There’s a lot to celebrate in March, and we’re not just talking about Spring Break. (Though that, too.)

First, in honor of Women’s History Month, the Downtown Campus LLC is hosting Make Margaret Atwood Great Again: Why The Handmaid’s Tale Remains So Relevant 30 Years Later. Over three decades after its publication, Margaret Atwood’s feminist dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale still looms large in the popular consciousness. At the Women’s March in January, signs bearing Handmaid-related slogans popped up, and a new television adaptation is due to premiere soon on Hulu. Professor Audrey Antee hosts an event that discusses the literary and historical context of the novel and features a presentation by Professor Jennifer Chase on her experiences at the Women’s March and a debate of the novel’s issues by FSCJ’s Politics and Rational Discourse Club.

Throughout the month, you can also stop by the Deerwood Campus LLC to check out their timeline of women’s marches from the Suffrage Parade to the Women’s March on Washington this past January. While supplies last, patrons can also create their own signs with markers and posters provided by the LLC.  Finally, we’ll be highlighting women’s history and women’s issues on our Facebook page, including interviews with famous female authors and civil rights activists.

March is also the month we celebrate Pi Day, and several of the campuses will be hosting games and activities in their Learning Commons to ring in 3/14. There will be pie available at South Campus and Cecil (who will also have cookies, pizzas, and other food that has a circumference), as well as games and puzzles. Downtown Campus will be making Pi Day a two day affair (3/14-3/15), largely because their plan to have students use post-it notes to recreate the infinite string of numbers of Pi to wrap around the Learning Commons might take a while. Aside from the notes, there will be additional games and prizes.

Finally, Kent Campus is getting a head start on April by launching their Just Imagine poetry contest. Students may submit poems to the contest until April 1st, and winners will be announced at a poetry reading at South Campus April 12th. There’s an open forum and discussion group to help workshop student poetry at Kent on March 14th at 5pm in room E104.

If you love what we’re doing in March, just wait until you see what we’ve got planned for National Poetry Month in April. Keep an eye on your monthly newsletter and the LLC Facebook page for updates.

Until next month, we’ll see you in the stacks!