RENOWNED CRIMINOLOGIST TO SPEAK AT FIRST CANDACE ALLEN SCOLA MEMORIAL LECTURE

(Worcester, MA – October 9, 2003) Elizabeth A. Stanko, Principle Advisor for the British Prime Minister’s Office of Public Services Reform and Professor of Criminology at the University of London, will be the featured speaker from 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. on Monday, October 20, 2003 in the Blue Lounge of the Student Center at Worcester State College. Dr. Stanko will lecture on “An ordinary career: Feminist practice and social policy in post-modern politics” for the inaugural lecture of the Candace Allen Scola Memorial Lecture.

Dr. Stanko returns to Worcester to celebrate the 25^th anniversary of the Daybreak Shelter. She was a founding member of the Daybreak Shelter and served as President of the Board of Directors from 1977-1981 while on staff at Clark University. She went on to lecture and teach at Brunel University and in 1999 joined the faculty of the University of London. She is currently working inside the London Metropolitan Police Service as part of the Strategic Planning and Performance team. Dr. Stanko has contributed to the changed perspective about the nature of domestic violence and is a known commentator in the UK media.

The Daybreak Shelter is a large comfortable home tucked safely into a residential neighborhood in Worcester. The Shelter welcomes women and their children into an environment where safety is paramount and crisis can give way to positive change. Daybreak can provide immediate shelter to women and their families who are fleeing to safety.

The lecture is named for Candace Allen Scola, who was a Worcester State College student murdered in her home in July 2002. The lecture memorializes this bright and much-loved student and brings awareness of domestic violence to the college and the public.

Worcester State College is a co-sponsor with the College of the Holy Cross of the Annual Daybreak Breakfast, of which Dr. Stanko will be speaking, and the Domestic Violence Conference, both to be held at College of the Holy Cross on the morning of the 20^th.

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