Fri, Dec 15, 2006
December 15-17, 2006
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. At various times throughout the evening, members of the observatory staff will give illustrated talks. more...
BEHLEN OBSERVATORY
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.
BOB DEVANEY SPORTS CENTER, SAT 9:30AM | LIVE WEBCAST (Event will start at 9am)
U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel to Give Commencement Address
U.S. Sen Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., will give the address at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Dec. 16 commencement exercises. Chancellor Harvey Perlman will preside at the exercises, which begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center, 1600 Court St. Approximately 1,300 students will receive degrees.
Hagel, Nebraska's senior senator, is in his second term. His duties include membership on four Senate committees: Foreign Relations; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Intelligence and Rules. Hagel is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion Subcommittee and the Senate Banking Securities and Investment Subcommittee. He serves as the chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. more...
LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
'Alice's House' Ending Soon At UNL's Lentz Center
"Alice's House: Chinese and Japanese Art from the Collection of Alice V. Abel" will continue through Dec. 22 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lentz Center for Asian Culture. An opening party will celebrate Abel's collection and the Lentz Center's 20th anniversary. The party will take place in the center from 1:30-4 pm Sept. 10. Brief remarks will be made at 2:30. The public is invited.
A well-known Lincoln resident and distinguished graduate of the University of Nebraska (class of 1946), Abel was a philanthropist with many contributions and honors, including being a board member of the University of Nebraska Foundation and chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Nebraska Wesleyan University. Among her gifts to the city are Hazel Abel Park and the Alice Abel Arboretum at Nebraska Wesleyan. She died in March 2005.
"We at the Lentz Center are very fortunate to have been loaned 22 items from her collection," said Barbara Banks, curator/director of the Lentz Center. "The Lentz Center will celebrate its 20th anniversary in September and we have purposely chosen this time to show Alice Abel's collection. Her collection demonstrates her devotion to Asian art. In the tradition of Don and Velma Lentz, she has been willing to share her collection with the public." more...
LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
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
