Tue, Dec 12, 2006
December 12, 2006
UNL CAMPUS THIS WEEK
Final Exams Are Here
Final Examinations for Fecond Semester 2006-2007 will be given throughout this week (December 11-15).
Click the link to view the university's official policy on Final Examinations and 15th Week, from Registration and Records.
ACADEMIC SERVICES HANDBOOK
DEADLINE JAN. 5
MLK Day Planning Committee Sponsors Essay Contest
In recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, the MLK Day Planning Committee at UNL is sponsoring an essay contest. They invite UNL students to share their experiences and perspectives regarding the impact that the Civil Rights movement has had on them while growing up. The theme for the essay contest was inspired by the piece All Deliberate Speed, created as part of the Lincoln Arts Council "Stories of Home" project.
The deadline for the essay contest is January 5, 2007, and all currently enrolled UNL undergraduate or graduate students are eligible to participate. For more information on the contest, visit the MLK Week 2007 website.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
Last Week of Cole's "Anxious Objects"
With the exhibition "Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands," New Jersey artist Willie Cole brings an interpretation of urban American culture and a revealing glimpse into his identity to the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery this fall. Growing up as an African-American in poverty, Cole collected castoff items from an affluent society on Newark streets -- hair dryers, irons, metal scraps, and shoes. In "Anxious Objects" thrown-away goods have become a medium and message in the artist's assemblages that make both social and artistic statements to viewers.
Organized by Patterson Sims, director of the Montclair Art Museum, where the exhibition was on view this summer, "Anxious Objects" continues through Dec. 17. This retrospective of Cole's work has received praise from East Coast reviewers. The New York Times wrote: "The 51-year-old Mr. Cole, it seems, is very much of the moment." And the Newark Sunday Star-Ledger said: "No one interested in contemporary art should miss it." more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar - "RNAi: From Discovery to Building a Functional Map of Human Genome"
Dr. Anastasia Khvorova, Dharmacon, Inc.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Jesus Camp, Half Nelson Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Jesus Camp and Half Nelson. Both films will be showing through December 21.
Jesus Camp, which is directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (The Boys of Baraka), follows Levi, Rachael, Tory and a number of other young children to Pastor Becky Fischer's Kids on Fire summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where kids as young as 6 years-old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in God's army. The film follows these children at camp as they hone their prophetic gifts and are schooled in how to take back America for Christ. The film is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future.
In Half Nelson, high school teacher Dan (Ryan Gosling) and quiet teenager Drey (Shareeka Epps) are two lonely souls who wander the planet looking to attach some semblance of meaning to their chaotic lives. Dan teaches Drey in a dilapidated school in Brooklyn, New York. Their relationship is unremarkable until Drey discovers Dan collapsed and clutching a crack pipe in a grimy toilet cubicle in the high school gym. It is from this pivotal moment that director Ryan Fleck builds a tentative friendship between these two unlikely allies, creating one of 2006's most arresting films in the process.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | JESUS CAMP | HALF NELSON
