Thursday, December 4, 2008

Playing dead

Nicoal Sheen, a junior political science major and a member of FORCE, plays dead as part of the "Die In" in front of the Speaker's Platform on Wednesday afternoon to protest the "global gag rule." The gag rule, FORCE members said, is a US policy mandating "that no US family planning assistance can be provided to foreign NGOs that use funding to perform, promote, or lobby for abortion in their country. An NGO is a Non-Governmental Organization. According to Sheen, it "is important about the issue on campus about women in a global society as a result of the gag."