March 28, 2005
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KRUGER GALLERY, ARCHITECTURE HALL
New Exhibit Opens at Kruger Miniatures Gallery
The Kruger Collection will present "A Global View of Interior Design," on display in Architecture Hall beginning March 28. The exhibition explores furniture use and design of various world cultures and the influence of outside cultures on American and European interior design. The exhibition will run through March 2006.
The Kruger Collection was founded in 1997 with the donation of Eloise Kruger's 20,000-piece collection of 1:12 scale miniatures. Kruger began assembling her collection in the late 1930s and it includes the work of top miniature artists including Eric Pearson, Eugene Kupjack, Bob Carlisle, Warren Dick, Mell Prescott and Betty Valentine.
A gallery opening will be 4:30 pm March 31 following an address by Susan S. Szenasy, editor in chief of Metropolis Magazine. In conjunction with the exhibition opening, volume five of In.Form, a journal of architecture, design, and material culture, will be available for purchase.
The Kruger Gallery is on the first floor of Architecture Hall-west. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm or by appointment. For more information or to schedule a tour, contact Amber Mohr, curator, 402-472-3560.
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225/226 L.W. CHASE HALL, 2PM
School of Natural Resources Climate & Bio-Atmospheric Sciences Group Lecture - 'Factors Affecting Agricultural Decisions Among Three Counties in Nebraska'
Lawren Graf
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UNL CAMPUS
UNL Participates in Severe Weather
Awareness Week
Severe Weather Awareness Week is scheduled for March 28- April 1. All employees are encouraged to participate in the statewide exercise March 30. The National Weather Service and Emergency Service Agencies for Lincoln/Lancaster County sponsor the statewide Severe Weather Awareness Week each year to foster awareness of of the upcoming tornado season and to test tornado-warning systems statewide.
The statewide tornado watch/warning test will be the morning of March 30. The simulated watch message will go out over all local radio and TV stations. If this were an actual watch message, it would mean that conditions were right for possible tornado activity and you should remain alert.
The simulated warning will be sounded between 10 and 11 a.m. At that time, the Emergency Services sirens for Lincoln/Lancaster County and the university's Tornado Warning Policy will be activated. The drill will end in 10 minutes.
UNL will participate with Emergency Services for Lincoln/Lancaster County and test its systems when the outdoor sirens are sounded. All faculty, staff and students are requested to familiarize themselves with the locations of their designated shelters and the procedures to follow should UNL be struck by a tornado.
We understand the disruption that such a drill may cause your classes and work. However, since Nebraska is in the tornado zone, we believe that it is important to join the city and county in their emergency planning exercise. Your cooperation is appreciated. For more information, contact Colleen Huls at 472-2131.
UNL TORNADO WARNING POLICY | UNL SEVERE WEATHER FAQ
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this Week at the Ross: Home
Of The Brave, The Woodsman
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents The Home Of The Brave, an award-winning documentary from Paola di Florio and director Nicole Kassell's second film The Woodsman, starring Kevin Bacon.
Home Of The Brave is about the only white woman murdered in the civil rights movement in America and why we don't know who she is. Told through the eyes of her children, the film follows the on-going struggle of an American family to survive the consequences of their mother's heroism and the mystery behind her killing. The film
links the personal and the political, the past and present and has a resonance to our world today. In its run on the festival circuit this year, Home Of The Brave has garnered a Best Documentary Award (Port Townsend), Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice Award for Documentary Film (Santa Barbara), an Audience Choice Award (Cleveland) and a prize for Outstanding Film with a Social Message (Maine). The International Documentary Association also selected the film to participate in its In Fact Theatrical Showcase which qualified the film for the 2005 Academy Awards and has also nominated it for the its own annual awards in the category of Best Documentary.
With a 12-year prison stretch reaching an end, convicted pedophile Walter (Kevin Bacon) faces an uncertain walk back into the free world in The Woodsman. The sensitivity with which the material in the film is executed derives from a potent mix of intelligently written source material, wonderful performances (with Bacon in particular putting in a career-defining turn), and an authoritative vision from director Nicole Kassell (The Green Hour). At the heart of the movie lies a desolate character, guilty of a crime shrouded in taboo, but hoping against all reason that society will accord him a modicum of absolution. A fascinating portrait of a life caught in a state of perpetual turmoil, this is an audacious second feature from Kassell.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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