FEBRUARY 4-6, 2005
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FCLA WEB SITE
FCLA Presents Funniest Story Contest
The Freshman Campus Leadership Associates
is now taking entries on their website for a funniest freshman story
contest. All current UNL students are elligible to enter the contest,
but the embarrassing story, joke, or experience should be about freshman
year. The story must be under 500 words and entries can be made on
the FCLA
website.
Up for grabs are over $700 in prizes from a variety of Lincoln businesses, and the winner of the contest will be selected by members of the Freshmen Campus Leadership Associates. The deadline to submit an entry is Friday, March 11. Entries with lewd of offensive language will not be accepted.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Opening this week at the Ross: A Very Long Engagement, Vera Drake
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the newest film from Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, A Very Long Engagement and Vera Drake, the newest film from highly acclaimed director Mike Leigh.
A Very Long Engagement, is based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot. Screenplay adaptation by Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant.
The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisian halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl.
It tells the story of this young woman's relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiance, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.
The title character in Mike Leigh's new movie Vera Drake is a middle-aged cleaning lady (Imelda Staunton) who races through her London working-class neighborhood singing to herself. The time is 1950, and though the dark and depressed city still suffers from wartime austerities Vera brings the light. The short, pudding-faced woman drops in on invalids, offers a few words of sympathy, and then makes her way to the luxurious flats of the wealthy, whose objets d'art and fireplace grills she dusts and polishes, sometimes on her knees. Vera gives of herself freely and easily, and it is precisely in that selfless and attentive way\brisk, efficient, consoling\that, using a tube and a noxious solution, she terminates one unwanted pregnancy after another.
Working with an almost preternatural calm, Leigh sets up the repressive and sexually inarticulate atmosphere of the time; Verafs furtive activity is part of an entire system of shadowy reticence and embarrassed dithering. And Leigh captures, without sentimentality or condescension, the grave and stoical spirit of the English working class. The movie is hushed and intense; it evokes an entire way of life.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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ROSS MCCOLLUM HALL, SAT, FEB. 5, 9:30AM - 1:30PM
NU College of Law to host Diversity Law Day
As part of a continuing commitment to diversity, the University of Nebraska College of Law will host its annual Diversity Law Day on Feb. 5. It will be held a Ross McCollum Hall (Law College), located on the East Campus Loop and Fair Street.
his event is cosponsored by the Law School Admission Council as part of National Minority Law Student Recruitment Month, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Office of Academic Support and Intercultural Services, the College of Law's Black Law Students Association and Multi-Cultural Legal Society.
The Diversity Law Day program will be from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Ross McCollum Hall, East Campus Loop and Fair Street. The free program is open to students who desire to learn more about law school. For more information, call the Law College's admissions office at (402) 472-2161.
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 participate in a mock class and visit with law students, faculty and alumni.
"We are Nebraska's only public law school and, consequently, we feel strongly that we should serve all segments of the population," said Steven Willborn, dean of the College of Law. "Diversity at the college helps us to provide a better educational program and, in the long run, it helps to serve the bar and the state. We offer this program as one component of a multi-faceted diversity effort at the College of Law."
National Minority Law Recruitment Month is part of a campaign funded by the Law School Admission Council to raise awareness of minority recruiting issues facing law schools. While the number of minority law students steadily increased in recent years, only 7 percent of the nation's lawyers are people of color and less than one in 25 attorneys are African-American.
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UNL CAMPUS
Events to mark African American
HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Two events at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Malone Community Center are scheduled to commemorate African American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (Feb. 7). A bowling tournament will be held at the Nebraska East Union on Feb. 5, with proceeds benefiting the Nebraska AIDS Project and Camp Kindle. On Feb. 6, a Family Infotainment Festival is scheduled from 3-6 p.m. at the Malone Community Center, 2032 U St.
The bowling tournament will include three competition categories (greek, general student teams and community teams) with six-person teams competing for first- and second-place prizes in each category. The entry fee is $15 per team or two to three nonperishable food or pantry items for the Nebraska AIDS Project pantry. Entry forms will be available at an information booth in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 18-20, Jan. 24 and Jan. 26-27. Bowlers will receive T shirts as long as supplies last, and trophies will be awarded to the winning teams. In addition to food and entertainment, the event will offer free, anonymous and confidential HIV testing from 4 to 8 p.m. Health promotion materials and information will also be available, including "love safely" packets, magnets and African American HIV/AIDS ribbons.
The Family Infotainment Festival at the Malone Community Center will feature food, entertainment and health information. The festival is free and open to the public. For more information telephone (402) 474-1110.
"HIV/AIDS has had a disproportionate impact on the African American community," said Pat Tetreault, sexuality education coordinator at UNL's University Health Center and one of the organizers of the events. "What affects one of us directly impacts all of us indirectly. These events will provide a fun way to learn more and contribute to local organizations that work with individuals, children, friends and families affected by HIV/AIDS."
For more information about African American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, visit http://www.blackaidsday.org.
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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7:30PM
Mamma Mia! Continues Run at Lied
Center
Set to the songs of the pop
group Abba, Mamma Mia! is a musical that has played sold-out
shows all over the world to audiences that total more than 10 million
people. This week, the show comes to Lincoln for a string of performances
at the Lied Center For Performing Arts. The show this evening will
take place at 7:30 pm and will continue nightly at the same time
through Saturday, February 5. In addition to the evening shows, there
will be afternoon shows (starting at 2 pm) on Thursday, Feb. 3, Saturday,
Feb. 5, and Sunday, Feb. 6.
In Mamma Mia! a mother must
confronts her past as three men return to the Greek island they've
not visited for 21 years just as her 20-year-old daughter is about
to be married. The story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs propels
this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship.
Tickets for Mamma Mia! are $50-60 dollars and are available at the Lied Center box office at 12th and R, by phone at 472-4747, or online.
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HAYMARKET UNDERGROUND GALLERY
Student Artists Hold Independent
Show
'Alive in Lincoln,' an independent art show featuring the work of advanced undergraduate students
in the Fine Arts program at UNL, will have an opening reception this evening from 7 - 10pm in the
Haymarket. Billed as a 'Subterranean Art Show,' it will take place in the basement at 8th and Q
street, adjacent to the Starlight Lounge.
The artists
featured are Trudy Teijink, Megan Stratman, Ashley Goodwin, John
Skinner, Jenny Anderson, and Megan Ratchford. The show includes the
photographs, drawings, and paintings of the artists, as well as the
metal sculpture of Teijink and the ceramic sculpture of Ratchford.
The show will also be open on Saturday Feb. 5 and Sunday, Feb. 6 from 12 - 4pm.
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11 HOME ECONOMICS BUILDING, EAST CAMPUS, FRI, FEB. 4, 10:30AM
CEHS / Graduate Studies / Academic Affairs Lecture - 'Challenges and Changes in Doctoral Education'
Ann Austin, Michigan State University
211 FILLEY HALL, FRI, FEB. 4, 3PM
Agricultural Economics Seminar - 'Land Reform and Its Influence on Farm Income in Transition Economies: The Ukrainian Case'
Victoriya Onegina, Kharkiv State Technical University of Agriculture
BESSEY AUDITORIUM, FRI, FEB. 4, 3:30PM
Geosciences - T. Mylan Stout Lecture Series - 'Human Influences on Climate Began Thousands of Years Ago'
William Ruddiman, University of Virginia
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI, FEB. 4, 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - 'Structural Plasticity in Signaling Proteins'
Carol Post, Purdue University
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TRACK AND FIELD | FRI FEB. 4, 1PM, SAT FEB. 5, 10AM
Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational
DEVANEY CENTER TRACK
WOMEN'S TENNIS | FRI, FEB. 4, 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Iowa Hawkeyes
WOODS TENNIS CENTER
MEN'S BASKETBALL | SAT, FEB. 5, 10AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Kansas Jayhawks
DEVANEY CENTER
SWIMMING | SAT, FEB. 5, 1PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Missouri Tigers
DEVANEY CENTER POOL
WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS | SAT, FEB. 5, 7:30PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma Sooners
DEVANEY CENTER
WOMEN'S TENNIS | SUN, FEB. 6, 10AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Washington State Cougars
WOODS TENNIS CENTER
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL | SAT, FEB. 6, 3PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma Sooners
DEVANEY CENTER
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