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Orgasm aficionados arouse student body by Nicole Storey
culture@dailylobo.com Laughter, advice and female orgasm are coming to town — and they’re coming fast, hard and everywhere. “I ♥ Female Orgasm” is a comedic, educational show hosted by the Women’s Resource Center today in the SUB. Elizabeth McDonald is the Health Education Council cocaptain at UNM, and has helped put together the event. “I think that’s really what sets ‘I ♥ Female O’ apart from other sex-ed programs, is they bring in humor. They recognize this is uncomfortable, and we’re going to just break that ice and take down these barriers and talk about this like it’s a normal topic, like we’re talking about shoes almost,” McDonald said. The show is based on a book written by Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller. It contains advice on how to help your female partner have an orgasm, or a better orgasm, and debunks myths about the elusive female ejaculation and other “taboo” topics. The idea behind “I ♥ Female Orgasm” is to use humor to breach
a difficult subject. Though humor is essential, the show is done in a thoughtful and appropriate manner, Rick Aguilar, one of the event’s organizers, said. “The way the speakers deliver their program is 100 percent appropriate, usually — well, I don’t know if it’s 100 percent, but it’s as appropriate for the college of choice as possible,” Aguilar said. “I ♥ Female Orgasm” is part of a weeklong event promoting healthy sexuality. The Women’s Resource Center will be handing out free condoms and holding events such as RAINN Day, an event which promotes awareness of sexual assault on campus. “We’re not pushing any one idea of healthy sexuality on anyone. We’re just providing all of the resources and then letting (the audience) make informed decisions,” said co-sponsor Angela Catena. Aguilar said fliers around campus have generated positive buzz. “The response that we get when we go outside and we hand out fliers, or the response that we get when we walk around wearing these T-shirts, is very positive,” he said. “People are excited, people talk about it, people are like ‘I’ve seen that around! Are you
Juan Labreche / Daily Lobo Sophomore psychology major Austin Orozco (right) receives free condoms from senior Leslee Horn of the Health Education Council on Monday. The giveaway was a promotion for I ♥ Female Orgasm, an event held tonight that uses humor to teach students how to give and experience better female orgasms. the one who put the fliers in the restrooms?’” McDonald said many people love female orgasms. “I think the most frequent phrase I hear when I’m wearing my shirt or my button or something is ‘Oh my god, me too,’” McDonald said. McDonald and Catena said
they have seen a positive response from as many men as women. “Most of my male friends are promoting it for me … they’re like ‘I want to learn how to give a girl a better orgasm, I want to teach my friends,’ or something like that, so the response I’ve gotten has just been wildly positive,” McDonald said.
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Buffalo stampede ‘part of America’s past’ by Kristi Eaton
More than 1,000 buffalo thunder across the prairie land Monday during the 47th annual Buffalo Roundup in western South Dakota’s Custer State Park. Event organizers estimate that more than 14,000 people attended the event.
The Associated Press CUSTER, S.D. — Two-year-old Jameson Maxwell sat mesmerized Monday as nearly 1,000 bison rumbled across the prairie in western South Dakota, the massive creatures racing at speeds of up to 50 mph in the annual Buffalo Roundup at Custer State Park. “He really enjoys it. He was saying, ‘Yee-haw.’ He thinks he’s going to catch one,” his mother, Maria Maxwell, said as she watched the toddler perfect his roping skills after the event. Maxwell and her son were among thousands of people from all over the world who descended on South Dakota on Monday for a taste of the Old West and a chance to see one of the most iconic American creatures. Officials created the Buffalo Roundup nearly 50 years ago to manage the bison herd at Custer State Park. It has since become a multi-day event that draws people from as far away as Germany, Australia and New Zealand. Tens of millions of bison, also known as buffalo, once roamed most of North America before overhunting reduced the population to about 1,000 animals by the turn of the 20th century. Subsequent conservation efforts helped rebuild the herds, though not anything close to the numbers they were at when they roamed free across the Great Plains. Visitors to the 47th annual Buffalo
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Roundup rose before dawn Monday and packed Custer State Park to watch the bison being corralled into pens. About 225 to 250 of the animals will be sold and shipped across North America, said Chad Kremer, the herd manager at Custer State Park. The buffalo will supplement existing herds, help start new ones or be used for meat. Many spectators sat for hours
at two designated viewing areas in 40-degree temperatures, keeping warm with blankets and hot chocolate. Shortly after 10 a.m., the first few buffalo began to peek out over a rolling hill as spectators began cheering with excitement. Soon, nearly 1,000 of the mighty animals began barreling across the landscape, down the hill, around a
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bend and into a waiting pen. “It’s something you can only get in South Dakota,” said 42-year-old Ken Asbridge, who traveled from North Carolina for the event. “It’s part of America’s past. The buffalo went away and now it’s coming back.” As temperatures began to increase by midmorning, several of the animals slugged along. Kremer said the
warmer weather had tired the bison and they didn’t want to move until the cowboys and cowgirls pushed them further into the pens. The animals will stay in the pens until the new ones are branded, others vaccinated and the cows checked for pregnancy. The goal of the South Dakota event
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