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Women's celebration fights image
Group strives for ethnic diversity
Bv Alice Wheeler
Emerald Managing Editor
Plans for this year's Women's
Spring ( adebration on April
are well under was even
as the group endeavors to shed
its histors of r am ellations and
bovcotts due to charges of rai
ism
Members ' the Women's
Task Inn e. v. .lii h sponsors the
celebration (previously i ailed
the Women's Spring Svmpo
sium) every sear, said thus
have endeavored to ini orporate
events lor women of all bark
grounds and nat ionalit ies
"We are planning on using
the i elebration for .1 cultural
e\( hange." said ]a 11 ii e Wright.
W IT membei. 1 We are tr\ 1 ng
to get a variety of women from
a variety 1 it 1 nil ores involved
Wright said the idea is to e\
pose people to new ideas and
expose them to vs hat other
women are doing
"It is a 1 elebration bs . I01
and about women." said Tessa
I Janos er. W I I member
The symposium ssas created
in I!I77 bs then AM () Presi
dent |an ()livei. 1 urrent direi
tor ol the I nis ei sits s ( Hi 11 e ol
Multii ultural Affairs ()lisei
s.iid the original purpose ot the
event ssas to "Provide a forum
for women to 1 ome togetbei
discuss issues and celebrate
women's lives
Thirteen years later the
Women's Spring l elebration is
a weekend long event < elebral
mg the diverse rules women
play in 0111 soi lets
(ament WI T coordinator Jas
mine Pre/e,m got involved 111
tile 1 elebration last year attei
she slopped into a \\ II meet
iilg and sass that all the women
involved svere white
Thes weren't purposefully
excluding groups Pre/.eau
said Hut she explained that the
"feminist movement in Kugene
is a ssbite women s move
merit
(ills er agrees '' The majority
feminists are white, she said
have played .1 < ritK <il rule 111
feminist issues
It (the symposium) has liad
a ureal deal o( (ontruversv ."
Oliver said Part ol the problem
is that white women have
lai ked strong role models and
leadership 111 ra< ism issues Ol
s< ions elliirt tu ini lude women
nt i o lor
We still need more speak
ers and more volunteers would
lie great Wright said "Vou
i an get |ai ademii | i redit lor
working here
Women's studies prnitieum
i redits are available to students
working on the task tori e eai h
•If you are going to represent
you have to represent nil women.'
— Jasmine
women
Pre/.eau
ivcr said
II you .ire going lo represent
women vou have In represent
.ill women All women are in
( hided ill the title U omen.'
Pre/eau s.iid And tli.il is \.\ Ii.it
the \VT! is attempting to dn
\\i• are making a i nm cried
effort lo mi hide ethiin student
groups on campus and gel
them involved \ot in a patron
i/ang wav. but asking for then
support and their parti< ipa
lion '' I’re/eau said
"V\e have gotten a reallv
positive response this year
she said
Hanover said \\ I t sent out
feedbai k tonus to student
groups, asking them what the\
w ant to see in the i eleliral ion
Although the events hav e not
ail been finalized, the tentative
si hedule ini lodes all interest
ing variety of evcuts I here
will be a spirituality panel ills
mission, with representatives
from most major religions, and
a women in pulitii s disi ussion
which will ini lode sessions on
women in < entral Ameru an
politii s
The weekends events will
start with a lake Bar k the
Night Celebration in Amazon
Park an art w <irk ded ii at ion
and a b.irbet tie potluck dinnel
Also scheduled are women s
cultural movies poetry read
mgs. story telling a Native
Ameru an play and olhei dis
cessions concerning women m
sol let v
So far the projected si bed
ule is pretty inclusive."
Pre/eau said It's been a con
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