Staci Kleinmaier

For more than forty years, members of the NC State community have gathered in February for the Sisterhood Dinner, a celebration of Wolfpack women’s accomplishments. Originally known as the Susan B. Anthony Dinner (and held near her February 15th birthday), the evening tees up Women’s History Month in March with a dinner for 600 in the Talley Student Union Ballroom, keynote and guest speakers, and a silent auction benefiting the Women’s Center.

Since the 1960s American religious affiliation has been in decline. For more than two centuries religious institutions have given our lives meaning beyond day-to-day experience, offered a connection between the mundane and the spiritual, and served as a powerful source of social and political authority. But more and more, Americans are looking elsewhere to make sense of the chaos and uncertainty of life.

Not that long ago it was possible, even typical, for someone to support a family on a single income. Most jobs paid the bills, offered health insurance, funded retirement, and gave employees a sense of stability. But many households now depend on multiple incomes — sometimes from three jobs or more — and some people over sixty-five are forced to pick up second careers or gig-economy work instead of retiring.

When the World Wide Web went live in 1991, it was slow, text-heavy, and used primarily for information exchange among scientists. But it was free, except for the cost of a computer, a modem, and phone service, and it was vast, connecting computers and people around the globe. Users “surfed” the web, sent electronic mail, built personal websites, and shopped. And, as with all new technologies, they created, shared, and accessed pornography.