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▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ THE Wheel ST. CATHERINE UNIVERSITY STUDENT NEWSPAPER October 10, 2011 - VOLUME 79 ISSUE 3 Page 4 Photos by Alexa Chihos. “I feel like this minor will pave the way for future feminists and women who share the same interests as I have.” Green Female: revisited Davy expressed the importance of educating • Women* in the Arts minor introduced this academic year women about women. “I have always loved the arts, but it wasn’t ambition By Becky Doucette writing stories and poems. It would be great until I started studying at SCU that I realized associate editor to have more poets taking drawing,” English how far sexism stretches. It’s everywhere,” • Student-led initiative aims Professor Gabrielle Civil said. Davy said. to make campus more New to the academic curriculum at St. Since 2010, professors across various The program is geared to push students into Catherine University (SCU) is the Women* departments have visualized what they could working in the arts, non-profit organizations environmentally friendly in the Arts minor, which is the first of its additionally bring to the Women’s Studies kind in the state of Minnesota. The details (WOST) curriculum, and the minor was By Elyse Johnson of the curriculum for the minor have been approved in April of 2011. staff writer critically mapped out, even the requirement To fulfill the minor, a student needs to of the asterisk in its title. complete three courses cross-listed with WOST, The student-led Senate, Minnesota Public “This minor[’s asterisk] emphasizes that one cross-listed with Critical Studies of Race Interest Research Group (MPIRG), and it will recognize all people from all different and Ethnicity (CRST) and one elective. The Sodexo are striving to make the 2011-2012 spheres of gender preference. This has been five courses are required to be spread across academic year a time that inspires students something that I have, disappointingly, not two different artistic disciplines. to become more environmentally conscious. recognized before in a course of study,” senior “We have great arts programs here and we Reusable water bottles and recycling have Anna Ruhland said. “This factor of the minor have great women’s studies programs. Some seemingly become the norms, but St. Catherine is the most important and significant aspect of the most worth-while classes offered at University (SCU) is making it a point to go of the course; everybody and anybody shall SCU relate to woman and the arts,” senior even further. and will be recognized and acknowledged.” Molly Davy said. “Going green” is nothing new for SCU. In Multiple disciplines of artistry are combined Students pursuing the minor will observe 2008, President Andrea J. Lee, IHM, signed into the Woman* in the Arts curriculum, how it connects to women studies through the American College & University Presidents’ and this can be an easily achieved minor an artistic landscape. Patricia Olson, Feminist Revisioning, Climate Commitment (PCC). Under the for students. “Art history in general seems to be a study 2004, oil on canvas. Photo by Heather PCC, SCU is devoted to becoming carbon- “This minor is a great way to showcase the of men’s accomplishments, and only a small Kolnick. neutral, which requires SCU to measure its vibrant arts offerings that we have on campus section of studies seems to be dedicated to and women’s advocacy in communities. greenhouse gas emissions. This will eventually and to cross-fertilize our artistic communities. women’s involvement, and even less so to This minor is not only new to SCU; there lead to eliminating greenhouse gas emissions As a teacher of creative writing, I would love women outside of the white-privileged- is no other program like this available in from certain areas on campus. The issue was to have more musicians and fashion students American-woman category,” Ruhland said. Minnesota. This unique program comes brought to the President by the Senate’s 2008 with little surprise to the SCU student body. Environmental Issues task force. less demanding position. He passed away “This minor is important, especially to SCU is taking smaller steps as well. In the on Oct. 5. [SCU]’s women, since it is an all women’s cafeteria, consumers have access to reusable News in brief university. To be women* at this school and cold cups as well as “eco-clams.” After • Updates on headlines from Occupy Wall Street: to be surrounded by like-minded (or not), customers buys into the “eco-clam” program, around town and around the A growing movement that has been independent women means that we must, they avoid paying the extra money for using sweeping the nation is the series of protests in turn, educate ourselves and each other,” other compostable to-go containers. globe against corporate greed within major cities. Ruhland said. “It’s an exchange program. So you buy into There is no one single leader or list of The Women* and International Development the program for $5.00 and that’s for the entire By Becky demands created yet, however the spread and major is up for approval as a way to continue time you are here at SCU,” Sodexo Retail Doucette updates of the protests have been available connecting women’s critical studies with Operations Manager Theresa Cianni said. with the help of the media by the coined other programs on campus. Providing SCU students with produce Steve Jobs: phrase “We are the 99%.” These protests “...by becoming women artists ourselves, from a local Elk River farm is another way Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple and have been gathering media attention with we are actively engaging with and protesting Sodexo is supporting SCU’s movement into technological visionary, lost the battle an incident of pepper spray from a police against the patriarchy that has been built a “greener” future. Fresh goods like peppers with cancer dying at the age of 56. Jobs officer and the arrest of 700 protesters in around us,” Davy said. and apples are available and Cianni states is known for helping develop the large New York. Recently, unions have been For more information about the Women* that they are looking forward to doing more data collecting computers into personal getting involved with the protests, such as in the Arts minor, there will be an open house local-purchasing in the future. computers and simplifying navigation with the AFL-CIO, UAW, the Professional Staff available in the Abigail Quigley McCarthy “We’re trying to do a lot more sourcing clickable images. In full acknowledgement Congress of CUNY, the United Federation of Center for Women on Tuesday, Nov. 8. of local or regional (food), and by regional I of his medical well-being, he stepped down Teachers and National Nurses United. There mean, made in the U.S.,” Cianni said. Sodexo as CEO of Apple in Aug. and went for a is a current Occupy MN that began Oct. 7. Becky can be reached at [email protected]. See GREEN, pg. 2 This newspaper, like many other things, is recyclable. Index: Opinion:2-3 features:4-6 health:7 sports:8 Online at thewheel-scu.tumblr.com 2 | The Wheel NEWS & OPINION October 10, 2011 GREEN continued... filters in the Butler Center. there’s a lot of things you can do. It ranges which make the amount of total energy “It would be great to have water more from water bottles, toxins, [what’s in your] consumed available to students. is exploring the idea of a food-compost. available to help eliminate waste,” junior food, to transit and clothing.” With inspiration from neighboring colleges As co-chairs of the Senate’s Environmental Kelsey Eder said. SCU is one of many schools across Minnesota and universities, SCU can work toward its Issues task force, Elizabeth Fosse and Devon MPIRG’s Green Initiatives task force and striving to reduce its ecological footprint. overall goal: becoming carbon-neutral. Arndt are hoping to start an “Eco Reps” the Senate’s Environmental Issues task force Macalester grants 20 percent of its food Students can look forward to this academic program in the first-year dorms. The program plan on collaborating to bring change to the budget to supporting local products and year providing opportunities and education would be focused on teaching students about SCU campus. all left-over food is given to pig farmers. on how to “go green” and become more issues such as recycling, water consumption “We’re teaming up with a bunch of different The college serves cage-free eggs, beef that environmentally conscious. and other issues that pertain to one’s overall groups across campus because it turns out that is free of antibiotics and hormones as well “You need to have a bunch of people ecological footprint. there’s a lot of people that are interested in as sustainably harvested seafood. together that care about the same issues to “[It is our] over-all goal to educate students the same things…when we all forge together Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, get things done,” Meyer said. about opportunities,” Fosse said. then we can do something, we have power,” has compost stations available around the Senate also has other ideas to propel the Green Initiatives task force co-chair Audrey entire campus, even in the library and dorm Elyse can be reached at “green” movement forward. One is placing Meyer said. “Every year this task force is rooms. The college has an on-campus garden [email protected]. water filters around campus, such as the big because everyone has an interest in it, and high-tech energy monitoring systems of indication from Eron that the band was back at the venue.