A special screening of the award-winning documentary The Education Of Shelby Knox will take place at 8pm in 304 Barnard Hall, at 117th St and Broadway, on Thursday, October 20th, followed by a Q & A session with Shelby Knox and director Rose Rosenblatt at approximately 9:30 pm. The screening is sponsored by student groups Students for Choice, Columbia University College Democrats and Q. The Education of Shelby Knox is a coming-of-age story about Knox’s campaign for comprehensive sex education in the high schools of her Lubbock, Texas. As Shelby is swept into the fight, she begins to question her deeply conservative Southern Baptist upbringing; when the campaign broadens to include a fight for a gay-straight alliance, Shelby confronts her family and her pastor, in the end declaring herself a feminist and a liberal Christian. The Education of Shelby Knox has won awards at the Sundance, South By Southwest and Miami Gay and Lesbian film festivals, and has been called “Well-made and extremely funny" by Film Threat and “Brilliant

No, sluts are not the only ones using Plan B.

I have been a proud user of Plan B (Levonorgestrel) Emergency Contraception and there is just not enough good things for me to say about it.

I am one of many women who cannot use oral contraceptives, no matter how low the dosage of hormones. My family physician had me try everything possible to no avail. From physical problems like nausea and dizziness to "mood swings", the pill is just not for me. Mind you, my partner and I use condoms, spermicides AND a diaphragm. We even try to do the twist while keeping Rhythm. But you never can be safe enough : Our two kids are testaments to what a broken condom (actually two) can look like.

For people like me, though, it was always a privilege to have PlanB available, albeit a privilege limited to one pharmacy. How many women, especially the many poor and working class women who have no medical insurance or enough money to pay out of pocket for a doctor's visit, may have ended up paying more money for an abortion because they didn't have access to this $30 solution?

I have been monogamous and "reproductive aware" as they can be. I have been with my partner now for about 18 years. For the first 9 years of our relationship, nary an "accident" happened. And as I said, we have two children --unplanned but not unwanted.

It's crazy that even for people like me this product was not easily available. Yet what is insane is the fact this law is a compromise of sorts. Why? The registered nurse or pharmacist does not have to dispense the prescription if they do not want to :