August 9 - August 21, 2005
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BUILDING ABBREVIATIONS INDEX
The Long And Short of UNL Buildings
The start of the new school year also can bring confusion with locations for those not familiar with building abbreviations. For a list of City and East Campus building abbreviations and their locations on the UNL campus map, please follow
this link.
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ANTELOPE VALLEY PROJECT CONTINUES
Traffic Snarls Expected During Move-In
Back-to-campus time at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
will again see thousands of students moving back in to their residence halls
in the space of a few days. Visitors and Lincoln residents should be aware of
minor traffic delays in the City Campus vicinity because of closing of lanes
and some congestion from move-in traffic, in addition to inconveniences from
the ongoing Antelope Valley construction.
Motorists traveling through campus will find narrowed driving lanes on 16th, 17th and Vine streets. Students and parents should plan for delays as parking near many residence halls is limited. Students and parents have been advised to use drop-off, move-in parking for 1 hour only near their assigned residence halls, and to visit the UNL Housing move-in Web site, www.unl.edu/housing/movein, for the latest information on assigned parking for each residence hall. The special move-in zones are limited to 1-hour parking; after that, vehicles are required to move to alternative parking locations. more...
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MUELLER PLANETARIUM, TUE-SUN 2PM
Mueller Planetarium Hosts "Point Of No Return"
Journey with Mueller Planetarium into a universe of bizarre monsters as the planetarium explores quasars and supermassive black holes in a new show: "Point of No Return." The feature delves into the story of quasars, the most powerful steady sources of energy in the universe. Quasars are powered by supermassive black holes with masses millions to billions of times the mass of our sun. It is only within the last few years that astronomers have been acquiring a more complete picture of quasars. "Point of No Return" uses powerful graphics to represent some of the newest discoveries.
The new show, which will be in shown in planetariums around the country, was created by Mueller Planetarium and produced with financial support from the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute. It is a collaborative effort between members of the Mueller Planetarium staff, and UNL quasar research group members Martin Gaskell, Mary Hiller, and Elizabeth Klimek. The late Thomas Gehringer, director of the Burke High School planetarium in Omaha, served as the educational consultant to the show. The show is dedicated to his memory. The music is by award-winning composer Mark Petersen. The new program is the first produced entirely digitally by Mueller Planetarium.
The Mueller Planetarium showings of "Point of No Return" are preceded by an introduction to the current night sky's constellations and planets. The entire presentation lasts approximately 35 minutes.
Admission to Planetarium Astronomy Shows is $6 for Adults and $4 for all Children and UNL students. This price includes museum admission. All tickets are sold at the front desk of the Museum once the Museum opens for the day. Mueller Planetarium is located in the University of Nebraska State Museum (Morrill Hall) at 14th and U. Streets on the UNL City Campus.
MUELLER PLANETARIUM
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SCHOOL YEAR ALMOST HERE
Big Red Welcome Features 3 Days Of Events
UNL's Annual Big Red Welcome will be held the weekend preceding the start of Fall Semester 2004-2005. The event is the annual kickoff for the academic year, blending entertainment with last-minute orientation.
On Friday, Aug. 19, students will get a taste of
Cornhusker spirit with the University of Nebraska Marching Band, cheerleaders,
mascots and athletes at Memorial Stadium with a Tunnel Walk and Pep Rally immediately
following. A 'Party at the Rec' will also be held that evening, followed by
'Midnight at the Movies'.
Serious fun turns just serious with Class Schedule Tours, available on Saturday
and Sunday, Aug. 20 and 21, in the early afternoon. These tours familiarize
students with campus and give them an opportunity to plan their routes from
one class to the next.
Seriousness gives way to fun again on Saturday night with a concert featuring
the band Pomeroy, a dance, and a midnight pancake breakfast at the Nebraska
Union and the Memorial Plaza.
On Sunday, Aug. 21 at 5:40pm, Chancellor Harvey Perlman and the Student Government
President invite students to Street Fair Kickoff, after which the evening
street fair will be held on R Street to give students a taste of the diverse
dining, shopping and entertainment options available to them in Lincoln.
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
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GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
Gude, Murphy Exhibition Continues
This Week At Great Plains Art Museum
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Deborah J. Murphy, "The Silence Is Golden" 2005, prismacolor on board
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Parallel exhibitions featuring
the work of two Great Plains artists will open June 3 and run through
July 31 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art
Museum.
"From the Heart of a Regionalist: Paintings by Anthony Benton Gude"
will include nearly 60 works, mostly oil paintings, but also a number of
watercolors and drawings.
"WaterWays & Other Perspectives" will feature 13 Prismacolor drawings
by Deborah J. Murphy of Omaha, all completed in the last two years.
Both artists will be featured at an opening reception from 7-9 pm
June 3 at the museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place. The receptions and
exhibitions are free and open to the public.
"These are two wonderful exhibits and each is powerful in its own
right, although they do complement each other in some ways," said Reece
Summers, curator of the museum. "The two artists work with different
materials, Gude mostly with oils and Murphy with Prismacolor pencils, but
both look at the landscapes of the Midwest and Great Plains, and the
interactions of humans with the natural world."
Gude attended the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston in
1986-87 and later studied at the Art Student's League in New York City,
focusing on drawing and paint. He mastered the Venetian technique of oil
painting, a system that employs the use of monochromatic under painting to
develop form and composition before the color is painted on. The many
layers of paint give the final result a stronger body.
His recent commissions include four historical murals covering 480
square feet for the St. Joseph River Boat Partners in St. Joseph, Mo.; "The
Benton," a portrait of a stern-wheeler, for The River Club in Kansas City,
Mo.; and a mural, "A Century of Service," 8 feet by 12 feet, and five
paintings of various Kansas themes for Western Resources in Topeka, Kansas.
Gude and his family live on a small farm in southeastern Marshall
County, Kan. (county seat Marysville). The farm was originally purchased in
an unusual fashion by his grandfather, muralist Thomas Hart Benton
(1889-1975). Benton painted a picture of the farm's barnyard and silo, sold
the painting and purchased the farm with the proceeds of the sale.
A native of North Platte, Murphy has been a professional artist for
more than 30 years and has shown extensively around the Midwest, where her
work has been collected both publicly and privately. She is known primarily
for her Midwestern landscapes, and in recent years has come to prefer using
Prismacolor pencils to capture the texture and colors of prairie
vegetation. She uses poster board of a particular texture that allows her
to build many layers of color.
Murphy, who earned a bachelor's degree in music education at the
University of Nebraska at Kearney (then Kearney State College), was the
recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in painting in
1994 and a Distinguished Achievement Grant from the Nebraska Arts Council
in 1998.
The Great Plains Art Museum is part of the Center for Great Plains
Studies at UNL. It is open from 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Saturday
and 1:30-5 pm Sundays. It is closed Mondays.
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Opening This Weekend at the Ross: Mad
Hot Ballroom Mysterious Skin.
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the fan favorite documentary
Mad Hot Ballroom, and the newest film from director Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin
Tango, foxtrot, swing, rumba, and meringue may seem to represent the last vestiges of a dying art to some, but director Marilyn Agrelo proves this is far from true in Mad Hot Ballroom. Agrelo reveals that the New York City public school system runs a ballroom dance program for fifth graders, in which these former preserves of the adult world are given a new lease on life by some enthusiastic little characters. The film follows students at three schools in the neighborhoods of Tribeca, Bensonhurst, and Washington Heights, with Agrelo training her cameras on the kids' lives both inside and outside of the classroom. The students are united by a zeal for the ballroom dancing lessons, which build over a 10-week period and culminate in a competition to find the school that has produced the best dancers in the city. One of 2005's most uplifting slices of cinema, Mad Hot Ballroom is a joyous, life-affirming experience.
"The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours, lost, gone without a trace..." These are the words of Brian Lackey (Brady Corbet), a troubled 18 year-old, growing up in the stiflingly small town of Hutchinson, Kansas. Plagued by nightmares, Brian believes that he may have been the victim of an alien abduction. Local Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon Levitt) however, is the ultimate beautiful outsider. With a loving but promiscuous mother (Elisabeth Shue), Neil is wise beyond his years and curious about his developing sexuality, having found what he perceived to be love from his Little League baseball coach (played by Hal Hartley veteran Bill Sage) at a very early age. Now, ten years later, Neil is a teenage hustler, nonchalant about the dangerous path his life is taking. Neil's pursuit of love leads him to New York City, while Brian's voyage of self discovery leads him to Neil – who helps him to unlock the dark secrets of their past. Based on the acclaimed novel by Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin explores the hearts and minds of two very different boys who come to find the key to their future happiness lies in the exorcism of their collective demons.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | MAD HOT BALLROOM | MYSTERIOUS SKIN |
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