Thu, Jan 22, 2009
January 22, 2009
MLK Week Events Conclude
Martin Luther King Jr. Week events conclude today with a brownbag panel at 11:30 a.m. titled, "From Civil Rights to Racial Justice: The 45th Anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act," in the Nebraska Union Crib. This discussion will be moderated by Patrick Jones. At 6 p.m. a townhall meeting titled, "The Post Obama Election: Issues of Diversity and Civil Rights," will be held in the Nebraska Union Auditorium.
MLK WEEK AT UNL
New Acklie Classroom Wing at Law College Improves Space, Technology
A new addition to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law has been completed. It includes two new large classrooms with state-of-the-art multimedia capabilities that enhance student learning.
The addition will be named for Duane Acklie, an alumnus and longtime UNL supporter, pending Board of Regents approval. This addition is part of a two-phase project to include the addition and renovation of the Law College auditorium in McCollum Hall. more...
Get Rec'd 2009 at UNL Campus Recreation Center
Get Rec'd will be Jan. 22-23, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. each day at the UNL Campus Recreation Center, 14th Street north of Vine Street. The festival-type event showcases vendors, entertainment, and competitions for the UNL students, faculty and staff, as well as the public. Although primarily targeted to UNL students, the event is open to the entire university community.
Attendees will have the opportunity to visit vendor booths, try out new products, collect giveaway items, grab a bite to eat and enter to win prizes through both drawings and contests. Last year, more than $26,000 in prizes were awarded to attendees through official Get Rec'd contests. More than 90 local, regional and national companies have signed on to appear at the 2009 event more...
GET REC'D
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Synecdoche, New York and Slumdog Millionaire Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Synecdoche, New York and Slumdog Millionaire. Synecdoche, New York will show through January 22, while Slumdog Millionaire will screen through January 29.
To say that Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is one of the best films of the year or even one closest to my heart is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now. That at least would be an appropriate response to a film about failure, about the struggle to make your mark in a world filled with people who are more gifted, beautiful, glamorous and desirable than the rest of us — we who are crippled by narcissistic inadequacy, yes, of course, but also by real horror, by zits, flab and the cancer that we know (we know!) is eating away at us and leaving us no choice but to lie down and die. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Intrigued by Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out…
More information is available at the Ross website.
