Fri, Aug 18, 2006
August 18-20, 2006
CONSTRUCTION AND CONGESTION
Motorists Advised on Traffic From UNL Student Move-In
Back-to-campus time at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will again see thousands of students moving in to their residence halls in the span 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 changing traffic patterns from the ongoing Antelope Valley construction.
Because of continuing work on the Antelope Valley Project spanning the Bob Devaney Sports Center area, Holdrege and Vine streets, UNL officials advise motorists that it may be wise to steer clear of campus during the week of Aug. 14-19 as students move into their residence halls in preparation for the Aug. 21 start of classes. more...
ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS
Temporary Housing Information Website Launches
Due to University of Nebraska-Lincoln residence halls being over capacity for the first time in a number of years, university housing officials have informed students awaiting residence hall assignments that their first-choice residence may not be accommodated and that halls may be more crowded than usual.
To facilitate an easier transistion for students moving in this week, housing has created a website with more information for students and parents about the temporary housing situation and what to expect.
TEMPORARY HOUSING WEBSITE
UNL CAMPUS, AUG 18-20
Big Red Welcome Gets Students Back to UNL Campus
New Huskers will once again be able to do the famous "Tunnel Walk" at Memorial Stadium to begin their first official days as students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The event is part of the annual Big Red Welcome weekend, which welcomes students back to campus with dances, events, prizes, a street fair and tours.
The event is organized by the Office of Student Involvement to get new students involved and connected on campus immediately after they move in next week. As many as 10,000 students will participate in the various events, with the largest being the street fair, which for the first time will be held on the "loop" west of 17th and Vine streets, just east of Memorial Stadium. That event follows the new traditional tunnel walk, pep rally and student-attended Husker football practice. Students will gain access to that athletic event with student ID. more...
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Strangers With Candy, The Hotel Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Strangers With Candy, and The Hotel. The Hotel will be showing through August 17, while Strangers With Candy will play through August 24.
Strangers With Candy is a daring leap backwards. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series of the same name, it is the tale of Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a forty-seven year old ex-con, junky whore who decides to return home after thirty-two years as a runaway. When Jerri arrives at her childhood home, she discovers her earlier disappearance has caused her father to slip into a self-induced coma. Moved by guilt, and with hopes of jarring her father from his eternal slumber, Jerri decides to turn her life around by picking it up exactly where she left off - as a high school freshman. She's going to start her life over, only this time she's going to do the wrong things the right way. Once reenrolled in high school, and seeking to find that special thing that will erase thirty-two years of debauchery, Jerri stumbles upon the school sponsored State Science Fair. Convinced that winning the fair will resurrect her father, she signs up, expecting an easy stroll down the road to victory. Not surprisingly, she finds that the path is fraught with the many adolescent problems and temptations that plague all teenagers, but especially this forty-seven year old former boozer, user and loser.
The Hotel marks the directorial debut of Michael Kang, and was produced by Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl, Chuck & Buck). Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin (Jeffrey Chyau) is the first-generation son in a family of Chinese immigrants; he lives in a sleazy motel run by his hardworking, dour mother (Jade Wu) who discourages his interests in writing and girls. She believes that Ernest needs to appreciate what he has at home, and give up his dreams that threaten nothing but heartache--the viewer infers that this is what became of her own dreams. When a brash, hard-drinking, womanizing young Korean man named Sam (Sung Kang) moves into the motel, Ernest forms an unlikely bond with him, as each finds in the other something he desperately needs. Sam seeks out the fatherless boy, sensing a need for guidance and companionship that mirrors his own. The simple, awkward dialogue of the film is managed winningly by novice actor Chyau, who was recruited from the Bronx High School of Science to play the part of Ernest. The performances by supporting actor Kang, as well as Samantha Futerman, who plays Ernest's precocious love interest, are equally powerful. With beautiful photography and a slow, seductive pace, the film delivers a message about finding beauty in unlikely places, as well as the courage to follow one's dreams.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | STRANGERS WITH CANDY | THE MOTEL
