As universities across the country ban The Vagina Monologues from being performed on campus, Boston University’s Athena’s Players incited awkwardness and laughter from hundreds of students in their performances Friday and Saturday in the College of General Studies Jacob Sleeper Auditorium.

Marquette University in Milwaukee recently denied a student group’s application to perform the play because it was against the Catholic ideals of the school, according to a Feb. 23 article in the school’s Marquette Tribune.

Athena’s Players president Melissa Semanik said this year’s performance is different from previous performances.

“This year we have a new monologue, ‘Comfort Women,’ which is about forced military sexual slavery during WWII in Japan,” the CAS senior said in an email. “And with new actors every year, we get a different spin on each monologue.”

Semanik said that the group would donate profits to The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, the BU Rape Aggression Defense program and the V-Day spotlight charity

Last year, she said, the group raised more than $8,000, while early estimates were for this year’s profits were a little more than $6,000.

“I don’t think you can leave this show and not have a new perspective on the world,” she said.

Semanik said she is glad the university did not censor the play because it is a controversial issue at some schools.

With the Back Bay Ball and other theater groups performing at the same time as the weekend shows, Semanik said the 300-person turnout for Friday night’s performance was extraordinary.

University Professors’ Program senior James Dargan said he had never seen the play before Saturday. He said one of his favorite monologues were “My Angry Vagina.”

School of Management sophomore Erica Vaingaus said she came to see the play because she heard it was performed well.

“I’ve seen the movie, so I knew what to expect,” CAS freshman Libby Whitbeck said. “[Seeing it performed] made me feel proud and empowered.”

CGS freshman Jennifer Blaha said Saturday night was the first time she had seen The Vagina Monologues on stage, and that she was shocked by it.

“It’s important and meaningful for women to go see it at least once in their lifetime,” she said.

School of Education freshman Joanna MacIntyre said her favorite monologue was also “My Angry Vagina.”

“It made the show a lot less uncomfortable,” she said, “and it made humor out of something that is usually awkward.”