As part of a nationwide campaign to recruit students to work for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, two National Organization of Women (NOW) representatives visited Simmons College.
The Boston National Organization of Women (NOW) and the Simmons Feminist Union urge students to participate in a Washington, D.C. rally to support a woman's right to abortion on March 9, 1986.
Members from the Simmons College STAND chapter and Amnesty International group joined over 100 other students and activists at City Hall Plaza for DarfurFast.
Dan Connell, a lecturer in the Communications and Political Science departments, urged the Student Government Association to pass a resolution calling for Simmons College to divest from the Sudan.
The Board of Trustees voted to divest from companies doing business within Sudan or with the Sudanese government in response to the ongoing genocide in Darfur.
Members of the Simmons and Wheelock Women's Centers and the Northeastern Feminist Union gathered on Tuesday to "Take Back the Night" from sexual assault.