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The research will be conducted via focus group sessions with a trained facilitator and note taker, a survey relating to body esteem, and a possible follow-up interview. The focus groups will be located on the TTU campus and recorded using basic video and audio equipment. All focus group sessions and individual interviews will be approximately 90 minutes.

Your participation in this study will be strictly voluntary and greatly appreciated. You may refuse or cease your participation at any time during the study. In order to participate in this study, you will need to be a woman between the ages of 18-38

If you are interested in participating, please contact Mary Marcum in the Department of Communication Studies at (806) 742-3911 or via the research email at bodyimage.focusgroups@gmail.com

The Student Counseling Center (SCC) is offering classes that can help you improve the quality of your relationships. This is NOT therapy, but rather an opportunity to learn some skills that will help you communicate better, feel more secure, and avoid mistakes in your relationships.

The Healthy Relationships Workshop is open to all students, faculty and staff. There are four classes in the series, and you can come to as many as you like at any point in the series. The classes are designed to stimulate discussion and give experiences to help you in your relationships. The class will be on MONDAYS from 12:00pm – 12:45pm in the STUDENT WELLNESS CENTER, Room 100. The below “syllabus” describes the dates of the class and different topics for each.

• 28 September 2009: “Smart Dating: Starting Off on the Right Foot” (Erin Snyder, Ph.D.) SWC – Rm. 100
  Dating in college can be really exciting, but it does present some challenges. This interactive presentation will help participants gain a better idea about what a healthy dating relationship looks like as well as identify dating “red flags” from the start.
• 5 October 2009: “How to Manage Conflict in a Relationship” (Klint Hobbs, Ph.D.) SWC – Rm. 100
  This workshop focuses specifically on the stages that partners go through in relationships. Common pitfalls to healthy communication are identified for each stage, and participants are coached on how to resolve problems in a mutually satisfying way. Participants’ conflict styles will be identified and discussed as well, and participants will learn to work through conflict and grow closer to their partners.
• 12 October 2009: “Making Relationships Work in School” (Klint Hobbs, Ph.D.) SWC – ROOM 100
  There are a number of unique challenges to staying in a relationship and managing school at the same time. This workshop addresses problems that occur when one or both partners are students. Time, money, communication, and distance are all potential barriers to relationships that can seem worse with the added pressure that school brings. Participants will learn how to prepare for and work through these issues.
• 19 October 2009: Creeper Alert: Relationship Deal Breakers” (Erin Snyder, Ph.D.) SWC – Rm. 100
  What’s healthy in a relationship? What’s not? This presentation will help participants figure out when “enough really is enough.”

Call for papers and panels highlighting feminist research, in progress or completed, exploring meanings of movement and change as connected to, created by, and/or caught up in the presence of women's, gender, and identity issues, in both contemporary and historical frameworks. Undergraduates, graduate students, staff and faculty from all disciplines are invited to participate and to attend. This year, we especially welcome feminist research on:

• gender and media
• regional feminist issues and concerns on the South Plains
• gender and the environment (e.g., ecofeminism, indigenista, urban planning, architecture)
• gender and political activism (e.g., government, war/peace)
• gender in sports embodiment (e.g., ability, genetics, inscribing)
• cultural constructions of gender
• psychology of sex roles
• social constructs of gender relations
• gender in science and cyberspace
• gender in art and art criticism

Deadline for submissions is Monday 21 September 2009.

GLBTQ History (Awareness) Month is a month-long annual international and national observance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements.

October was chosen because of the recognized National Coming Out Day already established as a widely known event on October 11. In addition, October commemorated the first march on Washington by GLBTQ people in 1979.

For more information on defining GLBTQ click on the following: "on campus resource virtual pamphlet."

The GLBTQ Steering Committee is a coalition of the Lubbock community and Texas Tech University groups. Coordinated events are listed below and are intended to encourage honesty and openness about being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer.

GLBTQ Poster pdf.

All Events are FREE and open to the public unless listed otherwise. Please contact the Women's Studies office for more details at (806) 742-4335 or email us at womens.studies@ttu.edu

Week Without Violence is an annual worldwide campaign that takes place in the third week of October to encourage comunities to think and act towards a world without violence.

WWV Poster pdf.

All Events are FREE and open to the public unless listed otherwise. For more information contact the Women's Studies office or Roy Rios, Coordinator of Community Education and Development, Women's Protective Services, (806) 748-5292 or www.wpslbk.org

October 19-23 Schedule of Events

• Monday, October 19: Information Fair -
  This resource fair will be full of volunteer opportunites, information, goodies and much more...
  TTU Student Union Bldg. | 11:00am - 3:00pm
  
  
• Monday, October 19: Film Viewing: Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (1999) Media Education Foundation-
  While the social construction of femininity has been widely examined, the dominant role of masculinity has until recently remained largely invisible. Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine idenitites in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century.
  
  Guest Speaker Mike Lezzi
  As staff pshychologist at Texas Tech Univesity since 2008, Lezzi primarily utilizes emotion-focused therapy, while also incorporating aspects of interpersonal process and cognitive behavioral approaches. Emotion-focused therapy combines humanism, attachment theory, and a family systems perspective. Professional interests include multicultural issues, group therapy and men's issues.
  TTU Human Science Bldg. RM 169 | 6:00pm
  
  
• Tuesday, October 20: Candlelight Vigil -
  Come and honor the men and women who lost their lives due to domestic violence. Join us in unity as we refuse
  to forget!
  Our Lady of Grace Church| 3107 Erskine St. | Noon-1:30pm Reception to follow
   
• Wednesday, October 21: Increasing Access to Justice: Advocating for GLBT Victims of Crime
  This is great for professionals who want to learn challenges facing GLBT victims of crime and learn how to assist with current information. Topics include GLBT DV101, Building Alliances: Straight People as Allies, TCFV Caucus, Public Policy and its affect on the GLBT Community, Legal Options and Protective Orders for the GLBT Community, Cultural Biases: Working Past Subjectivity.
  TTU Forensics Institute | 4434 S. Loop 289 | 8:00am - 5:00pm
  Cost is FREE/Space limited to 50
  
  
• Thursday, October 22: Drinking, Dating & Date Rape in the GLBT Coummunity: "Talk Show" & Panel Discussion
  This event will provide information about sexual assault in the GLBT community and challenges the audience to consider how stereotypes about gender and sexuality contribute to their beliefs about rape.
  TTU Human Science Bldg. RM 169 | 6:00pm
  
  
• Friday, October 23: VOICES of Survivors: Performance
  "Voices of Survivors" will feature pieces written from survivors of domestic violence. The stories are true,intense, andeach person whowrote their piece had one goal inmind: to stop domestic violence. For more information you can contactWPS at (806)748-5292.
  TTU Human Science Bldg. RM 169 | 7:00pm

All Events are FREE and open to the public unless listed otherwise. For more information contact the Women's Studies office or Roy Rios, Coordinator of Community Education and Development, Women's Protective Services, (806) 748-5292 or www.wpslbk.org

Support for these events provided by:
Women's Protective Services
TTU Student Counciling Center
TTU Student Health Services
TTU Women's Studies Program
Community Health Center of Lubbock

First meeting this coming Wednesday, October 21st at 3 PM in the Traditions room of the Student Union with Dr. Anisa Zvonkovic giving a short presentation on Weaving Work and Family Life. This group is officially listed as a student organization, but is open to all faculty and staff in the TTU community as well.

View the flier.