April 13, 2005
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MAXWELL ARBORETUM, 12:30PM
Spring Walking Tour Hosted by Landscape Services
Join Grounds Supervisor Emily Levine for "Magnolias and
Dogwoods," the second in a series of spring walking tours in
Maxwell Arboretum on East Campus. Meet at the Loerch Gazebo on
the south side of Maxwell Arboretum at 12:30 pm today.
Call Landscape Services at 472-2679 for rain date.
Tour will last approximately one
hour.
The Maxwell Arboretum's trees and shrubs provide the greatest diversity of plant species on the campuses. Specialized collections of trees, shrubs, vines and perennial plants, sunny open prairie and trial sites for new cultivars all can be found in this exceptional area of the UNL Botanical Garden and Arboretum.
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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, 12:30PM
Czech Komensky Club Lecture - 'Japanese-Czech Relations'
Keiji Uehara
116 L.W. CHASE HALL, 3:30PM
UNL School of Natural Resources Seminar - 'Economics of Groundwater Regulation'
Dr. Ray Supalla, UNL
E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar - 'Engineering the Lawn Grass with Hyperactive Phytochromes'
Dr. Pill-Soon Song, Kumho Life & Environmental Science Laboratory, Gwangju, Korea, and emeritus professor, UNL
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BASEBALL |
1:05PM (DH)
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs North Dakota State Bison
HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK
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NET TELEVISION/RADIO, 7PM
Financial Expert Chris Farrell Answers Financial Questions
on NET Television and Radio
With the current discussion of potential changes to Social Security and timely concerns over increasing credit card debt, many of us have questions about how best to handle our money. Tune in tonight, when financial expert Chris Farrell answers your money questions during the live, one-hour call-in "Your Money: A Nebraska Connects Special," airing at 7 pm CT (6 MT) on NET1 (formerly the Nebraska ETV Network) and simulcast on NET Radio.
Viewers and listeners are encouraged to call in with questions or comments toll-free to 1-800-676-5446 (472-1212 in Lincoln), or send them via e-mail before or during the live program to neconnects@unl.edu.
Farrell, financial guru for the public radio series "Sound Money," will take questions on fiscal and investment subjects, as well as discuss such topics as "goof-proof investing," the biggest money mistakes and how to avoid them, and the best investments for 2005. Farrell will also talk about what every credit card user should know and how President George Bush's plan for changing Social Security will affect average Americans. NET Radio's Nancy Finken will co-host the program with Farrell.
A telephone bank of volunteers will take questions and comments for use on-air. Videotaped segments from Chris Farrell's television series Right on the Moneywill provide strategies for getting out of debt and ideas for how to plan a fulfilling retirement on a budget. In addition, an excerpt from President Bush's visit to Omaha to discuss his plan for Social Security will also be shown.
Farrell will also participate in an informal presentation/question-and-answer session before students and faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Business Administration, Room 214, on April 13 from 11:45 am. to 1 pm. The UNL event is free and open to the public.
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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
Kiné (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 |
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