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COLBY WOMEN'S GROUP The Women's Group is a student-run organization that is dedicated to educating Colby students about issues confronting women within both the college setting and society. The group holds weekly meetings during which topics such as domestic violence, body image, pornography, and current legal issues affecting women are discussed. For two weeks in March, the organization sponsors "Feminist Fortnight", in which women are celebrated through the showing of woman-oriented films, discussion, and lectures. NEW MOON RISING New Moon Rising is a college-funded feminist magazine that comes out bi-yearly. It was started in the 1992-1993 school year, when three students decided that such a forum was needed at Colby. New Moon Rising continues to grow with the unending support of students, faculty, and administrators. The magazine accepts fiction, artwork, poetry, journal entries, articles, cartoons, and book and movie lists.COLBY-WIN Colby-win is a majordomo list service with the purpose of promoting networking, information sharing, and discussion among students, alumni, faculty and staff of Colby and other colleges and universities who are involved or interested in women's issues. Colby-win is intended to serve two primary functions:(1) to make announcements or inquiries that are of general interest to Colby students, alumni, faculty and staff. These may include postings about relevant publications, conferences, scholarships, fellowships or awards, rallies and marches, and job or Jan Plan opportunities or solicitations. (2) to discuss issues relevant to the Colby community in terms of how students, alumni, faculty and staff can work together to actively make a difference for women on and off campus. Appropriate topics for discussion include "hot topics" or areas of debate on campus (and how students, alumni, faculty, and staff can be active in decisions or discussions about these issues) and national events in which voices from the Colby community may be of importance. To subscribe, click here: Colby Women's Issues Network The Bridge is a student-run organization that serves the lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered people, and straight allies of Colby College, providing a forum to discuss the concerns and needs of the members. It benefits the Colby and Waterville/Central Maine Communities by promoting an understanding concerning homosexuality. The Bridge enhances those aspects of Colby College which acknowledge the honesty and dignity of the individual, and shall stand for a person's freedom to live safely and comfortably on the campus while being treated respectfully regardless of sexual orientation. Project Ally is a program based closely on Project Safe Zone, which is a project used by many schools, organizations, and communities. The program promotes awareness and non-judgmental treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning people by providing education and training. After training, participants are given a sticker, presumably for their office or room door, and a button with which they may show their support. SOAR is a student-run organization that has the purpose of exploring issues of race and racism at Colby and the outside world. When it was created, the group's primary goal was to combat racism on college campuses by developing a variety of educational strategies which would encourage faculty, students, administrators and staff, to actively address the insidious nature of racism and initiate changes to reduce the effects of prejudice and bigotry. |