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Portland Art Museum to honor local women’s leadership in Portland

In an effort to create a new scholarship fund, the Portland Art Museum, located at 1219 SW Park Ave., will host a fundraiser luncheon celebrating women leaders in Oregon on Oct. 23.

The event, held by NEW Leadership Oregon, a national women’s leadership education group, will honor women leaders within the Portland community. The women honorees, Judy Peppler, Teresa Alonso, Mary Wilcox and state Sen. Betsy Johnson, represent female leadership in the fields of business, social work, health and politics, respectively.

The keynote speaker for the event will be Sonja Henning, former player of the WNBA Houston Comets. Henning is the current Associate Director of US Sports Marketing for Nike and is on the board for the Portland Public Schools Board of Education.

The proceeds of the fundraiser will help create a scholarship fund for students involved in the NEW Leadership Oregon program. Tickets are $75. The event, which also features a silent auction, starts at 11:30 a.m.

For more information, visit www.newleadershiporegon.org.

–Carly Nairn

University expands Equal Opportunity Clause

Portland State has changed a clause in its equal opportunity statement to include the word gender in its list of reasons for which it prohibits discrimination.

Advocates behind the change feel the additional words better support transgender employees and students of the university. Previously the statement only gave sex as a reason for prohibiting discrimination.

PSU’s equal opportunity statement is, in accordance to federal affirmative action laws, printed on all publications distributed by the university for off-campus use, including advertisements and announcements for jobs and enrollment.

The statement itself, as well as a list of laws and actions to which it complies, can be found at http://afm.pdx.edu.

–Stefanie Fisher

WRC to give out month’s supply of free ice cream

The Women’s Resource Center (WRC) will be giving out free Dryer’s brand ice cream this month, after receiving a month’s supply for a winning essay submitted by a WRC staff member.

The ice cream was awarded to assistant student coordinator Kristin Bell for her entry in Dyer’s online “The Dibs Quest for a Cooler Workplace” contest, which asked the participants to explain what would make their workplace more fun in 350 words or less.

Bell wrote her essay on the WRC.

350 winners were chosen from entries to the nationwide competition, three of which were from Oregon. After winning, a freezer was installed in the WRC by Dryer’s. A representative from the company restocks the freezer every ten days.

The resource center welcomes all students to stop in and take some of the ice cream. The center is located in the basement at 1802 SW 10th and Montgomery Streets, and is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

–Stefanie Fisher