Fri, Nov 17, 2006
November 17-19, 2006
FROM COACH TO CONGRESS TO PROFESSOR
Osborne Back to Classroom to Teach Management, Leadership
Former coach and congressman Tom Osborne is changing titles again: Back to professor. University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business Administration undergraduate students are offered two business management courses starting in January with "Dr. Tom" as a new senior lecturer.
Osborne will co-teach the dean’s leadership class with CBA dean Cynthia Milligan, and Bruce Avolio, CBA Clifton chair in management. He also will teach a junior and senior-level leadership class. That class is already filled. more...
THE LOFT GALLERY, FRI 4-6PM
Loft Gallery Hosts Chee Exhibit
The Loft Galley is pleased to host the artistic work of Norris Chee in celebration of Native American Heritage Month. The Loft Gallery is located on the third floor, Nebraska East Union. Student Involvement will host a reception Friday, Nov. 17 from 4 - 6 p.m. (refreshments will be provided).
Born on the reservation near Mexican Hat, Utah, Norris M. Chee's heritage is rich in the Dineh culture. Born into the Edgewater Clan, which is related to the Manygoats Clan, Chee was raised in a very traditional Dineh home. Chee travels extensively across the United States, entering art shows and living his dreams of painting. Although he paints for shows, Chee also recognizes the importance of education. To this end, he works as an Artist in Residence for the state of Nebraska. In this role, Chee often visits schools and communities, where he teaches students about his artistic talents, methods and the customs of his tribe.
BEHLEN OBSERVATORY, FRI 7-10PM
Behlen Observatory Holds Public Night
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Behlen Observatory near Mead will be open to the public from 7 to 10 p.m. Dec. 15. The observatory is located at the University of Nebraska Agricultural Research and Development Center, and operated by the UNL Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Provided the sky is clear, visitors will be able to view a variety of objects with the 30-inch telescope and with smaller telescopes set up outside of the observatory. During the early evening, these include a Globular star cluster, the Ring Nebula in Lyra, several double stars and the planet Uranus. During the later evening an open star cluster, the Orion Nebula and another double star will be visible. At various times throughout the evening, members of the observatory staff will give illustrated talks. more...
BEHLEN OBSERVATORY
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI NOON
Theology for Lunch brown bag lecture - "Christian Responses to Social Issues - 'Immigration'"
speaker TBA
FILLEY HALL, FRI 3PM
Department of Agricultural Economics Seminar - "Economics of Spatial Dynamic Process"
James Wilen, Professor in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "The effects of cryoturbation on calcic soils in western Wyoming, (or) Who stole my chronosequence?"
Jeremy Dillon, University of Nebraska-Kearney
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics colloquium - "A package deal for finite generation in dimension one"
Larry Levy, University of Wisconsin. The talk will be preceded by refreshments in 348 Avery Hall
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY CENTER, FRI 7:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Cal State Fullerton Titans
VOLLEYBALL | NU COLISEUM, SAT 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Baylor Bears
MEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY CENTER, SAT 7PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Creighton Bluejays
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Tales Of The Rat Fink, Shortbus, Fast Food Nation Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Tales Of The Rat Fink, Shortbus, and Fast Food Nation. Tales Of The Rat Fink and Shortbus, will be showing through November 23, while Fast Food Nation will play through December 7.
From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass comes Tales Of The Rat Fink, Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, "monster" T-shirts and America's alternative rodent - "Rat Fink." Hot Rodding grew from crude backyard engineering where performance was the bottom line into a refined art form where aesthetics were equally important. Mann's largely animated documentary features the voice talents of John Goodman, Ann-Margret, Jay Leno, Brian Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Matt Groening, Robert Williams, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Paul LeMat, Billy F Gibbons, and The Smothers Brothers.
John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, Shortbus tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart.
When it was published in 2001, Fast Food Nation quickly became a New York Times bestseller, with its no-holds-barred, non-fiction exploration of "the dark side of the All-American meal." The big screen version Fast Food Nation is a dramatic feature penned by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and Oscar nominee Richard Linklater, who also serves as director. Explains Linklater: "The movie is not a documentary, but a character study of the lives behind the facts and figures. I'm more interested in fiction than non-fiction. You get to the point through human storytelling."
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | TALES OF THE RAT FINK | SHORTBUS | FAST FOOD NATION
