December 1st, 2003, 1:20 pm

International Women’s Day March

I’ve talked about the ‘guest column controversy’ with a few people recently, so I thought I’d lay out the whole saga here. In March 2003, I was assigned a short piece to preview the International Women’s Day March to be held in San Antonio. I talked to the organizers, and did some research on the event’s history, and here is the initial article. A week later, I was asked to write a review of the event for our Last Words section of the Current - a section that is an opinionated, subjective take on current events. I found the march - full of the same protestors that I seen at other protests I had been covering earlier that year - to be self-serving, and not in the original intent of the day, which was unity for women. I knew from the organizational meetings that no attempt had been made to include groups who did not traditionally participate in marches and protests. Here is my review of the IWD March. The paper recieved many complaints, which culminating in an anonymous guest column being written about the event, and my coverage of it.