Women's History Month 2010: Book Discussion - April 5

Metropolitan State University will host several Women's History Month
events during the month of March and on Monday, April 5.

The April 4 event will be a book discussion by Literature and Language
Professor, Dr. Carolyn Whitson, on the novel,"Kindred (1979)" by Octavia
Butler. Not many African-American women authors have ventured into the
genre of science-fiction and fantasy novels, but Butler is the most
famous and successful among them. Her novel, Kindred (1979), allows the
reader to explore what being of mixed-race ancestry and having a family
history of slavery has meant to modern black women.
The Equal Opportunity and Diversity Office graciously purchased several
copies of the book which are in reserve at the university library for
your reading pleasure before the presentation.

Date: Monday, April 5
11:30 Am to 1:00 PM
Library, Ecolab 302

The complete Women's History Month event calendar will be distributed as soon as possible.

Lavender Bridge News

I wanted to pass along this wonderful news to let everyone on the listserve know that Lavender Bridge (our GLBT and Allies group) is an official student organization again. We have 4 offers that are serving until the end of the semester:

President: Kathryn Blankinship
Vice President: Amy Hales
Secretary: Katie Rhodes
Treasure: Teresa Manzella
Co-Advisors: Aureliano DeSoto and Sidney Smith

A huge congratulations goes out to these people for their hard work and commitment to seeing that this organization becomes officially recognized by the university. Also, members of our new leadership team attended the Senate meeting on Friday and we now have a small budget to work with for the rest of the year. This is exciting news!

Hope to see you all on March 4th-

Speaking of funding, we will have a Lavender Bridge meeting on March 4th at 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm in LB 218. This meeting will be spent working on our budget request for next year and planning out what we want to do in the 2010-2011 school year. This meeting may run over, but please come no matter if you can stay the whole time or just a short time. We would love to have your input. There will be food available at this meeting.