May 6-8, 2005
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KEEP CONSTRUCTION IN MIND
UNL Recommends 27th Street Entrance for Commencement
The ongoing major construction of the Antelope Valley Project will severely limit access from the west and south to the Bob Devaney Sports Center for University of Nebraska-Lincoln commencement exercises on May 7.
UNL officials urge those planning to attend the 9:30 am ceremonies to use the 27th Street entrance to State Fair Park and park in the paved lots east of the Devaney Center. Handicap accessible shuttle buses will be available for easy access to the Devaney Center entrance. Handicap permit parking will be available on the north side of the Devaney Center.
A drop-off area for graduates and mobility-restricted guests will be available on the south side of the Devaney Center on May 7. Sign-language interpreters for hearing-impaired individuals will be provided through the HuskerVision screens. Reserved seats for guests who are ambulatory restricted will be available next to the stage on the arena floor, as well as in Section B-11. Guests in wheelchairs will be seated on the northeast corner of the arena floor. Golf carts will be at the ramps on the exterior north and south sides of the Devaney Center to assist disabled guests entering and leaving the building.
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KFOR RADIO, FRI 5:50PM
New UNL Perspective Feature Broadcast Begins Today
KFOR Radio begins a new feature Friday
with "A University of Nebraska-Lincoln Perspective." Tune in to
KFOR 1240 AM at 5:50 pm Friday, May 6. This week Chancellor Harvey
Perlman encourages the Legislature to consider the importance of
UNL to economic development, as lawmakers consider ways to fund
business incentives. Download this segment as an MP3 file here. (1.5MB)
The series will feature opinions of members of the UNL community and will air periodically on KFOR and campus radio station KRNU.
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201 BRACE LAB, FRI 1:30PM
Center for Materials Research and Analysis / NSF-MRSEC Seminar - 'Micromagnetic Modeling of Advanced Giant Magnetoresistive Devices'
Dr. John Oti, Euxine Technologies, LLC, Dayton, Ohio
RICHARDS AUDITORIUM, FRI 5PM
Harold E. Spencer Professorship in Modern
Languages and Literatures Inaugural Lecture - 'Spanish Realism and
American Modernists'
Harriet S. Turner, Director of International Affairs
and faculty member in Spanish at UNL
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BASEBALL |
FRI 6:35PM, SAT 2:05PM, SUN 1:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Missouri Tigers
HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK
TRACK AND FIELD |
SAT 2:30PM
Nebraska Invitational
DEVANEY CENTER TRACK
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DEVANEY CENTER, SAT 9:30AM | STREAM
2,100 to Receive Degrees at Saturday's Commencement
Chancellor Harvey Perlman
will preside over UNL's commencement ceremonies on Saturday,
May 7 at 9:30 am in the Devaney Center. Degrees will be awarded
to approximately 2,100 individuals.
An honorary doctor of humane letters degree will be awarded to Douglas Bereuter, president of the Asia Foundation and former 26-year U.S. representative from Nebraska. Bereuter will also deliver the commencement address.
The Nebraska Alumni Association will recognize Don Blank (D.D.S., 1960) of McCook and Lynne Morian Grasz (B.S., 1966) of New York City with Distinguished Service awards. The awards honor individuals with exemplary records of service to the Alumni Association and the university.
The University of Nebraska College of Law will have a separate graduation ceremony beginning at 3 pm, May 7 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. Dean Steven Willborn will preside at the ceremony. The speaker will be veteran civil rights attorney Fred Gray of Tuskegee, Ala. Gray first gained national attention at age 24, when he represented Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus, the action that initiated the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Gray was also Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s first civil rights lawyer.
Recipients of doctoral degrees will be honored in a doctoral hooding ceremony beginning at 3:30 pm May 6 at Kimball Recital Hall. Approximately 82 doctoral candidates are expected to participate. They will receive their diplomas at the May 7 commencement exercises.
All ceremonies are free and open to the public, and tickets are not required. The May 8 commencement exercises will be streamed live from
the Devaney Center through a link at this site. more...
COMPLETE LIST OF GRADUATES
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GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
Public Invited to Meet Western Artists, Purchase Works
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Nadine McHenry - "Evening Serenade"
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The Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the Great Plains Invitational Arts Show and Sale May 6 through 15 at the museum, 1155 Q St. At a free opening reception 6:30-8:30 pm May 6 at the museum, the public is invited to meet the artists represented in the show: Michael Albrechtsen, Steve Elliot, Dan Garrett, Ted Long, George Lundeen, Andy Peters, Del Pettigrew, Martha Pettigrew, Gail Sundell and Vince Valdez.
"These are internationally known artists representing work that Nebraskan's might not otherwise have a chance to see," said Reece Summers, curator of the museum.
Sculpture and paintings will be sold, with commissions going toward purchase of additional pieces for the museum's permanent collection of Western art.
The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Center for Great Plains Studies.
Items for sale may be viewed during regular museum hours. The gallery is free and open to the public, 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Saturday; 1:30 to 5 pm Sunday. Closed Mondays and major holidays. For more information call (402) 472-6220 or visit the Great Plains Art Museum web site.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week at the Ross: The
Sea Inside, Nobody Knows
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents The Sea Inside, the newest film from director Alejandro Amenábar and
Nobody Knows, a new film starring Yuya Yagira (who was named Best Actor at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival).
Javier Bardem gives a remarkable, unforgettable performance in Alejandro Amenabar's gripping drama about dying with dignity, The Sea Inside. Thirty-five-year-old Bardem plays 55-year-old Ramon Sampedro, a Galician who broke his neck as a young man and has spent more than a quarter of a century as a quadriplegic, confined to bed. Reflecting on his past and considering his future, he chooses to die, petitioning the courts for permission to be euthanized. His radical decision sets off controversy throughout Spain--as well as in his own house, where his family and friends all have different opinions on the fate he has chosen. While Ramon's father (Alberto Gimenez) and brother (Celso Bugallo) refuse to help him die, and his nephew, Javi (Tamar Novas), tries to understand his uncle's decision, Ramon is surrounded by women who virtually fight over him--Rosa (Lola Duenas), a single mother of two who visits him to talk about her difficult life; Manuela (Mabel Rivera), his sister-in-law who takes care of his daily needs; Gene (Clara Segura), who works for the Death with Dignity organization; and Julia (Belen Rueda, in a powerful film debut), a married lawyer with a secret of her own.
Yuya Yagira was named Best Actor at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for his moving portrayal of the older brother trying desperately to support his three younger siblings in writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda's masterful work Nobody Knows. Kore-eda (Maborosi, After Life) also produced and edited the film, which was nominated for the Palm d'Or and was Japan's entry for the Academy Awards. Yagira stars as Akira, a determined and resourceful 12-year-old boy forced to take care of Kyoko (Ayu Kitaura), Shigeru (Hiei Kimura), and Yuki (Momoko Shimizu) every time their mother, Keiko (Japanese pop star and TV actress YOU), goes away for extended periods of time. In order to remain in their new apartment, the three younger children are not allowed outside or else the landlord, who does not know they live there, will evict them. Akira tries to teach his sisters and brother, as none of them attends school, with varying success. They have no friends, save for Saki (Hanae Kan), an offbeat outsider. When Keiko disappears and the money starts running out, the children are faced with severe problems, and tragedy lurks. Kore-eda based this powerful tale on a true story of abandoned children, and he has filmed Nobody Knows with a documentarian's eye, lending it added reality that makes it that much more heartwarming and, ultimately, heartbreaking.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE SEA INSIDE | NOBODY KNOWS |
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