Women's Center

"Women unite, take back the night"
"Women unite, take back the night"

This Dickinsonian article discusses Rape Awareness Week that began with "Take Back the Night", a march through the dining hall which culminated in a "speak out" in the HUB.

Date: November 10, 1994
All terms: 1990-1999, Campus safety, Dining hall, Domestic violence, Holland Union Building, Leahy, Elizabeth, McDonald, Robin, Osit, Jessica, RAPE Awareness Week, Sexual assault, Sexual behavior, Sexual harassment, Women's Center
Former Sports Illustrated model gives talk on media exploitation of women
Former model gives talk on media exploitation of women

Two articles on the front page of the April 16, 1992 Dickinsonian discussed the talk and reactions to the talk given in ATS by former Sports Illustrated model Ann Simonton about women, exploitation and the media.

Date: April 16, 1992
All terms: 1990-1999, Activism, Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, Atsaves, Pete, Baldwin, Lance, Body image, Borden, Gwyn, Fashion, Health and hygiene, Jones, Lisa, Napp, Amanda, Sexual harassment, Siegel, Julie, Stoutenburgh, Erica, Women's Center, Women's rights movement, Wylie, Emily
On Campus: How do you view the Women's Center?
On Campus: How do you view the Women's Center?

The Dickinsonian reports the responses of five students to the question: "How do you view the Women's Center?"

Date: November 21, 1991
All terms: Dwyer, Tim, Moschonas, Tim, Rende, Pam, Roth, Siobhan, Rudasill, Jerry, Women's Center
Stop The Violence: "Campus reacts to anti-Greek letter"
"Stop the Violence": Reaction, Sept 1991
Date: September 19, 1991
All terms: 1990-1999, Bennett, Judy, Beta Theta Pi, Boye, Hank, Domestic violence, Fraternities, Greek life, Harper, David, Hazing, Interfraternity Council, Lynch, Erin, Neuberger, Carmen, Panhellenic Council, Petersheim, Jacob, Reed, Thomas, Sexual assault, Sororities, Stop the Violence, Walton, Diane, Women's Center
The F-Word
The F-Word

The Extra Features on the Dickinson College website documents the creation and activism of the Feminist Collective. Formerly the Zatae Longsdorff Center for Women, the Feminist Collective is the new student-led women's feminist organization on campus. The first women's center was created in 1984 as a support and research center, named after the first woman to graduate from Dickinson, Zatae Longsdorff.  With this new center, the members can "now focus on an inclusive agenda that addresses gender, race, class, and sexual orientation" because they are a feminist organization.

Date: October 7, 2008
All terms: 2000-2009, Activism, Altshuler, Jessica, Farley, Keely, Feminist Collective, Garcia, Glenda, Jones, Diantha, Longsdorff, Zatae, Radesky, Caroline, Sullivan, Shannon, Veil, Katherine, Women's Center
Free Speech & Concepts of Harm
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In response to the posters put up by an anonymous student in protest of the Roe v. Wade anniversary posters of the Women's Center, Susannah Bartlow of the Women's Center created this lunch forum sponsered by the Women's Center, Office of Campus Life, Office of the Dean of Students, and Institutional and Diversity Initiatives.

Date: February 2, 2009
All terms: 2000-2009, Abortion , Activism, Bartlow, Susannah, Birth control, Bylander, Joyce, Civil rights, HUB siderooms, Institutional and Diversity Initiatives, Office of Campus Life, Office of the Dean of Students, Religion and spirituality, Scaduto, Dana, Seiler, Cotten, Women's Center, Women's rights movement
Reaction to Feminist Collective Celebration of 35th Anniversary Roe v. Wade
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After seeing posters attached to coat hangers put up by the Women's Center in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, an anonymous student put up a reaction coat hanger with this poster. Some of the Womens Center celebration awareness posters included phrases like "Don't like abortion? Get a vascetomy!" and "Keep your theology off my biology."  The anonymous student wanted to make it known that abortion and other female issues are much more complicated than narrowing them down to religion/politics and other aspects of opinion.

Date: January 22, 2009
All terms: 2000-2009, Abortion , Activism, Anniversaries, Birth control, Feminist Collective, Religion and spirituality, Women's Center, Women's rights movement
Second Annual Report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women at Dickinson College (1973-1974)
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In this report, the possibility of a Women's Center is mentioned. Opponents believed that this would be discrimination against men. While no center existed at the time, the Commission garnered its own bulletin board in the basement of Old West. , had an "open house" for its members and others, luncheons in HUB siderooms, and stressed the importance of getting all the Service Support Personnel who were women to be a part of the Commission.

Date: June 1974
All terms: 1970-1979, Affirmative action, Employment, Old West, Physical education, President's Commission on the Status of Women, Women's Center
Women's Center Fosters Greater Student Awareness
Women's Center Fosters Greater Student Awareness

To celebrate the one hundredth year anniversary of women at Dickinson College, the Womens Center planned a series of events to create a welcoming environment in order to promote social interaction between students and faculty outside the classroom setting.Located at 222 Church St., under the coordination of Tina Groover,Office of Admissions, Nina Shover,Office of Student Services, Rena Convissor, Student Planning Board, and under the guidance of the Board of Directors, Professors Ellen Rosenman and Sharon O'Brien,the Womens Center strives to flourish across the Dickinson community so as to

Date: October 4, 1984
All terms: 1980-1989, 222 Church Street, Book Discussion, Convissor, Rena, Groover, Tina, Homecoming, O'Brien, Sharon, Open House, Rosenman, Ellen, Shover, Nina, Women's Center, Young, Elizabeth