“(The point of this program is) to celebrate women and the significant contributions that women have made (and) is during Women’s Herstory Month.”
— Marcy Paul

Symposium highlights healthy lives
By Kelly Maria Howard
Staff Reporter

The Eighth Annual Women’s Symposium celebrates women and the significant contributions that women have made, said Marcy Paul, program coordinator for the TCU Women’s Resource Center.

This year’s symposium is called “Healthy Women, Healthy Lives: Honoring the Emotional, Spiritual and Physical Self” and is for both sexes. The event is in recognition of Women’s History, or “Herstory,” Month which began on Friday, Paul said.

The events begin tonight with a reception in the Student Center Ballroom Mezzanine. The “Women and Community Dinner,” which brings together community members, will follow the reception.

“(The point of this program is) to celebrate women and the significant contributions that women have made (and) is during Women’s Herstory Month,” Paul said.

Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to the events of the symposium, Paul said. Tonight’s dinner costs $13 per student and $15 for faculty and staff, but all other presentations and workshops are free.

Presentations at the symposium include topics like, “My Friend has an Eating Disorder,” “Birth Control & STD Prevention — Not always the same thing!” and “Consent Assault Prevention Theater,” Paul said.

“It’s a shame that we have to have a month when we should celebrate women’s contributions at all times,” Paul said.

Pamela Jean Frable, Harris School of Nursing assistant professor, said the session to be conducted by her students, “Poster Session — Our Bodies Getting Older,” is a health fair with posters. The students signed up in groups to design a teaching poster about a particular women’s health-related theme, she said.

“The posters are meant to provide some health education information to women and to others about the female experience of aging,” Frable said. “I think most of the students selected things that were more in the middle aged years (and) things that are in the media that people might be having questions about.”

Frable said she is glad there is a week dedicated to women because she thinks it will be helpful in promoting equality between the sexes.

Kelly Maria Howard
k.m.howard@student.tcu.edu

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