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UBDmedia
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posted 06 September 2003 09:47 PM
Today, during frosh week activities, a student house at 519 York Street near UNB in Fredericton was fronted by a large sign that read:"Thank you for your daughters!" The same hijinks repeat every year. The male students on the lawn out front drank beer and shouted "f*gg*ts" and "p*ss*es" at any critics who walked past. Eventually, a passer by ripped down the sign. UNB received a women's centre for the first time last year. The LBGT student organization still doesn't have an office or a phone line. For info on making university campuses safe, checkout: http://www.metrac.org To contact UNB administration to express concern about attitudes toward women and gay men on campus, please email: [email protected]
From: Fredericton, New Brunswick | Registered: Aug 2003
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Sine Ziegler
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posted 07 September 2003 12:58 PM
What does the Student's Union think? Is there a clubs co-ordinator who can sanction the LGBT club in?> I remember when I was on campus, we had a hard time starting up the Campus NDs but I found a sympathetic Clubs Co-ordinator who allowed us to bypass most of the rules and we even got to share an office with the other political clubs.Are the Frat Houses cool at UNB? Because at my school, nobody took them seriously and most people thought they were losers. Does administration have much control over them? An LGBT club with an LGBT awareness week would be awesome for UNB. Most campuses are quite LGBT friendly and UNB definitely needs to get into the 21st century. Women's centre - same thing goes. Don't you think the Student's Union/association can help with that? I doubt admin would do a lot other than collect your tuition.
From: Calgary | Registered: Apr 2001
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Michelle
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posted 07 September 2003 01:07 PM
It certainly is a sexist sign. But "Thank-you for your daughters" doesn't necessarily refer to rape.I remember about a decade ago at Queen's there were big signs hung from a male dormitory that said, "No means more beer!" in response to the "No means no" campaign by women's groups. That's pretty unmistakable. As for the rest - sounds like that university is back in the stone age. Best of luck to you while you drag them kicking and screaming into the late 20th century, much less the 21st. Sorry to hear there is such a hostile environment there. [ 07 September 2003: Message edited by: Michelle ]
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001
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trasie
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posted 08 September 2003 02:57 PM
The University of Calgary used to have a women's centre - it disappeared a few years ago, and now a group of awesome women are trying to get it back again. quote:
As some of you may know, we are trying to start a Women's Centre at U of C. We will be meeting this Thursday, September 11th to start planning a General Meeting about this topic. The meeting will be held in at 1:00 in the afternoon in the Social Sciences Building (3rd floor - look for Fiona Nelson's Office). Please let us know if you can come, or email [email protected] with questions - and spread the word! We need all the help we can get with this one . . .
I wonder what the change in atmosphere on campus has been. I know that the Women's Centre was one of the best experiences in my years there. Oh, and these same women are the driving force behind the Take Back The Night march this year. It's good to see that the work is continually built on, and that we aren't having to completely re-create our herstory! Trasie
From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Mother Earth | Registered: Sep 2001
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vickyinottawa
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posted 10 September 2003 02:57 PM
In my first year (1984 - Mulroney's 25th homecoming year!!), the paper tried to publish a condom ad. Now, this was before AIDS was really known, but safe sex was becoming an issue on campuses. Condom ads were just beginning to run in campus newspapers through CUP's ad service. The editor made the mistake of telling the student union VP they'd accepted the ad after the paper had gone to the printers but before it had actually been printed. The VP went out to the printer, halted the process, removed the ad and replaced it with a really lame cartoon. Then he made the mistake of gloating to the editor before the printed copies were distributed on campus. The editorial staff and other newspaper types rounded up all the copies as soon as they left the delivery trucks, took them down to the office and wrote "S.U. Censored condom ad here" on the cartoon. Then the papers were distributed in the usual fashion. Of course, I joined the newspaper staff right away after that. Don't even get me started on the rape stories..... that place was horrible. But they all went to mass at 5pm on Sunday, like good Catholics!
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trasie
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posted 12 September 2003 01:10 PM
This just in:[http://calgary.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ca_ad20030912]Bar Ad Causes Stir on Campus[/URL] quote:
Emily Elder, a fourth-year student who is trying to start a women's resource centre on campus, is organizing a letter-writing campaign to protest the ad.
Trasie [ 15 September 2003: Message edited by: trasie ]
From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Mother Earth | Registered: Sep 2001
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vickyinottawa
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posted 16 September 2003 11:58 AM
I think there are problems with sexual assault in all universities. However, X is - or at least was - a bit unique in that it is a public university over which the church still weilds a great degree of influence. The Bishop of Antigonish is the chancellor. When I was there, most of the senior administrative officers were priests, including the Dean of Student Affairs. There was one condom machine on the entire campus - in the guy's washroom in the campus bar. There was no sexual harassment policy for the campus. The climate was pretty frosty in general - plus there were some well-known and very clear-cut cases of date rape (some involving "clubs" of voyeurs) for which the rapists received absolutely no discipline. This doesn't make it easy for women to come forward. There are different kinds of catholicism. St.FX is often associated with the more progressive, globally-minded, development-oriented type, mostly because of the Coady Institute. But there is also the conservative, intolerant, patriarchal kind as well, and unfortunately that strain runs deep in the bureaucracy in Antigonish, and seeped in to the day-to-day life at X more than I could have ever imagined. The sexism that pervaded campus life was, in my mind, intimately connected with the catholic nature of the university. The silver lining: I learned how to become an activist, and became a much more vocal feminist as well!
From: lost in the supermarket | Registered: Apr 2001
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Candace
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posted 21 September 2003 12:27 PM
The person who posts the "Parents: Thank you for your daughters" sign works at the Smythe St. Superstore (it's a small town). He is not a student.UNB is presently spending approx. 10, 000$ to conduct a safety audit. There are focus groups meeting on Wednesday, Sept 24th. The "visible minorities" meeting is at 6 pm; the women meet at 8 pm. We should be demanding:
-FREE self-defense classes for women. (There are presently about a dozen different classes on how to "shape and tone" your butt, but not a one on how to kick butt).
-No more selling of magazines on campus that depict women as sexual objects.
-Safety phones everywhere.
-No more sponsoring of strip shows in residences on campus.
-Mandatory sensitivity training for all faculty, staff, Student Union reps., society heads, residence heads, etc. Please contact your own Student Union or Women's Centre for more info. on how to make your campus safer. Fortunately, there are also groups like the Sexual Assault Crisis Centre, Spectrum, Men Against Sexual Aggression (MASA), the Women's Centre, etc. with whom you get involved in Fredericton.
From: Fredericton | Registered: Nov 2002
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Student @ X
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posted 27 September 2003 01:24 AM
As a current student at StFX, I'd like to address some of the posts on here. While StFx has Catholic roots and is in a very Catholic town, there has been a lot of progress made in recent years from the sounds of what people are talking about on here. Now, I am by no means saying X is perfect because it's not, but it has come a long way. For instance, Sue Johansen from the Sunday Night Sex show had done shows on campus for the past few years. There have been complaints made about this by a small minority of students but the show is very popular with the majority of students. Condoms are given out to all the residences by the Students' Union and the SU, Residence staff, and administration take an active role in initiating discussion and awareness about sexual assault, rape, and date rape drugs by holding panel discussions, self defense classes etc. There is more that could be done but part of the problem is also the apathy of students who fail to participate in what the university offers.
I guess what I am trying to say is that while X has strong Catholic traditions and roots it is proactive in addressing situations concering sex and sexual assault. The current university president is not a priest and neither is any of the admin. There's still more to be done but there is a lot being done.
From: StFX | Registered: Sep 2003
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