Her experiences with the Women's Studies Program and women's issues at the University of North Texas, 1992-1996. Exposure to women's issues as an undergraduate at West Texas A & M University; intertwining of her feminism and vegetarian beliefs; decision to enter the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas; influence of Dr. Martha Nichols; activities with animal rights organizations; activities with the Women's Studies Roundtable and editing its newsletter, “The Gaze;” influences of her maternal grandmother; her founding of the Aikido Club on campus; views on requiring a women's study course for all undergraduates; her use of gender issues in the teaching of English composition courses.