October 30, 1996 Over The Edge 7 WOMYN’S WORK by Tobi Araki and Lauren Bacon This is an ongoing column highlighting events, monuments, services, and issues pertaining to womyn at UNBC and beyond. Anyone may submit their input or event information to Tobi or Lauren at the UNBC Women’s Centre. Here are a few ways to observe Women’s History Month. It’s almost over, so hurry up and celebrate! Throw A Party! If you need an excuse for a party, try this. Invite your female friends over for dinner, dessert, drinks, tea, or all of the above. Put on some music by women. Tell stories. Play games if you want. Enjoy yourselves. You know what to do. Call A Mentor! Get to know a womyn with some history of her own. Ask your mom, your grandmother, or someone else with experience to tell you stories about her life. There is so much we can learn from those who have | lived longer than we have; we owe it to them and to ourselves to listen. Do Some Research! (Not that we don’t do enough as it is.) Many of the fields we work in have been influenced by the work of women, but we don’t always hear about it. Go to the library, or a prof, and see if you can find some of the work women have done in your area of interest or study. Get Artsy! Watcha movie, listen to some music, or experience some of the other arts made by women. Listen to the voices of creative women, in the wide variety of media: in which they work. Or create something yourself! Share Your Own History/ Herstory! Share your own experiences with men, women and children alike. Each one of us is unique, and your his/herstory can educate those around you. If you feel more comfortable writing it down, do so. Record your thoughts, feelings and experience for posterity. Upcoming Events The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Freedom Group is now meeting regularly, Thursdays at 3:00pm, in the alcove across from the bookstore. The women’s ‘zine, boost! is up and running, and the first issue will be out in time for Hallowe’en. Watch for it! The Women’s Centre has a: job posting. We need a new coordinator to work ten hours per week, beginning in January. alike are encouraged to ‘A hemp jewelry workshop Further information is check the events board will be taking place ina available in the Women’s outside the Women’s couple of weeks, off- Centre. Centre for meeting times. campus, for all interested Meetings will be held persons. The sign-up list is We need all the help we can outside the Centre. currently inside the Centre, get for the December 6th so if any men are interested, Vigil. Men and women please knock on the door and we’ll sign you up! | $s Student Success? The Saga Sabina: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Me: Only if it will sell the product to the target market. Sabina: English and Business—we’re in totally different departments. Me: Yup. Sabina: | sure had trouble picking and narrowing my topic on that free trade assignment. I don’t want to hear the words “on a topic of your choice” again until next year. Now I’m writing the paper, another problem keeps coming up: how is he going to mark this? Me: What’s the purpose of the assignment? Sabina: Write 2000 words? Me: Here, I'll show you a good assignment. The Introduction to Canadian Business course asks for a case study of corporate culture. Then look at this: “The purpose of this assignment is to give students the opportunity to conduct theoretical _ theories of corporate culture—"use management theory in case analysis”——so we have to apply the theory to a corporation or organization of our choice—” evaluate organizations beyond their balance sheets”—so we have to reach conclusions about the strengths, weaknesses, and future course of the company based on the corporate culture—and “demonstrate critical thinking skills’—-so we’ ve got to do all this without taking everything we read and hear as the gospel truth. Sabina: That’s awfully complicated. Me: Actually, it’s awfully simple. The prof has told us exactly how we’re going to be evaluated. | meet those four objectives, I get a good mark. It’s a lot simpler than trying to read the professor’s mind to find out what he’s looking for. Sabina: Ya, why should it be a mystery how a paper’s going to be graded? Me: It’s still hard enough when you know how you’ll be marked. What if I don’t understand the theories—maybe there’s some background I don’t have. What if I pick a corporation where I have a tough time saying what the culture is? Sabina: Maybe you guess wrong about how the corporate culture affects the company’s success. Hello!? That’s a tough assignment. Me: Too right. So the prof even told us nine steps to do the paper. Sabina: So instead of floundering around, you could focus on the theory and the research. Me: But as the tutor in the LSC said, “It all begins with reading the assignment really carefully, really closely, reading it like poetry.” Sabina: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more fair by far!” Shakespeare, Jason. Poetry. by Jason Another reward of higher education... Get $750 towards the purchase or lease of any new GM vehicle.