Nine college and universities around the country have a new presence on campus this fall: the Feminist Majority Campus Connections, started by former Feminist Majority interns. Campus Connections encourages feminist students, both women and men, to become leaders on campus and in the community. Campus Connections also educates the student body about feminism through speakers, concerts, and actions."Campus Connections is a unique opportunity for feminist women and men to pursue leadership opportunities on campus, and to work together on a wide range of feminist issues," said Alice Cohan, Director of National Programs for the Feminist Majority Foundation. "Our recent Women’s Equality Poll confirmed yet again that college students are overwhelmingly feminist. But often the student leadership does not represent a feminist viewpoint."
Before launching their Campus Connections, the students spent this past summer going through a leadership training at the Feminist Majority’s Arlington, Virginia office. The leadership training grew out of a pilot project, started in the summer of 1994, of Feminist Majority "FeM" chapters at Duke University and the University of California - Santa Cruz.
The students who are starting Campus Connections this fall are: Rachel Blake of the University of Chicago; Julie Cho at Princeton University; Alicia Daly at Purdue University; Meghan Horl at Miami University of Ohio; Katie Krauskopf of Brown University; Katie MacLaughlin at Connecticut College; Katie McCall of Oberlin College; Anjana Samant and Julie Chon at Cornell University; and Kristin Sostowski of Swarthmore College. Jamie Lake at Skidmore College will be developing a "membership guide" for new Campus Connections members. And the Duke FeM chapter started in 1994 will continue.
If you are interested in participating in the 1996 Campus Connections leadership training next summer, please call Dee Martin at (703) 522-2214.