September 16-18, 2005
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DON'T BE A VICTIM
Information Security Presents Identity Theft Information
The fastest growing, white-collar crime in the United States may be in pursuit of your good name. In 2004 alone, 9.9 million individuals nationwide were affected by identity theft. Those reports totaled a loss of $53 billion and each individual must spend an average of over 45 hours across a period of two to four years repairing the damage. "And there are still no guarantees that you will be able to fix the damage done," said Mike Carr, NU Information Security Officer. "The scary part is how easy it actually can be done."
However, protection is also relatively easy.
"It's really a matter of common sense," Carr said. "It's about awareness. Learn the most common ways that people steal identities. Be aware of issues that make you more alert to the possibility of it happening."
October is National Cyber Security Awareness month, and Carr offers insight into identity theft and protection measures in the link below. Carr is also available for campus presentations on identity theft and other cyber security issues. Contact him at 472-1349 or mcarr@nebraska.edu.
ID THEFT PREVENTION
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WESTBROOK MUSIC BUILDING AND KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, SUN 8AM-5PM
School Of Music Hosts Choral Scholar Residency
For the second year, Lee and Betty Kjelson will bring visiting scholars to UNL and create community outreach opportunities for Nebraska choral students. The Choral Scholar Residency will take place at Kimball Recital Hall and the Westbrook Music Building and will take place from Sept 18 - 22. UNL alumni Lee and Betty Kjelson have made an important and timely gift to the UNL School of Music choral studies program. Their generous gift will bring visiting choral scholars to music students and at the same time provide community outreach to select Nebraska high school students. Dr. John W. Richmond, Professor & Director of the School of Music, worked with Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities Peter Eklund and the Kjelsons to design the program.
Dr. Richmond believes the residency program represents a tremendous ongoing opportunity for the School of Music and the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts --something not possible without the foresight and vision of Lee and Betty Kjelson. "Ironically, Dr. Kjelson could qualify as a distinguished resident scholar himself under the auspices of this program, for he is internationally known and revered as a leader in the choral music discipline. Dr. Kjelson now is Professor Emeritus of Choral Music and former Director of Choral Activities at the University of Miami at Coral Gables," Dr. Richmond said.
The Kjelson Visiting Choral Scholars Residency program begins Sept. 18-22 with Dr. Weston Noble, Professor Emeritus, from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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CROSS COUNTRY |
SAT 10AM
Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational
PIONEERS PARK
FOOTBALL |
SAT 2:30PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Pittsburgh Panthers
MEMORIAL STADIUM
SOCCER |
SUN 1PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs UC Irvine Anteaters
NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD
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117 MCCOLLUM HALL (LAW COLLEGE), FRI 1:30PM
UNL to Note First 'Constitution Day' With Discussion
A constitutional law expert, a law college dean and a legal historian will put the U.S. Constitution to discussion to recognize the first "Constitution Day" at a discussion panel 1:30 pm Sept. 16 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law.
On Sept. 17, 1787, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention held their final meeting, to sign the Constitution of the United States of America. President George W. Bush signed into law in December 2004 the creation of Constitution Day, requiring all educational institutions receiving federal funding to have a program or activities on the constitution on Sept. 17. This year, because Sept. 17 is a Saturday, events are planned for the previous day.
At a discussion to begin at 1:30 pm Sept. 16 at 117 McCollum Hall at UNL Law College, political science professor Michael Combs will moderate a discussion by Rick Duncan, UNL professor of law; Steve Willborn, Dean of the UNL College of Law, and John Wunder, professor of history. The panel discussion is free and open to the public, and questions are encouraged for discussion from the audience.
Duncan will speak on "Locke v. Davey and the Broken Promise of Equal Access," where the Supreme Court upheld a college scholarship program enacted by the state of Washington that could be used to fund any course of study except theology from a devotional perspective. The court held that states may discriminate on the basis of viewpoint in awarding scholarship programs to low income students. Duncan is critical of the decision and believes that it is not only religious students who have reason to fear the Court's holding in the case.
Wunder will speak about "Dynamism, Definitions, and the U.S. Constitution." Historians have nearly universally been of the opinion that the greatness of the U.S. Constitution is its dynamism, its flexibility, and its dependability. Wunder will outline how each age has brought with it its own interpretive Constitutional framework, and how Supreme Courts have sought to balance this dynamism with stare decisis - the need to have predictability, and they have done so with great care. Wunder says that to say that we must go back to the Founders' vision is to deny modernity. But an even greater problem is that it would deny the very greatness of the document. Debate over whether to restrict the dynamic nature of the Constitution centers on some of today's flashpoint issues, such as strict constructionism, judicial activism, civil rights, rights to privacy, and religious toleration.
COLLEGE OF LAW
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500K CHALLENGE GRANT AWARDED
NEH Awards 'We the People' Grant to UNL Whitman Project
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $500,000 "We the People Challenge Grant" to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to support the Walt Whitman Archive. Kenneth Price, Hillegass Chair of 19th Century American Literature and professor of English at UNL and co-director of the Whitman Archive, is principal investigator on the challenge grant.
"We the People" is an NEH initiative launched in 2002 to explore significant events and themes in the United States' history, and to share these lessons with all Americans. The "We the People" project emphasizes information about the founding of the United States and exploring principles of democracy. Previous grants have frequently emphasized the Revolutionary War period, Price said. Price said that past "We the People" grant projects often have gone toward support of institutions such as libraries, museums and other "bricks and mortar" projects. He believes the Whitman Archive is the first American literary project to receive an NEH challenge grant.
The Archive has been on the leading edge of digital research, Price said. It has been built in accordance with international standards for electronic texts, which allows the Whitman Archive to be searched and compared to similarly developed archives. Electronic archives can also contain a richer volume of materials than a print edition, Price said. Sound, movies, images of manuscripts with hand-written notations, artwork and explanations can be added to the archive. The Whitman Archive is unique, Price said, because of the great fit between Whitman's work and the electronic medium. more...
WHITMAN ARCHIVE
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Playing This Week at the Ross: The Aristocrats, the LatinBeat 2005 Film Festival.
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents The Aristocrats, the daft docu-comedy from Penn Jillette & Paul
Provenza and the sixth edition of the LatinBeat Film Festival.
"A man walks into a talent agent's office with his family and says, Have I got an act for you! The talent agent replies, So what do you do?" So begins "The Aristocrats," a joke that has been handed down from comedian to comedian for decades but is rarely told on stage. The next part of the joke varies, allowing for improvisation, and the only requirement in telling the joke is that it be as offensive as possible. Paul Provenza and Penn Jillette spent two years documenting as many versions of this infamous joke as possible, cornering comedians like Drew Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, Susie Essman, and Paul Reiser whenever and wherever possible. The results are surprising, and often take their humor to places that may make sensitive viewers uncomfortable. While comic legends such as Don Rickles, The Smothers Brothers, and Phyllis Diller admit their familiarity with the joke, they shy away from telling their own versions. Some may be surprised, however, to see performers who are normally associated with family-friendly material, including Bob Saget and Jason Alexander, describing scatological and incestuous acts with deadpan glee. Ultimately, though, The Aristocrats is more than just many versions of the same dirty joke--it is an exploration of the workings of the unrestricted comic mind.
The sixth edition of Latinbeat presents many U.S. premieres of outstanding recent cinema from a variety of Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela. All films are shown in their original language with English subtitles. The 21 films from nine countries in this year's Latinbeat are as varied as Latin America itself. They range from black comedy (The Heart of Jesus, Bolivia; My Best Enemy, Chile) to politically charged personal stories (Sisters, Argentina; The King, and Step Forward, all from Colombia); to astounding, fascinating documentaries (Black Bull, Mexico; The Immortal, Nicaragua; Odd People Out, Cuba). While Latinbeat features award-winning films from well-established national industries like Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, we are especially happy to show three films from Colombia, as well as works from countries rarely represented in the Latin American film landscape, such as Bolivia, and Nicaragua.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE ARISTOCRATS | LATINBEAT 2005 FILM FESTIVAL |
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217 FERGUSON, FRI 1:30PM
Center for Materials Research and Analysis / NSF-MRSEC Seminar - "Q & A on Synthesis of Nanoparticles and Nanotubes"
Stephen O'Brien, Columbia University
112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Assemblies and Applications"
Dr. Melissa Petruska, Los Alamos National Laboratory
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Geosciences Stout Lecture - "The Mesozoic Terrestrial Environment and Climate as Derived from Isotope Geochemistry"
Dr. John Yin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - "Entropy Methods in Combinatorics"
Jamie Radcliffe, UNL. The talk will be preceded by refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in 348 Avery Hall.
BAILEY LIBRARY, 228 ANDREWS HALL, FRI 4PM
Lecture - "The Battles of Armageddon: From Har Megiddo to Armageddon"
Dr. Eric Cline, George Washington University
15 RICHARDS HALL, SUN 2PM
Archaeological Institute of America Lecture - "Jerusalem Besieged: 4,000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace"
Dr. Eric Cline, George Washington University
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY, SUN 2PM
Textiles Lecture - "Nancy Koenigsberg: Line and Shadow and Lewis Knauss: Ledgers"
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