Mesozoic Gallery Set to Open at State Museum

Visitors will step back 100 million years when they tour the new Mesozoic Gallery at the University of Nebraska State Museum at UNL.

The gallery opens Oct. 1 and shows Nebraska as an inland sea complete with the fossil skeletons of giant reptiles and other creatures. The $600,000 gallery took three years to develop and features a computer multimedia exhibit and other interactive displays that invite visitors to become active participants in the Morrill Hall gallery.

A weekend of festivities are planned to celebrate the opening of the new gallery. Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) will cut the ribbon to official open the gallery at a 6 p.m. reception Sept. 30, followed by a 6:30 dinner called the "Dig Site Spectacular." UNL Interim Chancellor Joan Leitzel will deliver welcoming remarks and Mike Voorhies, the UNL paleontologist who discovered the Ashfall Fossil Beds, will talk about Nebraska during the Age of Dinosaurs.

The menu for the dinner includes a cake donated by HyVee that represents the layers of Nebraska's fossil history.

Reservations for the dinner are $15.50 for adults and $10.50 for children 12 and younger and can be made by calling Sally Hawkins at 2-6365. Reservations are due by Sept. 15.

On Oct. 1, a family festival titled "Dinosaur Crazies" will be held at Morrill Hall from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. It will feature children's activities, including strolling musicians who will sing dinosaur songs composed specially for the event. A donation of $1 is suggested for museum visitors over the age of 2 and parking is available outside the museum at 14th and U streets.

Look for Changes this Season to Memorial Stadium

Some Spiffing Up Here and There

By Tom Simons, News & Information

Once they're in their seats, fans at Cornhusker home football games this fall won't notice much in Memorial Stadium that's new from 1994.

But on their way to their seats, there will be some noticeable changes, including a building project under way beneath the south end zone bleachers. When finished, the project will provide additional women's restrooms and an expanded concessions area for the public, as well as a new coaches' locker room, meeting space and storage for the Athletic Department. "Big Red Boulevard," a walkway constructed from donated bricks, is also still under construction. When finished it will be the route the Husker football team takes to and from the field.

The construction projects, however, will not interfere with fans' access to the stadium, according to Joe Selig, assistant athletic director for facilities and events, and he said one addition will improve access to the stadium. An elevator has been added under the west stands connecting the ground level with the concourse, providing press box access for persons with disabilities.

Fans entering the west stadium will be able to glimpse the new edit suite for Husker Vision, the stadium's instant-replay screens, and Selig said they'll also notice the improved appearance of the west stadium bleachers, following a $1.2 million waterproofing project this summer. Fans approaching the stadium from the north will soon be able to see signage honoring the Huskers' three national championship seasons on the back of the public address system's speakers.

Selig said the Stadium Assistance Team will again be available to help fans. The team of cadets and midshipmen from UNL's ROTC units will help with stadium security and any problems fans may face. The team members will wear gold jackets with the word "security" in black capital letters on the back.

Areas have also been set aside to accommodate persons with disabilities. There are spaces for 14 chairs and seating for accompanying persons on a platform accessible by a lift near the north end of the east stadium. A platform with 28 spaces is available in the southeast corner, accessible by ramp. The area under the north stadium is also available for people in wheelchairs.

All parking lots on City Campus are reserved on game days. Parking for people with disabilities is available for $5 for people with state handicapped parking permits. Lots are at the northwest corner of Stadium Drive (formerly 10th Street) and Avery Street near stadium gate No. 11, and in campus lot 18A at the corner of 15th and U streets north of the Nebraska Union. Golf carts will be available to transport fans with disabilities from lot 18A to the stadium.

Other Memorial Stadium safety policies remain in effect from previous years.

Elie Wiesel Highlights Thompson Forum Series

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel will highlight the 1995-96 lecture schedule of E.N. Thompson Forums on World Issues at UNL.

Wiesel's April 16 lecture, "The Seduction and Danger of Fanaticism," will be the final of five in this year's series. The other speakers are award-winning author Roger Rosenblatt, Oct. 5; author Francis T. Seow, Nov. 15; international affairs scholar Anthony T. Bryan, Jan. 15; and author Elizabeth Fernea, March 6.

"This is the most diverse group of speakers we've had in many years," said Barbara Emil, director of Conferences and Institutes at UNL. "We have more native speakers talking about their own countries and that has not always been the case. Beginning the Thompson Forum series with Roger Rosenblatt and ending it with Elie Wiesel also gives it two very well-known names."

Thompson Forum lectures are free and open to the public. They begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 12th and R streets. The lectures are also available by satellite at sites statewide, including College Park at Grand Island, state colleges, community colleges, and high schools.

Looking For a Good Read? How About Scarlet's Web?

It was bound to happen sooner or later. For our readers lucky enough to have access to the World Wide Web, the Scarlet is now at your fingertips.

Thanks to the efforts of Diane Taurins, assistant to the editor and resident computer wizard, the Scarlet will be updated every Friday (the same day most of you receive it in the mail) on our new Website, Scarlet's Web, which also will include access to back issues and hours of enjoyable and edifying reading material.

The URL for Scarlet's Web is http://www.unl.edu/scarlet/menu.html

Writer Explores 'Public Realm and the Common Good'

Hyde Lecturer to Examine 'Tragic Landscape' of Junked Cities Sept. 21

Architectural writer and author James Howard Kunstler will discuss the "tragic landscape" of strip malls and tract housing at the College of Architecture's Hyde Lecture at 4 p.m. Sept. 21 in the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater. Kunstler's presentation, "The Public Realm and the Common Good," relates to his recent book, The Geography of Nowhere.

"I believe a lot of people share my feeling about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that make up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work," said Kunstler. "These things are bankrupting our nation economically, socially and spiritually. We can and must do a better job of building our human habitat in the years ahead, or the future will belong to other people in other societies."

The Geography of Nowhere is Kunstler's ninth book and first work of non-fiction. His previous books include the novels The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Riches, andThe Life of Byron Jaynes. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine, where he has written on environmental and land development issues.

Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport in 1971, and afterwards worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. He has no formal training in architecture.

Kunstler is writing a sequel to the Geography of Nowhere, which will be published by Simon and Schuster in 1996 under the title From Nowhere to Someplace. "The first book was the pathology lesson," Kunstler says. "The next one will be the necessary course of therapy."

This lecture is make possible by the A. Leicester Hyde Memorial Fund.

Center to Compile 'Encyclopedia of the Great Plains'

The Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL has received a three-year grant of $190,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the writing and publication of the "Encyclopedia of the Great Plains."

The grant includes an outright grant of $140,000 plus $50,000 in matching funds. The University of Nebraska Foundation has obtained a substantial portion of the matching funds for the project.

"We are very grateful to NEH and extremely pleased to receive this vote of confidence from scholars around the United States," said John Wunder, center director and professor of history at UNL. "To win this award against national competition of the highest order and at a time when NEH is facing severe cutbacks in funding should tell everyone in Nebraska that people are recognizing the importance of the Great Plains and the quality of the scholars at our center, at the University of Nebraska, and in our region."

The Encyclopedia will include 26 chapters, each of which will have an introductory essay and 75-100 entries. The chapters range from more traditional topics, such as religion, art, agriculture, and politics, to special ones reflecting the distinctiveness of the Great Plains. Such chapters are on water, images and icons, protest and dissent, and literary traditions. The Great Plains extend from the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta south to include much of Texas and east from the foothills of the Rockies to the Missouri River.

David J. Wishart, professor of geography at UNL, general editor of the encyclopedia, said he expects writing and editing to take five years and that it will be published in the year 2000 by the University of Nebraska Press.

"Our Encyclopedia will be written for the general public," Wishart said. "It will contain a great deal of information never before put in one place or even collected about the Great Plains. It will be essential to every library, school, business, corporation, law firm, and government or public interest group in Nebraska, the Great Plains, and beyond."

Three local editors-at-large from UNL and the Center for Great Plains Studies will join Wishart to edit the Encyclopedia. They are Frances W. Kaye, editor of Great Plains Quarterly and professor of English at UNL; Martha Kennedy, curator of the Great Plains Art Collection; and Wunder.

Three regional editors have also been appointed. Pamela E. Brink, president of Associated Authors & Editors Inc. of Lubbock, Texas, will act as a managing editor as well as regional editor for the southern U.S. Plains. Editor for the northern U.S. Plains is Nancy Tystad Koupal, director of publications of the South Dakota State Historical Society and editor of South Dakota History. Theodore Regehr, professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, is the regional editor for the Canadian Plains.

Most of the chapter essays have already been assigned. Included among the authors are scholars from UNL, the University of Nebraska at Kearney and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Entries are being determined, and their assignment will involve the research and writing of more than 1,000 scholars. Ann Mari May, associate professor of economics at UNL and acting director of the Center, will oversee the first year of the project.

"The encyclopedia will be the definitive work of the Great Plains giving an overview of the region's history, geography, peoples and economies," May said. "It has the potential to help Great Plains states and provinces open their doors to interested visitors and investors.

We already know what a special place the Plains is. Now we can tell the rest of the world."

Theology for Lunch Begins Series Sept. 22

The fall semester series of monthly "Theology for Lunch" programs will begin at noon Sept. 22 in the Nebraska Union.

The theme of this fall's series is "Three Critical Questions," based on the May 1995 UNL Commencement speech by Steven Sample, president of the University of Southern California and former Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs of the University of Nebraska System.

"What Do You Think About Money" will be discussed Sept. 22 with Ron Reichel, financial investment counselor, Waddell and Reed. Later sessions include: Oct. 20, Carol Stitt, director of the Nebraska Foster Care Review Board, discussing "What Do You Think About Children?" On Nov. 17, "What Do You Think About God?" will be addressed by UNL Interim Chancellor Joan Leitzel.

At each of these programs, the opening presentation will be responded to briefly by Ebb Munden, pastor emeritus of First United Methodist Church, Lincoln, serving as a "theological commentator," leading into general discussion.

The three questions of the series, while initially presented by Sample to the graduating students as involving decisions which shape the direction of a person's life, will be examined at two levels in the noon discussions: How do we as faculty, staff and grad students address - or ignore - these questions in the shaping of our lives, and, what is our responsibility, if any, to encourage and support students - particularly undergraduates - in struggling with these questions and arriving at personal value decisions?

The Theology for Lunch programs are co-sponsored by the UNL campus ministries of United Ministries in Higher Education, St. Mark's Episcopal Church and Student Center, and the UNL Lutheran Center, (ELCA), in cooperation with the UNL Program in Religious Studies.

All UNL faculty, staff and grad students, as well as interested persons from the community are welcome. All programs are scheduled for the Nebraska Union, with informal brown bag lunch fellowship beginning at 11:30 a.m., the formal program about noon, and discussion closing by 1 p.m.

Lunch Program Offers 'Food for Thought' Sept. 21

The Food for Thought brown bag lunch program on the UNL East Campus will begin on Sept. 21 with a presentation by Paul Olson, UNL professor of English, and a theological response by the Rev. LaTaunya Dynum, interim pastor at Bethany Christian Church, Lincoln.

The monthly luncheon programs are held in the East Campus Union, with brown bag or tray lunch fellowship beginning at 11:30 a.m., the formal presentations at about noon, followed by general discussion and closing by 1 p.m. All UNL faculty, staff and graduate students are welcome to participate in these discussions, as are interested persons from the Lincoln community.

The "Food for Thought" series theme for the fall semester is "Saying Yes - and Saying No: Values in Conflict," centering on situations where values that we hold may be involved in opposing sides of social conflict. Olson's topic on Sept. 21 will be "Us, Them and All of Us," dealing with the conflict between the values of ethnic culture and identity, and the community need for some core of shared culture and values.

Future dates, topics and speakers will be: Oct. 19 - "The One and the Many" on conflict between personal liberties and social accountability, with F. Gregory Hayden of UNL's Department of Economics, and the Rev. Fred Nelson of First Lutheran Church; and Nov. 16 - "The Local and the Global," with Joseph Stimpfl, assistant dean of International Affairs, with the Rev. Ronald Brammier of Faith United Methodist Church, facing conflicts between values of decentralization and localism, and the realities of global political and economic connections.

Food for Thought is co-sponsored by the UNL campus ministry programs of the UNL Lutheran Center (ELCA), United Ministries in Higher Education, and St. Mark's Episcopal Church and Student Center in cooperation with the UNL Program in Religious Studies.

Campus Recreation Offers Wellness Assessments

Campus Recreation has scheduled regular wellness assessments at the Campus Recreation Center. These assessments are scheduled for the first and third Tuesday of each month from 5 to 7 p.m. beginning Sept. 19. Holidays may force adjustment of this schedule (see the 1995-96 Campus Recreation calendar for details). The assessments available include: blood pressure, nutrition analysis, fitness assessment, and body composition. Some services require a small fee. For details, call 2-3467.

Outdoor Adventures Offers Recreation Trips

The Outdoor Adventures Program offers a wide variety of outdoor recreation trips. In September, OA offers: basic rock climbing (Sept. 15-17), day canoeing (Sept. 17), women's rock climbing (Sept. 22-24), Colorado backpacking (Sept. 28 to Oct. 1), and Colorado rack climbing (Sept. 28 to Oct. 1). Sign up at either Campus Recreations Office, 55 CRec or 32 CAB. For additional information, call 2-4777.

Intramural Sports Deadline is Sept. 26

Sept. 26 is the entry deadline for the fast pitch softball tournament, men's and women's flag football and the golf tournament. Enter at either Campus Recreation Office, 55 CRec or 32 CAB. Oct. 3 is the entry deadline for faculty/staff racquetball singles.

'Strangeness of Landscapes' Lecture at Andrews Sept. 18

Juan M. Company, Universitat de Valencia, Spain will present "The Strangeness of Landscapes: The Problematic Spanish Cinema-Society Equation 1944-1994," at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 in 228 Andrews Hall.

Company, a specialist in contemporary European cinema, will show film clips to illustrate his talk. The lecture is sponsored by the UNL Research Council, the European Studies Program, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.

Sept. 19 Lecture Examines Computers for Class Management

Sept. 19 Lecture Examines Computers for Class Management

The Century Teaching Club will host an informal discussion, "Using Computers for Class Management," (attendance, testing, grading, etc.) at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 19 in the Wick Alumni Center. Commercially and personally developed projects to help you manage classes will be demonstrated. To register, contact the Teaching and Learning Center, e-mail unltlc@unlinfo.unl.edu or call 2-3079.

Workshops Examine Technology in Music

Darrell Bailey of the Indiana University School of Music, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and project director of the new state-of-the-art IUPUI Computer Music Technology Facility (one of the largest fully-networked PC Computer music laboratories in the world) will be the featured speaker at two workshops sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center on Sept.. 21.

"Hypermedia in Music and Humanities Using CD-ROM and Videodisc Technology" will be from 9 a.m. to noon in the Nebraska Union. Bailey will demonstrate Humanities Applications including Mozart, Piano Concerto in G Major, K453; Comparison with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; CD-ROM and CD Timesketch: The "Virtual Textbook"; Application Templates with Express Author; Applications for Education in Distance Learning; Application development and technical issues.; and Getting Started Using multimedia.

"Hypermedia in the Sciences using CD-ROM and Videodisc Technology" will be from 2:30 to 5 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. Bailey will demonstrate Scientific Application including: Critical Instance in Emergency Care: Cyanotic Premature Baby; Interactive Biology and Environmental Application: "Ecology of the Rocky Interidal Zone and the Pacific Northwest"; Stapes Surgery CD-ROM Application; Applications Templates with Express Author, Applications for Education in Distance Learning; and application development and technical issues.

Bailey will also be the featured speaker at the meeting for the Technology Group at noon on Sept. 22 in the East Union. He will provide an overview of current and emerging trends in portable systems for sharing multimedia information.

Individual appointments are available for any faculty who wish to visit with Bailey on Friday afternoon. Please call 2-3079 to schedule appointments on a first-come, first-served basis.

All faculty are invited to attend. To register, contact the Teaching and Learning Center, e-mail unltlc@unlinfo.unl.edu or call 2-3079.

Eleanor Burns Quilt Workshop at Continuing Ed Sept. 29

Quilter Eleanor Burns, host of the popular public television series Quilt in a Day, will give a quilting workshop from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Sept. 29 at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education. "An Evening with Eleanor Burns" features a lecture and demonstration with the topics of "Depression Quilts and How We Can Make Them Today" and "Applique in a Day."

The evening is co-sponsored by Southeast Community College and Nebraskans for Public Television.

Quilt In A Day, seen each Sunday at 2 p.m. on all stations of the Nebraska ETV Network, offers viewers an entertaining style of teaching as they learn fast and easy methods to make beautiful quilt patterns from the past.

One-Room School Highlighted on ETV Special

The days of the one-room school may be numbered, but one-room schools remain an integral part of a handful of communities across the Great Plains. The final two episodes of "Last of the One Room Schools" will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Sept. 18-19 on the Nebraska ETV Network. The series examines a year in the life of a one-room school from the beginning of the school year through Thanksgiving, the Christmas Pageant, a trip to Lincoln and the end of the school year.

Statewide Examines Controversy Over Niobrara Control

Efforts to create a national park along the Niobrara River downstream from Valentine, Nebraska, are dead for now due to lack of federal funding, but the controversy over who will control development of the river continues. Correspondent Brad Penner reports on the continuing debate on this weeks' edition of

Statewide, the Nebraska ETV Networks' weekly news series. The program airs at 8 p.m. on Sept. 22 and repeats at 7 p.m. on Sept. 23, and at 1:30 p.m. on Sept. 24.

Since the last time Statewidereported on the Niobrara controversy, debate has been clouded by the river's designation as a scenic waterway. That leaves ownership of the river in private hands by gives federal authorities power to regulate the river.

ETV Special Examines Values of Children

How does a child grow up to become a good person? What values guide a child through life's inevitable struggles? How do parents pass on inner strengths to their children? These are the questions Pulitzer Prize-winning author and child psychiatrist Robert Coles explores in "Listening to Children: A Moral Journey with Robert Coles," airing at 9 p.m. on Sept. 22 on the Nebraska ETV Network. Lynne Thigpen hosts the program, which is closed captioned for hearing-impaired viewers.

In this new 90-minute documentary, Coles grants a film crew access to his explorations of the lives of eight American children who struggle to make sense of an all too turbulent world. Each child must draw upon inner resources to come to terms with difficult issues, including deteriorating families, alcoholism, affluence, the uncertainties of migrant life, AIDS, racism, poverty, violence, and riots.

Satellite Multimedia Teleconference is Sept. 21

Information Services and the Teaching and Learning Center invite all interested persons to attend a national satellite videoconference from noon to 2 p.m. Sept. 21 in the Georgian Suite of the Nebraska Union. The videoconference will be shown on Campus Channel 6. What copyright issues do educators face when creating multimedia presentations for their courses? How do copyright laws apply to materials posted on the Internet? To date no fair use guidelines exist for educational multimedia developers and users. As a result, many educators have deterred form integrating this dynamic technology into their courses. Guidelines are now being developed to clarify what constitutes "fair use" of copyrighted materials in educational contexts. These guidelines will be made public for the first time during this national satellite telecast. If you use multimedia as an educational tool, this videoconference is a must.

Those who helped develop the guidelines - representatives from the publishing, recording, motion media, and music industries and from educational associations and government agencies - will take call-in questions on the air. For more information, contact Agnes Adams at 2-3628 or the Teaching and Learning Center at 2-3079.

Soprano Jessye Norman on 'Live From Lincoln Center'

Live From Lincoln Center presents "New York Philharmonic Opening Concert," featuring the gala opening of the New York Philharmonic's 153rd season at 7 p.m. on Sept. 20 on the Nebraska ETV Network.

The concert, conducted by the Philharmonic's music director Kurt Masur, with special guest soloist soprano Jessye Norman, will be aired live from Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. Television personality Hugh downs will host the event.

Economics Education Group Taps Atwood

Roger Atwood, former director of regulatory finance at U S West in Omaha, has been named president of EconomicsAmerica-Nebraska by the group's executive committee. Atwood replaces James Marlin, who retired after eight years as president of the private, not-for-profit organization that was formerly the Nebraska Council on Economic Education.

Atwood, who earned a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Minnesota in 1961, had served with U S West for 34 years. He was a volunteer chairman of the board of trustees of EconomicsAmerica from 1992-94.

EconomicsAmerica-Nebraska is a statewide organization whose goal is to ensure that all students will graduate from high school with an understanding of economics sufficient for them to make informed choices as consumers, producers, workers and citizens. There are six centers for economic education located at colleges and universities that are affiliated with the state organization. They are at UNL, UNO, UNK, Chadron State College, Wayne State College and Doane College.

EconomicsAmerica-Nebraska is hosted by the Department of Economics at the UNL College of Business Administration.

Laser Shows Return To Mueller Planetarium

This September Mueller Plantarium opens another season of laser light shows featuring a state-of-the-art full color laser projection system.

Search Committee for Continuing Studies Dean Appointed

A search committee for the Dean of the Division of Continuing Studies has been formed. Will Norton, dean of the College of Journalism & Mass Communications, will chair the search committee.

The committee intends to begin work in the next few days. Committee members include: Will Norton, dean, College of Journalism & Mass Communications, chair; Nancy Aden, program specialist, Distance Learning, Division of Continuing Studies; John Ballard, associate dean, College of Engineering & Technology; Kenneth Bolen, dean, Cooperative Extension Division, Division of Continuing Studies; Barbara DiBernard, associate professor, Department of English/Women's Studies Program; John Dirkx, associate professor, Department of Vocational & Adult Education; Gordon Karels, associate dean, College of Business Administration; Randal Leach, director of Business Operations, Division of Continuing Studies; Lee Manns, ASUN Student Representative; Marilyn Moore, assistant superintendent, Lincoln Public Schools; Wendy O'Connor, social studies teacher, Distance Education, Division of Continuing Studies; Lee Rockwell, assistant general manager for Educational Telecommunications; Kathleen Zumpfe, director of marketing, Division of Continuing Studies; Ron Ross, associate director, Affirmative Action and Diversity (Consultant to the Committee).

Fine and Performing Arts Dean Search Committee Appointed

A search committee for the Dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts has been formed. Cecil Steward, dean of the College of Architecture, will chair the search committee. The committee intends to begin work in the next few days. Committee members include: Cecil Steward, dean, College of Architecture, chair; John Bailey, associate professor, School of Music; Lisa Fusillo, professor, Theatre Arts and Dance; Lari Gibbons, graduate student; Martha Horvay, associate professor, Art and Art History; Peter Lefferts, associate professor, School of Music; Joyce Lundstrom, community representative; Christin Mamiya, associate professor, Art and Art History; Tice Miller, chair, Theatre Arts and Dance; George Neubert, director, Sheldon Art Gallery; Glenn Nierman, professor, School of Music; Charles O'Connor, associate professor, Theatre Arts and Dance; Scott Roewer, ASUN Student Representative; Kit Voorhees, director, Arts are Basic; Ron Ross, associate director, Affirmative Action and Diversity (Consultant to the Committee).

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