Fri, Feb 23, 2007
February 23-25, 2007
MOVES ON TO QUARTERFINAL ROUND
Burge Advances In Contest to Anchor NBC Today Show
As announced on NBC's Today Show, admissions recruiter David Burge has moved on to the quarterfinal round in the NBC "Anchor For Today" contest. More information on the contest will be posted as it becomes available.
ANCHOR FOR TODAY
The Lowdown On Downloads
A reminder: Illegal behavior such as unauthorized sharing of copyrighted music, movies, videos, games or software is strictly prohibited. Use of the UNL network, which is a shared resource, is a privilege that may be revoked if it is abused. By registering your computer, you accept personal responsibility for abiding by University Computer Use Policies.
Organizations that represent the interests of artists and other copyright holders in the U.S. actively search the Internet for evidence of copyright violations. If they find evidence, they typically send a written complaint to the university. If the university receives a complaint about alleged abuse of copyright, we will first verify that the complaint is against a computer that is connected to the campus network. Consequences range from notification to loss of computer-use privileges. Visit Information Services' digital copyright guidelines page for more information.
TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW
3rd Biennial Quilt Symposium is March 1-3
Every other year the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln brings together 150 to 200 individuals interested in quilt design and quilting traditions. A worldwide audience has the opportunity to hear lectures, paper presentations and panel discussions and visit a variety of quilt exhibitions. The goal of this gathering is to celebrate quilts and quiltmaking.
The next IQSC symposium, "Traditions and Trajectories: Education and the Quiltmaker," is March 1-3. Scholars, artists, quilt makers and quilt enthusiasts are invited to attend to study and discuss how the quiltmaker's art is learned, studied, applied and handed on. more...
QUILT SYMPOSIUM
RICHARDS HALL, FEB 22-24
Art Department Holds Print Sale
The Lincoln Print Group will hold a print sale Feb. 22-24 in Richards Hall Room 121.1 (conference room). Hours for the sale are 4-7 p.m. today; 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 23; and 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24.
Original prints and books from faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the UNL Department of Art and Art History will be on sale. Prints of all sizes, media and price will be available. There will also be a benefit raffle featuring framed work by UNL faculty and graduate students to support the Lincoln Print Group.
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
University Theatre Presents Two Gentlemen Of Verona
UNL's University Theatre continues its season at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with William Shakespeare's classic comedy Two Gentlemen Of Verona. The production, directed by Associate Director and Associate Professor Harris Smith, will have performances February 23, 24, 28 and March 1, 2, 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets. Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $10 students with ID. Tickets are available from the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12 Monday through Friday 11 AM to 5:30 PM and one hour prior to the performance in the Studio Theatre Lobby, or by telephone at 472-4747 or 800-432-3231.
The cast of The Two Gentlemen Of Verona is made up of undergraduate theatre majors and costumes are designed by graduate student Helen Nosova in partial fulfillment of her Master of Fine Arts in Design. Likewise, the lighting design by graduate student Erik Vose is in partial fulfillment of his Master of Fine Arts in Design. Other designs are by graduate student Kathleen Lorenzen (scenic) and visiting faculty member Jeff O'Brien (sound). Stage management is by undergraduate Jenny Schenck.
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
SHERMAN S WELPTON COURTROOM, EAST CAMPUS, FRI NOON
College Of Law Lecture - "Congress, The Supreme Court and Tribal Jurisdiction"
Kevin Gover, Professor of law and affiliate professor of the American Indian Studies Program at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona
KEIM HALL, FRI 3PM
Agronomy and Horticulture Spring Seminar - "Synergy Between Ethanol And Beef Cattle In Nebraska, Why Ethanol Can Be Important To Beef Producers"
Galen Erickson, Animal Science Department, February 23, 3:00 p.m., 327 Keim Hall. Refreshments at 2:30.
BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "The Archaeological Record of El Nino in Ancient Peru"
Kirk Maasch, University of Maine
AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - "Perspectives on Mathematical, Theoretical and Computational Epidemiology"
Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State University. The talk will be preceded by refreshments in 348 Avery Hall.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, FRI 4:30PM
Hyde Lecture Series
MJ Neal, MJ Neal Architects / Austin, Texas
MEN'S BASKETBALL | DEVANEY CENTER, SAT 12:30PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Missouri Tigers
WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS | DEVANEY CENTER, SUN 2PM
Masters Classic
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
Fine & Performing Arts Presents The Most Happy Fella
The College of Fine and Performing Arts presents performances of The Most Happy Fella on Friday, Feb 23 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb 25 at 3 p.m in Kimball Recital Hall. The musical is Frank Loesser's most operatic - and therefore just the right sort of vehicle to test the full range of talents of UNL Opera's student performers. It is also a great audience pleaser, full of rip-roaring musical theatre showstoppers like "Standin' on the Corner," "Big D," "Joey," and "My Heart Is So Full of You." Broadway and opera star T. Doyle Leverett will perform the title role. Guest artist Leverett, the foremost Tony Esposito in America today, has triumphed in the role in regional productions, on Broadway and, last March, at New York City Opera.
The Most Happy Fella is co-directed by Ariel Bybee, eighteen-year veteran of the Metropolitan Opera, and James E. Ford. Tyler White conducts the UNL Opera Orchestra. Tickets for this production are $20 adults and $10 students and seniors, and are available through the Lied Center box office at 402/472-4747 or 1/800-432-3231. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Our Daily Bread, The Secret Life Of Words Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Our Daily Bread and The Secret Life Of Words. Both films will show through March 1.
Our Daily Bread reveals the little-known world of high-tech agriculture. In a series of visually stunning, continuously tracking, wide-screen images that seem right out of a science-fiction movie, we see the places where food is cultivated and processed: surreal landscapes optimized for agricultural machinery, clean rooms in cool industrial buildings designed for maximum efficiency, and elaborate machines that operate on a 'disassembly line' basis. There's little space for humans here. They almost seem like flaws in this system: undersized and vulnerable, though they adapt as best they can, with chemical suits, respirators, ear protectors, and helmets. They do the jobs for which machines have not yet been invented. Dispensing entirely with explanatory commentary or 'talking-head' interviews, Our Daily Bread unfolds on the screen like a disturbing dream: an endlessly fascinating flow of images, an insistent gaze, accompanied only by the persistent industrial soundtrack - whirring, clattering, booming, slurping - of the ingenious marvels of mechanization employed by agri-business.
The Secret Life Of Words, written and directed by Isabel Coixet, follows Hanna (Sarah Polley), a factory worker who lives alone in a barren apartment, wears a hearing-aid, and keeps to herself with a rigorous daily routine. While on an extended holiday in Northern Ireland, she volunteers as a nurse, tending to a burn victim Josef (Tim Robbins) stationed on an oil rig. While Hanna coaxes him back to health, Josef, who has suffered temporary blindness, reaches out to her urgently, wanting to connect. With the shaky-camera technique, absence of a film score, and the backdrop of a lone oil rig, writer and director Coixet (who also wrote and directed Polley in the 2003 critically-acclaimed My Life Without Me), emphasizes the vulnerability and seclusion of the characters.
More information is available at the Ross website.
