September 26, 2005
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DO YOUR PART
UNL Looks To Save Money On Energy Costs
With cold weather rapidly approaching, the University
of Nebraska – Lincoln is asking faculty and staff to contribute to cost-cutting
measures aimed at energy savings. With the campus facing a deficit in the energy
budget and continued cost increases, there's never been a more important time
to think of the small ways that individuals can reduce their energy footprint.
To learn more about how you can help, open the energy
strips page.
ENERGY STRIPS
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NEBRASKA UNION FOOD COURT, 7PM
UNL Bridge Club Meets Tonight
A group of faculty, staff and students who play in a separate Lincoln club are forming the University Bridge Club and will be dealing at 7 pm tonight in the Nebraska Union food court.
The club plans to play duplicate bridge, where the same hands are played on each table. The American Contract Bridge League, a national league that allows players to build up points toward rankings, sanctions the games. Points are earned by placing in the top 40 percent of the field.
Those interested can attend as either an individual or with a partner. New players will be allowed to play free of charge for 10 sessions (nights of play). Following the introductory period, sessions will be $4. For more information, call 420-5361 or send e-mail to glarson20@netzero.net.
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GETTING FOCUSED
Mid-Semester Checkpoint Reorients Students
First-year and transfer students will have the opportunity to gauge their academic progress at the second-annual mid-semester checkpoint, Sept. 27-28 at the Nebraska Union. Organized by the Office of Undergraduate Studies, 'Midsemester: Checking it Out,' was created from research on student success by the university's Transitions to the University Task Force.
During the event, students will have the opportunity to attend workshops conducted by student orientation leaders, faculty and student service professionals. All workshops are designed to offer practical information and advice on the transition to college life and ways to strive for academic success.
Workshop session topics include: study skills, time management, finding the right major, technology and education, study abroad, your grades, research, math and writing. Over 1,100 students attended the first midsemester checkpoint last year. Faculty are asked to encourage first-year and transfer students to attend and learn from this opportunity.
By September, students have had a chance to adjust to life on campus,' said Rita Kean, dean of Undergraduate Studies. 'But, we identified a need for them to stop and reflect on their acadmic progress thus far, to prepare for their academic success for the rest of the semester and their entire college career.
More information is available online http://www.unl.edu.ous or by calling Undergraduate Studies at 472-1185.
UNDERGRADUATE
STUDIES | ADMISSIONS | STUDENT
INVOLVEMENT
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Week At The Ross: The
Aristocrats, Almost Normal
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents The Aristocrats, the daft docu-comedy from Penn Jillette & Paul
Provenza, and Almost Normal, a unique comedy shot entirely in Nebraska.
"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.
Almost Normal takes a very unconventional story and delivers it in a very conventional manner. Brad Jenkins (J. Andrew Keitch) is gay, just turned 40 and is still single...He's depressed. Reminiscing, Brad confides to his best friend since high school, Julie (Joan Lauckner) that he wishes he could just be normal. Maybe then he could have scored with the hottest jock at his school, Roland Davis (Tim Hammer). Suddenly taken back in time, Brad wakes up and finds himself back in high school in a world that is now gay. To be straight is considered deviant behavior.
Shot entirely in Nebraska, actors and crew were pooled from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and talent from the local community. Director Marc Moody, producer/editor Sharon Teo, and director of photography Richard Sherman, are not only filmmakers, but also Professors at The University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Penn State, respectively. Moody, Teo, and Sherman all met while they were in graduate film school at the Ohio University School of Film.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE ARISTOCRATS |
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EAST UNION, 3PM
Center for Grassland Studies Seminar - "Lands of Enchantment: The Grasslands of Otero Mesa and Wilderness in New Mexico"
athan Small, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
EAST UNION, 4PM
Entomology Seminar - "Gregarine Biodiversity and the Case for Research, Teaching and Intellectual Freedom in Smaller Institutions"
Dr. Richard Clopton, Peru State College
145 VBS, EAST CAMPUS, 4PM
Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Seminar - "Mapping Virulence Associated Regulatory Networks in the Flesh-Eating Bacterium Streptococcus Pyogenes"
Dr. Michael Chaussee, University of South Dakota
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