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Tuesday, October 31,1995
Lesbian Group Aims to Empower Members
BY MATTHEW BO YAH
STAFF WRITER
One of the benefits of being a student at
UNC is the wide array of free academic
services offered by the University. Unfor
tunately, many students do not realize that
the University goes well beyond the aca
demic realm to keep students at their peak.
The University Counseling Center, lo
cated in Nash Hall, is one of the helpful
outlets exclusive to students seeking assis
tance with regards to personal or social
issues.
The Lesbian Empowerment Group is
one of several groups available to students
through the Counseling Center. Created in
the fall of 1994, lesbian students attending
UNC are now able to receive professional
counseling if they so desire.
Doctors Tracey Gersh and Maureen
Windle are the residing psychologists at
the Center, and they serve as the co-facili
tators of the Empowerment group.
Gersh and Windle said they could see
how non-lesbians might be skeptical of the
term empowerment; however, their inten
tion was to make the group’s members
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Associate Provost Marilyn Yarborough
said.
“(The departments) made a decision
based on material already sent,”
Yarborough said.
History Professor Genna Rae McNeil
said her committee was considering hiring
Home because of his range of expertise.
“He has a good reputation,” McNeil
said. “Several members of the history de
partment are familiar with his work and
are looking forward to his visit.”
Because Home has been in Africa for
the better part of the year, this trip gives
him the opportunity to meet members of
the University community and members
of the three departments, McNeil said.
“(The meeting) is an informal opportu
nity for the scholar to meet with other
faculty members and students and raise
any questions he or she has about the
(history) department,” McNeil said.
Home said he was interested in the
professorships because he wanted to make
a contribution to UNC.
“I’m sure I could contribute to already
strong departments, and that’s what I would
hope to do,” he said.
Home said he had been following the
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realize that they were not part of an ob
scure and voiceless minority.
“In choosing the name we wanted to
stay away from calling it a support group
because this implies you have a weak
ness,” Windle said. “We want the mem
bers to feel empowered, and this in itself
should not be seen as offensive.”
Windle also recognized the fact that
some males tend to be egotistic when it
comes to issues concerning lesbians. “I
don’t know why some men are so
homophobic,” Windle said. “Lesbians do
not hate males. This is one of the big
misconceptions that many men have.”
Withstanding more than their share of
negatively imposed sentiment, lesbians
continue to press forward and gain support
from each other through their collective
gatherings. Both Gersh and Windle said
that the lesbian students attending the
meetings were very responsive to the pro
gram.
During group meetings the students are
encouraged to express any concerns or
opinions they may ha ve both on a personal
level and in matters relating to file func
tioning of the gatherings.
fund-raising problems of the free-standing
BCC. The University’s Development Of
fice, which is in charge of fund-raising for
the free-standing center, has raised only
$l.B million of the $7 million needed for
construction.
“Hopefully we can turn the tap (of fund
ing) back on,” Home said. “Some leader
ship can make a difference.”
The history department’s tenure com
mittee will consider information in Home’s
presentation when it makes its decision.
The committee will send its final recom
mendation to the provost’s office, McNeil
said.
“The committee has the responsibility
to consider the scholarship, teaching and
service of any individual (considered by)
the department,” McNeil said.
The Board of Trustees and the Board of
Governors must review the recommenda
tions of all three departments before the
appointments are approved.
Home said he did not know how long
the University’s process of approving his
appointments to the African and Afro-
American studies curriculum and the Com
munication Studies Department would
take.
He also said he did not know how long
the history department would need to de
cide whether or not to recommend him for
a professorship.
“You probably know better than I do.
I’m thousands of miles away,” he said.
Home will talk about his research Mon
day at 3 p.m. in 569 Hamilton Hall. His
presentation will be followed by a ques
tion-and-answer session with faculty and
students.
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“Lesbians do not hate males.
This is one of the big
misconceptions that many
men have. ”
MAUREEN WINDLE
University Counseling Center
psychologist
This freedom to be able to individually
direct the course of each session lends a
special uniqueness to the group and sets it
apart from other counseling formats.
Gersh and Windle believed that by act
ingas facilitatois, ratherthan exacting coun
selors, the beneficial feeling of empower
ment will be placed in the hands of the
participants.
The weekly gatherings are held on Tues
days between 3:20 and 4:50 p.m. in Nash
Hall. “The meetings are open to all gradu
ate and undergraduate students,” Gersh
said. “Right now we have about a dozen
members in the group and most come to
each meeting.”
Campus Calendar
TUESDAY
11 p.m. N.C. SCALE is sponsoring Readouts at
the Franklin Street Post Office and the Bulls’ Head
Bookshop on the UNC-CH campus.
3:15p.m. UNIVERSITY CO UNSELINGCEN
TER will hold a Career Clinic in Nash Hall. Call 962-
2175 for more information.
7 p.m. POWER will meet in the basement of
Campus Y.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
HILLEL will have an Interfaith Shabbat on Fri
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MANDATORY Honor code presentations for
freshmen and transfers will take place Monday
through Thursday this week at 7 p.m. in 100 Hamilton
Hall or 111 Murphey Hall.
AAUP is sponsoring a Fall Forum on faculty
salaries on Thursday at 4 p.m. in Wilson Library
Assembly Room.
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7 p.m. in 111 Murphey Hall.
FOOTFALLS. The Campus Y’s Race for Hu
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GAY, LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL SUPPORT
GROUP will hold discussions related to coming out,
relationships, health concerns and religion. Call Stu
dent Psychological Services at 966-3698.
CAMPUS Y will be hosting A Catalyst for Posi
tive Social Change outreach during the month of
November. The Y is looking for hosts and facilita
tors. For more information, call 962-2333.
ELECTIONS BOARD Petitions and candidates’
packets will soon be available for Nov. 14 special
election. Please contact Annie Shuait at 962-5201 for
more information.
SURVIVOROFSUICIDESUPPORT GROUP
meets every first and third Thursday of each month.
Call Brenda at 489-5473 for more information.
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No matter how enticing this group for
mat may appear to some, there will always
be certain individuals seeking private coun
seling.
“It’s not unusual for someone attend
ing a meeting for the first time to be reluc
tant with the group setting,” Gersh said.
“It may be the first time they’ve discussed
their personal feelings beyond immediate
family and friends.”
In an attempt to provide for every indi
viduals needs, the Center does offer per
sonal counseling through either Gersh or
Windle. All students who do not feel ready
to enter the group or who are dealing
with issues which they would prefer to
keep anonymous are able to make a
personal appointment in Nash Hall.
In a perfect world the prejudice and
discrimination that often cause the forma
tion of groups like the Counseling Center’s
would not exist. But the prospects of that
seem dubious.
“We’ve come a long way in our aware
ness of different minorities, and in an ideal
world we would not need these groups,”
Gershsaid. “But I don’t see that happening
in my lifetime.”
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said they were acting in good faith. “We
have not lied before this body,” Reid said.
The committee’s decision means the
$4,000 allocated to the CAA in October
will be returned to the general reserve and
the $3,500 of student government funds
remaining in the CAA’s account will be
frozen until next year. The CAA will have
to function on the $20,000 remaining in
their SAFO account.
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land said they were not satisfied with the
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Reid and Walsh deliberately misled con
gress. “ I am not even close to being through
yet,” Oljeski said.
Oljeski and Holland said they would
file a complaint with the undergraduate
Attorney General alleging that Reid and
Walsh lied to congress about the athletic
department funds in their account.
After the meeting, Reid said he felt the
committee’s actions were based on a per
sonal bias against him and Walsh, saying
“I feel attacked by certain members of the
finance committee who appear to hold in
higher esteem personal grudges against
myself and lan Walsh than they do their
duties as officers of the finance commit
tee.”