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By Balqees Jama, SFU Student Editors note: The author is president of SOCA and is currently advocating for this referendum. The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) 2022 Executive Elections are currently underway and among the five referenda questions, two are about establishing long-term financial supports for constituency groups that support Black, Indigenous, and disabled students… ....
Celebrating 50 years of programming! The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women s Studies (GSWS) at Simon Fraser University grew from the first women’s studies program in Canada. During the late 1960s, members of the Women’s Caucus at SFU began to develop courses with a focus on women’s issues. By the 1970s, strong support from students inspired faculty members Andrea Lebowitz and Maggie Benston to propose the establishment of an independent Women’s Studies program. Their efforts were often met with resistance. One senator suggested that a women’s studies program was, “tantamount to allowing prisoners to create a prison education program.” However, Lebowitz and Benston’s persistence got the proposal through numerous university committees, eventually gaining Senate approval in 1975. ....