Mon, Jun 23, 2008
June 23-27, 2008
UNL Achieves Accreditation Milestone
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has earned full accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs Inc. (AAHRPP), a nonprofit organization that maintains rigorous standards to protect human participants in research.
AAHRPP's June 19 announcement culminates more than two years of preparation by UNL's human subjects research protection team in the Office of Research. The voluntary accreditation process ensures institutions that conduct research with human subjects adhere to rigorous standards of accountability. It involves a comprehensive self-assessment, review and documentation of policies and procedures, as well as site visits and evaluation by outside experts. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART SCULPTURE GARDEN, TUE 7PM
Sheldon's 17th Jazz in June Season Continues
Note: Because of rainy and wet conditions, tonight's Jazz in June performance by the Lao Tizer Band will be moved into the Sheldon Museum of Art auditorium. Seats to the 7 p.m. concert will be available on a first-come first-served basis. The auditorium has a capacity of about 300. The scheduled performance by the Strings Beans has been canceled.
This week, the Lao Tizer Band bring their multi-faceted contemporary jazz sounds to the festival. Dipping into everything from pocket funk to exotic fusion, the group has played at premier musical events alongside artists including Isaac Hayes, Wayne Shorter, George Benson, The Rippingtons, Bruce Hornsby and Spyro Gyra. more...
JAZZ IN JUNE
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Chop Shop and Shotgun Stories Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Chop Shop and Shotgun Stories. Both films will show through June 26.
Set in Willet's Point, an industrial sprawl of auto repair shops and junkyards in outer New York City, Chop Shop tells the story of 12-year-old Alejandro (Alejandro Polanco), an orphan living a hardscrabble existence in the "Iron Triangle." The boy earns a meager living hustling customers into body shops, hawking candy on the subway, and helping to chop up the parts of stolen cars. But he dreams of a better life. When his older sister Isamar (Isamar Gonzales) comes to live with him, Alejandro devises a plan to escape their desperate situation: they'll buy a lunch truck that they can run together. Alejandro begins stashing money, and even indulges in criminal activity to achieve his goal. Though some may find the film's unsparing depiction of poverty difficult to watch, the film is never hopeless, and the humanity of its characters always shines through. Altogether, it achieves an air of documentary-like authenticity that convinces the viewer that, long after the screen goes black, the lives of its characters will continue.
Two families linked by the same father explode into a violent rivalry in this independent Southern gothic drama, the first feature from director Jeff Nichols. Cleaman Hayes lived and died in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he had seven sons by two different women. After wedding Nicole (Natalie Canerday), Cleaman sired three sons, and his lack of concern for their future was reflected in the fact he barely gave them names -- they were dubbed Son (Michael Shannon), Kid (Barlow Jacobs) and Boy (Douglas Ligon). One day, Cleaman abandoned his wife and sons, and left them to survive in deep poverty that has trapped them to this day. Eventually Cleaman cleaned up his act, launched a successful business, married again, and raised four more sons -- Cleaman Jr. (Michael Abbott, Jr.), Mark (Travis Smith), Stephen (Lynsee Provence) and John (David Rhodes), all of whom were given the love and attention Cleaman denied his first three children. Soon a war has broken out between the clans, with no small amount of blood shed on either side. - Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
More information is available at the Ross website.
