8:33 pm

A former prez of the First Nations Student Association is speaking. Unfortunately I've missed a lot of what he said but from what I coudl tell it was great, about

Kim Young-Milani from the Cricle @ Brescia is talking. She's registering her disappointing for the Univeristy's sheer lack of pride and respect for the contirubtions of women at the school. She's also a rep fo rthe Women's Events commitee (which plans TBTN) and she's disgusted with the spoofing of that march, direct action against violence against women. She encourages men to come out to TBTN and stand on the sidelines and cheer, to show that you GET IT. She feels like that sacred trust was broken but this article. And as a daughter of a police officer she says that it was so disgusting to include Murray Faulkner, who is leading the way in the fight against violence.

Andrea Van Dutton is thanking everyone who felt personally attacked, and says she's spoken to plenty of them and they refuse to be scared in to submission. Hells yes. She also says that she doesn't htink that the cancelling of the sex and spoof issues is necessary - the challenge is to write these in a way that isn't offensive. Good point - let's see a diverse, sex-positive stories and real intelligent satire in the Gazette. Couldn't agree more.

Anne Scott Ann Skoczylas from the history dept is talking about how this is reeeeeally the tip of the iceberg and how this is a much bigger issue than jsut the Gazette. She's talking about how the women (actually, she said girls) in her classes have told her that they feel intimidated by the men and profs in their classes, how they felt unable to speak freely, to the point at which one student said she walked out of a class. This is such good stuff. I'm so glad this stuff is getting aired here. "We may have 50+% here but women's voices aren't represented"... Great speech.