The Vagina Monologues , Eve Ensler's Obie award-winning play that premiered in 1996 and addresses issues of violence against women, will be read at Cornell University on Valentine's Day. The dramatic reading, by faculty, staff and students, will be Feb. 14 in the Anabel Taylor Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

On Saturday, Feb. 9, Karen Obel, director of the College Campaign for V-Day, the global movement to stop violence against women and girls that includes worldwide benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues , will give a free, public talk at Cornell on "Values-Based Leadership."

Tickets for the reading will be available starting Feb. 6 at the Willard Straight Hall Ticket Office; $5 for students and $10 everyone else.

Obel, a 1988 graduate of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, will be the keynote speaker at a 1:30 p.m. luncheon in the Statler Ballroom on campus for the A.D. White Leadership Conference for fraternity and sorority student leaders. The conference is sponsored annually by Fraternity and Sorority Affairs in Cornell's Office of the Dean of Students. To reserve a space at the conference, contact Patty Case at (607) 255-2310 or send e-mail to pac25@cornell.edu .

Obel has worked in television technical production since 1989 for various networks, including ABC, NBC and CNBC, and for television production companies. She is an Emmy award-winning technical director of the Rosie O'Donnell Show and has been involved with V-Day since it started in 1997, directing the College Campaign since 1998.

The V-Day College Campaign has grown from 65 schools in the United States and Canada participating in the first year to 550 schools worldwide this year.

This will be the fourth year of Cornell's participation in the College Campaign for V-Day. The Feb. 14 reading of the play will benefit Crime Victim and Sexual Assault Services and the Task Force for Battered Women in Ithaca.