As part of the global 2007 V-Day campaign, students and staff from the schools of Nursing, Medicine and Public Health are this month raising funds and awareness to stop violence against women and girls by hosting academic discussion forums, a dinner and swing-dancing fund-raiser, a silent auction and two benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues.

Eve Ensler's award-winning play — the highlight of the V-Day Campaign — will be performed at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 16, and Saturday, Feb. 17, in Turner Auditorium, East Baltimore campus, under the direction of Laura Cappelli, a medical student, and Caitlin Gerdts, a master's degree student in Public Health. Tickets are $10 ($8 with JHU student ID) and can be purchased at the door or in advance. For more information, contact the show's producer, nursing student Susana Vega, at [email protected].

Proceeds from the Johns Hopkins V-Day events — planned and implemented entirely by volunteers from the three schools — will benefit Baltimore's victims of domestic violence at the House of Ruth Maryland and Adelante Familia.

For a complete list of this week's events, see Calendar, in this issue.

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