University of Arkansas at Little Rock

November 6, 2007 • 11:00 am-1:00 pm
Donaghey Student Center Leadership Lounge (Near the UALR Forum)
Come celebrate women of every shape and size!

October 20, 2007 / Downtown Little Rock
Check back for specific UALR / Power of Women Team information

For more information about race day, visit: http://www.komenarkansas.org/race/index.htm

September 4, 2007
DSC Meeting Room C; 12:00-1:30 pm. A film by Khin May Lwin and Robert Nassau
80 minutes, Color

UPHILL ALL THE WAY is the astounding true story of five troubled teenage girls who face the challenge of their lives: a 2,500-mile bicycle journey along the United States Continental Divide. The girls are students at the DeSisto School, a rehabilitative high school in Massachusetts for drug addicts, victims of sexual abuse, and juveniles that have had run-ins with the law. Despite the emotional risks posed by their unstable backgrounds, they sign up for the bike trip as an opportunity to prove individually and collectively that they can reach once unfathomable heights. If finished, the trek will be the first time in their lives the girls have set a goal and met it. Over the course of three months, they mature in ways that are visible, thought provoking and completely unexpected.

Rather than portray these girls as victims, UPHILL ALL THE WAY highlights their resilience and ability to persevere despite great emotional and physicals barriers. Providing much-needed alternatives for young women to learn how to improve their self-esteem, this unique documentary is an inspiration for every viewer – both young and old – to accomplish great feats in their lives. Narrated by Susan Sarandon.

Tues, April 10, 12:15-2:30 p.m.,
DSC Room C
“The Education of Shelby Knox”
Special viewing with Shelby Knox herself!

Federally funded, abstinence-only sex education is sparking an intense national debate. Sex may be everywhere - in music, television, fashion and movies - one argument goes, but schools need to give teenagers the tools to resist peer pressure and say “no.” Won’t teaching about sex only encourage teens to try it? Opponents say that withholding information about condom use and birth control will only lead to unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

Into the culture wars steps feisty teenager Shelby Knox of Lubbock, Texas. Although her county’s high schools teach abstinence as the only safe sex, Lubbock has some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases in the nation. Shelby, a devout Christian who has pledged abstinence until marriage herself, becomes an unlikely advocate for comprehensive sex education, profoundly changing her political and spiritual views along the way. When Shelby’s interest in politics leads her to get involved in a campaign for comprehensive sex education in her town’s public schools, and then to a fight for a gay-straight alliance, Shelby must make a choice: Stand by and let others be hurt, or go against her parents, her pastor, and her peers to do what she knows is right.

The film is an exceptionally timely and intimate look at the cultural wars from the perspective of a young woman’s life. The support her conservative family provides is an example of how a healthy democracy could look given the time and will to listen. It is the hope of the filmmakers that screenings will foster that dialogue and build bridges.

Tues, March 20, 12:15-1:30 p.m.,
DSC Room C,
“Stayin’ Alive on Spring Break with Erin Weed” 

What happens on Spring Break stays on Spring Break.  RIGHT?  Well . . . not really. In March 2006, CNN flew Erin Weed to Daytona Beach as a safety expert for a special report on Spring Break Safety. She had the chance to get an in-depth look at what’s happening on spring break today and the danger behind seemingly innocent situations. Erin also had the opportunity to reflect on her own college spring break in South Padre, TX with 40 of her friends. She recalled the many instances of binge drinking, unsafe sex, violence and legal situations which were experienced during just one wild week, and developed practical solutions to avoid these bad situations. Now she’s taking the proactive strategies on the road for the 2007 Stayin’ Alive on Spring Break Tour, in hopes that college students will realize their personal safety on spring break is 100% up to them. Using her signature style of combining humor with straight talk, Erin urges students to have a blast on spring break… but to make safe choices in the process.

Tues, March 13, 2007 12:15-1:30 p.m.
DSC Room C
Film: Dreamworlds 3
Refreshments provided

Dreamworlds 3 offers a unique and powerful tool for understanding both the continuing influence of music videos and how pop culture more generally filters the identities of young men and women through a dangerously narrow set of myths about sexuality and gender. In doing so, it inspires viewers to reflect critically on images that they might otherwise take for granted. 55 min.

Tues, Feb. 13, 12:15-1:30 p.m.
DSC Room D (Note: New Location)

“College students are supposed to figure out what they are going to do and be for the next 40 years of their life.  Easier said than done.”

Andrew Harrison, UALR class of ‘98, comes back to share what he has learned from people with successful careers. The advice comes after a two year cross country journey of 45,000 miles and 110 interviews, with meetings including the founder of the 401k program, a NASA astronaut, the former head of marketing at Hallmark, and Arkansas’ first ever female supreme court chief justice.

Harrison’s journey has been featured in television news and national magazines as well as the Miami Herald and Charlotte Observer. His book, 84,000 hours of your life will be spent at work, will be available shortly.

Join Andrew as he shares his amazing journey and explains how choosing the right career will lead to incredible success and happiness. Admission is free, and refreshments will be provided.

Learn more about Harrison’s experiences at www.iamontheroad.com and www.84000hours.com

Tues, Jan 23, 2007 12:15-1:30 p.m.
DSC Room C
Film: Tough Guise
Refreshments provided

While the social construction of femininity has been widely examined, the dominant role of masculinity has until recently remained largely invisible. Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century. In this innovative and wide-ranging analysis, Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence in American society, including the tragic school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhere, needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity.

82 minutes