Please Don't Blame It On Me . . .

. . . if you miss the exhibit, It's Just Plain(s) Politics: Cartoons as Perceptions of the Regional and National Scenes, on display through May 3 at the Great Plains Art Collection, 205 Love Library. Pictured is Herbert Johnson's Please Don't Blame It On Me!, c. 1915.

Scarlet Begins Monthly Schedule May 3

The Scarlet will publish its final issue of the academic year on May 3, when it will depart from its weekly schedule and appear monthly during the summer. The Scarlet will resume its weekly publication schedule on Aug. 16.

Scarlet publication dates for the summer are as follows: May 3, June 7, July 12, August 16, 23, 30.

Berringer Memorial Fund Established at NU Foundation

A Brook Berringer Memorial Fund has been established at the University Foundation in memory of the former Nebraska football quarterback, who was killed in a plane crash near Lincoln April 18. Money given to the fund will go to a memoral established by the family in honor of Berringer.

Donations may be sent to:
The Brook Berringer Memorial Fund
c/o the University of Nebraska Foundation
1111 Building, Lincoln Mall, Suite 200
Lincoln, NE 68508.

Those wishing to send cards may address them to the Berringer family in care of the Nebraska Football Office, 217 South Stadium, 0125.

Time to Speak Up for Speakers Bureau

Attention all Dale Carnegie wanna-bes. The Speakers Bureau, a UNL outreach service, is accepting applications and nominations for the 1996-97 term. In its second year, the bureau will comprise up to 15 distinguished faculty and staff. These "UNL ambassadors" will travel across the state and deliver presentations to various civic and service groups.

Bureau members will be selected by the Chancellor's Cabinet to serve a one-year term that will include several presentations. All travel expenses will be paid by the university.

If you or a fellow UNL colleague would make an enthusiastic and engaging speaker on topics of general interest to Nebraskans, send a letter of application or nomination by May 2 to Phyllis Larsen, director of public relations, 204 Admin., 0424. In the letter, please include a brief description of the speaker's possible topics.

Space Station Lands at UNL

Life-size NASA models of an International Space Station will be on display through May 1 on the former greenhouse site just east of Oldfather Hall. The display demonstrates the unique environment in which three to six astronauts will live and work for months while orbiting the earth. The exhibit includes a food preparation area, a space toilet, an astronaut bed and a science work station.

Visitors can tour the exhibit on weekdays and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free.

The NASA exhibit coincides with National Astronomy Day April 27. An exhibit of telescopes, computer astronomy and astrophotography will be displayed near the space station exhibit and in the lobby of Mueller Planetarium at the State Museum. A special program on space exploration and the space station will also be featured at the planetarium.

Alumni Association Announces Distinguished Service Awards

The UNL Alumni Association will award three Distinguished Service Awards at spring commencement. The Distinguished Service Award recognizes people for their service to the alumni association and/or the university.

This year's recipients are William D. "Bill" Schlaebitz of Lincoln, Jean Tucker Jackson Stradley of Lincoln and Eloise Livingston Heaton of Fullerton, Calif.

Schlaebitz, architect and artist, joined The Clark Enersen Partners architectural firm in 1949 and retired in 1987 as vice president. He received a bachelor of architecture from UNL in 1949. Stradley served on the national Kappa Delta Sorority Council for 12 years, four years as national editor and eight years as national president. Stradley is a member of the UNL Chancellor's Club and has endowed several scholarships for UNL Teachers College students and Kappa Delta Sorority women. Eloise Livingston Heaton is a retired secondary school business teacher. Between 1991 and 1994, she served as president of the Californians for Nebraska Alumni Chapter. Heaton is a member of the President's Club, the UNL Chancellor's Club and the Burnett Society. She received a bachelor of science degree in business administration in 1948 and a bachelor of science in education in 1949.

UNL Alumni to Host Graduation Receptions

Alumni associations of eight University of Nebraska colleges will host receptions for graduating seniors and their parents May 3 and 4. UNL commencement exercises are May 4.

Graduation receptions on May 3 include: College of Journalism and Mass Communications Alumni Association reception, 4 p.m., Avery Hall; College of Dentistry Alumni Association reception, banquet and dance, 5:30 p.m., Cornhusker Hotel Ballroom; and the College of Architecture Alumni Association reception, 5:30 p.m., Architecture Hall Gallery.

The following groups will honor their graduates May 4: College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Alumni Association breakfast, 7 a.m., Beef Barbecue Pit, State Fairgrounds; College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association breakfast, 7 a.m., The Clubhouse, State Fairgrounds Grandstand; College of Engineering and Technology Alumni Association breakfast, 7 a.m., The Clubhouse, State Fairgrounds Grandstand; College of Fine and Performing Arts Alumni Association breakfast, 7 a.m., The Clubhouse, State Fairgrounds Grandstand; Teachers College Alumni Association breakfast, 7 a.m., The Clubhouse, State Fairgrounds Grandstand; and the College of Business Administration Alumni Association breakfast, 7 a.m., Farmland Building, State Fairgrounds.

ETV Offers Summer Telecourses

Summer diversions don't have to exclude advancing your education. Through the "Going the Distance" program, a cooperative arrangement between several participating Nebraska colleges and the Nebraska ETV Network, adults of all ages, backgrounds and educational levels can continue their learning via telecourses.

Telecourses are fully accredited college-level courses offered by colleges across the state and distributed by the Nebraska ETV Network.

Students attend class by watching their own television. Some colleges also offer courses via cable or videocassette delivery. Textbooks, assignments, tests and tuition are included.

This summer's schedule features seven telecourses and will be broadcast May 13 through Aug. 27 on all stations of the Nebraska ETV Network.

Coursework in the areas of statistics, writing and editing, business, ethics and psychology will be offered this summer to adult learners every day of the week. Specific course titles include: "Against All Odds;" "Business and the Law;" "Ethics in America;" "Read, Write and Research;" "Seasons of Life;" "Taking the Lead;" and "World of Abnormal Psychology."

Participating this summer in the broadcast telecourse are Central Community College, Grand Island; Mid-Plains Community College, McCook and North Platte; Northeast Community College, Norfolk; Southeast Community College, Lincoln; Western Nebraska Community College, Scottsbluff; and UNK. Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, offers courses via cable and videocassette.

For information about telecourses and how they work, contact the Telecourse Network at 2-9333, ext. 359.

Audi Commencement Speaker

Robert Audi, UNL professor of philosophy, will give the commencement address at the UNL Commencement Exercises scheduled for 9:30 a.m. May 4 in the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Approximately 1,900 students will receive degrees.

Audi is the Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at UNL, where he has taught since 1973. He is the author of articles and books in all of his teaching areas: ethics, the theory of knowledge, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of religion. He has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Philosophical Research, and under grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has directed institutes and seminars at the university for faculty selected from colleges and universities nationwide. His books include Rationality, Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment (1986), Practical Reasoning (1989), Action, Intention, and Reason (1993), and The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (1995), for which he was editor-in-chief. He received his bachelor's degree from Colgate University in 1963 with majors in philosophy and English, his doctoral degree in 1967 from the University of Michigan, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki in 1995.

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents will also confer a Nebraska Builder Award on Albert Ebers, an honorary doctor of science degree on Myron Brakke and an honorary doctor of humane letters on Thomas Sorensen.

Albert Ebers was born on the family farm in Seward County, where he returned after graduating from the University of Nebraska with a degree in agricultural sciences in 1933. He was the first farmer in the county to practice soil conservation and residue farming. He helped extension agent K.S. Fonts organize the Seward County Soil Conservation District and was chair of the board for nine years. He also helped State Grange Master Cap Dietz organize Goehner Grange N. 371, where he served as the State Grange Master for many years. Under his initiative, the Nebraska Agricultural Council was created to create a forum for farm organizations and commodity groups to discuss farm issues. He was elected President of the Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement in 1961 and was elected Honoree in 1981. He and his wife Helen are the parents of two daughters, Helen Jean Thompson and Mary Ann Hans.

Myron Brakke is a retired professor of plant pathology at UNL. His primary research concerned wheat streak mosaic and soil-borne wheat mosaic viruses. He purified both viruses, determining their chemical properties, and showed that the viruses cause mosaics by interfering with chloroplast formation in very young leaves. He also studied the role of corn in harboring wheat streak mosaic virus from one wheat crop to the next. He discovered the fungus that carries the soil-borne wheat mosaic virus from plant to plant. He collaborated with other professors to develop wheat cultivars resistant to the viruses, to create guidelines for the virus-free seed potato program in Nebraska, and to establish the first national antisera bank for plant viruses at the American Type Culture Collection. He involved in the formation of the Center for Biotechnology at UNL. He and his wife Betty share a farm in Lancaster County.

Thomas Sorensen retired this year after 25 years in the investment business. Since 1980, he has been associated with The Capital Group Companies, Inc., which manages the American Funds mutual funds group, corporate and institutional pension funds and other financial assets. From 1981 to 1990, he was in the firm's London office. A native of Lincoln and a 1947 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he began his career at the Lincoln Journal and later became the first news director of KLMS radio before joining the U.S. State Department's international information program, which became the U.S. Information Agency. After USIA tours of duty in Beirut, Baghdad, Cairo and Washington, D.C., he was appointed Deputy Director for Policy under USIA Directors Edward R. Murrow and Carl Rowan. In 1962, he received the Jaycee Award as "One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in the Federal Government." He is a visiting lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.

ESL Workshop June 28

The English Department's Programs in English as a Second Language is co-sponsoring Nebraska's First Statewide Workshop on ESL June 28 at Southeast Community College in Lincoln.

The program will explore the range of ESL needs and services across Nebraska, as well as pedagogical, materials and program options.

The workshop is co-sponsored by the English Department Programs in English as a Second Language, Southeast Community College and Nebraska Coordinators for Adult Literacy, a networking group promoting literacy in Nebraska. Call PIESL at 2-1884.

Astronomy Day at Planetarium April 27

National Astronomy Day will be celebrated by the Prairie Astronomy Club April 27 with special exhibits of telescopes, computer astronomy and astrophotography in the lobby of Mueller Planetarium and outside of a NASA international space station display east of Oldfather Hall.

A special program on space stations will be presented in Mueller Planetarium on both April 27 and April 28.

In connection with the space station exhibit, Mueller Planetarium has created a new planetarium show which highlights space stations of the past, in science fiction and in future space development. The planetarium's laser graphics show will offer three-dimensional representations of space stations of the past and the future.

This program will be shown April 27 at 10 and 11 a.m. and at 1, 2, 3 and 4 p.m. On April 28 the program will be presented at 2, 3 and 4 p.m. The running time of this program is less than 30 minutes. Admission ($3, adults; $2 children 12 and under) will be charged for the program.

Lincoln American Heart Walk May 11

The Lincoln American Heart Walk will be at 8:30 a.m. May 11. Registration is at 8 a.m. The 1996 American Heart Walk will begin at Covered Shelter #2 at Pioneers Park. Participants may walk 5 or 10 kilometers. Race entry forms are available in Room 32 of the College Activities Building on East Campus or the City Campus Recreation Center. Entry fee/donation is $6 per person. The deadline for entries to be a part of the UNL team is May 7. For further information, contact 2-2479 or 2-3467.

Aguilar Reception May 2

A retirement reception for Joseph Aguilar, a professor in Curriculum and Instruction, will be from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. May 2 in the Georgian Suite, Nebraska Union.

Gilbert/Ullman Reception is May 3

A retirement reception will be given for Richard Gilbert, chair, Chemical Engineering and Frank Ullman, professor, Electrical Engineering, from 10 a.m. to noon May 3 in the Electrical Engineering Conference room, 205N WSEC. For more information contact the Electrical Engineering department at 2-3771.

Bright Lights Brings Young Students to Campus

Bright Lights, a summer enrichment program for students Kindergarten through ninth grade, will once again be featured at UNL with more than 110 classes being offered program-wide.

A pilot program with the College of Engineering, July 8-12, will offer hands-on experiences to students in civil, mechanical, electrical, industrial and biological systems engineering programs. John Ballard is coordinating the venture.

Other UNL professors and instructors involved in the program, and the classes they are teaching, include: Roger Kieckhafer, "Computers: Circuit to Circuit;" Eulanda Saunders, "Fashions and Computers;" Sara Moshman, "Computers and Video;" Ginny McGuire and Deb Beck, "Rocks and Minerals;" Jita Ghosh, genetics; Martin Liphardt and Leonie Boshoff-Mosert, UNL Science Works outreach program, "Physics Phun." Most of these classes are directed at middle school students. Call 434-8851 for more information.

Correction

An announcement in last week's Scarlet concerning Search Committee Certification briefing sessions gave the incorrect time for the May 21 session. The correct time is 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., in the Nebraska Union.

Chancellor Moeser Featured on 'Nebraskans Ask'

UNL Chancellor James Moeser will answer questions from the public when he appears on Nebraskans Ask, broadcast at 7 p.m. May 2 on the statewide Nebraska ETV Network.

Viewers may speak directly with Moeser via the phone or relay their questions through a staff person. Veteran reporter and host of Nebraskans Ask, Ed Howard, will moderate the questioning.

In addition to appearing on Nebraskans Ask, Moeser, along with his wife, Susan, will host an entire day of music for the NPRN, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 9.

'Statewide' Examines Nebraska Presidential Primary

Nebraska's presidential primary once played a significant role in determining the nation's presidential candidates, but no more. Why Nebraska's presidential primary has lost its allure will be examined in the "Perspective" segment of Statewide, the Nebraska ETV Network's weekly news journal, airing 8 p.m. May 3.

The program, which repeats 7 p.m. May 4, also provides up-to-the minute news reports from across the state and other features of interest.

The segment will look back at what was once known as the "Nebraska All-Star Primary" when every major presidential candidate would stump across the state. Historic film footage of Robert Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Eugene McCarthy and Richard Nixon will be featured along with interviews with party leaders, analysts an first-hand witnesses to the primary's glory days.

Welsch Talks with Rural Advocate Marty Strange

Marty Strange, director of the Center for Rural Affairs in Walthill is this week's guest on Roger Welsch &, when the interview series airs 8:30 p.m. May 3 on the Nebraska ETV Network.

Welsch calls Strange "a kind of rural Ralph Nader" and notes that, "In some ways, he and the Center are very old-fashioned, embracing tradition an rejecting what some call progress; on the other hand, some of the activities coming out of Walthill are innovative, even radical." Whether people are great fans of "consider the very name 'Center for Rural Affairs' fighting words," Welsch observes, "mention the name Marty Strange in Nebraska and you're bound to get a reaction."

'Computer Chronicles' Host to Speak April 30

Stewart Cheifet, executive producer and host of the public television series Computer Chronicles, will appear at a reception from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. April 30 at Holiday Convention Center, 72nd and Grover streets, Omaha.

Computer Chronicles airs at 1 p.m. Saturdays on the Nebraska ETV Network. The half-hour series features in-depth looks at cutting-edge computer topics with on location reports and technology demonstrations. For more information, call 422-3654.

Obituary

IMSE Professor Marvin Johnson Dies April 16

Marvin Johnson, 70, retired professor emeritus in the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, died April 16 in St. Joseph, Mo.

Memorials are suggested to the AMIE Scholarship Fund, University of Nebraska Foundation.

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