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Thu, Jan 20, 2005

JANUARY 20, 2005

KIMBALL HALL, JAN. 27, 3:30PM
Installation Program to Conclude With Panel Discussion at UNL

As part of a a number of events spanning two days, four cities, and 956 miles, James B. Milliken will conclude his installation program by moderating a panel discussion on the future of higher education at Kimball Hall at 3:30 pm on January 27.

Other participants will include: Molly Corbett Broad, president of The University of North Carolina; Peter Magrath, president of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges; Linda Pratt, professor and chair of English at UNL, and Graham Spanier, president of The Pennsylvania State University and former UNL chancellor. The panel will be followed by a public reception at the Van Brunt Visitors Center at 5 pm. Members of the public who wish to attend this or any other installation event are requested to RSVP via the Web at http://www.nebraska.edu/

INSTALLATION SCHEDULE

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Week Continues With Day of Activities

Activities for Martin Luther King, Jr. Week continue today at UNL with several different displays, presentations, and discussions. From 8am to 5pm, the City Union will be continuing to display work created by NPHC, IFC, NPC, MGC that reflects on the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Also on display is a time line of student activism at UNL.

From 12 - 7pm, the Student Alumni Association is sponsoring a Paint-a-thon at the home of an elderly or disabled person in the Lincoln community. To get more specific information about the location, visit http://www.saa.huskeralum.com or call 472-2841. At 12:30pm in the City Union Rotunda Gallery, there will be a Brown Bag Panel Discussion entitled 'Reparations for Slavery in America.' UNL political scientists Michael Combs, D'Andra Orey and David Forsythe will moderate.

The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Auditorium will be showing the film Not In Our Town, a documentary about Billings, Montana residents who responded hate violence by standing together for a hate-free community. This event will take place at 3:30pm and will be moderated by Gina Matkin, Assistant Director of Nebraska Union. Closing the events for the day is a talk entitled 'White People Dismantling Racism.' Jennifer Holladay, of the Southern Poverty Law Center is the guest lecturer and the event will take place in the Nebraska Union at 7pm.

MLK JR WEEK AT UNL

MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this week at the Ross: The Machinist, Undertow

UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents the psychological thriller from Brad Carpenter entitled, The Machinist and Undertow, the newest film from talented young director David Gordon Green.

In The Machinist Christian Bale plays Trevor Reznik, a man who can barely tell whether he exists anymore. He hasn't slept for a year and he is so thin he is practically disappearing. He knows he is on the run from somebody--but he can't figure out whom. Believing that he's the center of an evil plot, he races from his job to his girlfriend to the local diner looking for clues.

Undertow is a new, uniquely American dramatic thriller from director David Gordon Green starring Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Dermot Mulroney, and newcomer Devon Alan. The film is a rough-and-tumble departure for Green, whose first two movies, George Washington and All the Real Girls, drew worldwide acclaim for their quiet, lyrical sensibility. With Undertow, Green marries action, dirt, sweat, and drama as he spins a tale of the violent legacy between two generations of brothers.

More information is available at the Ross website.

MRRMAC | THE MACHINIST | UNDERTOW

REAL NEBRASKA WEB SITE
Voting on Fifth Round of Real Nebraska Videos Continues

Voting on the fifth round of the Fall 2004 Real Nebraska video contest continues today on the Real Nebraska website. Using the theme "There is No Place Like Nebraska," entries were taken from full time UNL students and/or teams of full time UNL students.

In addition to three monetary prizes, winners of the contest will be screened at a film festival that will take place in March at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. All entries will be shown and the "Viewer's Choice" winners, as well as the Grand Prize winner, will be announced at this event. The festival will be open to the public and the campus.

REAL NEBRASKA