FEBRUARY 18-20, 2005
BEHLEN OBSERVATORY, FRI 7PM - 10PM
Behlen Observatory Hosts Open Viewing
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Provided the sky is clear, visitors to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Behlen Observatory during its Feb. 18 public night will view a variety of objects through the observatory's 30-inch telescope and other smaller telescopes. The observatory will be open from 7 to 10 pm. There is no admission charge.
Although comet Machholz is fading, it will still be visible through the telescope. Additionally, the moon, the planet Saturn and the Orion Nebula will be observed. The Orion Nebula appears to the unaided eye as a faint star in the constellation Orion. However, the telescope reveals a glowing cloud of hot gas with numerous embedded stars. This is a region where stars are forming and all of those visible in the telescope have recently coalesced from the cloud.
At various times throughout the evening, a member of the observatory staff will present illustrated talks about the objects visible in the evening sky and the objects to be observed through the telescopes.
Additional public nights are scheduled for March 11 and April 8. Groups of at least 10 persons can also arrange a special visit to the observatory. Further information can be found on the observatory web site or by calling Ed Schmidt, professor of physics and astronomy, at (402) 472-7304.
Directions to the Observatory:
From LINCOLN: Take U.S. 77 north to six miles past Ceresco, turn
east on Nebraska 63 and go eight miles to 10th Street (which is the
road to Mead). At that corner there is a large brown sign on the
left that lists a number of locations on the field lab, including
Behlen Observatory. Turn left and go one mile north to Avenue H.
Turn right on Avenue H and continue east two miles until you reach
Eighth Street. Turn left on Eighth Street and follow it north 0.6
miles to the observatory, which will be seen on the left.
From OMAHA: Take Nebraska 92 west to Mead. At Mead, turn south on
Nebraska Spur 78F and follow it about five miles to Avenue H. Turn
left on Avenue H and continue east two miles until you reach Eighth
Street. Turn left on Eighth Street and follow it north 0.6 miles
to the observatory, which will be seen on the left.
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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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210 FILLEY HALL, FRI FEB. 18, 12PM
Agricultural Economics Seminar - 'Rivalry in Price and Variety Among Supermarket Retailers'
Dr. Timothy Richards, Arizona State University East
105 OTHMER HALL, FRI FEB. 18, 2:30PM
Mechanical Engineering Seminar - 'Development of the Influence Function Method in Structural Mechanics'
Yuri Melnikov, Middle Tennessee State University
327 KEIM HALL, FRI FEB. 18, 3PM
Agronomy/Horticulture Seminar - 'Gardens and Golf'
Kim Todd
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI FEB. 18, 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - 'Drug Leads from Marine Cyanobacteria - Unlocking a Treasure Trove of Useful Natural Products by Chemical, Biosynthetic and Molecular Genetic Approaches'
William Gerwick, Oregon State University
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, FRI FEB. 18, 3:30PM
Entomology Seminar - 'Weed Seed Predation by Carabid Beetles'
Jeff Krumm, UNL
115 AVERY HALL, FRI FEB. 18, 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - 'Direct-sum Cancellation of Modules'
Roger Wiegand, UNL
UNITARIAN CHURCH, SUN FEB. 20, 7PM
2005 Winter Lecture Series - Palestine and Israel, Religions, Homelands and Cultures - 'Impact of Two Centuries of Colonialism on Islam in the Middle East'
Simon Wood, UNL
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HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
UNL Theatre Opens 2005 Season With Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
UNL Theatre's University Theatre opens its 2005 spring season with one of William Shakespeare's most popular romantic comedies Much Ado About Nothing. Performances are in Howell Theatre, first floor Temple Building at 12th & R Streets, February 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $14 regular, $12 faculty/staff and senior citizen, and $10 student/youth. Tickets are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12th Street, 472-4747 or 800-432-3231, 11:00 AM to 5:30 pm Monday through Friday and one hour prior to performance in the Howell Theatre lobby.
Don Pedro, Claudio and Benedick arrive in Messina to visit the governor Leonato. Claudio who quickly becomes enamored with her pursues Hero, Leonato's lovely daughter. Benedick, a sworn bachelor, can't understand the concept of being love-struck but does find the time to exchange witty insults with Beatrice, Leonato's niece. Borrachio, a follower of Don John the brother of Don Pedro, spreads the news of Don Pedro's plan to help Claudio in his quest for Hero. Don John plots to destroy this intended marriage.
A masked party creates plots and schemes, not only to connect Hero and Claudio, but also to trick Beatrice and Benedick into falling in love with one another. Dogberry and Verges, two comic officers, establish a night watch prior to Hero and Claudio's wedding. Don John pays Borrachio to seduce Margaret outside of Hero's window so that Claudio and Don Pedro will witness this display, thinking Margaret is Hero. Through a series of mistaken identities and plot twists, it is "much ado about nothing."
This production of Much Ado About Nothing introduces director Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts G. Valmont Thomas. A member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for seven years, G. Valmont Thomas worked with such acclaimed directors as Lillian Garrett-Groag, Mel Shapiro, Daniel Sullivan, Arne Zaslove, David Ira Goldstein, and Kenny Leon. In 20 years of performing Shakespeare, Mr. Thomas has played the title roles in Macbeth, Hamlet, and Othello, as well as Simonides in Pericles, Prince Of Tyre, Feste in Twelfth Night, Nym/Michael Williams in Henry V, Mistress Quickly in Henry IV Part 2, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.
Much Ado About Nothing also introduces UNL Theatre's new class of Master of Fine Arts students in the Professional Actor Training Program. Acquah Dansoh plays Leonato. Dansoh comes to Lincoln from Miami, Florida and has a BA in Theatre from Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. Ja'nelle Taylor plays Hero. Taylor hails from Baltimore, Maryland and did her undergraduate work at Frostburg State University. Beatrice is played by Rachel Charlop-Powers, a Bronx, NY native who comes to Lincoln after receiving her undergraduate degree from McGill University in Montreal. Flynt Burton plays Hero's handmaiden, Margaret. Burton is from Asheville, North Carolina where she most recently was Managing Director of New World Stage. Jim Hopkins plays the multiple roles of Steward and Dogberry. Hopkins has been seen on Lincoln stages in the Bob Hall productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest. He is a native of Aurora, NE but received his undergraduate degree in Theatre from Texas Christian University. Greg Parmeter plays Benedick. Parmeter, married to MFA Costume Designer Mandy Eilers, comes to UNL from Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Andrew Beck plays Borrachio, the follower of Don John. Beck received his BA from the University of Oregon. Understudies are husband and wife, Max Razdolskiy and Liubov Razdolskaya. They are studying in Lincoln after having completed work at the Schepkin School in Moscow, Russia.
Undergraduate theatre students Rachael Miller, Charisa Ramsey, Jesse Glasgow, Somer Sloan, Seth Petersen, Mikael Walter, Matt Miller, Brett Waldon, Rob Krecklow, and Jack Carpenter are also cast members.
New UNL Scenic Design faculty member Guowen Fang designs the production. Costumes are by graduate student Mandy Parmeter Eilers, who designs Much Ado About Nothing as her thesis project. Graduate students Cassie Vorbach and Jeff O'Brien design lighting and sound, respectively. Faculty members Heath Lane and Alisa Belflower are technical director and musical director, respectively. Undergraduate Taylor Bendgen is stage manager.
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LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE, SAT FEB. 19, 2 - 4:30PM
Opening Reception for Japanese Sword Collection of Prof. Peter Bleed Ph.D.
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Tsubas (sword guards), Japan
from the Collection of
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The Lentz Center for Asian
Culture is happy to announce its winter exhibition, "Steel Art: Japanese
Swords from the Collection of Prof. Peter Bleed, Ph.D.," beginning
February 15 through May 8th. An opening reception, free and open
to the public, will be held on Saturday, February 19th, from 2:00-4:30
pm.
Professor Bleed is an Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of Anthropology. He has been involved in studying Japan since his graduate school days at the University of Wisconsin when he wrote his dissertation on early Japanese ceramics. His studies have included numerous stays in Japan.
Well known as a sword collector, Professor Bleed has not shown his swords at the Lentz Center for more than a decade. During that time he has added to the collection. The exhibition will include a sword from the Han Dynasty in China (206 BCE-222 AD) and one from the Nara Period in Japan (645-749 AD). Most of the swords are from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The collection includes long and short swords, various types of blades, fittings and tsubas (sword guards). A samurai helmet and matchlock pistols will also be on display. Other relevant objects from the Lentz collections will be on exhibition as well.
Professor Bleed aided Donald and Velma Lentz in their founding and early management
of the Lentz Center for Asian Culture and is a member of the Center's Policy
Advisory Board. We are especially happy that he is sharing his collection with
the museum.
The Lentz Center for Asian Culture recognizes the rich and varied cultures of
the many diverse peoples of Asia. As an entity within the University of Nebraska
- Lincoln, the LCAC's unique collection provides a singular opportunity for enhancing
instructional programs on the campus as well as enriching the cultural environment
of the citizens of the State of Nebraska. It is dedicated to the enrichment of
knowledge and understanding of Asia, and is the only institution in Nebraska
devoted solely to Asian art.
The Lentz Center is located in the lower level of the Hewit Place building, across from the Lied Center for Performing Arts, at 1155 Q Street. Hours are 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Friday, 11 am to 5:00 pm Saturdays and 1:30 to 4 pm Sundays. It is closed Mondays.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Opening this week at the Ross: Bad Education, Brother To Brother
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Bad Education, the newest film from celebrated Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, and Brother To Brother, the winner of the special jury prize for drama at the Sundance Film Festival
In All About My Mother and Talk
to Her, Pedro Almodóvar deepened Hollywood's screwball
comedy tradition with unpredictable bursts of violence, melodrama,
and theatrical irony. Here, he performs the same trick on film noir.
In Bad Education, the hero-victim Ignacio (Gael Garcia Bernal),
like many recent Almodóvar protagonists, alters his destiny
by turning his experiences into a work of art.
His short story "The Visit" tells of the revenge he dreams of taking against his femme fatale (a pedophile priest) and of his childhood love for a boy named Enrique. "The Visit" comes into the hands of the grown-up Enrique (Fele Martónez), a successful gay filmmaker who is tempted to rework his own erotic-romantic past with Ignacio in both art and life. Bad Education reconfirms Pedro Almodóvar as one of our greatest directors.
Brother To Brother is a feature length narrative film which follows the emotional and psychological journey of a young Black gay artist as he discovers the hidden legacies of the gay and lesbian subcultures within the Harlem Renaissance.
After being found in an intimate, sexual encounter with another young man, Perry is thrown out of his house by his family and forced to survive on his own. As he struggles to hold on by working in a homeless shelter and trying to maintain a college scholarship, he is haunted by his homosexuality and becomes increasingly withdrawn due to his family's rejection of him and their condemnation of his desires. As his friend Marcus is performing his new poetry for him, an elderly man, Bruce, appears seemingly out of nowhere and begins reciting verse to them. He disappears just as quickly and elusively as he arrived, before they get a chance to talk to him. In his library research for a class project, Perry finds a book about the Harlem Renaissance and recognizes a poem ("Smoke, Lilies and Jade" by Bruce Nugent) as the same one that the elderly man was reciting.
They encounter each other again at the homeless shelter where Perry works. He confronts Bruce about who he is and begins to ask him about the Harlem Renaissance. They go on a literal and metaphorical journey to the house that was known as "Niggeratti Manor" which was the creative center for the younger, rebellious generation of the Harlem Renaissance as they created their revolutionary literary journal, "Fire!". Although the house is now dilapidated, we are transported through the landscape of Bruce's memories of the glory days of the Harlem Renaissance. Perry learns about the lives and personalities of Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Aaron Douglas and sees how they became a surrogate family for Bruce. Perry begins to recognize this era as his history. He sees the pride that Bruce exuded in those times in terms of being Black, gay and unashamed. His pride and self-esteem begin to have an empowering effect on Perry as he gains a stronger sense of his identity. As the story progresses, we witness the transformative power that they have on each other's lives through their shared passion for art and storytelling.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | BAD EDUCATION | BROTHER TO BROTHER |
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WRESTLING | FRI FEB. 18, 4:30PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Air Force Falcons
DEVANEY CENTER TRACK
WRESTLING | SAT FEB. 19, 6PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Iowa State Cyclones
DEVANEY CENTER TRACK
MEN'S BASKETBALL | SAT FEB. 19, 8:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Missouri Tigers
DEVANEY CENTER
MEN'S GYMNASTICS | SUN FEB. 20, 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma Sooners
DEVANEY CENTER
WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS | SUN FEB. 20, 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Utah Utes
DEVANEY CENTER
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