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Tue, Apr 05, 2005

April 5, 2005

YESTERDAY
Poet Laureate Kooser Awarded Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Board announced today that Ted Kooser's Delights And Shadows was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. The award recognizes a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, and is accompanied by a prize of $10,000. Kooser, UNL professor of English, is the current Poet Laureate of the United States, as well as the author of eight full-length collections of poetry, nine chapbooks and special editions, and Braided Creek, a collaboration with Jim Harrison.

More than 2,000 entries are submitted each year in the Pulitzer Prize competitions, and only 21 awards are normally made. The awards are the culmination of a year-long process that begins early in the year with the appointment of 102 distinguished judges who serve on 20 separate juries and are asked to make three nominations in each of the 21 categories.

PULITZER PRIZE

NEBRASKA UNION, 1:30PM
University Libraries Host Talk on Fair Use

The University Libraries invites you to learn about the changing world of copyright and how it affects you. Dr. Jason Schultz, Staff Attorney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will give a presentation on recent court cases and contested examples of fair use as he explores what is at stake and what we can do to preserve this time-honored tradition in the digital age.

The lecture will take place in the Nebraska Union at 1:30 pm and it is sponsored by the University Libraries, Schmid Law Library, the Research Council, and the Convocations Council of the University of Nebraska--Lincoln. This presentation is free and open to the public.

UNL LIBRARIES VISITING SCHOLAR

NET TELEVISION
NPTV to Broadcast Nebraska, Creighton Baseball Game

Fresh off a three-game sweep of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Nebraska Huskers travel to Omaha to take on the Creighton Bluejays at Rosenblatt Stadium this evening at 6:30 pm. NET Television will be airing the game at on NET1 and in high-definition on NET-HD. The game will be the second of three played between the two teams this season (Nebraska won the first meeting 10-2 last Tuesday evening at Hawks Field in Lincoln).

The live diamond action will continue the next day when the Huskers host regional foe, the Iowa Hawkeyes, at Lincoln's Hawks Field at Haymarket Park on "Nebraska Baseball," at 6 pm April 6.

Calling the action for both games will be sportscasters Kevin Kugler and Adrian Fiala. Larry Punteney will provide field reports during the Nebraska vs. Creighton game.

NPTV

MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this week at the Ross: Moolaadé, The Assassination of Richard Nixon

UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Moolaadé, the Grand Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, and director Niels Mueller's debut feature film The Assassination of Richard Nixon, starring Sean Penn.

Extending the strong feminist consciousness that marked his previous triumph Faat Kin� (as well as such earlier classics as Black Girl and Ceddo), 81-year-old Ousmane Sembene directs Moolaadé as a rousing polemic directed against the stillcommon African practice of female circumcision. Though the subject matter might seem weighty, this buoyant film is anything but--Sembene places the action amid a colorful, vibrant tapestry of village life and expands the narrative well beyond the bounds of straightforward, socially conscious realism employing an imaginative array of emblematic metaphors, mythic overtones, and musical numbers.

In The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Sean Penn gives yet another remarkable performance as troubled soul Sam Bicke. As the Watergate scandal is breaking and President Nixon can be seen all over the television and newspapers, Bicke struggles to earn money as an office furniture salesman as he tries to win back his estranged wife, Marie (a brunette Naomi Watts). He has grand plans of starting a mobile tire store with his friend Bonny (Don Cheadle), but he is so blinded by truth and honesty that he stands in the way of his own potential success. His rage continues to build as he sees another man spending time with Marie and the kids until he cannot control it any longer and resolves to kill Nixon, whom he blames for all of society's ills. Based on true events, the film also deals with the racism and sexism that was rampant in the early-to-mid-1970s.

More information is available at the Ross website.

MRRMAC | MOOLAADÉ | THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON

E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar - Compositional properties of the vertebrate genome from an evolutionary perspective: 'Chores' or 'Isochores'
Dr. Dan Graur, University of Houston