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From SOCS alum Brenda Gabel:

We have an full-time opening now thanks to the Google funding that I thought you might be able to pass on if you know of someone. They will work with me in the San Jose office and report to my boss. This position will take over my duties from last year’s expansion project as I transition to doing more volunteer and role model recruitment and management. We would like to hire in the next few weeks if possible.

Description: The Program Manager designs, delivers and will evaluate contemporary program activities to meet the needs and interests of girls in targeted populations to enhance the Girl Scout experience for girls ages 5-17. Will work within program parameters as defined by programming requirements and/or budgets and defined funding. This position is based out of our San Jose office, but will coordinate Girls Go Tech outreach efforts council-wide. This position is grant funded for one year as a full time, exempt employee.

The perfect person would have a science background and/or teaching experience, grants knowledge, budgeting experience, and extensive work with youth (at-risk is best). Someone fluent in Spanish would be an extra bonus. If they know about Girl Scouting then all the better, but not necessary.

All candidates should go to our website and follow instructions for submission. **Please email me additionally if you refer someone so that I can pull it from the flood of resumes coming in.

Thank you so much!
Brenda

If the links don’t work: www.girlscoutsnorcal.org, click on Employment at the bottom, Job: #0337, Program Manager – Girls Go Tech

SJSU’s RAINN Day participants won Cosmopolitan Magazine’s national “Cosmo Fights Campus Rape” Magazine Multimedia Contest!

SJSU’s team created a terrific Flash Mob to the music of Glee…congrats to Bonnie Sugiyama, Jennifer Momi Gacutan-Galang, Kyle Burt, Yan Yin K. Choy, Amarissa Mathews, Rose Fried, Staci D. Gunner, Chris Hernandez, and #SJSUMadeYaLook, among others.

When we launched our Cosmo Fights Campus Rape campaign earlier this year, our goal was to end the epidemic of sexual violence at colleges and to encourage schools to update their sexual assault policy requirements. As part of this campaign, we teamed up with RAINN (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network), the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the country, to hold the RAINN Day/Cosmo Magazine Multimedia Contest 2011. The idea was for students to boost awareness of sexual violence and RAINN through events such as benefit concerts, art projects, or roundtable discussions. The winner, which was announced this week, is San Jose State University’s flash mob… (from RAINN Day Cosmo Contest Winner 2011)

Greetings SJSU Professors,

The Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at SJSU is currently hiring tutors for the spring 2012 semester.  As a professor we value your opinion and would like to ask if you have any students in your class who you would recommend to be a tutor for the EOP program. 

We are hiring tutors in various subjects but especially in English, math and the sciences.

We are looking for students who have the following characteristics: Enthusiasm, imagination, patience, good communication skills, leadership skills, ability to relate to students culturally and academically different from themselves, and a sense of responsibility.

Other specific requirements include attainment of at least a 2.7 GPA overall or an overall 2.7 GPA for the 2 semesters prior to the submission of this application and at least a “B” grade in each course they plan to tutor.

If you have any student you feel may be a good fit please send me their name, their ID# and their contact information and I will connect with them to see if they are interested. 

Also please visit our website at http://www.sjsu.edu/eop/Jobs/ for more information about the tutor position.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this please feel free to contact me anytime.

Sincerely,

Veronica Mendoza Hand
EOP Academic Advisor
veronica.mendoza@sjsu.edu

Forty years ago, a group of feminists, led by Gloria Steinem, did the unthinkable: They started a magazine for women, published by women—and the first issue sold out in eight days. An oral history of a publication that changed history.

By Abigail Pogrebin, New York Magazine

In the years leading up to the birth of Ms., women had trouble getting a credit card without a man’s signature, had few legal rights when it came to divorce or reproduction, and were expected to aspire solely to marriage and motherhood. Job listings were segregated (“Help wanted, male”). There was no Title IX (banning sex discrimination in federally funded athletic programs); no battered-women’s shelters, rape-crisis centers, and no terms such as sexual harassment and domestic violence.

Few women ran magazines, even when the readership was entirely female, and they weren’t permitted to write the stories they felt were important; the focus had to be on fashion, recipes, cosmetics, or how to lure a man and keep him interested. “When I suggested political stories to The New York Times Sunday Magazine, my editor just said something like, ‘I don’t think of you that way,’ ” recalls Gloria Steinem. “It was all pale male faces in, on, and running media,” says Robin Morgan, who was Ms.’s editor in the late eighties and early nineties.

But in the mid-sixties, feminist organizations such as New York Radical Women,Redstockings, and NOW began to emerge. On March 18, 1970, about a hundred women stormed into the male editor’s office of Ladies’ Home Journal and staged a sit-in for eleven hours, demanding that the magazine hire a female editor-in-chief. Says feminist activist-writer Vivian Gornick, “It was a watershed moment. It showed us, the activists in the women’s movement, that we did, indeed, have a movement.”

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Fall 2011 Schedule

Join us this semester for the Difficult Dialogue series.

These workshops are all about YOU. What are your experiences with these diverse topics and how do they affect you as a member of the SJSU community. We challenge you to share your experiences and learn how these diverse topics affect different individuals on campus.

The difficult dialogue series are open to all SJSU Staff, Faculty, and Student.

GREAT Sessions for Greek Life

 CHAMPS/Life Skills points for Student Athletes.

   Date                      Time                        Topic                                   Location            

October 11            3:00-4:30p.m.      Environment and SJSU           Clark Hall 547

October 17            5:00-6:30p.m.      Campus Safety                       Clark Hall 222

October 18            6:00-7:30p.m.      Budget at SJSU                       Clark Hall 117

October 18            6:30-8:00p.m.      Domestic Violence                             Clark Hall 222

October 19            4:30-6:00p.m.      UPD Campus Safety              Clark Hall 547

October 20            6:30-8:00p.m.      Immigration                                      BBC 032

October 25            4:00-5:30p.m.      Substance Abuse                     BBC 032

October 25            6:00-7:30p.m.      Campus Stereotypes               Student Union: MOSAIC

October 27            3:00-4:30p.m.      Freedom of Speech                  MLK Jr. Library 225

Please RSVP to Byron.Pulu@SJSU.EDU

For questions about any of the Difficult Dialogues feel free to contact Byron Pulu at Byron.Pulu@SJSU.EDU or ext. 4-2283.

From Smithsonian Magazine online:

When it comes to the topic of women in science, Marie Curie usually dominates the conversation. After all, she discovered two elements, was the first women to win a Nobel Prize, in 1903, and was the first person to win a second Nobel, in 1911. But Curie was not the first female scientist. Many other brilliant, dedicated and determined women have pursued science over the years.

Emilie du Chatelet (1706 – 1749)
Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the daughter of the French court’s chief of protocol, married the marquis du Chatelet in 1725. She lived the life of a courtier and bore three children. But at age 27, she began studying mathematics seriously and then branched into physics. This interest intensified as she began an affair with the philosopher Voltaire, who also had a love of science. Their scientific collaborations—they outfitted a laboratory at du Chatelet’s home, Chateau de Cirey, and, in a bit of a competition, each entered an essay into a contest on the nature of fire (neither won)—outlasted their romance. Du Chatelet’s most lasting contribution to science was her French translation of Isaac Newton’s Principia, which is still in use today. At age 43, she fell in love with a young military officer and became pregnant; she died following complications during the birth of their child.
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We have lost another brilliant, visionary African feminist thinker, Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, a leader who fused the needs of local women with feminism, civil rights, and environmental sustainability. I am so sad about this loss.

I particularly enjoyed sharing Wangari’s story with my daughter in this wonderful children’s book we read about Wangari that details her childhood in a Kenyan village, her education, and her return to the village to identify the loss of forests, village lands, and her work with other women to re-plant and re-shape the villages, one tree at a time, despite police and government harassment.  Wangari is and always will be our hero.

Details about Wangari’s passing are below. Also, here is a 2004 interview with her daughter Wanjira after Wangari was awarded the peace prize, and here is a link to the Greenbelt Movement website which Wangari founded.

CNN writes:

World leaders have paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai who passed away while having treatment for ovarian cancer on Monday.  Archbishop Desmond Tutu praised Maathai as a true “visionary African woman” and called her a “leading voice on the continent.”

He said: “Professor Maathai introduced the idea of women planting trees in Kenya to reduce poverty and conserve the environment,” in a statement released via his office.

“At last count, the Green Belt Movement she helped to found had assisted women to plant more than 40 million trees. She understood and acted on the inextricable links between poverty, rights and environmental sustainability. One can but marvel at her foresight and the scope of her success. She was a true African heroine,” the statement continued.

“Our condolences go to Professor Maathai’s family, to the people of Kenya, and to the countless women (and men) across Africa and the world to whom she was an inspiration.”

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“Pink Smoke Over the Vatican”

Friday, September 23, 6 pm
Chapel of the Great Commission, Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Ave, Berkeley, CA

*Free and Open to the Public*

This award-winning documentary tells the passionate stories of
women seeking priestly ordination in the Roman Catholic Church, despite controversy and threats of excommunication.

Followed by a discussion with SJSU Professor Victoria Rue, Roman Catholic Womenpriest.   Join the conversation with PSR students, women’s ordination advocates, and WOC Board Vice-President, Christine Haider-Winnett.

Women’s Ordination Conference:

Founded in 1975, the Women’s Ordination Conference is the oldest and largest organization that works to ordain women as priests, deacons and bishops into an inclusive and accountable Catholic church.  WOC represents the 63 percent of US Catholics, and millions of Catholics worldwide, that support women’s ordination. WOC also promotes new perspectives on ordination that call for more accountability and less separation between the clergy and laity.

The Society for Applied Anthropology’s Gender-Based Violence Topical Interest Group invites participants for three themed panels for the 2012 SfAA meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, March 28-31.  We welcome submissions from scholars from all sub-fields of anthropology, across scholarly disciplines, and from professionals working within and/or outside of academia.

We propose three sessions to be delivered over three meeting days according to the following themes and are soliciting abstracts for these sessions.  If you are interested in being considered for one of these sessions, please submit your name, affiliation, title, and a 100-word abstract in the body of an e-mail to jennifer.wies@eku.edu by Tuesday, October 4th.  Selections will be completed by Friday, October 7th and registration and membership must be completed by October 15th if selected.

Bays, Boundaries, and Borders: The Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence

[Bays]
Gender-based violence is an important research topic across disciplines. The range of studies includes the neurobiology of aggressive behavior, the psychological effectiveness of violence prevention programs, and the impact of legislation on social service provision to abused women.  Taking the idea of “bay” as a place where two landscapes meet, this session explores the intersections of anthropology with other disciplines to study, respond to, and prevent gender-based violence.  We invite papers where transdisciplinary efforts have yielded success in unique ways, as well as papers that bring to the fore potential challenges to collaboration across disciplines.

[Boundaries]
Anthropologists are expanding the theoretical and methodological approaches to examining gender-based violence through time and across cultures.  Archaeological investigations challenge our previous assumptions about the rate and nature of gender-based violence, sociocultural anthropologists create models to identify co-factors in gender-based violence, and biological and physical anthropologists help us understand how bodies respond to gender-based violence.  This session brings together scholars from all disciplines of anthropology to showcase the ways that scholars and practitioners are expanding the geographical and temporal boundaries of our understanding gender-based violence.

[Borders]
This session invites papers from geographic locations previously understudied and studies of populations undertheorized, such as prisoners, children, same sex intimate partners, and other special populations.  Additionally, we welcome papers that explore the borders of the term “gender-based violence” and enhance our understanding of the similarities and differences found within the forms of violence that are categorized as gender-based. Could/should the same theories apply to genital cutting as to domestic violence, sexual assault as to elder abuse?