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The Importance of Preserving Artifacts
When I was young, I used to think that museums were boring and I suppose a lot of other kids my age did too. But as I got older, I started to appreciate the preservation of artifacts that were part of history. We visited the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the...
Women’s Books to Prison Project
This semester in our Women and Gender Studies class: Power, Privilege and Gender Studies, we learned about the prison industrial complex, the increase in the U.S. prison population over the last twenty years across the United States and the disproportionate...
It’s Time to Take Back The Night
You might not believe it, but you know someone who has been sexually assaulted. In fact, you probably know more than one person that has been sexually assaulted. These statistics from the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) may convince you that sexual...
Not Your Average Spring Break
While some people may have been wearing flip-flops and shorts over spring break, I was donning a hair cap and some plastic gloves. And even if I wasn’t laying on a beach towel soaking up the sun, I was standing on my feet, hands...
Inclusion and Diversity Student Senate Committee
Ever wonder what your Winona State Student Senate actually does? Well, Senate is a group of elected students from the Winona State student body that meet once a week to discuss university issues, from department fees to club funding to general issues we think students...
Help Your Community One Can at a Time
The month of February is National Canned Food Month! So, why canned food? Well, I don’t know about you, but when I think of canned food I think of the mushy peas and creamed corn my grandparents used to make me eat. But, it turns out that canned food is much more than...
A is for Advocacy
You may be shocked to learn 1 in 4 women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime 1 out of every 33 American men has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in his lifetime Approximately 50% of transgender people experience sexual violence at some point in...
(Un)Fashioning Power
“Style is Political” –Cynthia Enloe in Globalization and Militarism On December 4th the Women's and Gender Studies 220: Power, Privilege and Gender class presented their final projects in the Kryzsko Student Activities Center. These projects examined the role of...
Cooperating for the Community
A new club will be sprouting up on Winona State University come spring semester. The WSU Cooperative Club is currently developing in hopes of improving the world for many students. Cooperatives, or co-ops, are business that offers products and services like any other...
ACE in the Hole
I have found something that combines my passion for conservation with the opportunity to make a difference in my country…now if only I got paid for it! American Conservation Experience, or ACE, is a conservation program through AmeriCorps that trains volunteers to,...
