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obviourly iimits tue number and quality oi workshop leaders we can get. Fur example, for a
Health and Sexuality workshop we would like to engage medical dociurs. Under present
funding conditions ae is not possible. Further, there is a clear demand on the SFU
campus for feminist speakers of a high calibre, as evidenced by the overwhelming turnout to
Germaine ’Greer's talk last spring.

3. Workshops: Some workshops are by their nature more expensive to operate and thus

require more .undiug. For example, we receive many requests for a car maintainance
workshop for women; however, we cannot proviue this because we do not have suificient
funds to purchase or rent the necessary tools and to secure a space.

Further, although it used to be our policy, we are at present unable to subsidize poor
women's pariicipation in these workshops.

4, Advertising and Printing Costs: Because these costs tend to be high, we cannot

adequately advertise our activities, either in the Peak or in the communiiy newspapers.
This is especially frustrating at the current because oi the strong emphasis placed by
the university administration on-on involvement in the community, an emphasis that the
SFU Women's Centre would like to share.

Die Open House: Our open houses are very popular and very well attended, and have the

potential of increasing our memvership, and thus our effectiveness, dramatically.
However due to our funding situation, we can only hold one such open house per semester,
and at that, the refreshments usually come out of our own pockets. Further, many women
both on campus and in the community have requested that we provide additional funding

activities. For them too the answer for now had to be no.