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Wells swimmers named to All Conference
Swim Team
Four members of the Wells College swim
team have been named to the Atlantic Women’s College Conference All Conference
Swim Team, according to Wells' Athletics Administrator Lyn LaBar.
The swimmers received the honor following
their first-place finish in the 200 meter freestyle relay at the AWCC Championship
competition held at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland on February 9.
The team consisted of sophomores Lindsay
Harvey of Scotia, New York; Molly Moen of Wausau, Wisconsin; Lori Kabelac
of Aurora, New York; and Anne Williams, a first year student from Essex
Junction, Vermont. The relay team finished with a time of 2:07.56.
In addition to the winning relay, the
students competed in a variety of solo and other relay events, including
the 400 meter freestyle relay. Kabelac finished third overall in the 50
meter freestyle with a time of 31.09. The Wells College team finished in
fourth place with 197 points.
The AWCC is made up of teams from women’s
colleges in the mid-Atlantic region. The conference is committed to promoting
the highest level of excellence for women in academics and athletics through
organized regular and post-season competition among its members.
March, 1997
Young women of color invited to participate
in Wells College program
Wells is seeking 10th and 11th grade high
school girls for participation in the spring session of 21st & Wells
- a pre-college planning program for African-American, Latina, Asian, and
Native American young women to be held on Thursday and Friday, April 3
and 4.
Twenty-first & Wells participants
will stay overnight on the Wells campus and experience college life firsthand.
Workshops offering valuable information on college planning and life as
a college student will be presented to the high school guests by Wells
students, faculty, and staff.
High school students from Cayuga, Onondaga,
Ontario, Seneca, Tompkins, and Wayne counties and the cities of Auburn,
Corning, Elmira, Ithaca, Rochester, and Syracuse are encouraged to apply.
Young women who meet the outlined criteria will be accepted into this free
program.
Applications are available at area
high schools or from Cynthia Oliver, Project Coordinator, Macmillan Hall,
Wells College, Aurora, New York 13026. Telephone: 800/952-9355, or e-mail
admissions@wells.edu.
The application deadline is Friday,
March 14.
The 21st & Wells program is funded
by a grant from the Christian A. Johnson Foundation in New York City.
March, 1997
President of American franchise of The
Body Shop to speak at Wells College
Helen Mills, president of the Soapbox
Trading Company, will speak about the development of self and the individual's
relationship to society on Monday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Main Building's
Chapel at Wells College. The event is free and open to the public.
Mills has received national media attention for her leadership in the business
community. She has been featured on Good Morning America, Oprah Winfrey,
CNN, Wall Street Journal TV, Business Week, and the New York Times.
As the president of the Soapbox Trading
Company, Mills was instrumental in establishing the first American franchise
of the U.K. based retailer, The Body Shop. Currently, Soapbox Trading Co.
operates six Washington, D.C. area stores.
Mills is also senior vice president
of Aon Consulting, formerly The Mills Group, which she sold in 1996. She
specializes in employee benefits, risk management, and competitive positioning
in the marketplace. Mills serves as a vice president of City Works, a company
co-founded by Soapbox Trading and Jubilee Jobs to create jobs in the inner
city of Washington, D.C.
In 1992, Mills received the Entrepreneur
of the Year Award in the women owned business category for the metropolitan
Washington, D.C. region. The award is sponsored by Ernst and Young, Merrill
Lynch, and Inc. Magazine. In 1996 she was a recipient of the District
of Columbia Chamber of Commerce Rudd-Turner Award for Inspirational Leadership.
As a founding member, Mills serves
as co-chair of the board of directors of a national trade association,
Business for Social Responsibility. Additionally, she serves as a director
of the Social Venture Network, Rights, and Resources. In 1994, she was
appointed to the National Advisory Council to the Small Business Administration.
She has also served on the Business Leadership Council of the Points of
Light Foundation and the Franchise Advisory Board to The Body Shop USA.
Mills received her bachelor of science
degree from Chatham College, and is visiting Wells as a leader-in-residence.
Sponsored by the college's Leadership Connection group, the leader-in-residence
program brings outstanding women who are recognized leaders in their fields
to campus each semester to teach, meet with students informally, and present
public lectures.
March, 1997
Wells student documents immigrant children
Wells junior Jennifer Fayocavitz is stepping
out of the classroom this semester to work as part of a team documenting
the struggles of immigrant children in the United States.
She is spending this semester at the
Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies in Portland, Maine. Wells recently
established an academic affiliation with the Salt Center that has made
this experience possible for Fayocavitz and other students.
Fayocavitz is part of a Salt Center
team doing documentary research at the Reiche School in Portland - one
of the most culturally diverse elementary schools in Maine with a large
immigrant population. She is interviewing students about their backgrounds,
homes, and how and why their families came to the U.S.
"English is not the first language
of 20 percent of the students at the Reiche School," says Fayocavitz. "They
have to learn a lot more than the basics; and while the population of the
school is diverse, the overall population of Maine is not. This project
is a study of how the children overcome cultural obstacles as well as more
typical childhood dilemmas."
Each team consists of a writer and
a photographer who work together on a documentary. Upon completion of the
project, the students' work will be published in the Salt Center's semi-annual
magazine.
The Salt Center program is an approach
to studying people. The students attend courses, lectures, and receive
individual coaching to enhance the student's understanding of issues in
her research.
Victoria Muñoz, assistant professor
of psychology at Wells, worked on establishing the affiliation between
the college and the Salt Center. "This is a great opportunity for our students
once they've studied research methods here at Wells. The documentary work
is a kind of research and a real foundation for graduate work," she says.
Muñoz says the Salt Center is
particularly beneficial because students are able to work on one sustained
project for an entire semester. Additionally, work is produced through
a collaborative process.
Jennifer Fayocavitz is the recipient
of a four-year, full-tuition Henry Wells Scholarship. Named in honor of
the college's founder, the scholarships are awarded solely on the basis
of academic excellence and scholastic achievement.
March, 1997
Leadership Adventure for Girls '97
Wells College is accepting applications
now for this summer's Leadership Adventure for Girls. Nature is the classroom
without walls. Through exciting outdoor activities 7-12th grade girls can
learn:
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Teamwork
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Problemsolving
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Self-reliance
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Self-confidence
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Trust
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Leadership skills
Participants can attend a two-week session
July 6-19 or one-week sessions July 6-12 and July 13-19.
Leadership Adventure for Girls revolves
around the 360-acre Wells campus which provides a variety of settings for
a summer experience - from seminar rooms to lake to woods. Campers will
reside in the college residence halls, and meals will be catered by Marriott
Corporation in the Tudor-style dining hall. The campers will have supervised
access to all Wells College facilities.
Activities include hiking, orienteering,
survival training, canoeing, ecology hikes, and a ropes course. These experiences
teach the Leadership Adventure for Girls' philosophy of cooperation and
girls helping other girls.
Leadership Adventure for Girls provides
campers the experience of living and learning leadership skills on the
shores of Cayuga Lake. The summer programs are designed to reflect the
mission of Wells College: to expand every girl's horizons by providing
the resources, opportunities, and support needed to prepare young women
leaders for the 21st century.
The evenings are filled with exciting,
interactive workshops: photography, personality collages, making musical
instruments, shirt painting and tie-dying, and mask making. Additional
activity options include supervised waterfront activities, the college
golf course, an indoor swimming pool, indoor and outdoor tennis courts,
playing fields, lakeside biking and jogging, horseback riding, field trips,
and bon fires.
Each staff member at Leadership Adventure
for Girls is committed to being a supportive role model. They are chosen
for their solid communication and listening skills, an interest in nature,
and proven ability to work effectively with girls.
The cost for either of the one-week
sessions is $450 and $800 for the two-week session. Tuition is all inclusive
except for transportation to the camp. To apply, call 315/364-3441; write
to Leadership Programs, Wells College, Aurora, N.Y. 13026; or e-mail: leaders@wells.edu
April, 1997
Wells professor's latest book examines
abortion, reproductive freedom, and surrogate parenting
Cornell University Press has published
Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics, by Laura M. Purdy,
professor of philosophy at Wells. This book contains a major retrospective
of her writing in the field of bioethics over the last 20 years.
Purdy received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University. For most
of her career, she has been a pioneer in feminist bioethics, a field that,
among other pursuits, seeks to find ethical models to address the complex,
human dilemmas that arise as the result of advances in reproductive technologies.
Purdy's new book takes an ethical perspective
on a wide range of issues including reproductive freedom, abortion, and
surrogate parenting. She has never been shy about addressing emotionally
charged issues; and her views, at times, have been highly controversial.
Throughout her career, she has insisted upon placing the interests of women
at the center of all discussion.
When asked about the ideas behind this
major literary undertaking, Purdy said, "I noticed that a lot of my articles
fit together, without much overlap or, despite being written in 20 years
or so, any real contradictions. I guess I had unconsciously moved on to
the next logical issue in each new paper. I hope it signifies being at
the midpoint of my career, taking stock of what I've done so far, wondering
where to go from here."
Putting together Reproducing Persons
gave her the opportunity to locate and sharpen themes, many of which began
to emerge in her earlier book,
In Their Best Interest? The Case Against
Equal Rights for Children, published by Cornell University Press in
1992. In Their Best Interest?
was reviewed in Education Week,
Medical Humanities Review,
Law and Social Inquiry, and American
Political Science Review, among others.
"Actually, the most surprising moment
was when I realized that there is an over-arching theme in most of my writing,
including the book on children's rights: parental responsibility. It was
very much on my mind when I did the first book. Although the ostensible
topic is equal rights for children, it is really about children's place
in society and about parents' responsibility for and to children. This
is a recurring theme in the pieces published in Reproducing Persons,
especially the ones on genetic issues, and the new reproductive technologies.
The other big theme, of course is thinking about what feminism means in
bioethics," she said.
The first section of Reproducing Persons examines reproductive rights.
Purdy believes that while a legal right to reproduction has benefits, a
moral right to reproduce regardless of the circumstances is more problematic
- a stance which has not pleased many conservative thinkers.
The essays in the book's second section
are centered on the subject of abortion and examine such specific points
as the moral status of the fetus and women's rights. The third part of
the book is about new reproductive technologies including a broad discussion
of the morality of the new technology and a look at more specific issues
in the chapter, "Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment?"
Laura Purdy also edited the book Feminist
Perspectives in Medical Ethics, published by Indiana University Press
in 1992; it was reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine,
Lancet, the Times Literary Supplement, the San Francisco
Review of Books, and the Women's Review of Books.
"I hope that Reproducing Persons
is helpful to those who want to get beyond sound bites and Time magazine
treatments on these issues," she said.
March, 1997
Other Articles
in Wells College News:
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May,1998 |
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1999 |
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