” and “Rejected!!!!!!!”
The paper's editor-in-chief, 15-year-old Richard Edmond, said he was trying to raise awareness of violence against women with a lead story about the “Vagina Monologues.”
A 15-year-old. Yep, about right for the play's emotional maturity level.
