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Students and parents have urged MPs to regulate universities’ halls of residence and introduce minimum standards for pastoral care.
They told the Education and Workforce Select Committee inquiry into student accommodation yesterday that staff at some halls were poorly prepared to help students with sometimes harrowing situations.
The committee is considering pastoral care and residents’ rights in student accommodation following complaints about how some halls of residence handled last year’s national pandemic lockdown.
Victoria University of Wellington student Azaria Howell said the hall she lived in last year encouraged binge drinking, did not take medical events seriously, and ignored complaints about sexism and racism.
Student hostels: MPs urged to regulate universities halls of residence
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WELCOME TO OUR first anniversary month of the New Normal.
It was in mid-March of last year when the world as we knew it changed after Gov. Chris Sununu imposed his Stay-at-Home emergency orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
I recall interviewing Conway Village Fire Chief Steve Solomon and asking about precautions. When he mentioned PPE, I had to ask what those now all-too-familiar letters stood for: Personal Protection Equipment, something I didnât have a clue about but which, like everyone, I now am familiar with, along with wearing a mask in public as a requirement of daily life for most of us who recognize the perils of this deadly virus (outside of those naysayers who choose to believe in political ideology rather than science, putting the rest of us in jeopardy, but I digress).
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The life of a pioneer woman was difficult, sometimes brutal, accompanied by deprivation, tragedy and early death.
Her home, at least in the initial stage, was a log cabin where an open fireplace served as the home heating source and also the cooking venue.
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If she was fortunate the cabin had wooden plank floors or flat stones as opposed to dirt. Were there to be household luxuries they would be in the form of a glass window, perhaps two of them.
before it was in place. had both bombs gone off as planned, who knows how many could have been killed. those are the lives flo helped to save. and we are honored that many of them are here today. brigadier general james mingus, sergeant andrew mahoney who was awarded a silver star for joining flo in confronting the attacker, sergeant 1st class brian brink who was awarded a bronze star for pulling flo from the road, specialist daniel valderrama, the medic who helped to save flo s leg, private 1st class benjamin sicor and eric who also served with distinction on that day. gentlemen, i d ask you to please stand and accept the thanks of a grateful nation as well. [ applause ]
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