Technician - April 10, 2013

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wednesday april

10 2013

Raleigh, North Carolina

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The Women Where are We Going panel included Lisa Bass, Deborah Brown, Janet Rakes, Jan Morgan, Heidi Grappendorf and Alison Bergman. The panel answered questions including, “What do you believe is the men’s role in the fight for gender equality?”

Panel reflects on past, predicts future for women Josué Molina Staff Writer

Six women, each from different professional backgrounds, fielded questions during “Women — Where are We Going” to discuss their own experiences in advancing feminism. The discussion featured the struggles of women from the 1960s, as presented in The Heidi Chronicles, to the present day strugg les in women’s rights.

Members of the panel stressed that to reach the point where women hold more leadership positions or have the top jobs, without it being out of the ordinary, men must be included in the conversation, as both groups mutually impact each other. Lisa Bass, assistant professor in the College of Education, said, with respect to the gender dichotomy from an economic standpoint, men are going to have to move out of the way, as both groups fight for scarce resources, especially jobs.

Throughout the discussion, members of the panel shared past experiences pertinent to the struggles they endured during their professional careers. One panel member even talked about her encounter with sexual harassment in a previous workplace. Deborah Brown, a lecturer in the Poole College of Management, shared with the audience her experience as an 18-year-old having one of her bosses invite her into his office and rubbing his crotch against her

Alumni offer store for niche sports Taylor O’Quinn Staff Writer

Stephanie Campbell, owner of Oak City Skate Shop in Raleigh, has taken to reaching out to students interested in niche sports, specifically disc golf. Campbell and her boyfriend, Long Tonthat, have started work on opening another business, Good Times Disc Golf, off of Western Boulevard. The partners said they want to revive the disc golf club at N.C. State, offering Good Times as a meeting place. If the club resurrection were to be successful, Campbell said she would offer “hook-ups” on merchandise to club members, as it would encourage recreation through the niche sport. “Recreation helps your daily life and helps you grow as a person,” Campbell said. If students are interested in disc golf, regardless of experience levels, Campbell said she would help with networking and getting the club up and running. “We’d really like to see more people getting together in groups,” Campbell said. “We want to boost niche sports, especially at N.C. State.”

arm. Brown also talked about an experience in the 1980s in which men had a hard time seeing women with any power when it came to money and budgets and anything considered “manly.” An employer would refuse to call Brown by her proper job title in front of the visiting corporate officers of the company because she was a woman, and her boss was afraid that corporate bosses would not like the idea a woman was run-

Stephanie Campbell, a 2012 alumna in parks, recreation and tourism management and Long Tonthat, a 2010 alumnus in Economics, own and manage two niche sports shops in Raleigh. Oak City Inline Skate Shop specializes in aggressive inline skates and is the only location within a four state radius to do so.

Campbell and Tonthat started Oak City Skate Shop in August 2012 and said their business has grown since. Jan. 5 they hosted a skate competition at the skate shop and said they hope to host it every year from now on. They said they plan to expand to other varieties of competition for niche sports. Niche sports refer to a number of sports and recreations not perti-

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nent to mainstream athletics. The category includes disc golf, inline skating, rowing and orienteering among others. Campbell said their new location Good Times Disc Golf is set to have its grand opening at the end of April. The store features tee shirts, tutorial DVDs, and a wide variety of discs including charts with each

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Room to run New farm animal sanctuary gains community trust, helps responsible farm animal care catch on in Pittsboro.

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ning the businesses’ purchasing orders, prompting her to leave that company. Women have seen improvement in equality since the ‘60s and currently there are more women graduating with college degrees than men. This is most likely an effect from the passage of Title IX in 1972, which made it illegal for any discrimination based on gender for participation in anything that was funded by federal

Helping ‘others’

Already home to havens like Carolina Tiger Rescue and the Goathouse Refuge, Pittsboro attracted Andrew Branch Braford through its community colStaff Writer lege and its reputation as a farming community rich with young people. Potential. That’s what Lenore “[They are] starting to think Braford, founder of Piedmont about what choices they make in Farm Animal Refuge, sees when both food and the way that they she looks at the 16 acres of pine- farm,” she said. “I really wanted to dotted fields off be part of this comHighway 87 in munity and make Pittsboro. sure the animal The 28-yearside is included in old entreprethese ethical disneur, a vegan cussions.” since taking an Braford has spent environmental the past three years ethics course volu nteer i ng at in college, has similar refuges in decided factory prepa rat ion for Lenore Bradford, farm animals opening her own. founder of Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge deserve better “I’ve had a lot of homes. experience working With a growing group of vol- with children with developmental unteers, Piedmont Farm Animal disabilities,” Braford said. “HelpRefuge is moving closer to real- ing others is something I’ve always ity as a haven for factory farm enjoyed doing and had an interest animals and a place to educate in. So for me, right now, ‘others’ are the public on the industry that feeds it. ROOM TO RUN continued on page 3

“If I do have animals, I don’t want to negatively impact their lives…”

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