The Daily Newds

• Naked animal rights activists braved sub-zero weather to protest the slaughter of seals in Canada.
• Cabaret at Montclair State University features full-frontal nudity.

  Those who were cast and selected to be nude in the show would ultimately have to bare it all for their role. Cari Jones, 20, a sophomore B.A. theatre studies major, is one of those chosen for a role requiring nudity. Although one would think that this task would be quite daunting, Jones says that she is not nervous and that she'd "rather have the experience now." Justin Long, 22, a senior B.A. theatre studies major, was chosen to play the role of the Emcee, one of the show's lead roles. Like Jones, Long's role demands onstage nudity, which he is also not worried about.

• Sienna Miller says that she has a European mentality when it comes to sunbathing topfree and would find it "strange" to wear a top at the beach.
• A "nurse-in" is being planned at a Pennsylvania shopping mall to protest an incident where a breastfeeding mother was asked by security officers to cover up or stop.
• A "Wired" columnist defends the Connecticut teacher who faces up to 40 years in prison because children in Julie Amero's class were accidentally exposed to Internet porn on the school computer.

  Julie is taking the fall, but many other people failed before a porn storm burst into that classroom. The IT department failed to keep content filters and anti-malware software up-to-date. The school failed to enforce a security policy, allowing substitute teachers to use regular teachers' network credentials to access the internet. The administration failed to ensure that all teachers, including substitutes, had the necessary skills and training to handle internet surprises -- and the savvy to respond quickly in a crisis. And the community fails to Protect The Children in the example it's setting. What should have been a wake-up call for the district employment office -- and for IT -- has spiraled embarrassingly out of control.

• The Body Related Issues Discussion Groups Education Support (BRIDGES) is sponsoring a gallery showing of "The Century Project" to offer support and education to students with eating disorders and negative body image issues.

  Photographer Frank Cordelle created the Project about 20 years ago after finding inspiration at a spa in Europe. "About half the people there were running around with no clothes on," Cordelle said. "It wasn't a nudist camp; it was a regular place in town, and it was a hot summer day, and people were just comfortable doing that. It was so natural for them to behave that way. Nobody thought twice about it; it was perfectly accepting." With this new understanding of how non-Americans view the human body, Cordelle wanted to display the beauty of women of all shapes and sizes in a nonsexual way. Many countries in Europe have a much healthier attitude toward the naked body, he said."I wanted to give American society perhaps a normal healthy opportunity to see things like this," Cordelle said. "We don't get that in this country. There's no such thing, except for nude beaches, as nonsexual nudity."

• A Maryland Republican lawmaker is seeking a ban on giant plastic gonads which dangle from truck trailer hitches.

  The bill also would ban depictions of naked human breasts, buttocks or genitals, with offenses punishable by fines of up to $500..."The legislation is overly broad, and would probably make it illegal to have a sticker on your car of the Venus de Milo from an art museum," ACLU of Maryland spokeswoman Meredith Curtis wrote in an e-mail.

• MySpace keeps deleting a photo of a woman breastfeeding her child because they consider it "sexually suggestive".

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