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| 3 | Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act | - Writing to senators and representatives -Publicize campaign -Add link to www.now.org on the Bio 104 website to help students contact their representatives |
| 1 | Sports and women | - Create an academic class, "Women in Sports", to discuss how title IX has affected women, and the problems associated with it. -The class would look at women in sports from a historical, psychological, sociological, physiological, and political perspective -Alternatively, bring a speaker to Kenyon to talk about women in sports and stereo-types associated with female athletes(possibly David Salter or Janet Woolum)
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| 6 | Abortion | -Bring a speaker to campus who has had an abortion -Publicize birth control options and campaign for easier access to birth control/ morning after pills -Raise awareness of the physical and mental consequences of abortion |
| 6 | Female Circumcision | - Raise awareness about the issue -Write letters to influential people -Invite a guest speaker who has had female circumcision |
| 5 | Gynecologist consultation and self-examination | -Campaign to get a staff gynecologist at Kenyon -Hire a gynecologist to lead a self-examination workshop that would give students the idea of how to conduct vaginal, cervical and breast self-examinations |
| 4 | Women's health and reproduction | -Team up with Kenyon Men Against Sexual Assault to create a website to detail the options for safe sex on campus. -The website would explain where to get birth control, the cost and effectiveness of different forms, basic information about women's anatomy, and answers to question women may be to embarrassed to ask their doctors
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| 2 | College-age women's health | -Bring OB-GYN and Kenyon alum Andrea Thurman to speak about the importance of yearly exams and health risks for women at college |
| 2 | Public perceptions of eating disorders and recovery | -Organize a panel for "Love Your Body Day" regarding pro-ana and pro-mia sites to discuss their agenda, possible merits, and the nature of anorexia and bulemia (disease or choice?) |
| 3 and 6 | The way in which women are depicted in articles and ads | -Bring Ann Simonton (a former fashion model now involved with a program called Media Watch) to speak to the campus or a community group -Students would organize the presentation and interact with the audience to create a more receptive environment -Emphasize uniqueness in the media -Form a group to discuss/improve self-image -Write letters to magazines/fashion designers asking them to feature larger women
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| 5 | Pap tests | -Organize an information session open to all interested women in Gambier and Mt. Vernon, so that they don't have to rely on their potentially unreliable gynecologist. |
| 2 | The Vagina Monologues | -Collaborate with the drama department to put on a production of The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler -Afterwards we could have a gynecologist or medical professional to answer any questions the students might have |
| 3 | Becoming aware of healthy food choices and proper nutrition | - Host a certified nutiritionalist for a week to lead discussions, give presentations, and consult with individuals and small groups - Help Kenyon students make healthy choices in the dining halls and request more nutritious options |
| 5 | Women's magazine | -Publish a collection of stories, poems, drawing, etc. about women's experiences with men and other women in a sexual context -This would promote honesty about sexual experience, and about which behaviors are unacceptable and which are good |
| 1,5, and 6 | STDs | -Establish "STD Awareness Week" at Kenyon with each day highlighting a different STD and its risks, symptoms, and long term consequences for women -Distribute leaflets through campus and in the dining halls -Place facts on signs in bathroom stalls - Sponsor a speaker or hold a panel discussion about STDs at college -Arrange special days or times that the Health Center or Crozier will give confidential STD tests -Form discussion/ support groups for those suffering from STDs - Have student speakers -Create an anonymous surveys about individuals' sex habits and their sex-image self perception and then compare the results to available STD statistics at Kenyon. -Use the results of the survey to present a campus-wide information session. |
| 4 | Women's shelter in Mt. Vernon | -Fundraise by holding a 5k walk/run for students, faculty, staff, and community members -Students would map a course, advertise, and make pamphlets for each runner to solicit and write down donations in |
| BM | Self-esteem and clothing | - Talk to retail stores in the area about the provocative nature of their clothes (esp. those aimed at young teenagers) - Write buyers and suppliers about making better choices -Write advertising and marketing companies to suggest they present better images of women in their campaigns - Put together a seminar inviting men and women to better educate themselves on advertising gimmicks |
| 1 | Women's health awareness | -Establish "Women's Health Week" at Kenyon, emphasizing a different health risk everyday -Show movies on campus such pertaining to women's health -Work with the Psychology professors who've done a lot of work on eating disorders to organize a speech about body image, eating disorders, and dieting.
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| 6 | Female athlete triad | -Raise awareness about the issue -Create a student run group -Bring in a guest speaker |
| 4 | Breast self-exams | -Hold a small series of instructional classes (possibly during common hour) -Get false breasts for women to practice on, so they can learn what a lump feels like |
| 2 | Breast implants | -Organize a write-in campaign to the FDA about approving the making and marketing of silicone breast implants when they "did not demonstrate long-term safety" |