Students and teachers from eight local high schools will get a new slant on history at the second annual celebration of Women’s History Month on Friday, March 9. Jan Eliot, creator of the nationally syndicated cartoon series "Stone Soup," will give the keynote address at 9:30 a.m. in the Alumni Lounge at Gerlinger Hall, 1468 University St. Workshop topics include warrior women, the many Joans of Arc, power, poison and politics in ancient Rome, and the dilemma faced by the accused witches in the 1792 Salem witch trials. The UO Center for the Study of Women in Society is sponsoring the symposium organized by the Teaching the Past in the Present branch of the Feminist Humanities Project. Approximately 150 people–20 of them are high school boys–have signed up. Workshops are scheduled most of the day.

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