Mon, May 05, 2008
May 5, 2008
UNL CAMPUS THIS WEEK
Final Exams Are Here
Final Examinations for Second Semester 2007-2008 will be given throughout this week (May 5 - 9).
View the university's official policy on Final Examinations and 15th Week, from Registration and Records, or see the full Final Exam Schedule.
ACADEMIC SERVICES HANDBOOK
Cather Archive Takes Nebraska Author Global
Any Nebraskan knows a few bits of Willa Cather trivia. We read "My Antonia" in high school. We've passed through her hometown of Red Cloud. Cather is a familiar face in Nebraska libraries and classrooms.
A cutting-edge digital project at UNL, the Willa Cather Archive, is expanding the knowledge of Cather's life and writing, sharing her legacy with scholars, book lovers and students around the world. more...
THE CATHER ARCHIVE
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Counterfeiters and Gashole Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Counterfeiters and Gashole. Both films will show through May 8.
Adapted from Adolf Burger's memoir The Devil's Workshop, The Counterfeiters is a skillful, absorbing, Oscar-winning Austrian feature that involves a Russian-Jewish counterfeiter (expertly played by Karl Markovics) who gets arrested in Berlin, winds up in a German concentration camp in 1944, and is put in charge of a secret forgery unit. Staffed by prisoners who've been granted special privileges, the unit counterfeits pounds and dollars in a plan to wreck the British and American economies, and one of the prisoners, a member of the communist resistance, attempts to sabotage the effort. Written and directed by the able Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Inheritors), this poses some tricky moral questions, and its troubling ambiguities rank a cut above the dubious uplift of Schindler's List. - Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader
Gashole is a new documentary film about the history of oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. The film, narrated by Peter Gallagher, currently on a national tour replete with special appearances by its directors, features interviews with Doane College professors Les Manns and Brian Pauwels. Directed by Jeremy Wagener & Scott D. Roberts, the film takes a wide, yet detailed examination of our dependence on foreign supplies of oil. The film examines many different potential solutions to our oil dependence. Starting with claims of buried technology that dramatically improves gas mileage, to navigating bureaucratic governmental roadblocks, evaluating different alternative fuels that are technologically available now, and questioning the American consumer's reluctance to embrace alternatives, it examimes how our country has become dependent on imported oil. If you buy gas, you should see this movie.
More information is available at the Ross website.
