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Show Campus News Donations Bein Accepted Management Institute Workshop offers Breakfast with Champions by Ginny Gale In an effort to promote good business management, Westminster College is preManagesenting its first annual ment Institute Workshop. Hosted by the Center for Professional Development, the office will be open specifically to staff members organizations. and volunteers in Because these organizations struggle to achieve difficult goals with limited funds as well as overworked staffs and volunteers, the workshop will focus on providing regularly scheduled, cost effective management trainsoing for staff and volunteers in art groups, cial services agencies, private schools, state agencies and health and religious organizations. Featured the morning before the workshop begins will be the Breakfast With Champions. During this, each breakfast table will or corporation exbe hosted by a to netan thus opportunity providing pert, work informally with others and share common concerns. Some of the community experts present will be Phyllis Geldzahler, executive director for the Legal Center for the Non-prof- it non-prof- it non-prof- it Handicapped; Jane Landford, executive director for the Y.W.C.A.; William Steiner, executive director for the Utah Heritage Foundation; Carol Nixon, executive director for the Utah Arts Council; and Christine Watters, executive director for the Rape Crisis Center. The first workshop featured this year will be Basics are better: Choosing substance over sizzle in fund raising activities." It will be presented Wednesday, Nov. 18, by Edward F. John, president of Edward F. John Associates, Fund Raising Consultants. Workshops will continue through the 1987-8- 8 year, and will discuss topics from more teams and effective decieffective board-staf- f sion making in groups to developing and implementing strategic marketing plans. The cost of these workshops will be $40 per workshop. Sessions will take place in Carle-so- n Conference Center from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There will be a $5 discount for registrations received 10 days prior to the workshop. For further information, contact Margot Kadesch in the Center for Professional Devel- opment at Forum staff is taking donations of food and supplies to prepare a meal for the needy. Items needed: PANCAKE MIX SAUSAGE EGGS HASHBROWNS ORANGE JUICE COFFEE SYRUPBUTTER CANNED GOODS PAPER PLATES PLASTIC UTENSILS STYROFOAM CUPS Money donations are gladly accepted. The deadline will be Nov. 20. Please bring donations to the Forum office in Shaw I. 488-416- 0. Network provides a forum K by Randy Sullivant Ten years ago, a group of women in Utah gathered to plan a conference which would be part of the activities planned by the United Nations for International Women's Year. They were dedicated women, donating hundreds of hours of time as they studied the issues and . formulated the resolutions to be debated. Above " all, they were sincere and serious. They believed in sisterhood. And facts. And democracy. And education... Unknowingly, they began a conflict in Utah about the right and proper role of women in society. Brenda Hancock. Experience The Height Of Perfection Experience what Utah Holiday magazine rightly called "the best hamburgers in Salt Lake City." Your choice of seventeen delicious, flame-broile- d Training Table hamburgers. Imagine the possibilities! OPEN FOR LUNCH AND DINNER 7 DAYS A WEEK. TAKEOUT AVAILABLE. DOWNTOWN SLC H0LLADAY MIDVALE 809 East 4th South 4828 Highland Drive (In the Creekslde Shopping Center) 6957 South State 355-752- 3 272-739- 4 Forum , 8 566-191- 1 It is now ten years later, and that same role of women is still being debated. Many people believe it is the responsibility of the women to be homemakers or to take care of the kids,' even in 1987. However, women have made great strides in getting out of that stereotype during the last ten years. In 1977, the figures revealing how many women worked outside the home hadnt been collected since 1970, when very few women did. In 1980 the figures showed that 52.6 percent of Utah women worked. In 1987 that number has risen to 55 percent. More than half of them have preschool children. While these statistics show that there are now more women in the workforce, they dont show the inequality in job opportunities. Women still make up just 1 percent of Fortune 500 company executives; just 3 percent of the law partners in larger firms, and only 2 percent of the boards of large corporations. Of women who work today, 80 percent makes less than $20,000 a year, and working women with a high school degree only make approximately half that much. Most women are poor or struggling or both. Why, with all the advancements the United States has seen in the last ten years, is that true? It may be that, while given the opportunity to work, women are discouraged from trying to reach the higher paying jobs typically reserved for men such as an engineer or scientist. Pressure is put on women not to be successful at those masculine jobs and so they avoid the necessary education to achieve that success. Utah high school women are currently taking less math and science than their male counterparts and have consistently scored below the national average for women in math and science areas of the ACT test. ACT Scores Natural Sci. 21.9 Composite 19.1 21.9 18.9 21.4 18.8 21.4 18.7 (The Utah scores are not separated by gender, but reflect the scores for all Utah high school students. Womens scores have tended to be slightly less than the mens.) As a result, many women who do go on to college are 'unprepared for a large number of majors that require a strong math or science background. In 1980, Ann Erickson, dean of Humanities and Science at Salt Lake City Community College, and Anne Nicoll of the Williams Resource Center at the University of Utah decided to combat this downward trend. The result of their efforts is the Utah Math and Science Network. It is the goal of the Network to promote math and science education for Utah women and to help women take full advantage of growing economic opportunities in related fields. The Network provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, problem solving techniques, technical information, and communication skills. It also provides information on job opportunities (present and future) as well as the chance to meet and form contacts with women already working in math and science fields. The Network holds its ings approximately once a month. Meeting activities include: panel discussions, outside speakers, and technical presentations, and cover such topics as career opportunities, womens issues and problems, and coping skills. Members also work on a one-da- y Expanding Your Horizons conference for young women in junior and senior high school. The conference introduces the women to the opportunities available to math and science students. It has been funded in the past by such companies as Hercules, UniSys, and as well as the Utah State board of Education. Attendance at this annual conference has increased dramatically since its inception in 1980 (103 attended then, over 500 in 1986). Network members may also participate in the Speakers Bureau, a group of professional women who travel to community schools promoting their field. In addition, the members have an occasional social gathering to provide the opportunity to meet and become friends with other women with the same interests. Eaton-Kenwa- y, Anyone interested in the goals of the Network, or simply wishing to suport it is encouraged to contact Mrs. Bobbie Othmer, Westminster College computer science faculty and Network for membership, at or talk to her in person. Her office on campus is room 9 in Converse Hall, phone extension number 175. vice-preside- nt 582-351- 4, Issue 5 Nov. ,3, 1987 |