Helping the Homeless

VISIT QUOT OF THE W K N WS “As a 10-year-oldOPINION I just wanted to do For additional news, videos, something to help and give back.” photo galleries and more! LIF Lethbridge J.R Wikkerink Campus Media SPORTS See LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS Page 5 LIF OPINIONMarchSPORTS 18, 2016 Vol. 51, Issue 9 N WSPAP R PHOTO BY SARAH REDEKOP GENDER EQUALITY Spirits remain high as University of Lethbridge student volunteers Stephanie Wickham, Izzie Brock, A century after women get the right Andrea Kobbert and Jeff Oudman, live outside for five days to raise money for Woods Homes. to vote, there’s still a long way to go before we achieve gender parity. N WSPAP R By Meagan Williams Page 2 HelpingSARAH REDEKOP the homeless bring a sleeping bag and pillow, they aren’t @sleered allowed to shower, bring their own food or have communication devices. Students are still required CUSTOM QUADS Five University of Lethbridge students voluntarily to attend classes during the event. Lethbridge ATV enthusiast receives became homeless this week. With the comforts Participants are also able to receive food attention with quad customization skills. of home far behind, these students spent five donations. Wickham says not always having her By Sarah Redekop Page 6 days outside raising money and awareness for the phone on her has been one of the most difficult homeless. The students were participating in a challenges. She says it’s been challenging not being charity event that began in 2005 by students at the able to be connected. University of Alberta. Since then the annual 5 Days Bob Boudreau, the Dean of Management at the for the Homeless charity event has raised more than University of Lethbridge volunteered as a guest ROAD TO RIO $1.5 million across the country. Donations raised by sleeper on Monday night. He explains how it’s Optimism and resilience are the students are given to local charities. important for him to show his support. key to paralympian’s dream. With only a sleeping bag, a pillow and some “It’s the students that inspired me. Our students By Kayla Sarabun cardboard boxes for comfort, the money the U of do so many neat things over the course of the Page 10 L students raise will be donated to Woods Homes year in terms of volunteering,” he said. “It’s to in Lethbridge. Woods Homes is a local shelter for raise awareness of what’s happening in our local homeless youth. They provide a place to sleep, community. Often times we go home at night and shower, eat as well as counseling services for youth we don’t pay much attention to what we need to. that don’t have a home. Anything we can do to raise that awareness… That’s Stephanie Wickham is a University student why we’re here.” participating in the event this year who grew up in The goal for the students is to raise $10,000 for Lethbridge. She says growing up she had a lot of Woods Homes over the course of the five days. A friends who were kicked out of their homes. Many portion of the money raised will be used to provide of them stayed at youth shelters in town. one more bed in the Lethbridge Woods Homes “Because I’ve been around it so much in my life, facility. I really want to give back to the community that Participants are hoping that along with raising raised me and really just help another person out if I money they can help promote awareness regarding can,” said Wickham. homeless issues in our community. She volunteered as a guest sleeper last year, “The aspiration is that what we do now, will make meaning she only stayed out for one evening. This is a difference to somebody’s life or lives in the future her first year participating for the full five days. She and we may never know it, but we believe it. It’s has maintained a positive outlook on the event. about trying to make that difference. That’s why we “We keep warm and we have a whole bunch of do it,” said Boudreau. layers,” she said. If you would like to learn more about the Students participating are only able to fundraiser, you can visit 5days.ca. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THIS YEAR’S LETHBRIDGE COLLEGE EXPRESSIONS MAGAZINE! IT HITS SOUTHERN ALBERTA THIS MONTH! QUOT OF THE W K 2 • Friday, March 18, 2016 N WS OPINION LIF Gender gap still apparentSPORTS MEAGAN WILLIAMS @lili_gean LIF OPINION SPORTS Being made to wear skimpy uniforms and vertigo inducing high heels to work on your feet for eight or more hours a day is the story of many women in the serving industry. With the spotlight shining on businesses that force their female employees to work in these uncomfortable positions and a new report showing a considerable wage gap between men and women, it’s hard to imagine the pioneering women who lobbied for the right to vote would be pleased with the current working conditions for women. The report, Equal Worth, authored by Kathleen Lahey of the Parkland Institute, found women in Alberta earn considerably less than their male colleagues. Many attribute this gap to those women who stay at home to look after children or who work on a flexible basis to ensure their childcare needs are met. On the contrary, the report found that women working full-time earned an average of $31,000 less than their male colleagues. Dr. Carol Williams is an associate professor in PHOTO BY MEAGAN WILLIAMS women’s and gender studies at the University of A crowd of women listen as Dr. Susan Carter discusses the history of the women’s suffrage movement in Canada at the Galt Museum and Archives on March 13. Lethbridge and finds disparity amongst women here in southern Alberta. One of the courses she teaches looks Development Lethbridge for 10 years. Speaking to the Museum and Archives, Dr. Sarah Carter, professor at at women’s labour and the sexual division of labour. wage gap amongst men and women, Dick says that it’s the faculty of native studies of the University of Alberta “We look at how occupationally, women have been important for women to keep in mind that hard work spoke to the injustices Canadian women faced while sort of rooted into more maternal activities or jobs that and holding your own will always pay off in the end. trying to establish a voice in government. are an extension of their domestic abilities. So I also “I don’t know at any given point in my career whether “There were many obstacles and a lot of resistance emphasize the emergence of what I call the breadwinner there was a big gap or not because I was being treated in the campaign. There were many men and women wage which in a sense is the origin of paying women respectfully and I was working hard so I was being who needed to be won over in favour of the cause,” said lesser wages,” said Williams. rewarded for that hard work,” said Dick. I’ve worked in Carter. Cheryl Dick is the managing director of local oil and gas, the airline industry and media and I have “In the academic world and beyond, this generation architectural firm FWBA and was the CEO of Economic always been of the belief that if I am earning recognition of feminists did not fare well in the last few decades. through my work, because Around the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s they were celebrated for I’m doing good quality combatting injustice and being very progressive, but by work, I am probably being a later generation of historians and activists they were paid commensurably,” dismissed or discredited.” said Dick. April marks the 100-year anniversary of women At an event reflecting having a vote in Canada and while we have come a long on the plight of women’s way in giving women a voice and a platform on which suffrage in Canada this to be heard, it appears we still have a long way to go in past Sunday at the Galt paying them an equal wage for doing an equal job. YMCA gives the gift of activity TAWNYA PLAIN EAGLE other expenses Wright says she may not @tawnya_pe be able to do the same thing this summer. “It would be nice for some places to allow parents to sign up and volunteer so One local organization is raising they can help out in groups,” Wright says. money for kids in the community who Wright also has an infant who recently cannot always afford extra-curricular underwent surgery for a low immune activities. system. Bobbi Cullum, director of She says with the care her baby needs, communications and funds development sometimes it is not always easy to take her at the YMCA, says it is important they son to the playground. raise money throughout the year so Caylee Vogel a personal trainer at children can have the opportunity to be Lethbridge College says it is important for physically active and play sports. children to be active at a young age. Callum states 19 per cent of youth are “If a kid plays soccer, and are active under privileged in the city and could around the house, they are more likely to benefit from local organizations like the be active when playing with their friends,” YMCA. Vogel says. “We think that if the community Adding a child lacks physical activity comes together to help these children when they’re young, their confidence become active and healthy, they will be levels will go down when it comes to better off,” Cullum says.

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