The Women’s Studies Program and other campus organizations, are sponsoring events all month long in honor of Women’s History Month. Jolene Skinner, program coordinator for the women’s studies program, said the events scheduled will be both interesting and entertaining.

“This year we have very diverse events which display unusual aspects of female culture,” Skinner said. She said the events will focus on physical and social movements in women’s history.

Students will enjoy today’s scheduled speaker, Skinner said. Susan Stephens, news director for Northern Public Radio, will lecture about the Rockford Peaches, the female baseball team on which the movie “A League of Their Own” was based. She said students also will enjoy the Chicago-based activist group Pink Bloque, whose presentation on March 30 will show how they use dance as means of protest.

Skinner said she encourages students to come to the events because of their historical relevance.

“All the different history months are important,” she said. “It shows the significance they have had on society.”

For more information about Women’s History Month, visit www.clas.niu.edu/wstudies/ whm2004.htm.

This week’s Women’s History Month Events

Today

4:30 p.m., Reavis Hall, Room 211

Susan Stephens, news director of Northern Public Radio, will speak about the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girl Professional Baseball League.

Wednesday

11:30 a.m., Adams Hall’s Chandelier Room

Beth Finke, author and commentator on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition,” will speak about having juvenile diabetes and blindness.

1:30 p.m. Finke will hold a book signing at the Holmes Student Center’s University Book Store

3:30 p.m. Presentation at the student center’s Duke Ellington Ball Room

4:30 p.m. Reception and book signing at the student center’s Gallery Lounge

Thursday

The DeKalb Area Women’s Center, 1021 State St., will display undergraduate and graduate students’ artwork. For more information, call 758-1351.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday

7 p.m., Holmes Student Center’s Diversions Lounge

“The Vagina Monologues” will be performed. A $6 donation is suggested and will be given to local charities.