NOVEMBER 11, 2004
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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7:30PM
Comedian Mitch Hedberg to Perform at
Lied
The University Program Council will be
hosting comedian Mitch Hedberg this evening at
the Lied Center. Tickets are free to UNL students with a valid N-Card
and $10 for the general public
Hedberg developed his style in Florida and decided to try it out on
different audiences. He moved to Seattle and toured throughout the
Pacific Northwest honing his act in front of the new audiences. While
in Los Angeles, Hedberg booked his first television appearance on MTV's "Comikaze" by
walking into the MTV offices and personally pitching himself to the
talent coordinator.
Hedberg has made many appearences on talk shows, including several
on The Late Night Show With David Letterman and several
others. His performances helped him secure a development deal with
FOX to create his own sitcom and prompted Time magazine
to include him as one of the next generation of comedy stars. He
has just completed a reality show pilot for MTV and continues to
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ROCOCO THEATER, 9PM
Tommy Lee Performs Free 'Thank You'
Concert
As filming draws to a close for the proposed
reality television series starring Tommy Lee, the Rococo Theater
will be host to a 'thank you' show for the UNL campus community this
evening. Lee will be performing along with his band and the show
will also feature members of the UNL Marching Band as well as recording
artist B.T. Tickets for the show (while they last) are available
inside the Nebraska Student Union.
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110 HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar
- 'Hyperthermophilic Archaea: Their Role in Evolution, Gene Regulation
and Extreme Biology'
Paul Blum, UNL
115 AVERY HALL, 3:45PM
Computer Science and Engineering Colloquium
- 'The Complexity of Division'
Eric Allender, Rutgers University
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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 8AM - 5PM
University Hosts 15th Annual Math
Day Competition
The 15th annual University
of Nebraska-Lincoln Math Day will be Nov. 11 at the Nebraska Union,
1400 R St. Opening ceremonies will begin at 8am at the Lied Center
for the Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St., where UNL Chancellor Harvey
Perlman will give the opening address.
The purpose of Math Day is to stimulate
interest in mathematics among Nebraska high school students, to encourage
them to pursue mathematics or mathematics-based science careers,
and to recognize mathematical ability by awarding scholarships, certificates
and trophies.
Math Day consists of one individual and two team mathematics competitions,
information about majors and departments, career information and
recreational mathematical activities. The competition is expected
to draw more than 1,400 students from more than 100 Nebraska schools.
The Department of Mathematics and the College of Arts and Sciences
provide support. Scholarships are funded by a grant from the Gallup
Organization.
All students start with a multiple-choice preliminary exam called
PROBE I (Problems Requiring Original and Brilliant Effort). The top
50 move on to take PROBE II. The top 10 students in the PROBE II
competition are awarded four-year scholarships to UNL worth a total
of $34,000.
The first team competition result is based on the scores from PROBE
I. It is determined by adding the top three to five scores from each
school, depending on the school's class. The second team competition
is a double-elimination tournament pitting three-member teams against
one another. The team competitions are divided into four classes
by enrollment. Trophies are given to the top two teams in each class.
All the questions assume two years of high school algebra and one
year of geometry have been completed. However, the answers to PROBE
II questions require exceptional creativity and originality.
DEPARTMENT
OF MATH | COLLEGE
OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
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TO RENOVATE, EXPAND TEMPLE BUILDING
Entertainment Icon Johnny Carson
Announces $5.3 Million Gift to the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and
Performing Arts
EVENT VIDEO (QUICKTIME)
Perlman | Oliva | Fairfield
VIEW THE PLANS
Architect's drawings for the Temple renovation and expansion are viewable online at this link.
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Entertainment and television
icon and University of Nebraska alumnus Johnny Carson announced yesterday
a gift of $5.3 million to the University of Nebraska Foundation to
support the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts' Department
of Theatre Arts. The gift will support the renovation and expansion
of the Temple Building, located at 12th and R streets on the city
campus, and will create an endowment to keep performance spaces equipped
with the latest advances in lighting and sound technologies and assist
students and programs in the department. In recognition of this and
past gifts, the University of Nebraska will rename the Department
of Theatre Arts in Carson's honor.
The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts was established
in 1993 and includes the Department of Art and Art History, the Department
of Theatre Arts and the School of Music, as well as the Mary Riepma
Ross Media Arts Center. The University of Nebraska Foundation is
a non-profit corporation supplementing support for students, faculty,
facilities and programs at the University of Nebraska's four campuses
through gifts from alumni, friends, corporations and other foundations.
HIXSON-LIED COLLEGE OF FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS FILM THEATER
Intimate Strangers Concludes Theatrical Run
Patrice Leconte's 20th feature film Intimate
Strangers is playing its final week at the Mary Riepma Ross
film theater. The follow-up to his acclaimed Man on The Train is
a provocative love story masked in the guise of a suspense thriller.
A beautiful Parisian woman opens the wrong door and steps into a
dizzying psychological mystery that will forever change two lives.
It all begins when the troubled Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire) makes a
mistake on her way to visit a psychiatrist. Accidentally choosing
the wrong office, she is greeted by William Faber (Fabrice Luchini)
who, unbeknownst to Anna, is actually a mild-mannered tax accountant.
Anna explains that she has arrived in a state of personal emergency,
and, before William can protest, begins to expose the most intimate
details of her marriage and sex life. Startled and secretly riveted,
William does not have the heart to tell this distraught woman his
true identity. Playing along with her misconception, he accepts another
appointment as her therapist.
On her second visit, William tries his best to level with Anna, but
gets nowhere. Desperate to undo his error, William even attempts
to hunt Anna down, asking his neighbor, the psychiatrist she was
supposed to see – Dr. Monnier (Michel Duchaussoy) – for
her phone number, which only leads to William momentarily becoming
a patient of the endlessly philosophical doctor. Disappearing into
thin air, Anna becomes William's obsession. Then comes a third visit
in which Anna, aware now of who William is, angrily confronts him
with his ruse, accusing him of violating her trust and very being.
And yet ... she returns again. Soon, Anna and William have resumed
their weekly appointments in spite of everything. Neither can resist
going forward with this most unusual, and seemingly fated, form of "therapy." William
is moved and drawn out of his shell by hearing Anna's strange, juicy
marital secrets – feeling he is at last privy to the things
men almost never hear. Meanwhile, the more Anna talks, the more her
anxiety begins to lift – as she realizes she has met a man
who can listen like no one else she has ever encountered.
Yet when their sessions probe deeper, William becomes suspicious.
Who is this woman who speaks of crippling accidents and controlling
husbands? Is she in danger? Is she dangerous? Is she lying? William's
own motivations are equally suspect. Does he think he can rescue
Anna? Is he simply getting a voyeuristic thrill from her? Or is he
on the verge of falling perilously in love?
In a winding game of psychological cat-and-mouse, Anna and William
chase each other into places neither one ever expected - and form
a bond of trust that will change one another, encounter by encounter,
into new people.
MARY
RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER | INTIMATE
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