APRIL 13, 2004
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NEBRASKA UNION CRIB, NOON
Rockin' the Bard
Shakespeare will rock at UNL today when the University Program Council and Burger King present Sweet Will and the Saucy Jacks. The concert will be from noon-1pm in the Crib area of the Nebraska Union and is free and open to the public.
Sweet Will and the Saucy Jacks, also known as Fat Blu Cat, features Stephen Buhler on lead guitar, Ray Collier on rhythm guitar, Kim Bartek on bass, Rod Scher on drums, and everyone on vocals. Selections will include No Contest, a country-ballad version of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") and Simple Truth Suppressed, an indie-rock take on Sonnet 138 ("When my love swears"). Egyptian Queen, a retelling of Antony and Cleopatra, sounds a bit like a Tom Petty tune.
The Sweet Will project was initiated by Buhler, a professor of English at UNL, after he noticed similarities between song structures in popular music and the organization of a sonnet. In various incarnations, Sweet Will has played such venues as UCLA, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the International Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University.
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LOVE CAFE, 7PM
Students to Read Published Poetry
The Phantom issue of the Laurus comes alive tonight when students read their published works at 7pm in the Cafe of Love Library, first floor, Periodical Room.
The reading, hosted by Greg Kuzma and Helen Johnson, features poets Lindsey Baker, Mark Budgel, Marie Colling, Tessa Jeffers, Cara Peacock, Michael Plouzek, Roy Romine-Furr and Ann Stubbendeck. This program is sponsored by the University Libraries.
Laurus, UNL's undergraduate literary and fine arts magazine, appears about once a year and is edited by undergraduates. Kuzma serves as faculty adviser of the publication, which was started in the 1980s, and funding for Laurus is provided by the Department of English.
Editors are reading for the fall 2004 issue. Manuscripts can be submitted to Room 123, Andrews Hall.
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SHELDON'S NEW ACQUISITION
Sculpture Takes Root in Donaldson Garden
A 40-foot stainless steel tree, the latest major work by New York artist Roxy Paine, is now being assembled in Donaldson Garden, south of Andrews Hall. The sculpture, Paine's sixth and most complex tree sculpture, embodies dualities Paine has explored in his work, said Janice Driesbach, director of UNL's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
The trunk, which was fabricated in Brooklyn, N.Y., and branches, constructed by the artist from hundreds of pieces of steel tubing in his studio in upstate New York, have arrived in Lincoln and are being assembled by Paine and a work crew. Assisted by riggers and a welder from Lincoln, Paine will oversee the raising of the trunk and then will weld the branches on site.
A dedication ceremony of the work is planned for 4pm June 15, followed by a picnic fund-raiser hosted by the Nebraska Art Association.
Paine was born in 1966 and attended Santa Fe College in New Mexico and Pratt Institute in New York City before leaving school to become a full-time artist. He has won attention for two distinctive bodies of work. Paine creates detailed plant forms, including poppies and mushrooms, which replicate natural phenomena, and produces abstract sculptures or paintings. Both types of work have been featured in exhibitions in France, Germany and Switzerland, as well as throughout the United States.
Paine installed his first large-scale tree, Imposter, at the Wanas Foundation in southern Sweden five years ago; his 50-foot-tall tree, Bluff, was on view in New York's Central Park for four months before it was moved to a private collection. The new work, commissioned for the Sheldon sculpture collection with private funds, is Paine's first major sculpture in this region.
Driesbach notes that while Paine selected the site on campus with UNL landscape designers for its visual characteristics, his tree is also appropriately placed conceptually in the Donaldson Garden, which is devoted to introduced species.
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery sculpture garden includes nearly 30 sculptures by artists working throughout the United States during the 20th century. Paine's tree will be the first 21st-century sculpture to be installed on campus.
The tree, as yet untitled, was commissioned from the artist for $275,000 with funds from the Olga Sheldon Endowment, based on enthusiasm for his earlier work and the maquette, or study, Paine submitted after he visited Lincoln in November 2002.
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MILO BAIL STUDENT CENTER, UNO, 4-6PM
College to Host Law Diversity Law Day
As part of a continuing commitment to
diversity, the University of Nebraska College of Law will host a Diversity
Law Day from 4-6pm today in the Gallery Room of the Milo Bail
Student Center at UNO.
The free program, cosponsored by UNO's Office of Multicultural
Affairs, is open to students interested in learning more about law school.
For more information, call the College of Law admissions office at (402)
472-2161 or (800) 742-8800.
The program will provide information about preparing for law school,
the LSAT and the admission process, financing a legal education and career
opportunities. Guests will be able to visit with law students, faculty and
alumni.
LAW COLLEGE
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GPAC, HEWIT PLACE, 3:30PM
Plains Humanities Alliance's Seminar on Research and Region - 'Indigenous Autobiography in Australia and the U.S.A.'
Timothy Rowse, Australian Chair, Harvard University
N172 BEADLE, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry and Redox Biology Center Seminar - 'Structural Studies of Alginate Biosynthetic Enzymes from P. aeruginosa'
Dr. Lesa Beamer, University of Missouri
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SOFTBALL | 1:30PM
Huskers vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK
BASEBALL | 6:30PM
Huskers vs. Wichita State Shockers
HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK
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