This Week, December 20 - 24, 2010
Time to Shutdown Electronics, Turn Down Thermostats
With just a few preventative measures, faculty and staff can help the university save energy and reduce costs during the holiday shutdown, Dec. 24 to Jan. 3. "Everything that can be manually shut off should be," said Kirk Conger, energy projects manager with UNL Building Systems Maintenance.
All lights, fans, appliances, computers, printers, monitors and copiers should be turned off during the shutdown. In recent years, these procedures have helped cut energy use in UNL's academic buildings to save at least $25,000 per year. more...
Reminder to Secure Windows, Workplaces Over Break
Facilities Management and Planning and University Police remind everyone to shut all windows and doors before you leave for the holidays. Heat will be reduced over the break to conserve energy in accordance with the campus energy policy. Only buildings or spaces where research requires normal temperatures will be unaffected.
eaving doors or windows open could result in the loss of university property and/or frozen pipes and subsequent damage. Please protect your office and building by ensuring you leave with your workplace secure. Buildings will remain locked over the holidays, so be sure you have any items out of your spaces that you will need over the break.
UNL students (from left) Val Harper, Jacob Hager, and Brian Ruhs work with visiting faculty member Sandy Veneziano to complete a set in the NET production studio
Collaboration Offers Real-World Lessons
A unique partnership between NET Television, NET Radio and students from UNL's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film and the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, offers practical experience that enhances academic training. Earlier this semester, students in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film designed, constructed, dressed and lighted a set in a real production studio. The set, a cozy cabin in the woods, was last used for the stage production of “Moonlight and Magnolias” at the Omaha Community Playhouse.
Now, it resides in NET's vast Studio One — a few miles east of the Temple Building. Paul Steger, director of the Carson School and executive director of the Nebraska Repertory Theatre, said that the unique arrangement began after a few years of discussions between NET and the Carson School of staging a joint production of some sort and combining their resources. more...
Art in Community Class Reaches Out To Schools
UNL Arts in the Community students (from left) Jamie Ruzicka and Lauren Baker
Community outreach just got a little more colorful. "We wanted to look at this intersection where art, social justice and education all intersect," said Sandra Williams, associate professor of art and art history. "There are always problems engendered in education." Williams teaches "Art in the Community," a class that gives students the opportunity to bring art directly to the front lines of the Lincoln Public Schools system.
"I want my students to question the stratifications," Williams said. "I want them to make the decisions for themselves - who gets to make art, where does art exist, what is considered valid and what isn't." For the fall semester, students teamed up with Beattie Elementary, creating life-sized mosaic sculptures to be housed near the school building. With a group of college art students orchestrating the project and dozens of elementary kids involved, bringing the pieces to life required both personality and patience. more...
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Next; 127 Hours Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Next and 127 Hours. Both films will screen through Dec. 23.
More information about each of the films and schedules, as well as online ticket purchasing, is available at the Ross website.
