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VOLUME 46 ISSUE 7
AGORA MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Student nurses recognized By Victoria Schmidt The Michigan Nursing St u d e n t A s s o c i a t i o n h a s elected three new members to its board of directors from Monroe County Community College (MCCC). They are Marisa Meyers, Reann Brodbeck, a n d J e n n i f e r D a s h n e r. These elected nursing students are chosen from all of the colleges that contain nursing programs at their institutions. Meyers was elected as the Community Health Director, Brodbeck is the new first Vice President and
working with other chapters in setting up community health activities, monitoring legislation affecting nursing, and educating others on the present image of nursing. “I give them a lot of credit for taking this upon themselves. Not only do they have to worry about their nursing classes and clinicals, they have their busy home lives to tend to also,” Bonnie Welniak, assistant professor of nursing, said. The MNSA contributes to nursing education in order to provide the highest quality of healthcare and also offers program representatives of fundamental and current
“” professional nursing interests and concerns. “Being able to participate and give back to the community is really exciting. This privilege gives us the chance to give student nurses a voice and to gain the experience of growing at more of a political level,” Dashner said. For more information, contact Bonnie Welniak at (734)-384-4248 or by visiting the Gerald Welch Health Education building.
Agora photo by Victoria Schmidt
Marisa Meyers and Jennifer Dashner are new members of the Michigan Nursing Student Association. Reann Brodbeck, not pictured, is also a new member.
March 26, 2004
Kelly cruises new car
Photo courtesy of Monroe Evening News
Chuck Kelly, associate professor of CIS, won a 2004 BMW Z4 Roadster from TechTV’s “The Screen Savers.” Sarah Lane, host of the show, personally delivered it to him.
March commemorates women’s history month
This privilege gives us the chance to give student nurses a voice and to gain the experience of growing By Terri McConnaughey at more of a political level. States or Dashner is the Image and Breakthrough to nursing consultant. Each of these positions will help them gain representation for the National House of Delegates. This allows them to have their voices and ideas heard in a professional setting. Although they don’t get paid, they are required to attend annual meetings and attend to duties such as
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In 1987, Congress was petitioned to designate March as National Women’s History Month. The resolution was approved with bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, and in 1992, became a Presidential Proclamation, according to t h e N a t i o n a l Wo m e n ’s History Project. Many know of Susan B. Anthony and her struggles in the suffragist movement, but few know of Alice Paul, who stood up to Congress a n d P r e s i d e n t Wo o d r o w Wilson to secure the right to vote for women. Paul was born on January 11, 1885. She spent her whole life devoted to the cause of establishing equal rights for all women. In her mid-twenties, she formed the National Wo m a n ’s P a r t y, and picketed the White House for months. Many women were arrested and began hunger strikes, the Alice Paul Institute said. Amendment XIX was ratified on August 18, 1933 and reads, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United
by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” Paul also drafted the Equal Right’s Amendment (ERA), which has yet to be ratified. “If we keep on this way they will be celebrating the 150 anniversary of the 1848 Convention without being much further advanced in equal rights than we are . . . If we had not concentrated on
Women’s Club, and former County Commissioner, said. Since that time, many women have entered the political arena. The first Michigan female Senator was Eva McCall Hamilton of Grand Rapids. Since 1921, 105 women have been voted into Michigan legislature, according to “Women in Michigan Legislature 19212002.” Women still aren’t represented equally in politics.
“” Young women today need to work at the grass roots level for the movement, or it’s going to die. the Federal Amendment we should be working today for suffrage . . . We shall not be safe until the principle of equal rights is written into the framework of our government,” Paul said, as she introduced the ERA in 1923, [quoted from www.equalrightsamendment.org]. “Young women today need to work at the grass roots level for the movement, or it’s going to die,” Gail HauserHurley, president of Monroe Business and Professional
“I think it is a matter of a family factor, women stay home to raise families, and don’t enter politics until later. But 1992 was the year of the woman in politics, because funding for women’s campaigns were equal to that of men,” Beverly Hammerstrom, Republican Senator of Temperance, said. For more information on National Women’s History Month, visit www.nwhp.org