Fri, Jan 26, 2007
January 26-28, 2007
UNL CAMPUS, FRIDAY
200 African-American High School Leaders to Have Summit at UNL
As many as 200 emerging leaders will gather at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Jan. 26 for a the first day-long Nebraska Black Leadership Symposium. The program is designed to uplift, inspire and motivate recognized youth leaders of today, and empower them to continue in their roles as youth leaders.
The youths were selected by committee based on their leadership, scholarship, potential for growth, volunteer efforts and involvement in their community, and will hear from UNL faculty and staff, and other Nebraska leaders on personal development and leadership development, community issues, goal-setting, and education. more...
327 KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy and Horticulture Spring Seminar - "CASNR and UNL Recruitment Update"
Laura Frey, Coordinator, College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources. Refreshments at 2:30.
UNITARIAN CHURCH, SUN 7PM
Basic Warming Science and a Discussion of the Brokaw Film
Clinton M. Rowe, UNL
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. January 26. 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. These include the moon, Saturn, star clusters, double or multiple stars, and the Orion Nebula. At various times throughout the evening, members of the observatory staff will give illustrated talks. more...
BEHLEN OBSERVATORY
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, FRI 4PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Wyoming Cowboys
SWIMMING | DEVANEY NATATORIUM, SAT 1PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos
TRACK AND FIELD | DEVANEY CENTER INDOOR TRACK, SAT 1PM
Adidas Classic
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY CENTER, SAT 7:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Kansas Jayhawks
WOMEN'S TENNIS | NEBRASKA TENNIS CENTER, SUN 1PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Wichita State Shockers
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Last King of Scotland, Volver Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Last King of Scotland and Volver. The Last King of Scotland will play through February 1, while Volver, shows through February 15.
In The Last King of Scotland, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.
Volver is not a surreal comedy, though it might seem so at times. The living and the dead live together without problems, but provoking hilarious situations and others full of deep and genuine emotion. It is a movie about the culture of death in my native region, La Mancha. My folks there live it in astonishing simplicity. The way in which the dead are still present in their lifes, the richness and humanity of their rites makes it possible for the dead to never really die. Volver shatters all cliches of a dark Spain and shows a Spain that is as real as it is opposed. A white Spain, spontaneous, fun, fearless, fair and with solidarity.
More information is available at the Ross website.
