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Conference on gender to focus on
two-way understanding
Amanda Wheeler
FEATURES EDITOR
Why do conversations about
men and women often slip into
something like a boxing match,
with one gender in each corner?
Seniors Miriam Biber and
Scott Pryor are working to change
the dynamics of such conversa
tions; they are looking to create
an honest and open dialogue on
the subject of gender, beyond de
fenses and alienation and to
wards understanding.
By means of the Hazelnut
Scholarship Grant, through the
Peace and Conflict Studies pro
gram, Biber and Pryor are host
ing a conference in early October
entitled "Understanding Men,
Understanding Women."
THIS WEEK AT GUILFORD
Friday, September 21
11:00 a.m. Lecture: From Philosophy Major to Investment
Guru: The Educational and Professional Journey
of Guilford Trustee MarkHulbert (Bryan Auditorium)
3:00-6:00 p.m. Family Weekend Registration (Boren
Lounge)
3:00 p.m. Family Weekend Open House (Founders
Commons)
Saturday, September 22
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Family Weekend Interest Sessions (Founders
Commons)
3:00 p.m. African American Family Mixer (Bryan
Auditorium)
8:00 p.m. Reduced Shakespeare Company Presents: The
Complete Works of Shakespeare. Abridged
(Dana Auditorium)
Sunday, September 23
7:00 p.m. WQFS Meeting (Founders Commons)
Monday, September 24
7:30 p.m. Guilfordian Meeting (Founders Commons)
8:30 p.m. G.A.NE. Meeting (King Peace and Conflict
Studies Room)
9:30 p.m. Outdoors Club Meeting (King Environmental
' Studies Room)
Tuesday, September 25
3:00 p.m. Campus Sidekicks (Boren Lounge)
7:30 p.m. " Presentation: Summer Work Camp in
Ramallah (Founders Gallery)
Wednesday, September 26
6:00 p.m. Senate Meeting (Boren Lounge)
7:00 p.m. Lecture: Susan Fox, US Forest Service
(Bryan Auditorium)
7:00 p.m. Chess/Scrabble Club Meeting (Founders
Commons)
"It started as focusing more
on men and their views on sex
ism and feminism," Biber said,
"but changed into focusing on cre
ating a dialogue between men and
women about what the concept of
gender means for both sides."
Focusing on how social codes
affect both sexes, Biber feels that
the conference will offer much to
participants as well as to the com
munity as a whole.
"It's a good starting place for
getting people to understand
what it means to live with gen
der," Biber said. "It's about com
municating with yourself and oth
ers and figuring out what to do
with this knowledge."
"The hope is to help partici
pants foster a commitment to be
continually engaged in that dia-
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logue," Pryor said of the confer
ence. "And we're hoping to recruit
a wide variety of people to come."
Both Biber and Pryor em
phasized the open nature of the
conference. They are encourag
ing and expecting a diversity
range of participants.
While the exact schedule of
panelists is still in the works, the
conference will bring to light a
number of different topics within
this field. "Understanding Men,
Understanding Women" will be
gin Friday, Oct. 5, with a panel
and then move to open discussion
and small group work (from 7-9
p.m.).
The events on Saturday,
Oct. 6, will include small-group
work and sharing as well as time
for personal reflection and re
evaluation of personal commit
ment. Saturday's participants
will need to preregister. For
more information, or to register,
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Corrections:
Last week's article on the Student Activities fair
mistakenly attributed African drumming, that was, in
fact, not African, to AACS. Also, Brothers Doing Posi
tive, Sister to Sister, and Gospel Choir are all under
AACS, not African American Affairs as the article re
ported.
September 21, 2001
contact Miriam Biber
(mbiber@guilford.edu) or Scott
Pryor (mpryor@guilford.edu).
Hiring, from p. 1
Lisa McLeod, assistant
professor of Philosophy, despite
being a staunch proponent of the
policy, said that from a legal per
spective, "our proposed hiring
policy, in paying explicit atten
tion to race, may run afoul of cur
rent interpretations both of the
Equal Protection Clause of the
Constitution and/or Title VII of
the 1964 Civil Rights Acts."
After faculty members
raised a variety of objections to
the policy, the Clerks Committee
led by Jonathan Malino, Profes
sor of Philosophy, decided to ex
plore and revise the current draft
again in hopes that the faculty can
come together in their support of
the new policy.