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...they know the surest way to drum up interest in a pornographic movie on campus is to ban it? When a state senator threatened to strip funding from the University of Maryland over its plans to show a XXX-rated film in the student center, school officials nixed the event. But fired-up students responded on Monday by holding a free-speech demonstration that drew media coverage from as far away as Thailand and Australia...
...student center for April 4, and some 150 students purchased advance tickets at $5 a pop. The student union also invited a Planned Parenthood representative to speak about safe sex, which is presumably not a central plot point in the swashbuckling film. After news broke of the event, administrators said in a statement that they initially viewed the showing as "an opportunity to engage students in a discussion about the national dialogue revolving around pornography...
...event, which was held in a lecture hall and probably won't endanger the university's funding because of its educational components, helped earn the screening's co-organizer, sophomore Malcolm Harris, an endorsement for student-body president in The Diamondback. Administrators at College Park called the rebel screening "characteristic of a vibrant educational community." Meanwhile, another University of Maryland campus, in Baltimore County, has scheduled a screening in solidarity...
Minutes later, he ended the event as he had almost every other appearance, with a question that didn't need an answer: "All right?" Which meant that he had more to do and little time, and he couldn't afford to let anything hold him back...
...LTTE attack left 13 Sri Lankan police officers dead. The government responded with a violent crackdown on Tamils that killed hundreds, yet caused thousands worldwide to side with Prabhakaran. The event marked the official beginning of the civil...