| Spring-Summer
2004• Volume XIII, Number 2-3
Getting Cruelty Out of the Classroom
 Jenna
Morasca, winner of CBS’s hit show Survivor: the Amazon, is
using her celebrity to deliver an important message to high school
and college students. She stars in a new public service announcement
about dissection created by PCRM.
In the ad, Jenna explains her view: “With all the great new
alternatives to dissection, there’s no need to harm animals
now or ever.”
As a University of Pittsburgh zoology major, Jenna refused to participate
in animal dissection for a biology class, and her grade suffered.
“Morally, it was worth it to me,” she says. “Life
is more important.”
In more and more classrooms, however, students are winning the
right to opt out of dissection exercises—with no penalty.
The determination of teachers and students like Jenna has paved
the way for these important changes. Dog labs, once common in U.S.
medical schools, have been banned on the majority of campuses. Sophisticated
computer models have made humane education the wave of the future.
That pleases many medical professionals. “As a doctor who
performs autopsies, I can assure students that computer images of
well-preserved tissues look more like the ‘real thing’
than the squishy gray organs of a formalin-fixed specimen,”
explains Nancy L. Harrison, M.D., of the Scripps Memorial Hospital
Chula Vista Department of Pathology.
Learn more about the issues and your choices at www.DissectionAlternatives.org.
Students and teachers can get a free, colorful 10x18 inch locker
poster featuring Jenna Morasca, winner of Survior, The Amazon. Contact
Milosz Banbor at 202-686-2210, ext. 323, or mbanbor@pcrm.org.
 PCRM
thanks Jenna Morasca for her generous participation in this campaign.
Since we couldn’t arrange a photo shoot in a remote Amazonian
frog pond, the crew suffered through a grueling session in the wilds
of photographer Harry Giglio’s Pittsburgh studio. Clockwise
from left: stylist Shannon Ludrosky, publication director Doug Hall,
research coordinator Megha Even, studio associate John Laska, makeup
artist Xtina Connelly, and Jenna.
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