Findings highlight safety, policing, wellness and resources
February 26, 2021 SHARE
A newly released report provides insight into public safety at Washington University in St. Louis, with a focus on exploring how the university can best support safety on and near the Danforth Campus to meet the needs of its diverse community. The report was completed this month by the university’s Public Safety Committee, which Henry S. Webber, executive vice chancellor for civic affairs and strategic planning, convened last fall.
The committee, which comprised Washington University students, faculty, staff and alumni, was co-chaired by Gerald Early, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, professor of English and chair of African and African American studies, and Stephanie Kurtzman, the Peter G. Sortino Director of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement. Click here to read the full report.
‘Above all else, don’t bullshit’: Doctor-poet Glenn Colquhoun on caring, and writing, for young people
Interview
Levin GP Glenn Colquhoun talks with books editor Catherine Woulfe about his new collection of poetry, Letters to Young People.
Glenn Colquhoun is an acclaimed and accomplished poet. He has published four collections, including Playing God, in December 2002, which sold a massive 10,000 copies. He’s won a clutch of Montanas and the 2004 Prize in Modern Letters (which at $60,000 was the sweetest pot in New Zealand writing, until it stalled after just four rounds); he also writes children’s books and essays, often about medicine, occasionally for The Spinoff.
Divergent and
Avatar: The Last Airbender, that kind of feel, because the idea has come from the want and the need to create something of this kind, for my nieces and nephews.” Her family is heavily involved in kapa haka on the East Coast, and she wanted to take those preforming arts skills and utilise them in a theatre space. “I was targetting the likes of my nieces and nephews, who are fluent te reo Māori speakers, that’s their own language they understand, and a performance they understand through a musical, so I am creating it for them, so they can see themselves in a theatre space.”
are delighted to announce the
winner of the NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award 2020 - writer
Safia Archer.
With 78 entries for this award, the
selection panel of Ivy Alvarez and Michelle Elvy had a tough
time deciding on a winner. Safia Archer, will use the award
to work on her memoire.
Safia Archer
says: Thank you so much to the selection panel of the
Lilian Ida Smith Award for gifting me the precious time
needed to complete my memoire which captures my Pākehā
ancestry from Reefton, a small mining town on New
Zealand’s West Coast, my more recently explored
Press Release – New Zealand Society of Authors The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) are delighted to announce the winner of the NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award 2020 – writer Safia Archer. With 78 entries for this award, the selection panel of Ivy Alvarez and Michelle Elvy …
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc)
are delighted to announce the winner of the NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award 2020 – writer Safia Archer.
With 78 entries for this award, the selection panel of Ivy Alvarez and Michelle Elvy had a tough time deciding on a winner. Safia Archer, will use the award to work on her memoire.