STAC Advising Blog

Current WST residents and all faculty/staff mentors and allies are invited to all dinners and the April 11 recognitions lunch.

Upcoming WST Center Events

• Monday, February 27, 5-7pm, Skiles 371:   Film showing of Wit (Directed by Mike Nichols, with Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, and Audra McDonald); based on Margaret Edson’s play.
• Monday, March 5, 2012, 4:30pm, Clough ULC 144:   Margaret Edson lecture, Pulitzer-prize winning author of the play Wit.  Respondents: Anne Pollock (LCC) and Jennifer Singh (HTS).  Reception and book-signing following.   A Women’s Awareness Month Event co-sponsored by the Schools of History, Technology, and Society and Literature, Communication, and Culture; the Women’s Resource Center; and WST.
• Thursday, March 8, 2012, 4pm, Clary Theatre, Student Success Center:  WST Distinguished Lecturer–Jane Z. Daniels, Past Program Director for Clare Booteh Luce and Higher Education programs, Henry Luce Foundation. Reception following. Co-sponsored with the College of Engineering.
• Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 11:30am-1:30pm, Piedmont Room, Student Center Commons:  WST Recognitions Lunch for WST Learning Community students, mentors, and allies.

Upcoming WST Learning Community Dinners,  rsvp to wst.lrn.c@gmail.com

• Monday, March 12, 2012, 6pm:  Ann Blasick, Women in Engineering.
• Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 6pm:  Dr. Rebecca Burnett, Director of Writing and Communication:  Resume Workshop.

The upcoming keynote talk for Women’s Awareness Month might be of interest to you, given the problems with sexual assault and rape on college campuses.  Jaclyn Friedman, author of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape will be coming to talk about her book and her research.

The talk will be Tuesday, March 1st at 6:00 PM in the Richards Gallery of the Ferst Center.  It is sponsored by WAM, IAC, the Women’s Resource Center, and HTS.

See the flier for more information.

Women’s Awareness Month presents a one-night benefit production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues on Friday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ferst Center for the Arts. Hailed by The New York Times as “funny” and “poignant” and by the Daily News as “intelligent” and “courageous,” The Vagina Monologues, which was first performed off- Broadway by Ms. Ensler, dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women’s experiences.

Join us as we raise funds for United 4 Safety, an organization that works to reduce the intimate partner violence within the LGBTQQI community community by improving the understanding of and response to intimate partner violence through education, training, and resource development.

Doors will open at 6:45, and parking is free in the IC parking deck.  A dessert reception will be held afterwards for friends and family of the cast.

Tickets are $8 for students, $10 for faculty/staff, and $16 for the public and can be purchased at the Ferst Center website.

Are you looking to get involved on Campus? Looking for a way to add to your resume? WAM has a solution for you.

Women’s Awareness Month (WAM), is a campus event that takes place every March, sponsored through the Women’s Resource Center, that increases awareness of women’s issues.  WAM is composed of several events including Red Dress Fashion Show, a performance of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Women’s Day of Service, and Take Back the Night.  All of these events require people to organize and staff them.

That’s where you come in.  A committee for WAM has already been created, but several committee chairs are still looking for members for a subcommittee.  Subcommittee members would be completing a wide variety of tasks and learning valuable skills.

If you are interested in joining a subcommittee, or just supporting WAM through volunteering to work at some of the events, please go fill out our online application.
Contact Ali Kinser at akinser3@gatech.edu with any questions.

Thanks for you support of WAM!