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Show IMONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2000 PAGES UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS Speaker t~ discuss We've come a long way gender-based violence "This lecture will include such subjects as Gender based discrimination and sexual harassment, rape, and abuse in violence will be the topic of discussion at college dating relations," Cox said. "How to Thursday's lecture in the fall semester SUU Convocations Series. educate men on sex and gender issues Jackson Katz, founder and director of the and to move beyond defensiveness on the United States Marine Corps gender subject of date rape and other forms of violence prevention program, will make the gender violence will be addressed. Mr. Katz presentation, "More Than a Few Good focuses on the lives and attitudes of boys and men to bring more Men: A Lecture; at 11 :30 a.m. in the SUU Auditorium. All understanding." convocation series Katz is a graduate of the lectures are free, and University of MassachusettsAmherst, and he earned a the general public is invited to attend. master's degree from Harvard "Mr. Katz has been University where his one of America's leading research concentration was anti-sexist male activists the construction of violent for much of the last two masculinity in sports and decades," Neal Cox, media. A three-sport director of the convocations varsity athlete and allseries, said. "He has state high school football lectured on college player, Katz has trained campuses across the nation, thousands of collegiate and he has published male and female numerous academic articles student athletes in on topics including white l(al"Z gender violence masculinity, advertising, Jacl<son prevention. feminism, violence, juvenile He is co-creator and former director of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) prisons, sports, and media.· Katz iSJIISo the co-creator of a video, program at Northeastern University's Tough Guise: Media images and the crisis Center for the Study of Sport in Society. in masculinity. He has appeared on radio The racially diverse MVP program is the first large-scale attempt to enlist collegiate and television programs coast-to-coast. and professional athletes in the fight National network appearances include Good Morning America, Monte/ Williams, against rape and all forms of men's and ABC News 20/20. violence against women. what he called · suu·s five salient The university was administered a hallmarks.· dose of honor as SUU President Steven The first was the ·wonderful 0 . Bennion offered a discussion of personalized learning environment w hich SUU's achievements in Thursday's first fosters a lifelong love of learning. · fall Convocaticm address. "There is an unwritten slogan that each His lecture, eRtitled "Tradition a-nd student is more than a number here,· Hallmark at suu· covered ground said ranging from Bennion. SUU's roots The and history second to presenthallmark day was highlights of ·superior the school's teaching progress. ..., and high The quality address i5 service to began with ~ students." a summary ~ Bennion account of ~ then cited the founding ~ achieveof the ~ ments of institution h-urs """"'d'ay - ,-s-' various and a layout SUU President Steven D. Bennio_.n_,t·a-,k-s-a""'t""'i::.. of the Convo on the history of SUU, including the first SUU faculty school's president and Bennion's grandfather Milton Bennion members roots as (right). and programs. Branch The third hallmark was manifold Normal School. opportunity to "participate in leadership Bennion also relayed the story of Old and service experi ences in a residential Sorrel, a "big, rangy, eight-year-old draft campus setting.· horse· who pushed forward, despite the The fourth hallmark was the "beautiful antagonism of the winter weather, to campus on which we are privileged to move the building of the university learn and work,· and the fifth was the forward. Old Sorrel has been attitude at SUU that the "character and immortalized as a statue which is development of the whole person does located north of the Centrum. matter on this campus and in life.· Bennion also gave an overview of f WELCOME BACK STUDENTS! The Pizza Factory 124 South Main Street 586-3900 Buy I large pizza with 1 toppings for $900 or 2 toppings for $10°0 I· . (Must present Student I.D.) -- -----·---- --· --·----- ---·-·- - -~----- ...... ---- - ' |