Fri, Jun 12, 2009
June 12-14, 2009
Perlman: Osborne Agrees to Stay Indefinitely as Athletic Director
Chancellor Harvey Perlman and Athletic Director Tom Osborne have mutually agreed to extend Osborne's appointment as athletic director indefinitely. Originally the agreement stated that Osborne would serve as Athletic Director until June 2010. Perlman and Osborne have now agreed that they will review the position on an annual basis.
"Tom originally agreed to come in temporarily and get the department moving in the right direction. He clearly accomplished that. I believe he now feels comfortable serving on an ongoing basis and I certainly feel comfortable having him do so," Perlman said. The parties also agreed that when a successor is to be chosen, it will be done through an open search process with a committee representing the Athletic Department, the university, and the external community. more...
Introducing the Future Design of UNL.edu
A process within the UNL Web Developer Network to create a refreshed and reimagined UNL.edu has culminated in a reference design, presented to WDN last week. The design is currently being coded into a new version of UNL site templates and is set for release on August 17, one week prior to the beginning of fall semester. Read more about the new design here.
Great Plains Art Museum Hosts Plains Indian Beadwork Exhibition
The Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln presents an exhibition highlighting the beautiful design, technical artistry and historical relevance of American Plains Native beadwork. "The History and Artistry of Plains Indian Beadwork" continues through Aug. 30. The exhibition features paintings and sculptures from the Great Plains Art Museum permanent collection, ethnographic examples from the University of Nebraska State Museum, and works from contemporary plains Indian beadwork artisan and UNL assistant professor Mark Awakuni-Swetland.
The Great Plains Art Museum is located at 1155 Q St. in the Hewit Place building. Admission is free and hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Sundays. The museum is closed Mondays, in between exhibitions, and on university holidays. more...
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Hunger and Sugar Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Hunger and Sugar. Hunger will show through June 18, while Sugar will play through June 25.
Renowned English video artist Steve McQueen's feature film debut, Hunger, is a cinematic punch to the gut. McQueen brings a visceral intensity to his retelling of the hunger strike instigated by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and several other detained Irish Republican Army members in the early 1980s, who were determined to live in a Northern Ireland free from British rule. In prison, Sands and other IRA members--including Davey Gillen (Brian Milligan) and Gerry Campbell (Liam McMahon)--at first protest by refusing to wear the standard prison garb, but soon, they take their protest dangerously further. McQueen comes from an experimental background, and it shows. He and co-screenwriter, the acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh, blow all the prison movie clichés out of the water. They break their film into three distinct acts. In the first, Gillen and Campbell are tormented by prison guards and made to suffer in a cramped, feces-smeared cell. In the second, Sands and Father Moran (Liam Cunningham) have a startling battle of wits--and emotions--that occurs in a dazzling extended one-take sequence. Lastly, we watch as Sands slowly withers away to nothing. It's impossible not to make a political film out of this furiously political material, but McQueen chooses to concentrate on the more visceral, tactile elements of the story to drive his point home. Hunger is one of the more exciting directorial debuts of recent memory.
Sugar follows the story of Miguel Santos, a.k.a. Sugar, a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro De Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty. Playing professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, Miguel finally gets his break at age 19 when he advances to the United States’ minor league system; but when his play on the mound falters, he begins to question the single-mindedness of his life’s ambition.
More information is available at the Ross website.
