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Rape At Umo: A Shattered Victim Describes Her Experience, Michael Harman
Rape At Umo: A Shattered Victim Describes Her Experience, Michael Harman
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Kathy is a petite 22-year-old senior this year, a popular woman who is doing well academically and has enjoyed most of her life at UMO. She lived in the dormitories for two years before moving off campus. But Kathy hasn't had the typical college career. In April of 1981, her sophomore year, she had an experience most women don't even joke about. She was raped in her dorm room.
Fifteen Female Students Surveyed Reported Sexual Harassment, Saundra Gardner
Fifteen Female Students Surveyed Reported Sexual Harassment, Saundra Gardner
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
During the 1981 Spring semester, Saundra Gardner, an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Maine, conducted a survey of female UMaine students about experiencing sexual harassment at the hands of university faculty members. Five percent of respondents reported being sexually harassed.
Speaker Series Designed To Inform Career Women, Claudia Tucci
Speaker Series Designed To Inform Career Women, Claudia Tucci
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
The "Women Who Work" speaker series, designed to give women students a realistic understanding of the prospective workplace, will begin this evening with the theme, "Women in Business."
Pornographic Films Are Favored On Campus, Bruce Clavette
Pornographic Films Are Favored On Campus, Bruce Clavette
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
While X-rated movies raise eyebrows in some circles, the consensus among eight people interviewed Thursday, indicates there is little opposition among students to pornographic films being shown on campus. This Saturday the second X-rated film to come to campus this year. The Devil and Miss Jones, will be shown and at least seven UMO students think it's fine.
Women's Center Serves Students And Community, Sallie Vallely
Women's Center Serves Students And Community, Sallie Vallely
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
"The Women's Center at UMO primarily serves the student population as well as the community at large as an edition center focusing on women's issues. The center is open to all students at UMO who have an active interest in women's issues," Christine Dahlin, a member of the center said.
Volunteer Your Help, Anne Phibbs
Volunteer Your Help, Anne Phibbs
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Are you concerned about such issues as reproductive freedom, the ERA, equal pay for equal work, rape, sexual harassment, and the recent conservative swing in American political thought? The UMO Women's center is a campus group that shares these concerns and provides a forum for action and discussion. We urge campus and community women and men to join us in our examination of these changing aspects of society.
Equity Seen As A Key To Well-Fed World, Andrew Meade
Equity Seen As A Key To Well-Fed World, Andrew Meade
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Redistribution of wealth and social revolution were among the solutions to world hunger proposed at a symposium last night in Hauck Auditorium by three experts in the field. Cheryl Payer, visiting lecturer from the New York School for Social Research, New York, and an acclaimed critic of American food policy, led off the evening by saying, "It is a scandal that hunger should exist in a world where we send people into space, and a shock to watch people starve on TV.'' She said the problem is unscientific or technological, but political, and represents "the greatest indictment of our social …
Judo Course Includes Psychology, Peter Phelan
Judo Course Includes Psychology, Peter Phelan
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
A self defense course for women stressing psychology and some judo will be one of several programs offered this semester by the Office of Women's Programs and Services, Ellen Weissman, OWPS coordinator said. Weissman said the course will stress the psychological element of self defense along with the physical. The course is being co-instructed by Judo brown belt Tom Probert and psychiatrist Dr. Larry Selversen.
Former All Maine Woman Speaks At Banquet Sunday, The Maine Campus
Former All Maine Woman Speaks At Banquet Sunday, The Maine Campus
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Mrs. Beryl Warner Williams of Baltimore, Maryland, will be the guest speaker at the All Maine Women banquet Sunday at 7 p.m. in Estabrooke Hall. Mrs. Williams, a former All Maine Woman and University of Maine graduate in the class of 1935, is an instructor at Morgan State College in Maryland.