Women's Week Celebrations March 25-29
The Fourth Annual MTU Women's
Week Celebration, "For, About, By Women," will be held beginning
March 25 in Memorial Union Ballroom B. Exhibits, books, arts and crafts
will be on display and for sale from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through
Thursday and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday. At each of the five lunchtime
talks, which begin at noon unless otherwise noted, free salad and breadsticks
will be available. Everybody, women and men alike, is welcome. Door prizes
will be awarded. On Monday, the Rev. Sydney
Morris will present "Confessions of an Ethicist." On Tuesday, Campaign organizer
Barbara Radigan (International Education) will discuss her efforts to
establish the Beacon House Hospitality Center in association with Marquette
General Hospital. In addition, Terry Smythe, fitness director of the Keweenaw
Memorial Medical Center, will present "How to Find Balance: Family/Work/School/Health/Money."
The Around the Lake Singers from Northern Michigan University will perform,
along with MTU student poet Sally Brunk. Attorney Valorie Troesch will
provide information Wednesday on resources for caregivers of the elderly. Lt. Zabrina Robinson (AFROTC)
will present "Battling: The Struggle for Equality" on Thursday. At 11 a.m. Friday, Rose Bammert,
director of the Friend of the Court, will give a talk, "Children's
Rights and Parenting Time--What Is Best for the Child?" Women's Week activities are
brought to you by the Office of Outreach and Multiethnic Programs, a division
of Educational Opportunity, the Technobabe Times, the Presidential Commission
for Women and the Presidential Commission on Diversity. 03/22/02
