WEBER STATE WOMEN'S STUDIES NEWSLETTER

Vol. 2 No 2

Coordinator's Corner

This month we are profiling Dr. Nancy Haanstad, a pioneer member of the planning committee and teaching faculty of Women's Studies. We appreciate her many contributions to Women's Studies as well as to Amnesty International, the Model UN, A.A.V.O.W., and all her other worthwhile endeavors.

An assortment of events of potential interest is clustering in October, beginning on the 1st with our annual Women's Potluck Picnic. This year we are gathering from 1-5 p.m. at the Veterans' Memorial Picnic Grove, southeast of the Browning Fine Arts Center on campus. Each person should provide her own beverage(s), eating utensils, and a dish of food to share. We'll be repeating our book donation/sale, so drag along any books you'd like to donate that someone else might like to take home for a small contribution to the program; be prepared to be tempted by others' offerings. Bring daughters, mothers, and/or female friends to share the afternoon with new and old companions. Call the office (626-7632) if you have questions, and spread the word.

The many Utah friends of Patti O'Neal are gathering to celebrate her memory in mid-to-late October; plans are still being finalized. Dr. Wangar wa Nyatet -Waigwa is the prime organizational mover. Contact the Women's Studies office for details as they develop. A.A.V.O.W. (Advocates Against Violence Over Women) is soliciting members (dues are $5.00, payable to Nancy Haanstad); the group will sponsor a Candlelight Vigil later this month. It is scheduled for 26 October (NOT 10 Oct., as announced in the September newsletter. It will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the "Clothesline Project" on the Utah State Capitol steps; at 6:30 p.m., Utah Attorney General Jan Graham and Denise Brown, sister of Nicole Brown Simpson, will make presentations.

On Thursday, 26 October, (Wildcat Theater), Honours Issues Forum will present Ninotschka Rosca, prisoner of conscience during the Marcos regime and one of the founders of GABRIELLA, the largest Asian women's rights organization, active in fighting, in particular, sex tourism.

Faculty Profile

Dr. Nancy Haanstad, Associate Professor of Political Science, has taught at Weber State since 1986. A native of South Dakota, she earned a B.A. in History and Political Science from Augustana College, Sioux Falls. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Utah in International Relations, with an emphasis in Human Rights. For two years prior to coming to W.S.U., she held an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah. At Weber, she teaches Introduction to International Politics, Problems in World Politics: The Balkans, The Politics of Third World Women, & American Foreign Policy (among others.) She has taught W.S. 205 (Introduction to Women's Studies) with Wangar wa Nyatet -Waigwa; they shared a Hemingway Faulty Development Award to internationalize that curriculum. She has also been part of a team teaching W.S. 305 (Feminist Theories). This coming Spring Quarter, Nancy will teach a new course - Crimes Against Humanity: Never Again? - in the Honours Programme. Her extra-classroom involvement at Weber has been extensive; she is the faculty advisor for Amnesty International and the Model United Nations. She has worked for the past year and a half with Annette Tittensor, a Weber graduate and Ogden resident, in planning events centered around raising awareness regarding domestic violence issues. Last October's Candlelight Vigil, held in Ogden at Leavitt's Chapel of Flowers Mortuary, was a great success and led to an expanded, statewide effort, sponsored by the newly-formed A.A.V.O.W. (see Coordinator's Corner). Nancy received a School of Social and Behavioral Sciences Dello Dayton award last spring for teaching excellence. She has also received a junior faculty award for exemplary teaching and was a finalist for Crystal Crest Master Teacher. The primary focus of her scholarship is human rights and she is actively making meeting presentations and publishing in that area. Nancy has contributed a paper entitled "Human Rights: Implications for International Politics" for The Social Sciences Encyclopedia: Politics and Government, forthcoming in November from Salem Press. In addition, she is working currently on a paper rejecting the proposal to drop war crimes and crimes against humanity indictments for Bosnian Serb leaders before the International Tribunal in exchange for a peace settlement.

Nancy lives in Salt Lake City, where her husband, Paul, teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Utah. They have two daughters; Katherine is a junior at Highland High School and Elizabeth, who was recently married, holds an M.S. in Anthropology from the University of California - Davis.

Broomstick, the student Women's Studies Alliance, is alive and well. A small and dedicated group met on 23 September to catch up on each others' lives and to discuss the coming year's plans. They participated in Welcome Week activities, staffing a table with information for interested passers-by. June HarmoneyQ will serve as a contact person for receiving suggestions and dispensing information of interest to students involved in the program. Call her at 479-1326 to become part of the out-of-classroom activities sponsored by Women's Studies. Thanks to those faculty and staff members who attended the fall opening meeting for Women's Studies, 7 September, at the Metro Center. It was a good opportunity to brainstorm about up-coming 95-96 activities as well as to review the last year. Anyone not attending who would like to have a packet of information, please call the Women's Studies office.

Special thanks also to Julie Arbuckle, Stella Chang, Susan Fuhr, Priti Kumar, Kathryn MacKay, Carla Trentelman and, of course, Norma, for staffing the Women's Studies table at beginning student orientation. Despite the high confusion level, I think we made fruitful contacts with some potential W.S. minors.

Calendar

1 Oct. - Women's Potluck Picnic; Veterans' Memorial Picnic Grove, W.S.U., 1-5 p.m.

4 Oct. - Thought Continuum (TC) Bookstore presents Susan M. Fishburn and Neila Seshachari, open readings; 7-9 p.m.

5 Oct. - Women's Studies Executive Council Meeting, 2:30 p.m., SS 137.

17 Oct. - Edward Said; Arts/Architecture Auditorium, U of U, 7 p.m.; call W.S. office to coordinate transportation.

20 Oct. - Utah NOW Women of Courageous Action Awards Dinner; for info.- 483-5188.

26 Oct. - Domestic Violence Candlelight Vigil; Utah Capitol steps, SLC; 5:30 p.m.

29 Oct. - Kathleen Herndon Writing Workshop, 1-4 p.m, call TC (392-3949.)