[UWAB] FW: [WRC Newsletter] Vote & More!

[Biggers, Maureen Short]

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From: Yvette Upton [mailto:yvette.upton at vpss.gatech.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:03 PM
To: wrc at lists.gatech.edu
Subject: [WRC Newsletter] Vote & More!

 

Reminder: Vote Today!

If you are registered to vote, don't forget to go to the polls today
(until 7 p.m.). 

Women have not always had the right to vote so it's especially important
that we exercise our right to determine who represents us. If you
haven't had time to research the candidates, it's not too late. Many
newspapers and websites have endorsements of different candidates. You
can read through the articles and see if you agree - or not - with why
candidates have been recommended. Often political and activist
organizations have candidate endorsements on their websites. If you know
of a group that matches your interests, check them out to consider their
suggestions.

WRC ANNOUNCEMENTS/EVENTS:
1) Women's Leadership Conference: Announcement of 2006 Women of
Distinction and Congratulations to 2006 Planning Committee!
2) Lunch and Learn - Relationships and Assertiveness - THIS Thursday,
November 9, noon
3) GA Tech Women's Volleyball, NEXT Tuesday, November 14, 7 p.m.
4) Advocate Training - November 16-17

CAMPUS EVENTS:
5) Women as Leaders - How to Capitalize and Build on Your Innate
Leadership Strengths - next Wednesday, November 8
6) Teamwork Workshop this Saturday - Apply now!
7) "The Haunting Histories of the Female Body: Gynecology, Obstetrics
and Women's Health" Symposium - each Wednesday and Nov. 17
8) Indonesian Culture Break - Thursday, November 9, 6 p.m.
9) Disability and Diversity Days - November 6-10
10) Family of Woman Exhibit to Atlanta October 23 - November 17
11) African Film Series - Nov. 2 - 10
12) Finding Common Ground with keynote speaker Maya Angelou, November
15, Ferst Center for the Arts (Free!)

WRC ANNOUNCEMENTS/EVENTS:

1) Women's Leadership Conference: Hundreds of women from Georgia Tech
gathered to learn about women's leadership this weekend with keynote
speakers Amy Flatten, Marsha Anderson Bomar and Nadia Blichik as well as
numerous workshop speakers. Many thanks to our speakers and sponsors for
their contribution to the success of the conference. If you're a Tech
student and were inspired by the conference, please consider applying
for next year's committee. Applications will be available later this
week at www.womenscenter.gatech.edu/wlc

Please congratulate the following women on their success:

Congratulations to the 2006 Women of Distinction!

Undergraduate: Katie Fluke, Biology
Graduate: Karen Feigh, ISYE
Staff: Elizabeth Miller, Ivan Allen College
Faculty: Mary Frank Fox, Public Policy
Alumna: Hawa Meskinyar, Architecture/City Planning
(Bios will be added to the Women's Leadership Conference website this
week)

Congratulations to the 2006 Women's Leadership Conference Committee!

Conference Chair: Kati Lawrence, Management, kati.lawrence at gatech.edu
<mailto:kati.lawrence at gatech.edu> 
Ambassador: Divita Bhandari, Electrical Engineering
Awards: Smita Sharma,  Industrial and Systems Engineering
Finance: Cassy Romano, International Affairs and Modern Languages
Keynote: Vicki Buchco, Chemical Engineering 
Logistics: Allison Yaeger, Mechanical Engineer
Logistics: Linda Pelcastre, Biomedical Engineering
Graphics: Lynn Deaton, Architecture and INTA
Publicity: Courteney Ross, International Affairs and Modern Languages 
Registration: Leslie Myles, Industrial and Systems Engineering 
Volunteer: Karishma Jiva, Computer Engineering 
Workshops: Birgitta Caspersen, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Workshops: Laura Stiltz, Applied Mathematics
Workshops: Sophia Fisher. Biology 
Website: Jessi Swearengen, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

More leadership development opportunities this week: the LEAD workshop
on Teamwork this weekend and the Women on Wednesdays panel tomorrow
morning! Read on for details!

2) Relationships and Assertiveness 
Thursday, November 9, Noon (cookies, soda and water provided)
Women's Resource Center, Suite 131 Student Services (Flag) Building

Conflict in relationships you want to keep requires finding the balance
between respecting yourself and the importance of the other person.
Learning how to deal with emotions and core communication skills can
help accomplish this delicate dance.  Come see how conflict can actually
bring relationships closer!

 
3) GT Tech Women's Volleyball
Tuesday, November 14,  7 p.m. O'Keefe Gymnasium Cost: $4

Come out to support your very own Lady Yellow Jackets as they take on
Clemson on home turf! Want to go as a group and grab dinner at Tech
Square first? Contact the WRC at womens.center at gatech.edu in advance!
 
4) Advocate Training
November 16 & 17, 2006 9-1:00 p.m. (lunch provided) 
Location: Health Clinic, room 216 (upstairs)

Advocate training is the final phase of the Advocacy training series. If
you have attended an Ally training or a Safe Sister training, you're
ready for the Advocate training. Advocate trainees become familiar with
a wide range of agencies and organizations that provide support to
victim-survivors of sexual assault and violence, and they practice the
skills to work with survivors through scenarios and role plays.  

We hope you'll attend both days - but you can also attend one day this
semester and the other next semester. Reserve a space by emailing
womens.center at gatech.edu

CAMPUS ANNOUNCEMENTS:

5) Women on Wednesdays
A unique series created by alumnae for alumnae [but all welcome!]

Women as Leaders - How to Capitalize and Build on Your Innate Leadership
Strengths
Wednesday, Nov. 8
7:30 to 8 a.m. Check-in and Breakfast
8 to 9 a.m. Panel Discussion
Georgia Tech Alumni Association, 190 North Avenue 
$25 per person, includes breakfast
Business Casual
Register at www.gtalumni.org/WOW by Monday, Nov. 6. 

Learn how to identify, develop and build on your natural leadership
skills from some of Atlanta's women leaders in business, the arts and
academia. Panelists will share their insights on how they capitalize on
and modify their leadership strengths in different situations and
environments. We will also discuss women's strengths as leaders and how
women intrinsically lead differently from men. 

Moderator
Terry Blum, Director of Georgia Tech's Institute for Leadership and
Entrepreneurship and Tedd Munchak Chairholder 

Panel Participants
*     Gerri B. Dickerson, P.E., Vice President and Area Manager, CH2M
HILL, CHE 78 
*     Valeria Porter, Deputy Director, Fulton County Arts Council, MGT
93 
*     Kathleen A. Kurre, Visiting Scholar, Georgia Tech's Institute for
Leadership and Entrepreneurship

6) Teamwork Workshop this Saturday - Apply now!
This is an interactive teamwork workshop with instruction and exercises
led by a national expert on facilitating teamwork, Jay Zarr of High
Impact Training.

Also, there will be:
* A Q &A with a young GT alumni panel on teamwork
* Free lunch with entertainment by comedian Pete Ludovice
* Notebook of teamwork materials
When: Saturday, November 11th, 9:00-4:00p.m.
Where: Piedmont Room, Student Center
Free and open to the first fifty applicants.
For an application or more information contact LEAD director, Phillip
Thompson at phillip.thompson at vpss.gatech.edu.

7) "The Haunting Histories of the Female Body: Gynecology, Obstetrics
and Women's Health" Symposium
Movie each Wednesday at 7 p.m., Symposium on November 17
"The Haunting Histories of the Female Body: Gynecology, Obstetrics and
Women's Health" explores the visual, historical and political nature of
the reproductive female body. Built around a film series, which
continues Wednesday at 7 p.m., and a symposium, which will take place on
November 17, this interdisciplinary project proves to be as entrancing
as it is illuminating. The symposium includes papers from the areas of
literary, historical and cultural studies as well as a presentation and
roundtable discussion with physicians and midwives. The film series
includes Dead Ringers, Born in the USA (a documentary on childbirth in
America), A Midwives Tale, and The Abortion Diaries among others.
 
For information about the films to be shown and anything else to do with
this project, contact Professors Klestinec
(cynthia.klestinec at lcc.gatech.edu) and Hassan
(narin.hassan at lcc.gatech.edu)
  

8) Indonesian Culture Break 

Please join us to celebrate cultural diversity at Tech.  This year's
Indonesian Culture Break presents
     Javanese Dance
     Bamboo Music Show
     FREE Spicilicous Indonesian Foods

     Thursday 9 November 2006 at 6pm
     The Clary Theater, Student Success Center

Brought to you by Indonesian Student Association
 




9) Disability and Diversity Days 2006 Continues through this Friday

Tuesday, November 7

Numerology
5:00 PM, Student Center Commons, Piedmont Room
This workshop will open participant's minds to the benefits of
Numerology and its importance in our everyday lives. Our presenter had
continuous dreams that guided him in the understanding there is a
mathematical design to our lives. Mr. Hun believes that Numerology
provides a way for us to understand a little more about our lives at
present and future mathematically. He has assisted people with their
business decisions which have advanced them in their careers as well as
family decisions. Mr. Hun will do a sample reading for one lucky
audience member. If you are interested in having a sample reading,
please contact Stephanie Ray at < mailto:sray at gatech.edu>sray at gatech.edu
<mailto:sray at gatech.edu%3Esray at gatech.edu>  by October 31.
Presenter: Mr. Sidara Hun

Wednesday, November 8

"Master of Science in Prosthetics and Orthotics: Research/Design and
Clinical Opportunities for Scientists and Engineers"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Student Services, Room 217-A
Learn about the latest technological advancements in the growing field
of
prosthetics and orthotics.  Find out how you can participate in and
contribute to this exciting field through the Georgia Tech MSPO program!
Presented by the Master of Science in Prosthetics and Orthotics faculty
and graduate students


2nd Annual La Unidad Latina Poetry Slam
8:00 PM, Student Center Theatre
La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc. would like to
invite you to its Second Annual Poetry Slam.  The Slam provides a venue
for college students to express their creativity in the form of poetry,
spoken word or song. First Prize will be $250. No profanity allowed.
Email Michael Boyce at < mailto:mboyce at gatech.edu>mboyce at gatech.edu
<mailto:mboyce at gatech.edu%3Emboyce at gatech.edu>  to register today!

Thursday, November 9

Safe Space Training
11:00 AM - Noon, After registering on-line at < 
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ach/www.safespace.gatech.edu
<file:///\\..\..\..\Program%2520Files\Qualcomm\Eudora\Imap\Dominant\INBO
X\Attach\www.safespace.gatech.edu>  > www.safespace.gatech.edu
<http://www.safespace.gatech.edu/> , participants will be given a
location. Individuals will be trained to provide support and information
about resources to Tech's GLBT community.

"Comparisons between Christianity and Islam: Similarities and
Differences"
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Boggs 6A Auditorium
Presenter: Dr. William Lane Craig
Dr. William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot
School of Theology in La Miranda, CA. He has authored or edited over
thirty books, as well as over a hundred articles in professional
journals of philosophy and theology.
This program is co-sponsored by the Christian Faculty/Staff Forum and
Campus Crusade for Christ

Conversational Sign Language for Beginners
4:00 PM, Student Services, Room 117, Instructor, Sheryl Ballenger,
Director, Access, Georgia Highlands College
This is a fun, interactive workshop on the use of American Sign
Language. You will learn basic conversational sign language in a relaxed
environment with no grading.  This is a great opportunity to learn more
about Deaf culture and communication.

The Diversity Forum's Panel on Business Strategies for Successful
Corporations and Leaders
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, ISYE Executive Classroom
Dialogue with corporate leaders to find out how work force diversity and
inclusion can keep top companies on the cutting edge. Panelists include:
Frank McCloskey, Vice President for Diversity and Corporate Relations,
Georgia Power; Melanie Harrington, Executive Director American Institute
of Managing Diversity, and
Kevin Clayton,  Corporate Vice President,  Russell Corporation and
founder of Axxis Consulting

Friday, November 10

"Working More Effectively with Black Students"
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Student Services, Room 117
Moderator: Gordon Moore, OMED Managing Partner
A panel of Black student leaders will share their experiences and
cultural needs to promote cultural awareness and sensitivity.

Co-sponsored by Diversity Programs and A.D.A.P.T.S.
For more information call 404-894-2561 or TDD 404-894-1664.



10) Family of Woman Exhibit to Atlanta October 23 - November 17, 2006

This is an incredibly, powerful exhibit, stop by when you're at Tech
Square!

Family of Woman Exhibit Partners:
The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University; The
Women's and Children's Center of the Rollins School of Public Health,
Emory University; UNIFEM USA-Georgia; United Nations Association -
Atlanta; the Women's Resource Center of Georgia Tech; the Center for the
Study of Women, Science and Technology; Medshare International


11) African Film Series
Location: Architecture Auditorium
Time: 7 PM
 
LCC is giving Tech students a unique opportunity to peek into the lives
of people living outside of United States through the power of film. 

Nov. 2 Delwende (Burkina Faso) Introduction by Ms. Aline Niaomego
(Burkina Faso)
Nov.6 Black Gold (Ehiopia)(Movie and Dinner, 6 pm; Sneak Preview for
GaTech only, opens commercially Nov. 10)
Nov. 8 Darwin's Nightmare (Norway/Tanzania)
Nov. 10 Desert Ark (Algeria) Date Movie
 

12) Finding Common Ground - Maya Angelou speaks at Georgia Tech 
Wednesday, November 15, 8 p.m.

A time of meaningful discussion and insight, Finding Common Ground gives
Georgia Tech students an opportunity to examine life in an increasingly
global society. From a series of discussions to a keynote address by
best-selling author Maya Angelou, the intent of this unique two-day
event is to strengthen the Georgia Tech community. In an effort to
deepen communication and understanding among all members of the Georgia
Tech community, students who participate in Finding Common Ground will
take part in one of three forum events. Each forum will sharpen skills
needed by future leaders of an evermore global society.
 
Tickets: Free GT Students (with buzzcard)
Faculty & Staff - limited free tickets available for faculty, $10
Public*
For more info visit http://www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu/

*At this point, it appears that students, faculty and staff can get one
ticket free and purchase one ticket for $10. The sales are not yet open
to the public (and may not be if the Tech community fills the
Collesium).

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