Posted on: Wednesday, January 29, 2003
THE LEFT LANE
Poetry pays off
Advertiser Staff and News Services
Imagine getting paid $1,000 per line of poetry. Sounds like fiction? It's not. Two poets will get four-year, 50 percent scholarships (valued at $20,000) if their work wins the inaugural Hawai'i Pacific University High School Poetry Contest, open to high school seniors. "We recently revised our English major to emphasize writing," explained Catherine Sustana, HPU associate professor of English.
Poems must be written in English, be no longer than 20 lines and be entirely original. Enter via fax (544-0862), online (hpu.edu/poetry), e-mail (poetry@hpu.edu), or snail mail to Dr. Catherine Sustana, HPU, 1060 Bishop St., Suite 402, Honolulu, HI 96813. No entry fee. Only one poem per high school senior. Deadline: Midnight, March 10. Information: 544-1107.
Collecting the arts
A show at the Art Gallery at UH-Manoa explores collecting and connoisseurship, through selected works from four private collections. The exhibit delves into several cultures of south and west Asia, and provides an opportunity to experience some of the passion and knowledge of the collectors.
Collections include: rugs of the Tibetan Plateau from David Slusher, Turkish village textiles from Pat Hickman, art of Qajar Iran from an anonymous collector, and Indian and Nepalese art collected by Gulab and Indru Watumull. The exhibit is open 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, noon to 4 p.m. Sundays, through Feb. 21.
Teen smoking uncool
Teen smoking isn't as cool as it used to be. Smoking by teenagers fell sharply in 2002, continuing a slide that began in 1998. Between 2001 and 2002, the proportion of teens saying they had ever smoked cigarettes fell by 4 or 5 percentage points in each grade surveyed (8, 10 and 12), more than in any recent year, a study found. The Monitoring the Future study was paid for by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse under research grants made to the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. It began in 1975 and has tracked the smoking habits of high school seniors in the country each year since then. The 2002 survey results are based on findings from about 44,000 students in nearly 400 randomly selected public and private secondary schools on the Mainland.
