Thu, Nov 30, 2006
November 30, 2006
NEBRASKA UNION, 8:30AM - 4PM
UNL Hosts Information Technology Security Day
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in collaboration with the Information Services Office of the state of Nebraska, will present the third annual Nebraska Information Technology Security Day Nov. 30. The keynote speaker will be Jim Treinen from IBM's Global Services, who will speak on "Managed Security Service Delivery." Other topics for the day include: What is Cryptography and Why Is it Needed Today?; Pretty Good Privacy; Packet Sniffing; What Is Steganography? Digital Watermarking; and other subjects.
The event, free and open to the public, is in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. Presentations will be made by members of the staffs of the Computer Science and Engineering departments of the University of Nebraska, the Information Services department of UNL and the CIO Office of the state of Nebraska. Students in security and cryptography and representatives from industry will also make presentations.
NEBRASKA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECURITY DAY
HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series - "Ecological influences on evolutionary constraints in plant-herbivore and tritrophic interactions"
Aaron Gassmann, University of Arizona
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING
Theatrix Continues Season With Mamet's Speed-The-Plow
Theatrix, the student producing theatre organization under the auspices of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film (JCSOTF), continues their successful fall season with David Mamet's Speed-The-Plow. The production will have performances Thursday, Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday Dec. 3 at 2 p.m. in the Studio Theatre at the Temple Building. In Speed-The-Plow, the tinsel of Hollywood is pulled off in this dark comedic dissection of the movie business. This tail of manipulation and seduction features JCSOTF’s very own Will Heafer, Jim Hopkins, and Natalie Tavlin. This by Brian LaDuca, is the second of two MFA directed shows this semester for Theatrix.
Theatrix is the academic year's student run stage. It is run completely by students acting as Artistic Director, Managing Director and Technical Director. Five to six productions are performed primarily in the Studio Theatre. Productions are directed, designed, cast with and sometimes written by students.
THEATRIX
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Fast Food Nation, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Keeping Mum Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Fast Food Nation, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and Keeping Mum. Fast Food Nation will be showing through November 30, while This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and Keeping Mum. will play through December 7.
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."
Passionate cinephiles can be found casting quizzical glances at the erratic and often conflicting decisions made by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) as they slap ratings onto movies. So in an attempt to make sense of their working methods--which, until now, have remained shrouded in mystery--one of those cinephiles, Kirby Dick (Twist Of Faith), has made this full-length motion picture about the inner workings of the MPAA. Entertaining and informative, Dick's movie is everything a documentary should be. Revelations come thick and fast throughout, and the director skillfully creates a palpable feeling of injustice that will leave many viewers feeling the MPAA is in urgent need of a drastic overhaul.
Keeping Mum stars Rowan Atkinson as an absent-minded vicar of a rural parish who is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's (Kristin Scott Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor (Patrick Swayze), his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their charming new housekeeper, Grace (Maggie Smith), the answer to the family's prayers: a sweet, grey-haired old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house. One by one, the family members find that Grace is able to solve their problems, but they don't realize that her means are leading to a lot of ends and the population of their sleepy hamlet is rapidly diminishing.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | FAST FOOD NATION | THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED | KEEPING MUM
