Author: Brynn Boyer

The Women’s History Month Committee is sponsoring an event on March 25, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. titled, Fresh Face to the World…Easy, Breezy, No Makeup on that Covergirl. The purpose of the drive is to inform students, faculty, and staff that true beauty is far beyond the general products some individuals administer to their  bodies each day and encourage them to participate in a one-day attempt to eliminate beauty enhancing products from their daily routine.

We encourage everyone to please donate any unused and unopened makeup they may have to benefit this wonderful cause. All donations will go to help the women of Hope House, a local nonprofit organization geared toward assisting homeless women and their families during their journey of regaining financial independence.

Donations can be made throughout the entire month of March to the James Farmer Multicultural Center (Lee Hall, 211). In advance, thank you to all that donate and plan to participate!

The Diversity and Unity Coordinating Committee of UMW is to provide the UMW and Fredericksburg area communities with a Bullying Forum.  Faculty and administrators from UMW’s College of Education, Psychology Department, Counseling and Psychology Services and the Office of Judicial Affairs will facilitate the discussion and serve as experts
in their respective fields.  The purpose of the forum is to provide participants with an opportunity to productively discuss bullying as it comes into conflict with our communities.  Various forms of bullying and its repercussions will be explored from the perspective of the bully, the victims of bullying, as well as the onlookers of these acts.  The forum is scheduled for 6 o’clock in the evening Thursday, February 17, 2011 in Lee Hall Room 412 on UMW’s Fredericksburg campus.  For more information or questions, pleasecontact Lee Gilliam at lgilliam@mail.umw.edu.

Taiwo Ande, the assistant provost for Institutional Analysis and Effectiveness, co-authored an article titled “Christian’s Perceptions of Hypothetical Case Studies of Five Pastoral Approaches to Marital Therapy: An Exploratory Study,” which was published in the 2010 fall volume of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity.

March 29, 2011 :: Lee Hall, 411 :: 6 p.m.

The legacy of Black women’s writings in Latin American remains at best one of the least known bodies of literature in the Americas. This presentation takes up that issue as it seeks to confront some of the situations that surround that body of work, at times paying special attention to the writers themselves. Presented by Dr. Dawn Duke, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at The University of Tennessee . Dr. Duke specializes in Afro-Latin American literature and cultural studies.

In the small village of La Nunez, Honduras, children used to go to school in a building where the thin wooden walls didn’t quite meet the roof.

So when it rained, the room would get soaked and classes would be canceled. The young Central American children couldn’t get a steady education–a crucial part of breaking the cycle of poverty that they are caught in.

But now the students are getting a new school, built by by a group of American college students. When members of Students Helping Honduras, which was founded at the University of Mary Washington, arrived in La Nunez near the city of El Progreso last December ready to start work on the new school, they were warmly welcomed by the children.