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	'My vagina's not going away. It's pissed off and it's staying right here.' 'The Vagina Monologues,' a collection of soliloquies based on the female body, is being performed in Agate Hall tonight by Mike O'Brien Some women love them, some think they're hideously ugly and some even like to draw pictures of them. But no matter how women feel about their vaginas, 25 women will be talking about them in Agate Hall tonight. For 10 years, the ASUO Women's Center has been putting on performances of "The Vagina Monologues," Eve Ensler's award-winning episodic play about female empowerment.
	Heated ASUO Senate debates new VFSA budget ASUO senators argue about if the approved $6,960 budget to VFSA is too large for new group by Robert D'Andrea Former Sen. Steven Wilsey told his former colleagues Wednesday that they should vote down a $6,960 budget for the Veterans and Family Student Association when the Programs Finance Committee's final budget comes before them next month. The PFC decided to give the veterans that budget Monday night during a meeting Wilsey exited before the vote was cast.
	Cash or credit? With students using plastic money more and more, debt concerns professors by Trevor Davis University student Natalie Alkire swiped her debit card to purchase a Subway sandwich in the EMU on Wednesday morning. Alkire represents a growing number of customers who prefer to use debit or credit cards over cash - even for food purchases. Cash is disappearing from the marketplace as students trade green paper and coins for plastic.
	Students campaign for ethnic studies Departmentalizing the program was one of several items discussed at UO Senate meeting by Allie Grasgreen 150 Columbia was a little cozier than usual at Wednesday's University Senate meeting, thanks to the unusually high number of students present. Dozens of students attended the meeting to urge Senate members to support departmentalization of the ethnic studies program.
	Singles are not alone for V-Day Counselors say students feeling lonely on Valentine's Day should celebrate friends, family and themselves by Jill Kimball Though Valentine's Day is meant to be celebrated by two people in a romantic relationship, those who are unattached don't have to feel left out. Students who don't have a significant other with whom to share the day of love might feel like they are in the minority, but at the University, relationship status appears to be divided fairly evenly.
	UO Senate voted in favor of sharing athletic revenue In brief by Ryan Knutson The University Senate overwhelmingly passed a motion on Wednesday that asks the athletic department to share its profits with the academic budget if the department earns excess revenue. The University Senate, which functions as an advisory body in this case, doesn't have the power to mandate that the athletic department share its revenue, and the motion's current language leaves a lot of wiggle room in terms of how revenue sharing would be accomplished.