NOVEMBER 19, 2004
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, NOV 15-19
University Celebrates International
Education Week
International Education Week will be observed
with a series of events at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nov.
15-19. Today's events include an International Talent Show/Performances/Fashion
Show at the The Crib in the City Union at 6pm and an International
Folk Dance from 8 - 10pm in Mabel Lee Hall, Room 310.
International Education Week is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department
of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote programs
that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future
leaders from abroad to study, learn and exchange experiences in the
United States.
"It has become very clear that broadening our international understanding is
critical," said Rod Paige, Secretary of Education. "This will mean renewed efforts
to encourage the study of foreign languages and cultures, and to provide opportunities
for all students to broaden their knowledge of the world." Secretary of State
Colin Powell added that, "People-to-people diplomacy, created through international
education and exchanges, is critical to our national interests. Americans who
study abroad expand their global perspective and become more internationally
engaged. Foreign students and individuals who participate in citizen exchanges
return home with a greater knowledge of our democratic institutions and America's
enduring values."
In observance of International Education Week, the UNL Office of
International Affairs will promote international education under
the theme "Nebraska Innovates Around the World." For more detailed
information and a full schedule of events, visit the International
Affairs Web site or call (402) 472-5358.
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BEHLEN OBSERVATORY, FRI 7PM - 10PM
Behlen Observatory Hosts Open Viewing
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Behlen Observatory near Mead will be open
to the public for viewing of the moon, the planet Uranus, a globular
star cluster, an open star cluster, the Ring Nebula, and several
double stars.
Provided the sky is clear, visitors will be able to view the moon,
the planet Uranus, a globular star cluster, an open star cluster,
the Ring Nebula, and several double stars through the 30-inch telescope
or other smaller telescopes set up outside of the observatory.
The first-quarter moon will be viewed early in the evening while
it is still high in the sky. At that phase the shadows on its surface
produce a vivid view of the craters, mountains and maria (or 'seas').
By comparing the view through the 30-inch telescope with that through
its finder telescope or the smaller telescopes, visitors can gain
a clear impression of the surface of our nearest celestial neighbor.
At various times throughout the evening, a member of the observatory
staff will give a slide talk describing the objects in the evening
sky.
BEHLEN
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MUELLER PLANETARIUM, SAT, SUN 2PM
Nebraska State Museum Presents Hubblevision
2
Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space
Telescope has provided incredible images in unprecedented detail
to astronomers, and made an astonishing array of discoveries from
nearby objects in the solar system to the most distant galaxies at
limits of the observable universe.
The best and most exciting Hubble images have been woven into an
engaging story of cosmic exploration, bringing the wonders of the
universe to audiences everywhere. HUBBLE Vision 2 is a fascinating
tour of the cosmos from Earth orbit.
In this all-new production, major themes in current astronomy and
cosmology are presented: new views of the planets; peeks into starbirth
nurseries; visions of stardeath in its many forms; explorations of
star clusters and galaxies; and views of the universe when the earliest
galaxies were first coming into being.
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WRESTLING |
FRI, 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Hofstra Pride
DEVANEY CENTER
WOMEN'S
BASKETBALL | FRI, 7:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Northern Colorado Bears
DEVANEY CENTER
RIFLE |
SAT, 8AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Mississippi Rebels
NEBRASKA RIFLE RANGE, MILITARY AND NAVAL SCIENCES
BUILDING
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER, SUN 7PM
Ross Presents Premiere of NETV-Produced NOVA Episode
The NETV-produced documentary
'NOVA: Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land' will debut at the Mary Riepma
Ross Media Arts Center in high-definition on Sunday, November 21.
A question-and-answer session with producer
Paula Apsell will follow the screening.
In this program, NOVA explores the last
refuge of one group of Bar-Kokhba's followers with an historian whose
bold theories have rocked the world of biblical archeology. The expedition
takes NOVA to a remote cave in the Judean desert, first excavated
by the famed Israeli archeologist Yigael Yadin in 1960-61. Yadin
uncovered a cache of ancient documents, human skulls, and artifacts
that shed new light on the Bar-Kokhba revolt, which resulted in the
Roman slaughter of 580,000 Jews.
Now, Jewish historian Richard Freund of the University of Hartford
returns to the cave, certain that the site still holds startling
secrets. The place is called the Cave of Letters, after one of Yadin's
most notable finds: letters from Bar-Kokhba himself and the haunting
personal archive of Babatha, one of several women who lived in the
cave along with dozens of children. Yadin also found pottery, coins,
cloth, and a dazzling collection of bronze ritual items, which, because
of their pagan designs, Yadin believed had been stolen from the Romans.
Convinced that Yadin's excavations were incomplete because of the
thick layer of debris five to 15 feet deep on the cave floor, Freund
organized an expedition equipped with state-of-the-art technology.
This included ground-penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography,
and a medical imaging endoscope adapted to search beneath boulders.
Freund's results have sharpened the picture of life and death in
the cave complex, which cuts more than 300 yards deep into a virtually
inaccessible cliff west of the Dead Sea.
Supplied with a clay oven, extensive provisions, and articles of
daily life, the Bar-Kokhba rebels were clearly intending long-term
occupation. Human bones found in the cave show no signs of trauma,
indicating that the residents probably starved to death.
But the most surprising outcome is Freund's new theory about the
bronze ritual items uncovered by Yadin. Based on fresh discoveries
and a cryptic inscription from a copper scroll found among the famous
Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s, Freund believes the bronze items are
not pagan, as Yadin held, but Jewish. And he speculates that they
might be the only surviving artifacts from Judaism's holiest site,
the Second Temple in Jerusalem. The Romans destroyed the Temple,
the center of Jewish worship, in the year 70, six decades before
the Bar-Kokhba uprising.
Freund hypothesizes that the cave was used multiple times as a refuge
and hiding place. After all, he says, 'How did they know that this
cave existed in 132 to bring all those people out here unless they
knew it from before? It's clear to me this was a well-known cave,
a cave that had been used before and [that] people talked about in
closed circles.'
More controversially, Freund's theory suggests that Jews of the era
assimilated decorative aspects of Roman mythology to the point of
including mythological figures on their holiest objects. Freund makes
a convincing case involving carbon-14 dating, comparison with other
artifacts, and the fact that pagan motifs are featured on the Temple's
great menorah as depicted on the Arch of Titus in Rome, which commemorates
the sack of Jerusalem.
Especially persuasive is the copper scroll's description of the site
of one hidden cache of Temple objects: 'In the Cave of the Column
of two openings, facing east, at the northern opening . . . is buried,
at three cubits, a ritual limestone vessel. In it is one scroll;
underneath is treasure.' This description fits very closely with
what Freund finds.
NETV | NOVA
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HOWELL THEATER, FRI, SAT 7:30PM
UNL's University Theatre Presents Dark
Comedy The House Of Blue Leaves
UNL Theatre's University Theatre completes
its fall semester season with John Guare's The House Of Blue
Leaves. Guest artist Gil Lazier directs the production, which
plays this evening at 7:30. Other performances are November 20 and
December 1, 2, 3, 4 at 7:30pm. The split schedule is due
to UNL's Thanksgiving break. All performances are in Howell Theatre,
first floor Temple Building at 12th and R Streets. Tickets are available
at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12th Street, Monday through
Friday 11:00am to 5:30pm and one hour prior to performance in Howell
Theatre lobby. The Ticket Office may be reached at 472-4747 or 800-432-3231. Tickets
for the sneak preview are $5.00 and may only be purchased at the
door. Regular performance tickets are $14.00 regular, $12.00 faculty/staff
and senior citizen, $10.00 student.
The House Of Blue Leaves is set on October 4, 1965, the
day the Pope first visited New York City. Zookeeper Artie Shaughnessy
(played by undergraduate theatre major Jeff Nathan) is on a quest
to revive his stalled show business career. A darkly comic look
at the underside of the American dream, The House Of Blue Leaves is
complete with Artie's delusional wife Bananas Shaughnessy (played
by undergraduate theatre major Caitlin Brandes) and his mistress
Bunny Flingus who talks a mile a minute (played by undergraduate
theatre major Brittany Leffler). A look at how people expect miracles
from fame and celebrity, Artie's son Ronnie (played by undergraduate
theatre major Brett D. Waldon) can't get famous by being in a movie,
so he seeks fame as a mass murderer.
Gil Lazier stated, 'I am happy to be in Lincoln to direct The
House Of Blue Leaves. The theatre program at UNL has a great
reputation and the show is an award-winning American classic. John
Guare's play is a very funny, very dark comedy about American life.
We're having a wonderful time working on the production, and are
eager to share it with our audiences.'
Lazier describes the play as "*not directly about politics or religion,
its themes touch on these dimensions of our lives as Americans. Guare's
America of 1965 was a nation at war, as we are today. We tend to
look to our current religious leaders for solace and inspiration,
as do Guare's characters. But The House of Blue Leaves deals with
even more basic human issues, our sometimes desperate need to succeed,
our assumptions that things are always better somewhere else, our
compulsions to validate who we are by what others think of us, our
aspirations for our '15 minutes of fame.'"
Dr. Gil Lazier is Dean Emeritus of the Florida State University School
of Theatre, where he served as Dean from 1982 to 1999. For the past
three years he was Director of the FSU/Asolo MFA Conservatory for
Actor Training in Sarasota. Under his leadership, the FSU School
of Theatre achieved international prominence as an academic program
of the highest excellence, consistently in top-ten listings by such
publications as US News & World Report.
As a theatre artist, Dr. Lazier has directed many dozens of productions
in the U. S. and abroad including musicals, new works and classics
by such masters as Albee, Brecht, Chekhov, Coward, Ibsen, O'Neill,
Pinter, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Stoppard and Williams. In Moscow,
his production of Neil Simon's "I Ought To Be In Pictures" played
for over ten years in Russian. He is a specialist in theories of
acting, especially those of Stanislavski. He is a member of the Society
of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
Dean Gil Lazier was awarded the two highest honors in his discipline,
election for life to the College of Fellows of the American Theatre,
comparable in theatre to the National Academy of Science; and the
National Theatre Conference, limited to 100 acknowledged leaders
in theatre in America.
Other cast members include Cecilia Stinner as Corrinna Stroller,
Carrie Brown as the Head Nun, Naomi Mitarai as the Second Nun, Jenny
Cary as the Little Nun, Seth Petersen as the M.P. Jeff Tinnean as
The White Man and well-known community actor Richard Nielsen as Hollywood
director Billy Einhorn.
The tech/design team is made up of graduate students Jeff Weber (scenery)
and Mike Legate (sound), undergraduate students Jaime Borchert (costumes),
Alicia Bailey (technical director) and Jennifer Dierking (stage manager). Faculty
member Heath Lane designs lights.
UNIVERSITY
THEATRE ARTS |
ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Playing this weekend at the Ross: Tying
The Knot, A Dirty Shame
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the John Waters' new film A Dirty Shame and the
documentary Tying The Knot, starting this evening at the
center, 313 N. 13th St.
From the wondrously fertile mind of writer/director
John Waters comes A Dirty Shame, America's first carnal
concussion comedy. Set in the Harford Road area of Waters' native
Baltimore, A Dirty Shame tells what happens when a horny
horde of "sex addicts" invade a blue-collar neighborhood, to the
shock and dismay of the "neuter" neighbors. Rude, joyous and full
of sexual anarchy, A Dirty Shame is a movie with a generous
heart and a dirty mind: in other words, a classic John Waters comedy.
When a bank robber's bullet ends the life of police officer Lois
Marrero, her wife of thirteen years, Mickie, is honored as her surviving
spouse but denied all pension benefits. When Sam, an Oklahoma rancher,
loses his beloved husband of 22 years, long-estranged cousins of
his late spouse try to lay claim to everything Sam has. As Mickie
and Sam's lives are put on trial, they are forced to confront the
tragic reality that in the eyes of the law their marriages mean nothing.
From an historical trip to the Middle Ages, to gay hippies storming
the Manhattan marriage bureau in 1971, Tying The Knot digs
deeply into the past and present to uncover the meaning of civil
marriage in America today.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | A
DIRTY SHAME | TYING
THE KNOT |
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CBA 222, FRI 1PM
Economics Department fall seminar series
- 'Public Spending on Education and the Incentives to Student Achievement'
William Blankenau, associate professor at
Kansas State University
210 FILLEY HALL, FRI 3PM
Agricultural Economics Seminar - 'Incentives
and Rational Choice - Evidence from Experimental Games'
Jason Shogren, University of Wyoming
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - Washburn Memorial
Lecture - 'F in Organic Chemistry'
Stephen DiMagno, UNL
117 BESSEY, FRI 3:30PM
Geosciences - T. Mylan Stout Lecture Series
- 'Prehistoric Human Impacts on Lake Nutrient Concentrations in Southern
Ontario'
Erik Ekdahl, UNL
EAST UNION, FRI 3:30PM
Entomology Seminar - 'Floral Relationships
With Bees'
Sasi Maliphan, graduate student, UNL
BESSEY HALL AUDITORIUM, FRI 3:30PM
Stout Lecture - 'Prehistoric human impacts
on lake nutrient concentrations in southern Ontario'
Erik Ekdahl, UNL
115 AVERY, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - 'From Linear
to Semilinear Wave Equations'
Petronela Radu, UNL
11 HOME ECONOMICS BUILDING, EAST CAMPUS,
FRI 5PM
Carpet Beetles: Patterns from the Orient
- A Slide Lecture
Jennifer Angus
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