Senate Resolution 5 - Introduced

PAG LIN

                                    S.R. ________ H.R. ________


  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO. ___
  1  2            BY  DVORSKY, BOLKCOM, and SCHMITZ
  1  3 A Resolution to congratulate the city of Iowa City on
  1  4    being designated as the world's third City of
  1  5    Literature.
  1  6    WHEREAS, the United Nations Educational, Scientific
  1  7 and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated Iowa
  1  8 City, Iowa, the world's third City of Literature,
  1  9 making it part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network;
  1 10 and
  1 11    WHEREAS, with this designation Iowa City joins only
  1 12 two other cities, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Melbourne,
  1 13 Australia, which are recognized by UNESCO as Cities of
  1 14 Literature; and
  1 15    WHEREAS, the foundation for this recognition
  1 16 includes the University of Iowa's Iowa Writers'
  1 17 Workshop, which offered the first creative=writing
  1 18 degree program, the International Writing Program, the
  1 19 School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the
  1 20 Nonfiction Writing Program, the Center for the Book,
  1 21 and the Iowa Playwrights Workshop; and
  1 22    WHEREAS, as part of the Creative Cities Network,
  1 23 Iowa City joins a diverse community of worldwide
  1 24 cultural centers for cinema, music, crafts and folk
  1 25 arts, design, media arts and gastronomy, as well as
  1 26 literature == including Aswan, Egypt; Santa Fe, New
  1 27 Mexico; Berlin, Germany; Montreal, Canada; Popayan,
  1 28 Colombia; Bologna, Italy; Shenzhen, China; and
  1 29 Seville, Spain; NOW THEREFORE,
  1 30    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
  2  1 congratulates the city of Iowa City on being
  2  2 designated the world's third City of Literature by the
  2  3 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
  2  4 Organization and offers special thanks to University
  2  5 of Iowa International Writing Program Director
  2  6 Christopher Merrill, who led the University of Iowa
  2  7 committee that submitted the city's proposal.
  2  8 LSB 1414SS 83
  2  9 jr/nh/14