The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Page: 3 of 12
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March 7, 2007 The Rattler www.stmarytx.edu/rattler 3
Program celebrates ‘The Other “F” Word’
Feminism
The Other “F” Word
Women’s History Month Calendar of Events
March 7
Leader to Leader luncheon with Judge
Catherine Torres-Stahl. Location: Charles
Francis Conference Room. Time: 12 p.m.
March 7
Art Opening: "Moving Tapestries of Life."
Location: Louis J. Blume Library Art
Space. Time: 3 p.m.
March 8-10
Las Americas Letters: Series in
Literature & the Arts. Location: University
Center. Time: Various.
March 22
Leader to Leader discussion with City
Councilwoman Elena Guajardo.
Location: TBA. Time: 2 p.m.
March 23
Feminism around the world: Students'
Perspectives. Location: Charles Francis
Conference Room. Time: 12:15 p.m.
March 25
Chicanas in Charge: Reception and Panel
Discussion. Location: University Center
Conference Room A. Time: 3 p.m.
March 26
Blessing of Women at St. Mary's
University. Location: St. Louis Hall.
Time: 9:15 a.m.
March 27
Book Club discusses Margaret Atwood's
"The Blind Assasin." Location: Charles
Francis Conference Room. Time: 4 p.m.
March 28
Adele: That's What Friends are For.
Location: TBA. Time: 12:15 p.m.
March 28
A look at Pride & Prejudice: How
Characters Appear in Print and on Film.
Location: Reinbolt Hall 203.
Time: 1:45 p.m.
March 29
Women's History Month Poetry Reading.
Location: Java City Amphitheater.
Time: 4 p.m.
March 29
Alma L. Lopez Woman in Law Student
Leadership Award. Location: TBA.
Time: 4:15 p.m.
March 29
THINK: It's a St. Mary's Way. Location:
Off-Campus. Time: 7 p.m.
March 30
Battle of the Sexes Game. Location: Java
City Amphitheater. Time: 5 p.m.
April 4
The Poetry of Bridget Gray. Location:
University Center Conference Room A.
Lime: 7 p.m.
Monthlong Events
Non-St MU Off-Campus Events
National Women's History
Month Poster Competition in
the Richter Math-
Engineering Building
SOURCE: WHM Committee
Favorite Female Characters
from fiction in the
Blume Library Display
March 27 5:30 - 8 p.m.
Bright Shawl: 819 Augusta Street San Antonio, TX 78215
Can We Talk? About A Generation fo Women Moving
History Forward
Ticket price in advance: $25 At the Door: $35
GRAPHIC BY DOMINIQUE VARGAS
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of women throughout [history] to achieve
societal equality."
WHM has published a calendar that
shares the program's name, "Feminism: The
Other 'F' Word," which highlights St. Mary's
events, and events sponsored by other
organizations in San Antonio.
"I'm excited about all the programs
planned by the committee as well as the
events listed on our calendar that were
planned by other groups," Wolff said.
Wolff stressed the significance of
the Alice Wright Franzke Feminist
Award Luncheon.
The award honors those who promote
peace, empowerment, civic engagement,
cooperation, equality and respect of both
genders and all differences. Its recipi-
ents are Tonya Hammer, student; Patricia
Mejia, staff; Carol Redfield, faculty; and
Maria Elena Torralva-Alonso, alumna.
Senior political science major Nicole
Mahler, who attended the Luncheon, said,
"I'm participating in WHM because I know
it's important for the women of today to
understand the struggles of the past and
realize that there is still a lot further to go
before total equality."
Vanessa Torres, a member of the WHM
Committee and senior political science
major, has helped to organize some of this
year's events.
"It's a really great opportunity as a
student to be involved with faculty and
staff in this committee," Torres said.
"Many students think issues of women's
rights are a thing of the past, but we still
struggle today. Some students don't even
realize that we have a month."
Adam Gomez, a senior biology major,
suggested better advertisement of the
events, but said that he most likely would
not be able to make any of the programs.
"I'm not going to lie. I didn't even know
women had a month," Gomez said.
Kathleen Maloney, Ph.D., a faculty
member on the committee, said that
celebrating WHM is a community-
building activity.
"We live in a society that doesn't
always recognize the contributions that
women make. Taking time out to recognize
those contributions is always important,"
Maloney said.
St. Mary's University has celebrated
WHM since 1992, albeit intermittently,
according to Wolff.
Since Congress officially declared March
to be WHM in 1987 it has continually grown
globally and locally.
"Our committee is gaining visibility
on and off campus and has received
financial support from a variety of
university departments," Wolff said.
In the future, Wolff and others
involved hope to attract more community
participation and attendance along with
more student planners, especially males,
for the committee.
All of the the members of the committee
stress the importance of the community's
observance of Women's History Month.
"WHM programs serve to lead us to
ponder the continuing limitations on
women's equality in our world and look
for ways to address these inequalities,"
Wolff said.
Lecture discusses
religion on the border
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The Office for Mission and
Identity presented Goizueta's
lecture as the third in a four-part
series of the St. Mary's Catholic
Intellectual Tradition. The theme
of this year's lecture series is
"Hispanic Presence in Our Nation
and Our Church."
Goizueta surmised that the
Border Crisis should be viewed
in a religious as well as political
and social context. As the 2004-
2005 president of the Catholic
Theological Society, Goizueta
predicts that half of all the
Catholics in the United States
will be Hispanic by 2010, and
that percentage will increase to
three-quarters by 2050.
Goizueta began his lecture
by stating the importance of the
border to U.S. identity. Quoting
Pope John Paul II, Goizueta
challenged the U.S. "to
reach across geographic and
physical borders" in order to
create a unified America.
He expanded upon this point
by reviewing the American
frontier myth that is so prevalent
and important to the development
of American culture. Goizueta
quoted Fredrick Jackson Turner
when he described the myth as the
"meeting point between savagery
and civility."
Goizueta proposed that the
myth be challenged by viewing
the "Mestizo face of Christ" on
the border. Mestizo culture is
defined in the U.S. as a
mixture of European and Native
American cultural, ethnic and
social practices.
Paralleling the social and
physical borders that Christ
crossed in the Bible with the U.S.-
Mexico border, Goizueta called for
a "resurrection on the border of a
conquered and beaten people."
During the discussion portion
of the lecture, junior English major
Kristin Leslie raised the question,
"What is the difference between
the Hispanic presence in the
Catholic Church and the presence
of any other ethnicities?"
Goizueta responded that,
with the traditional physical and
cultural boundaries, Hispanics
carry "historical racial divisions
and symbolic weight; within the
Latin American community, there
is great division, institutionally
and conventionally."
He added that the Church
must stop conceptualizing itself
as Euro-American and pay more
attention to the challenges that are
presented by the unique situation
on the border.
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