Many of the researchers who wrote the earlier reports worked in such groups as the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, the Hypersonic Propulsion Research Laboratories and the Space Research Institute, sometimes, as in the case of Bull, in collaboration with such entities as the United States Army. Her efforts helped spawn Bill C-68, or Canada's gun control law. Since then, as QCTC co-founder, Rathjen has tackled smoking and advocated for the passage of Quebec's Tobacco Act, or Bill 444. She'll also examine the ways in which the tobacco industry, through its advertising, influences women to light up. When women are targeted, they are manipulated into buying cigarettes as vehicles of emancipation, which they're not.
Cigarettes are killers.
Heidi Rathjen's January 18 talk will be at 4 pm in room 270 of the Arts Bldg. Her talk is sponsored by the McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women. For more information, please call 398-3911. Regarding the former, McGill has the advantage of location, location, location. Well, until recently, adequate space and equipment weren't always a given.