March 1, 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, 2PM
Communication Studies Colloquium - 'Ethnographic Research'
Gerry Philipsen
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry and Redox Biology Center Seminar - 'From Molecular Function to Biological Mechanism: Feature Analysis of Protein Active Sites'
Dr. Jacquelyn Fetrow, Wake Forest University
NEBRASKA UNION, 7:30PM
UNL Czech Komensky Club Lecture - 'Czech Music in South Omaha'
C.J. Svagera, UNL Music Major
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UNL CAMPUS
UNL Events to Celebrate Women's History Month in March
March is Women's History Month,
and it is also when the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Women's Center
coordinates the annual UNL Women's Week celebration. This year, the
Women's Week celebration is spread out over several days in conjunction
with Women's History Month, filling March with a series of events
that celebrate women, women's issues and women's contributions to
society. All are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
The week begins today with "Shakespeare's
Sister," which is a series of readings
of the works of women authors. This event will take place at Bailey
Library, 229 Andrews Hall, 9 am -
3 pm. People interested in reading can telephone or visit the Women's
Studies office, 472-9392, 1207 Oldfather Hall, to schedule a time.
On Tuesday, March 2, Farooka Gauhari will share her experience as an Afghan woman
searching for her missing husband, witnessing the deterioration of her home country
and struggling with the decreasing presence of women in Afghan politics. A reception
and book signing follow. This event will take place in the Centennial Room of
the Nebraska Union at 7:30 pm and is free with UNL ID. General admission
is $3. On March 3, award-winning author Dorothy Allison (Bastard Out Of Carolina)
will be giving a lecture entitled "Changing
the World One Story at a Time" It will take place in the Nebraska Union at 7:30
pm (room posted).
On March 4, 5, and 6, performances of "The Vagina Monologues" will take
place at The Loft at the Mill, 800 P St. General admission is $15; students and
seniors are $10. Reservations can be made by phone at 467-2278. A limited number
of tickets will also be available at the door.
On Monday, March 8, a panel discussion entitled "Immigrant and Refugee Women," will
be led by F.I.R.S.T. (For Immigrants and Refugees Surviving Torture) Project
staff members Maria Prendes-Lintel, Marie Chantal Kalisa and Oksana Yakushko.
It will focus on the unique issues facing immigrant and refugee women who
are survivors of government-sanctioned torture. This discussion will take place
in the Nebraska Union at 7 pm (room posted).
For more information,
and a full list of events taking place this month, go to the full Women's History Month Schedule.
FULL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH SCHEDULE
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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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