APRIL 8, 2004
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PERSHING AUDITORIUM, 8PM
UPC Presents O.A.R. at Pershing
The indie band O.A.R. will appear at Lincoln's Pershing Center tonight. "An Evening
with O.A.R." is presented by the University Program Council.
After four releases, including its 2002 double live CD, Any
Time Now, which has
sold nearly 100,000 copies, O.A.R. made a transition with its album In
Between Now and Then.
Pershing Center doors open at 7pm, with the show beginning at 8. UNL students
with valid student IDs may purchase tickets for $20 day of show at the Nebraska
Union Information Desk and at the Pershing
Center. The general public may purchase tickets at the Pershing Center, all Ticketmaster
locations, ticketmaster.com or by phone at (402) 475-1212 in Lincoln or (402)
422-1212 in Omaha. Ticket prices for the general public are $27.
UPC | OFaREVOLUTION
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NEBRASKA UNION, 4PM
Chaos of Elections Subject of Rowlee Lecture
Donald Saari, distinguished professor of mathematics and economics at the University of California at Irvine, will present the eighth Howard Rowlee Lecture, "Elections: Now That Is Real Chaos!" this afternoon Nebraska Union Auditorium.
Saari is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow and a Guggenheim fellow. He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on voting systems and the mathematical problems that exist in designing fair election systems.
Saari, the 2004 Tom Osborne visiting lecturer, will give two additional public lectures tomorrow. At 10:30am he will deliver the address, "Arrow's and Sen's Theorems: Do They REALLY Mean What We Have Been Told?" at the College of Business Administration auditorium. At 4pm, he will speak on "The Evolution of Newton's Universe" in 115 Burnett Hall.
His visit is sponsored by the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Economics and the UNL Research Council.
MATHEMATICS | ECONOMICS
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CHRISTLIEB GALLERY, HEWIT PLACE, 7:30PM
Holocaust Expert to Discuss Origins of Final Solution
Christopher R. Browning, Holocaust expert
and professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
will speak this evening at UNL on the evolution of Nazi policy regarding Jews
in World War II.
In his book, The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution
of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942, Browning addresses the questions of when,
why, and under what circumstances the leaders of Nazi Germany decided to murder
millions of European Jews.
The book is the inaugural volume of a major new series, "The Comprehensive History of the Holocaust," published by the University of Nebraska Press in association with Yad Vashem, the Holocaust commemoration and research authority of the state of Israel.
According to Publishers Weekly, Browning's book "is sure to become the standard work on the emergence of the Holocaust." The
book is a History Book Club main selection, and a selection of the Book-of-the-Month
and Military Book clubs. It was the subject of the lead book review in the March
issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Books will be available for attendees to purchase
April 8.
Browning's lecture will summarize the thesis of his book, placing the origins of the Holocaust in the context of Nazi racism, the German conquest of Eastern Europe and the development of the Second World War. Browning is Frank Porter Graham professor of history at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and is widely regarded as one of the premier historians of the Holocaust.
The lecture is sponsored by the Henry and Gretl Wald Lectureship Fund, the Norman
and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies, and the NU Press. Publication of
the "Comprehensive History of the Holocaust" by the NU Press is made possible
by a gift from the Ike and Roz Friedman Family Foundation of Omaha.
UNIVERSITY
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LIED CENTER, OPENING TONIGHT
Fine and Performing Arts Presents Guys and Dolls
The Hixson-Lied College of Fine
and Performing Arts, Department of Theatre Arts, School
of Music and the Lied Center for Performing Arts will collaborate
to present one of Broadway's classic musicals, Guys
and Dolls, opening tonight in the Lied Center for
Performing Arts. The play will also be performed Friday
at 7:30pm and Saturday at 2 and 7:30pm.
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Guys and
Dolls revolves around notorious gambler Nathan Detroit who bets fellow gambler Sky Masterson that he can't make the next girl he sees fall in love with him. The next girl he sees happens to be Miss Sarah Brown, a pure-at-heart Salvation Army-type reformer, and the stage is set for an hilarious evening of complications.
Frank Loesser's score includes tunes such as "A Bushel and a Peck,"
"I'll Know," "If I Were a Bell," and "I've
Never Been In Love Before."
The play is directed and scenes designed by former Lincoln Community
Playhouse artistic director Robin J. McKercher. He holds a Master of
Fine Arts degree in directing from UNL.
During his professional career, he has directed more than 70 productions,
designed scenery for more than 70 productions, served as the scenic artist
on more than 120 theatre, television and film production projects, and
worked as a professional actor in over 20 productions. His 34 Broadway
credits include the Tony award-winning The Secret
Garden, Aspects of
Love, Prelude to a Kiss, Death and
the Maiden, Tommy, Drood, and Beauty & the
Beast.
Tickets are $30/25/20 (half price for students) and available at the Lied Center Box Office, (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231.
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THEATRE ARTS |
SCHOOL OF MUSIC |
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REGIONAL RECOGNITION
J School Students Earn Awards
UNL's student newspaper, the Daily Nebraskan, and 14 individual students
in the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications were recently recognized
by the Society of Professional Journalists, Region 7.
The Daily Nebraskan received a Mark of Excellence award as the best
all-around daily student newspaper in the four-state region, which
encompasses Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
Since 1972 the Society of Professional Journalists has presented the
Mark of Excellence Awards honoring the best in student journalism. Judged
at the regional and national level, the awards offer 45 categories for
print, radio, television and online collegiate journalism. National winners
will be honored at the 2004 national convention in New York City. The
competition was open to anyone enrolled in a college or university and
studying for an academic degree in 2003.
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