FEBRUARY 9, 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 eligible 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 or offensive language
will not be accepted.
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L.W. CHASE HALL, 3:30PM
UNL School of Natural Resources Research Seminar - 'Methods for Remediation of Explosives-Contaminated Groundwater'
Matthew Morley, UNL
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar - 'Arabidopsis Genomics at TIGR in the Post-Sequencing Era'
Dr. Chris Town, Institute of Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland
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NEBRASKA UNION CENTENNIAL ROOM, 9AM - 4PM
UNL Hosts 2-Day Career Fair
More than 150 employers
will be in the Nebraska Union Centennial Room today and tomorrow for the
Career Services' Big Spring Career Fair, an annual event
that gives students an opportunity to explore full-time employment
and internship opportunities.
The event offers
opportunities to explore careers in business, liberal arts,
government and non-profit work today, and will offer information on engineering,
technical, scientific and technical professions tomorrow.
Wednesdays's employers include Ameritrade,
Gallup, Lincoln Public Schools, and many others. Career Services has a list of all
participating employers, as well as more information about the event on their web
site.
UNL Career Services' mission is to bring talent (students) and opportunity (employers) together for the mutual benefit of students, alumni, employers and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Our mission is to provide lifelong career assistance to all students and alumni in an ethical and professional manner.
There is no charge for the UNL Big Spring Career Fair, and all students are encouraged to attend.
BIG SPRING CAREER FAIR | CAREER SERVICES
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TIME WARNER CABLE
'An Evening With Ted Kooser' Airs Again
This Week
Ted Kooser's special Nebraska Lectures
event from Monday, February 7 will be rebroadcast on Lincoln Time Warner channels
5 and 21 with several showings during the next three days. The event was
co-presented by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the City of Lincoln
and afterwards Kooser was presented with a key to the city by Mayor Colleen Seng.
AIR DATES
Wednesday, Feb. 9
7:00 p.m. ch. 5 and ch. 21
Thursday, Feb. 10
10:30 a.m. on ch. 5
3:00 p.m. on ch. 21
9:00 p.m. on ch. 5
Friday, Feb. 11
10 a.m. on ch. 21
8:00 p.m. on ch. 5
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing 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; Vera's 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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