On Our Minds, May 1978

ON OUR MINDS A Women's Newsletter, Towson State University Baltimore, Maryland Volume 4, No. 5 May, 1978 ON CAMPUS WOMEN'S CENTER COLLECTS FOOD FOR HOUSE OF RUTH The T.S.U. Women's Center is currently sponsoring a food drive in support of the House of Ruth, a shelter for battered women and children. All food and paper products as well as donations are welcome and will be collected at the Women's Center (1st floor in Media Center). For more information, call the Women's Center:· 321-2666, or the House of Ruth: 889-RUTH. Between opening on November 21, 1977 and the middle of April, The House of Ruth has sheltered 75 women and 65 children. It has receives an average of 12 calls per day from women seeking assistance, or those who know women who need assistance, relating to the problem of being battered, but who do not need or want shelter. Weekly meetings of Battered Women Together are held, to which women not in residence can come and talk over their problems and ways to solve their problems. Canned and jarred food is needed, especially: peanut butter, chicken soun, tomato ketchup, pork and beans, Crisco, tuna fish, and jelly. Also needed is women's clothing (suitable for ages 16-35), children's clothing (all ages), and baby clothing, baby food and disposable diapers. WOMEN'S STUDIES ON CAMPUS Jo-Ann Fuchs of the Philosophy Department will be coordinator of Women's Studies for the academic year 1978-1979. In this capacity she will advise student majors and minors in the program, be responsible for course scheduling and for the general administration of the Women's Studies program. Ms. Fuchs, a "regular part-time" faculty member, has taught at Towson State University for nine years and is active in the Baltimore feminist community, currently through the Women's Union of Baltimore. Her office will be Linthicum 219-A. The present coordinator, Elaine Hedges, Professor of English, will be on leave of ahsence from Towson for 1978-1979. She has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Research and Writing Fellowship for the year, to complete a book on women's quilts as work and art, to be published by Pantheon Books, and to begin research on a larger project, "Sewing as Work, Art and Metaphor: A Study in Women's Culture."