The Parthenon, March 4, 2020

Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives 3-4-2020 The Parthenon, March 4, 2020 Amanda Larch Blake Newhouse Joelle Gates Joe Artrip Brittany Hively See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Authors Amanda Larch, Blake Newhouse, Joelle Gates, Joe Artrip, Brittany Hively, Douglas Harding, Taylor Huddleston, Grant Goodrich, Sarah Ingram, and Meg Keller WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2020 | VOL. 123 NO. 20 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com | SINGLE COPY FREE Mothers on campus: Professor shares her experience By AMANDA LARCH EXECUTIVE EDITOR When Kateryna Schray had Without the support of her colleagues, Schray said, she- wouldn’t have been able to her first child in September thrive as well at work after hav 2000 on a Thursday, she was ing children. After the birth of back on campus the following her first child, one coworker Tuesday—though looking back gifted Schray a “nursing chair,” she calls that a “huge mistake.” which she still has in her office. “I would not recommend that- It made the process of nursing for anybody,” Schray said. “And easier and more comfortable for actually, since then, we’ve fig- her, she said. ured out better ways to support “There’s also pumping too, and- people who are becoming par right around the time that I had a ents on campus.” baby, one of my students, I discov An English professor at ered, had a baby and she needed Marshall University as well as a place to pump,” Schray said. interim director of the Office- “She was going to the bathroom. of Student Success, Schray now So I gave her a key to my office, has four children, all born dur because this is actually a perfect ing her time at Marshall. The- chair for that. Now we have rooms experience for professors with for that, which is great. We’ve children has changed signifi come such a long way.” - cantly in the past two decades, As her family grew, she and Schray said. - her husband figured out uncon “When I had my first child, as far ventional ways to balance their as I know, no one in our depart workload and childcare duties. ment had a baby in 20 years,” she While in her Corbly Hall fourth said. “It wasn’t just new for me, it floor office, Schray said if she heard- was new for my department. So, the honking of their Euro Van, she yes, things have changed. Part of it would know that meant her hus is, I think, that having a baby is no band wassee there more with the on kids. pg. 2 longer seen as some huge threat to your career.” AMANDA LARCH | EXECUTIVE EDITOR PAGE EDITED AND DESIGNED BY AMANDA LARCH | [email protected] Marshall students Running Six Days a Week! FRIDAY & ride FREE with I.D. 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And I think the sit- one, two and then eventually three I understand there are times you still uation for people who are parents who kids kicking the soccer ball behind the have to get your work done. It’s not may feel like they have less in common building back and forth, which is great about lowering standards, it’s about with their classmates here, they’d be because now my daughter’s a soccer being creative in solving problems and in a cohort of other people who are in player here at Marshall…it’s cute that enabling people to succeed. And that equal situations.” she grew up there.” includes mothers, but also fathers,” Examples Schray gave of potential Ever since she began teaching at Schray said. parent friendly class designations are Marshall in 1996, Schray has made an The option of online instruction also a communications class and a lower effort to accommodate parenting stu- level English class. dents. She has a parenting clause in all are parents, Schray said. “How to communicate with your of her syllabi that states if students are benefits“Today professors things are andso much students better who in doctor, that’s a skill set in itself, how caring for children or incapacitated to be able to advocate for your child loved ones, to let her know. If they to make it possible, and part of it too without looking like you’re overly do, she then has a separate policy for isterms like theof how technology we’ve figuredhas evolved,” out ways she paranoid about your child’s health,” them, Schray said. said. “We have online instruction now, she said. “For an English example, re- “It basically assures them that it’s and you could plan ahead. There’s dif- search papers on the best daycares in okay to turn things in late,” she said. ferent mechanisms in place for it not town, (assignments) that can actually “I don’t want them to have to call me to be so crazy. With online courses, it’s reinforce and celebrate and acknowl- at three in the morning asking for an possible to teach four weeks of your edge your parenting.” extension because they have a sick kid, semester online, and then we meet up Schray made the front page of The and you never want to put somebody with the class again.” Parthenon with her newborn daugh- in a position of taking care of their sick - ter and husband in the September 26, child or writing a homework assign- dent Success, Schray said she wants 2000 issue. ment. So I always had that, even before to Assupport she works students in theany Office way she of Stucan, “It meant so much to me that every- I was a parent.” including by creating parent friendly one was celebrating and cheering me Schray said looking back on her designations for classes. The idea, on; it was very sweet,” Schray said. Schray and her husband Jim, both Marshall professors, teaching career, including the parent- she said, is that some classes are skill Amanda Larch can be contacted celebrate the birth of their first child, while making the front ing clause is one of the things she’s driven as opposed to content driven. at [email protected]. page of The Parthenon in 2000. Women’s studies lecture to focus on feminist activist By AMANDA LARCH University community, Diener said, as she corresponded more challenges, including discrimination within that EXECUTIVE EDITOR with Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History, movement and a lack of acknowledgement for...particu- The 2020 Charlotte Schmidlapp Distinguished Lecture who is honored with the Carter G. Woodson Lyceum on lar obstacles for black women.” in Women’s Studies, presented by author and journal- campus. She was also a founding member of the African Copies of Quigley’s book, written with Oxford Univer- ist Joan Quigley, will focus on activist and feminist Mary American sorority Delta Sigma Theta, which has a chap- sity Press, will be available for purchase and signing by Church Terrell, Friday, March 6. ter at Marshall. the author at the reception preceding the lecture. During the lecture, titled “Until Fool and Final Victory, “There are a number of letters at the Library of Con- Mary Church Terrell and the Battle for Equality,” Quig- gress between the two of them; they knew each other, Terrell and this talk will speak to a number of very sig- ley will present her book, “Just Another Southern Town: they admired each other,” Diener said. “And some stu- “People should definitely come because Mary Church Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in dents from the Society for Black Scholars are doing a talk about the past, because we are of course celebrating the Nation’s Capital.” service-learning project exploring that relationship.” thenificant centennial moments of women’sright now,” right Diener to vote, said. but“It’s we’re not just also a Laura Michele Diener, director of the women’s studies The lecture, as part of Women’s History Month, is coming up to an election where not necessarily peoples program, said Church Terrell was active in the women’s - right to vote, but people’s access to voting is a very con- suffrage movement as well as the Civil Rights movement. tion, Diener said, though Church Terrell faced additional tentious issue. “She was an activist her entire life,” Diener said. “So her challenges.focused on 100 years of the 19th Amendment’s ratifica “So I would say that this is an extremely relevant topic work falls at the intersection of two narratives, which are “That’s one of the reasons we asked Joan Quigley to right now. And also an opportunity to learn about, you kind of parallel but also intersecting in terms of Ameri- come because we wanted her to talk about Mary Church know, a really incredible activist who can maybe inspire can activism and greater rights.” Terrell, who was extremely active in the suffrage move- contemporary students to activism,” Diener said.

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