Womyn’

by Lauren Bacon and
Tobi Araki

This is an ongoing column
highlighting events,
monuments, services, and
issues pertaining to women of
UNBC and beyond. Anyone
may submit input or event
information to Tobi or Lauren
at the UNBC Women’s Centre
or c/o Over The Edge.

Moms On Campus There is a
new service being offered
through the Women’s Centre
this term: a Moms On Campus
support group is being formed
for any interested mothers at
UNBC. Mim Hughes, a full-
time student and mother of
four believes that women
juggling their responsibilities
at school and at home as well
as a variety of other possible
stress factors (job,
relationships, financial
troubles), have need of a safe
and friendly space where they
can let their hair down, and talk
about the conflicting feelings
and pressures involved. She
hopes that the Moms On
Campus group can fill that
need.

Moms on Campus will be a
forum for exchange of ideas
and feelings around issues such

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faculty Deans and Chairs of
programs that are already
overworked; reasons for doing
this were to save money
(surprise!), and the lesser
authority on decision making
and fragmentation of faculty.
By the way there are no new
undergraduate programs
proposed and currently are
running to stay even; there is
some graduate program
expansion proposed. So while
waiting in line to pay for fees
consider yourself lucky you
are not footing the entire bill,
even though it may seem like
it! The University is not here
to rip us off with astronomical
prices - on the contrary tuition
is quite fair compared to other
Universities, but they are here
to make a profit, and if they
don’t we all loose without
some kind of government
subsidy.

Now for some news from the
NUGSS office: We bought a
new PA system which is quite

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as guilt, school pressures,
budgeting, relationships and
especially what Hughes calls
“self-care”. Many women
going to school and caring for
children are so busy that they
have trouble making time for
their own needs.

Hughs, currently studying
towards both a Bachelor of
Social Work and a Bachelor of
Arts, has both personal and
professional experience with
he unique set of demands
which is placed on mothers at
universities. Before returning
to school, she worked in
personal and job counseling,
and aims to use her degrees
towards a career as a
practicing therapist. She began
her studies at UNBC in
September and saw the need
for a support network for
women in similar situations.
With her enthusiasm and
expertise, Moms On Campus
promises to be a significant
addition to the support
services available on campus.
Mothers at UNBC who are
interested in joining Moms On
Campus are encouraged to
leave their names on sign-up
sheets posted in the Women’s
Centre and in the NUGSS
office, or call 960-5632 for
further information.

nice, and can be used as well
for smaller dances. The radio
club will basically run the
show, as they now have an
extensive music selection with
all sorts of good stuff, I think
for a small fee or donation (to
them not us), you can use their
services; if interested in this
please see April our Office
Manager.

Our Annual General Meeting
(AGM) is coming up at the end
of January, and there will be a
number of amendments to the
Society’s Constitution, so if
you don’t want to see us get an
all expenses paid trip to
Mexico during Spring Break
(paid with your fees) you
should show up and cast your
vote.

The Pub/Student Activity.

Building is a very interesting
topic from my perspective, and
I personally have new
appreciation for what it took to
get the existing buildings!
From the positive support and
input we’ve had, the basic

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yet.

I'll start by...
studying.

ME: Uh, no.

ME: My what?!?
improve.

Bergman in Casablanca.

concept is getting our OW
student union building, not
one owned by the University.
We have discussed this with
Dr.Jago, and he is willing to
look at any proposal we put
forward to President’s Council
(the Big Wigs on Campus).
The first hurdle is to get a
secure long-term lease from
the University for some land
($1 for 100 years has been
done at other institutions).
From there we figure we have
enough in the “building fee”
fund (about $115,000) I think,
to get the architects who
designed the campus up here
again and tell them what we
want with our space
allocation. Ideally, a set of
blue-prints could be drafted
and from there it would be up
to us to put together a formal
presentation for corporate
sponsors (NOT ICL and
Pepsi). I know this sounds too
«good to be true, but if we don’t
start anywhere it will be
Cafeteria lunches, smoking
out in the rain, volleyball in

Student Success? The

by Jason

ME: Happy New Year and welcome back.
SABINA: Thanks, how were your holidays?
ME: Good, it was a nice break. I’m not sure I’m ready to get back to school

SABINA: I know what you mean. I have to get a plan here. My grades last
term were all right but my parents think I can do better and so do I, so my New
Years resolution is to get better grades this term.

ME: How are you going to do that?
SABINA: I’m not sure. I guess a good plan to start

would be by doing the LASSI thing.

CRAZY GUY ON BUS (BOB): I always liked that
show, wholesome, good karma... |

ME: How is watching a show about a dog going to
help your grades? It’s the back to fundamental,
wholesome approach to life isn’t it. I could do that.

SABINA: Not the dog! That thing they have at the
Learning Skills Center. It is like an inventory of
your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to

ME: My study habits are fine.
SABINA: Do you review your classnotes and I
don’t mean the night before the exam?

SABINA: How is your information processing?

SABINA: See, you may think you are doing fine,
but the LASSI can show you places you could

ME: Maybe I’ll look into it. By the way, I like
your new haircut. It makes you look like Ingrid

-gym, a spa that’s nice to
look at, pricey bevies, and no
more new office space for other
student clubs and associations.
Your ideas and comments on this
are like taking first steps in
comfy new shoes, please
forward any you have to the
NUGSS office. Lastly, we will
be putting on less dances
ourselves, it is hoped that clubs

will take some responsibility of

setting the pace for
entertainment and traditions.
The NRS Beer Bash,-and the
Outdoors Club dance were. both
very successful. We will
continue to partially fund events
like this if needed, provided that
your club exists and has it’s shit
together.

In the next issue of Over The
Edge, I would like to have a
questionnaire for you readers to
fill out, as well as a section on
what interests you may have
sitting in on some of the many
Committees, since most of them
are grossly underrepresented by
students (Parking Committee,

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omputer Users Committee,
Campus Health and Safety
Committee to name a few) as
well as a draw for a cool prize.
I still have to tell everyone
else at NUGSS about this idea,
but I just thought of it so |
thought I’d put it in. My
office hours are Thursdays 2 -
4 inthe NUGSS office, stop by
for a chat.

John Stevenson

Vice-Chair, Northern
Undergraduate Student
Society

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