FEBRUARY 28, 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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438 OLDFATHER HALL, 12PM
Communication Studies Colloquium - 'America's Conversation About Difference: Case Studies of Problematic Racialized Interactions'
Gerry Philipsen
NEBRASKA UNION, 1:30PM
Progress on the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning: A National Perspective
Barbara Cambridge (AAHE) and Pat Hutchings (Carnegie)
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UNL CAMPUS
Eating Disorders Awareness Week is Feb. 28-March 4
A week for "Love Your Body" is planned in observance of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Feb. 28-March 4 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
This marks the ninth year NU has observed the week. The Eating Disorders Education and Prevention Student Association planned all activities sponsored on campus and hope the week will help foster healthy ideas and encourage students to develop self-esteem and self-respect based on wellness principles. All events are free and open to the public.
The week begins with a performance by
Broadway actress Eva van Dok in "Eaten Alive" at 7:30 pm tonight
in the ballroom of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. "Eaten Alive" is
a 55-minute, one-woman theater piece that presents the lives of five
women in different stages of life, all of whom suffer from different
eating disorders. This piece shows the behaviors, thought processes
and lifestyles of the women in a way that illuminates the emotional
dynamic of each character as they live and function with their disorder.
Van Dok, a recovered anorexic/bulimic, will also engage in a talk-back
session at the end of the performance. Counselors will also be available
to speak one-on-one with students.
"Love Your Body" week also includes a "Body Bazaar: Uniting Body, Mind and Spirit" on
March 1. A collection of booths from UNL and Lincoln organizations will provide
information on health and fitness, stress management, student services and other
issues. The Body Bazaar will be in the main floor lounge of the Nebraska Union
from 10 am to 2 pm
Charlie Foster will present "Looking at Body Image Through Different Eyes: Cultural
Insight" at 7 pm March 2 in the Nebraska Union. A movie night will be held
on March 3 beginning at 7 pm in the Nebraska Union. The week's activities will
conclude on March 4 with a campuswide "Fearless Friday," which will celebrate
a day without dieting, and a brown bag presentation "Harmful Cocktails" at noon
at the Nebraska East Union.
Throughout the week, there will be displays sponsored by EDEP Media Awareness in the Nebraska Union and Campus Recreation Center. These include a life-size Barbie and GI Joe display, "Know Your Numbers," "Myths and Facts" and the "Great Jeans Giveaway."
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is an annual outreach campaign sponsored by the National Eating Disorders Association, a nonprofit organization. Love Your Body Week is sponsored by the Eating Disorders Education and Prevention Student Association, Students Helping Individuals Nurture Esteem, Greeks Promoting Positive Attitude, the Pepsi Endowment Fund, the University Health Center, Campus Recreation Center, Parents Association and Afrikan Peoples Union. For more information, visit the University Health Center Web site.
UNL HEALTH CENTER
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing 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.
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