September 29, 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. Linked below is also a PDF of a list of UNL Buildings
Proposed for FY 2006 HVAC Shutdown on Nights and Weekends (and the estimated
energy cost savings associated with each). Units wishing to request an exemption
from the HVAC Shutdown list may file a petition for utility exemption with the fillable PDF linked below.
ENERGY STRIPS
UNL BUILDING HVAC SHUTDOWN LIST (PDF)
UTILITY EXEMPTION PETITION (FILLABLE PDF)
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NEBRASKA UNION BALLROOM, 7:30PM
'Behind the Swoosh' Examines Nike Labor Practices
The University Program Council at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present "Behind the Swoosh," a film and lecture critical of the labor practices of Nike Inc., at 7:30 pm Sept. 29 at the ballroom of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. Admission is free for UNL students, faculty and staff with a valid NCard. For the general public, admission is $3.
"Behind the Swoosh" is a 2-hour, interactive, multi-media presentation that includes slide shows, role-playing, powerful video footage, and a question-and-answer period with Leslie Kretzu and Jim Keady. co-directors and founders of Educating for Justice Inc., a nonprofit corporation that develops and distributes social-justice oriented programming and content to the educational marketplace.
The presentation details the month Kretzu and Keady spent in an Indonesian factory workers' slum living on $1.25 a day, a typical wage paid to Nike's subcontracted workers. Along with personal accounts of lived solidarity, the presentation includes the latest information on Nike's labor and environmental practices that Educating for Justice researched in Indonesia in 2001 and 2002. Kretzu and Keady have visited more than 200 universities and high schools across the country and have spoken to more than 50,000 students, administrators, faculty and community members.
UPC
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GREAT PLAINS ART GALLERY, 5PM
Marshall Olds to be Honored by French Government
Marshall Olds, Willa Cather professor and professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will be honored Sept. 29 when he is decorated as a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the Republic of France.
The Palmes Academiques were created by Napoleon I in 1808 to honor outstanding members of the faculty of the University of Paris. Membership was later expanded to include individuals beyond the French university system, including foreigners and French men and women living outside the country who have contributed actively to the expansion of French culture in the world.
Olds will be recognized for his scholarship in French studies, his editorship of the journal Nineteenth-Century French Studies and for the successful study-abroad program he developed for UNL students at the University of Franche-Compte in Besancon, France. He has been on the UNL faculty in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences since 1984.
Yannick Mercoyrol, cultural attache of the French Consulate in Chicago, will present the decoration on behalf of the French government and the Ministry of Education in a 5 pm ceremony at the Great Plains Art Gallery, 1155 Q St.
DEPT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LIT
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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.
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NEBRASKA UNION, 11:30AM
Theology for Lunch brown-bag series - "What is Truth? Fact, Fiction and Faith - "'Beyond Belief' by Elaine Pagels"
Sidnie White Crawford, UNL
NEBRASKA UNION, 3PM
Ethnic Studies Lecture - "Can We Deconstruct the Manner in Which Racism, Sexism and Homophobia are Normative for Those Who Do Not Have to Consider Living in the Margins?"
Dr. Emma Perez, University of Colorado-Boulder
211 BRACE HALL, 4PM
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium - "Cosmology in a Can: Atomic and Molecular Physics from High z to Low Z"
Dr. Daniel Savin, Columbia Astrophysics Lab.
ARCHITECTURE HALL GALLERY, 4PM
Hyde Lecture Series - "Dissolving the Edge... Where is the Inside and Where is the Outside?"
Daniel Bonilla, architect from Bogota, Colombia
EAST UNION, 7PM
Coyne Lectureship Series - "Caravaggio's Fruits: Mirror on Baroque Horticulture"
Jules Janick, Purdue University
NEBRASKA UNION, 7:30PM
GLBT History Month Event - Lecture - "Decolonizing the University for Ethnic Studies"
Dr. Emma Perez, University of Colorado-Boulder
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