Officials work to curb dangerous drinking University strives to decrease alcohol - related hospitalizations , address dorm dis - orientations
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In te rn a t io n a l ly r e n o w n e d activist and author Shirin Ebadi spoke to an audience of more than 400 students, professors, trustees, members of the media and local residents in Angela Athletic Facility at Saint Mary’s Thursday. Ebadi served as the keynote speaker in the three-day Center for W o m e n ’s In te rC u l tu ra l Leadership (CWIL) conference — “W omen as In te rcu l tu ra l Leaders: Collaboration at the C r o s s r o a d s ” — th a t beg an Thursday. In its first year of hosting the N a t io n a l CWIL C o n fe ren ce , Saint Mary’s attracted Ebadi as the keynote speaker with finan c ia l a id f rom th e Lilly Endowment Inc., which funded the visit. “We chose Dr. Ebadi because of h e r h e ro ic ad vocacy on beh a lf of h u m a n righ ts , and especially the rights of women an d c h i ld re n m a k e h e r an amazing role model of women’s intercultural leadership for our s tudents,” said Elaine MeyerLee, d irec to r of CWIL. “Her
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