Mon, Mar 09, 2009
March 9, 2009
Summer Sessions Registration Begins
Registration for Summer Session courses at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln begins today.
Summer Sessions provides students flexibility and options to balance classes, involvement and employment. It allows students to stay on track for graduating on-time, avoid scheduling conflicts, or to participate in unique opportunities only offered in the summer. More than 1,000 morning, afternoon, and evening courses are offered in a three-week pre-session, an eight-week session, and two five-week sessions. Students should sign-up early since summer registration is on a first-come basis with no priority for class rank or major.
SUMMER SESSIONS
Women's Week Activities Set For This Week
Women's Week, under the theme "Empowering Community, Nurturing Opportunity," will be observed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln March 9-13.
Coordinated by the UNL Women's Center, the week includes a series of educational and entertainment events, all of which are free and open to the public except a March 12 banquet. Departments and organizations can become co-sponsors of the banquet by purchasing a table (8 tickets for $180.) Individual tickets are available in Room 222 Nebraska Union for $20 ($10 for students) or by calling (402) 472-2597. For more information or to register for events, visit the Women's Week schedule.
Health Center Offers Spring Break Kits
The University Health Center, Health Education Department, UHC Student Advisory Board, and Campus Rec Centers will be distributing spring break survival kits on a while-they-last basis. Beginning at 8 a.m. today, they will be available at the University Health Center.
The kits are BPA-free water bottles are stuffed with the following items: antacid tablets; antiseptic wipe; band-aids; condom; ibuprofen; sunscreen; toothbrush; and toothpaste. If you do not want any of the items in the kit, return them to the University Health Center or any Health Aide booth.
UHC SPRING BREAK TIPS
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Waltz With Bashir, Who Does She Think She Is? Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Waltz With Bashir and Who Does She Think She Is? Both films will screen through March 12.
One of the universally praised films from this year's Cannes, Ari Folman's debut documentary Waltz With Bashir reconstructs the filmmaker's missing memories from his time as a soldier in the 1982 Lebanon War. But instead of using archival footage and talking heads, Folman makes an animated film, giving himself the freedom to expand his thoughts and recollections farther than any conventional doc on the subject could ever go. Having already won six awards from the Israeli Film Academy, Waltz With Bashir has a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film.
From the producing team, that won an Academy Award for Born Into Brothels, comes Who Does She Think She Is? a film that examines some of the most pressing issues of our time: parenting and work, partnering and independence, economics and art. The film follows five women artists as they navigate the economic, psychological, and spiritual challenges of making work outside the elite art world. From Hawaii’s Big Island to the suburbs of Ohio, from New York City to the deserts of New Mexico, we watch as these women—ranging in age from 27 to 65—fight to honor their vision and their families every day. Interviews with experts like Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade), Maura Reilly (Sackler Center for Feminist Art-Brooklyn Museum) and the Guerrilla Girls add a cultural context for these women’s uplifting journeys. It is not accolades they seek; it’s simply the radical opportunity to live whole.
More information is available at the Ross website.
