Tue, Nov 04, 2008
November 4, 2008
Journalism to Converge for Election Coverage
Andersen Hall becomes a "election coverage central" tonight when more than 70 students in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications converge for the college's election coverage. Radio, television, online and print student journalists have been gearing up all semester to cover Election 2008. The student participation in election coverage is the capstone in a semester of election-focused events. Coverage begins Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. and will continue until about midnight.
Students will produce and host a live newscast on Channel 21 with reports streaming to NewsNetNebraska, the college's student-produced multimedia news service, and 90.3 FM KRNU. Students will do live newsroom shots from campaign headquarters, conduct exit poll interviews during voting hours and photojournalists will be sending in photos from across Lincoln tonight. more...
iTunes and UNL Offer Free Fall Music Mix
Enjoy this special collection of songs hand-picked by the iTunes team for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. With 80 free songs from some of the biggest names in music and today's hottest up-and-coming artists, this mix is sure to put your fall semester in tune. Get your Fall Music Mix and check out the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on iTunes U.
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Great Plains Art Museum Hosts Two Permanent Collection Exhibitions
The Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present two exhibitions derived from the museum's permanent collection to complement a national traveling exhibit, "Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country," at UNL's Love Library Oct. 17-Dec. 4.
"Beyond Tradition: Contemporary American Indian Art" and "Faithful and Vivid: Native Encounters Surrounding the Lewis and Clark Expedition" run today through Dec. 14, at the museum, 1155 Q St. more...
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
N172 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry/Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Plakophilin-1: Desmosomal Adhesion and Control of Epidermal Differentiation"
James K. Wahl III, UNMC College of Dentistry, Department of Oral Biology. Refreshments will be available prior to the seminar.
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 4PM
Entomology Lecture - "Pregnant Women, mosquitoes, and malaria: Why pregnant women are more attractive to malaria vectors"
Amanda Fujikawa, Entomology Graduate Student
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Elegy and I Served the King of England Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Elegy and I Served the King of England. I Served the King of England will show one week only through November 6, while Elegy will screen through November 13.
Like director Isabel Coixet's previous film My Life Without Me, Elegy is consumed by the ideas of love and mortality. But while that film focused on a young protagonist, the hero of this drama is an aging writer and professor played by Ben Kingsley. David Kepesh (Kingsley) is a minor literary celebrity in New York City who shies away from commitment, happy with his casual relationship with a businesswoman (Patricia Clarkson) who is rarely in town. But a date with a stunning grad student named Consuela (Penelope Cruz) surprisingly turns into a long-term romance, changing David from a confident Lothario into a jealous boyfriend. His age and her beauty haunt their romance until David begins to push her away. The largely classical soundtrack further adds to the film's contemplative mood.
Jan Dite (Ivan Barnev), the plucky little waiter who bounces around central Europe in Jiri Menzel's epic comedy I Served the King of England, has colossal ambitions. Catering to political and military fat cats at a fancy brothel in 1930s Czechoslovakia, his appetites are piqued as he observes these pompous boors washing down obscenely rich banquets with beer and brandy. As the song says, "Them that’s got shall get..." These scenes of marathon gourmandizing offer some of the most pungently satirical observations of unfettered gluttony ever filmed. There is hardly a moment in this new film in which you are not aware that its absurdist view of the human condition was shaped by traumatic 20th-century events.
More information is available at the Ross website.
