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Student poets recognized in Wallace Stevens competition
The student poets were judged on a short collection of poetry. Winners were presented with cash and book awards. They read from their prize-winning poems during the program. First prize was presented to Jenny Spinner, a graduate student in English. Second prize went to Michael Alan Snyder, a seventh-semester bachelor of general studies student at the Hartford campus, and third prize was given to Joseph Lennon, a graduate student in English. The poetry program began at UConn in 1964 with a gift from the Hartford Insurance Group, now The Hartford, to support cash awards and books of poetry as prizes for young poets and to bring a distinguished poet to UConn. The program honors the memory of Wallace Stevens, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who was an insurance executive at The Hartford for 38 years.
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Holocaust survivor saved by Schindler to speak April 23
"Oskar Schindler was someone who did not quite conform," says Arnold Dashefsky, director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. "He wasn't completely constrained by the norms of the community, and so he was able to resist the pressures of social control. It's something we find in a number of the people who helped the Jews, and who tried to save them, according to the research of my colleague in the sociology department, Professor Nechama Tec. Schindler was very much his own person, and he could resist the pressure to cooperate with the Nazi in murders." Finder will discuss her experiences and the parallels to the movie, which she says was accurate in a number of areas. The movie, directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. April 22, also in the Konover Auditorium. A special commemoration, honoring victims of the Holocaust and celebrating the people who, like Schindler, helped people escape, will be held on the Dodd Center plaza at 6:45 p.m., just prior to the showing.
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