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Students with menstrual cycles can purchase hygiene products for 50 centers in quarters in most bathrooms on campus. Student organizations are pushing for them to be free.

Student organizations support women resources

Sydney Lawson, Lifestyle Editor March 23, 2022

Student organizations express a need for more free resources available to women. One issue brought to the attention of Student Government Association is the few period products accessible to women on...

Graphic accompanying the two stories on womens liberation April 2, 1971.

From the Archive: Women’s Liberation

Shield Staff October 14, 2021

Message from 2021-2022 Editorial Staff:  The first issue of The Spartan Shield was published Oct. 15, 1968. The Shield Staff is celebrating The Shield's 53rd birthday by digitally republishing stories...

Evansville Community members march for womens rights Saturday afternoon.

‘It just made me feel empowered’

Emma Corry, Staff Writer January 22, 2019

Haley Flamion wanted to be president, before an incident in middle school when her classmates told her she couldn’t be. “I want to tell (the kids) that one day it’s possible that we’re going...

The year of the march

Grace Poynter, Staff Writer January 31, 2017

Every year for the past 44 years, there has been a profound march of people from all over the United States walking for the right to life, to end abortion, and to defund Planned Parenthood. This is...

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