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is available for the exhibit, and for receiving a last critique on the work toward completing it for the exhibition.

The Community Meetings:

In the community meetings the student body meets without the staff; how these meetings are used is entirely up to the [[strikethrough]] women who participate [[/strikethrough]] participants in them. For example, in these meetings women have chosen to explore different modes for intra-group communication and organization. At other times students have discussed their realtionship to the Woman's Building, and ways to [[strikethrough]] enact [[/strikethrough]] actualize it. Because  the community meetings are the only large group structure in which the recognized leaders -- the staff -- do not participate, these meetings play an important role in forming a sense of [[strikethrough]] comaradery [[/strikethrough]] comradeship and self-sufficiency, a feeling of caring, power, and responsibility that the group has, and in providing a space for individuals to take resposnibility and leadership. The fact that the staff is not present also enables students to express uncomfortable feelings about the F.S.W. and the staff -- that is, before the women are ready to share these feelings in the presence of the staff. The community meetings have also been used to solve upcoming problems which the large group designates to be dealt with in the community meetings instead, and as an arena for the discussion of issues.

Consciousness Raising:

During the first days in the F.S.W., women are divided into smaller CR groups; these groups meet once a week throughout the year (and at times continue during the summer if the group wishes