Block of OTC morning-after pill sparks outrage

OTC pill really helped with finals week

Springfield, Mo. – On the eve of final exam week, hundreds of angry instructors and students at Ozarks Technical Community College (OTC) gathered on the campus plaza and other areas to protest the school’s ban of a medication designed to deaden the  feelings of loss and despair associated with final exams.

Protesters said the action is a threat to the mission of higher education, which includes the right to suppress the torment and suffering that inevitably goes with the teaching and learning process. The demonstration on and around the campus did not immediately result in any violence. But at one point, a small crowd chanting “save our pill” threatened to remove reserved parking signs for college administrators. Another group took over an area outside a building where students majoring in culinary arts had been crafting ice sculptures for a holiday party.

“This really sucks,” said a protester, who identified himself only as Scar. “This drug really takes the edge off, man. It makes it easier to cope with finals and takes away the dread of going to the unemployment office. But this new thing is a real downer.”

A teacher calling herself Flossie, who said she taught a dental hygiene course, asserted, “This pill is one of the benefits I looked forward to every semester. It really keeps me calm and my morale high during finals. Now, I guess I’ll be back to grinding my teeth.”

Dozens of Springfield police were monitoring the situation late today, which protest leaders hoped would become an “Occupy OTC” movement to force the OTC board of trustees to reverse its decision. No arrests had been made.

The board of trustees decided to ban the so-called “morning-after” pill – directed for use near the end of the last week of classes before finals week – in response to the results of a study recently announced by the FDA. The study concluded that the drug adversely affects the human reproductive system, and may cause spontaneous abortions in women, and reduce sperm output in men. Subsequent heated reaction and lobbying by national and local pro-life groups prompted the OTC board to ban the pill.

Top university administrators, including chancellor Homer Hensley and members of the board, were out of town yesterday at a community college conference in Grand Forks, N.D. The chancellor responded to news of the protest with an email, inviting faculty and students to talk to him about the matter at one of his regular coffee talk sessions. And he said he would not issue a formal public comment until his public relations team put something together and posted it to the college Web site.

The two-year college, which currently boasts an enrollment of 15,000 students, was the first school in the nation to employ use of the anti-anxiety pill two years ago. It was designed to provide “a greater sense of well-being for students and faculty laboring under the stress of final exams,” according to college public relations director Jess Nuze.

The policy caught the attention of NBC news in New York, which recently aired a story about OTC’s pioneering work in turning final exam time into a docile and delightful experience for faculty and students.

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