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Wed, Dec 08, 2004

DECEMBER 8, 2004

NEBRASKA UNION, 4:30PM
Essay Contest Winners Chosen, Share $5,000 Prize Money

Five creative University of Nebraska-Lincoln students each won $1,000 (a $4 per word payoff) for their 250-word essays describing how they are engaged with their education. From 146 entrees, judges picked five winners in the Engage, Connect and Balance Essay Contest sponsored by UNL and Nebraska's Subway Restaurants. The winners will pick up their prizes during a reception at 4:30 today in the food court near Subway in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.

The winning authors:
Jennifer Edeal described in her essay how chemistry instructor Bill McLaughlin has "instilled a few new elements in my 'periodic table of life'." Edeal is a sophomore and a 2003 Lexington High School graduate.

Allisyn Jensen told how English instructor Hadara Bar-Nadav guided her to discover truth "through our writing, interaction with others, and reflection on ourselves." Jensen is a sophomore and 2003 Kearney Catholic High School graduate.

Patrick McAtee detailed how architectural engineering professor Lily Wang welcomed him to audit a class and "connected me with the larger scientific community." McAtee is a senior and 2000 Omaha Westside High School graduate.

Benjamin Polly wrote that because of professors like Eveline Baesu in engineering mechanics, "students like myself are being engaged, connected and are learning to balance their college experience in order to have a life-changing adventure..." Polly is a junior and 2002 Lincoln Southeast High School graduate.

Stephanie Sparks said communication studies instructor Rachel Friedman "engaged my scholarship, my humanity, and my understanding that each individual is an integral part in the fabric of modern society." Sparks is a senior and 2001 Lincoln Southeast graduate.

The winning essays may be viewed online at http://engage.unl.edu.

ENGAGE.UNL.EDU | UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, TODAY - FEB 27, 2005
Exhibit to Feature Thomas P. Coleman Award Winners

Susan Belau, Trial, 1997, three color intaglio,

Continuing today at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and showing through February 27, 2005 is the retrospective exhibit entitled 'A Printmaker's Continuing Legacy: The Thomas P. Coleman Award, 1989-Present.' This exhibition offers a selection of twenty prints, by past UNL printmaking students of the last two decades, who have benefited from the influence of one of UNL's great art educators.

Thomas P. Coleman's influence as a printmaker at UNL was cut short at his untimely death in 1971. However, through the establishment of the 'Thomas P. Coleman Award,' his impact is still felt today. This Award provides not only stipend for an undergraduate and graduate printmaking student in the department of art and art history at UNL, it also stipulates that the winning print become part of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery's permanent collection.

SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY

MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Concluding this week at the Ross: Nicotina, Woman Thou Art Loosed

UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Mexico's highest grossing film in 2003, Nicotina and the film Woman Thou Art Loosed, a screen adaption of the play by legendary revivalist pastor T. D Jake of South L.A.'s West Angeles Cathedral.

From the producers of Amores Perros comes Nicotina, a highly stylized crime caper set in Mexico City about a simple exchange that goes awry, causing the lives of nine unsuspecting characters to explode in one tumultuous night over a fortune in diamonds.

Diego Luna stars as computer hacker Lolo, who is infatuated with his neighbor Andrea (Marta Belaustegui) and catalogs her every move via high-tech peeping devices. Lolo teams with amateur criminals Tomson (Jesus Ochoa) and his younger counterpart Nene (Lucas Crespi) in a deal with a Russian mobster (Norman Sotolongo) that involves the exchange of diamonds for computer access to Swiss bank accounts. But the deal goes terribly wrong after Lolo's attempts to spoil Andrea's romantic trysts spiral out of control.

Down the street, the irritable pharmacist Beto (Daniel Gimez Cacho) and his fed-up wife Clara (Carmen Madrid) inadvertently become entangled in the exchange, along with the humble barber Goyo (Rafael Inclan) and his domineering other half Carmen (Rosa Maria Bianchi).

Infected with diamond lust, these characters become obsessed with the intoxicating possibility of an easy life and their greed quickly transforms into fiery desperation. When the haze finally clears, computers have been hacked, people have been whacked and lives have gone up in a cloud of smoke.

This R-rated Christian film about child abuse, drug addiction and murder is startlingly raw and honest, playing at times like one of those blistering Donald Goines blaxploitation pulp novels, only with Jesus. Directed with seamless competence by Hollywood veteran Michael Schultz (Car Wash), Woman, Thou Art Loosed is based on the fact-based novel and stage presentation of the same name by the legendary revivalist pastor T. D Jake of South L.A.'s West Angeles Cathedral. Jake, a preacher of improvisational genius, plays himself in the film as he counsels a death-row inmate whose story unfolds in smoothly integrated flashbacks. Michelle (Kimberly Elise) was fighting back valiantly from the effects of child sexual abuse and incarceration when she backslid with a vengeance.

More information is available at the Ross website.

MRRMAC | NICOTINA

FINALS DEC. 13-17
Last Week of Regular Classes

The last week of regular classes of First Semester 2004-05 at UNL begins today, and ends with classes this Saturday. Final examinations will be conducted Dec. 13-17, with commencement on Dec. 18.

Click the link to view the university's official policy on Final Examinations and Dead Week, from the Academic Services Handbook.

ACADEMIC SERVICES HANDBOOK

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Planetarium Temporarily Closed For Renovation

Due to a small electrical fire in a piece of equipment, the Mueller Planetarium will be closed until further notice for renovations. Although there was no major damage done, inspections and renovations will be taking place over the course of the next couple days in order to make sure everything is completely safe and compliant.

MUELLER PLANETARIUM