Space Age Makeover

A new museum planned by the Strategic Air Command will be the permanent home for UNL's Apollo 009 capsule, recently renovated by experts at Duncan Aviation. Dale Jensen, a Lincoln businessman and member of the Lincoln Airport Authority, contributed $20,000 toward the restoration. The capsule will be stored in Jensen's personal hangar at the airport until the new SAC museum opens near Mahoney State Park in the fall of 1997.

The capsule, which was once displayed near the entrance to Morrill Hall, was the first in a series of unoccupied test capsules that served as prototypes for the actual Apollo moonshots. Apollo 009 flew in suborbit for 37 minutes on Feb. 26, 1966. It was also dropped from an airplane onto solid earth to determine its impact strength.

Next Scarlet Is July 12

The Scarlet is published monthly during the summer, and will resume its weekly schedule Aug. 16.

Scarlet summer publication dates are as follows: July 12, Aug. 16, 23 and 30.

State of the University Address Set for Aug. 23

Chancellor Moeser's State of the University Address will be at 11 a.m. Aug. 23 in the Lied Center for Performing Arts. A free picnic lunch will follow the speech. Because all faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend, those planning meetings and other events are asked to avoid scheduling meetings or activities that conflict with this time.

State Museum Celebrates 125th Anniversary

A gala 125th birthday party for the University of Nebraska State Museum will be June 15 at the museum, at 14th and U streets on the UNL campus.

The celebration is billed as an escape to a simpler time of gazebos, garden walks and ice cream socials. Guests are invited to wear costumes representative of the dress that was common in 1871 when the museum was established.

Museum tours will be conducted between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. and a walking tour of the Arboretum will start at 4 p.m. A picnic will be at 5 p.m. on the lawn outside the museum. Guests may bring a blanket and a picnic basket or they can buy a hot dog, chips and a drink for $1.

A gazebo will provide the setting for entertainment, including remarks by museum director James Estes and a performance and educational program by musician Dave Fowler called "On Defining a Plains Fiddle Style." Fowler's presentation is funded by the Nebraska Humanities Council. The party concludes with an ice cream social at 6:30 p.m. If it rains, activities will be inside the museum.

The event, organized by the Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum, is free and open to the public.

Julius Lester to Speak on Black-Jewish Relations June 12

Julius Lester, (shown at left), a professor at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst who is considered a leading voice on Black-Jewish relations, will give a lecture at 7:30 p.m. June 12 in the Great Plains Art Gallery, 205 Love Library. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Lester, who is this year's Schlesinger Visiting Professor for Social Justice at UNL, is both African-American and Jewish, and has in recent years emerged as a major voice for conciliation and mutual understanding between African-Americans and Jews. The highlight of Lester's visit will be a public lecture, "Blacks and Jews Where Are We? Where Are We Going?" in which he will analyze the current state of Black-Jewish relations, point out commonalties and differences between the two groups, and make practical suggestions for the future.

Born in 1939, Lester spent his youth in the Midwest and South, and received a B.A. in English from Fisk University in 1960. Since 1968 he has published seven nonfiction books, 14 children's books, one collection of poetry, and two novels. His books have been honored with the Newberry Honor Medal and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, have been selected as finalists for the National Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award, and have been cited as "outstanding" and "notable" books by the New York Times and the American Library Association, respectively. His most recent books are a novel about the Civil Rights Movement, And All Our Wounds Forgiven, and a novelization for young adults of Shakespeare's Othello. His autobiographical work, Lovesong, which relates the story of his journey to Judaism, has just been reissued in paperback. Lester is also a prolific critic and essayist, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Village Voice, New Republic, Moment, Forward and Dissent.

In addition to his writing, Lester has recorded two albums of songs, produced and hosted a radio program on WBAI-FM in New York City for eight years, and hosted a live television show on WNET in New York for two years. He serves as a lay religious leader of Beth El Synagogue in St. Johnsbury, Vt. In 1986 he was selected as the Massachusetts State Professor of the Year.

The Schlesinger Professorship for Social Justice at UNL is made possible by a gift of Elaine and James Wolf of Albion. Co-sponsors of Lester's visit are the Harris Center for Judaic Studies and the Program in African-American and African Studies at UNL.

Arts are Basic Annual Workshop Begins June 10

Arts are Basic will conduct its annual workshop for new and returning teachers June 10-21 at UNL. Teachers and teaching artists will participate in workshops in music, theater, dance, visual art, architecture and the newest AAB unit, poetry.

Workshops for the 1996-97 school year include storytelling (Nancy Duncan and Michael Fitzsimmons present stories of Native American traditions, and Steve Sanfield presents stories from Eastern European Jewish Literature); the Oberline Dance Company/San Francisco; books as art created by Joseph Ruffo, chairman of the Department of Art & Art History; and "A Joyful Noise," a program of spirituals and poetry performed by visiting artists New Arts Six. Returning teachers will also study "Architecture in its Environment" with architect Kathlyn Hatch and "Influences of Nature" in poetry by poet Robert King.

For more information about Arts Are Basic or the summer workshop, call Kit Voorhees, director of Arts Are Basic, 2-9347.

UNL Is Summer Home to Math Olympics Hopefuls

UNL is the summer home for 31 top pre-college mathematics students including the team representing the United States in the International Mathematical Olympiad contest.

The Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program is an intensive preparation program for the six team finalists winnowed from more than 342,000 who took qualifying exams over the past school year. The other 25 students, who also scored high in the qualifying rounds, attend for the enrichment and educational aspects of the camp.

This year's world competition will be July 10-11 in Bombay, India. Teams from 75 countries will compete. The U.S. team will attend the international competition with Walter Mientka, professor of mathematics at UNL and executive director of the American Mathematics Competitions, which administers the qualifying exams. Mientka coached the winning 1994 U.S. team, the first in the competition's 35-year history in which all members earned perfect scores. Two other summer program staffers also will go to India. They are team leader Titu Andreescu from the Illinois Math and Science Academy, and deputy leader Kiran Kedlaya of Harvard University.

The students, all junior high and high school students or recent high school graduates, come from 20 states; one is from Colombia. None are from Nebraska. They range in age from 13 to 18 years old. Three girls and 28 boys will be housed in UNL's Cather Hall from June 5 to July 3.

Previously the four-week training program was held at the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy or the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. But this year, logistics and costs forced Mientka to find a new home for the summer program. After some investigation, he found that UNL fit the bill, said Donita Bowers, office manager for the American Mathematics Competitions. A variety of grants pay the costs of the summer program and travel costs for the team members and coaches, she said. No UNL funds will be used.

Bowers said the students will spend their days at the Beadle Center attending lectures and solving math problems similar to those they will encounter during the grueling world competitions.

And while they will be handling homework assignments, they also will have time to do "kid things" like play tennis and go to movies. One of the good things UNL had to offer, she said, was convenience and amenities for the students.

Mathematicians from Illinois, Iowa, Maryland and California make up the faculty for the summer program. Two previous U.S. Math Team members and two UNL math students also will assist.

State Museum Acquires Santee Artifacts

A collection of Native American artifacts from the Santee Reservation in northeast Nebraska has been donated to the University of Nebraska State Museum.

The artifacts were collected by the late Ralph Stuart Moseley, a graduate of the NU College of Law and a long-time Lincoln lawyer. Moseley collected the artifacts in 1911 while he was working on a surveying crew on the Santee reservation, and they were donated to the museum by his daughter, Priscilla Moseley Petty of Houston.

Tom Myers, curator of anthropology at the museum, said the artifacts include moccasins and drawstring bags with a beautiful and distinctive style of beading and embroidery.

The artifacts will be displayed at the museum.

How Does Our Garden Grow

Landscape Services employees take advantage of a break in the weather last month to plant the Yeutter Garden, the latest addition to UNL's Botanical Garden and Arboretum. The new garden, located on East Campus south of C.Y. Thompson Library, features a berm with herbacious and woody plants and an oval "pool of grass" surrounded by a flagstone walk and creeping groundcover plants. The garden was made possible by a gift from the family of Clayton Yeutter, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and a graduate of the University of Nebraska, in memory of Yeutter's wife, Jeanne Vierk Yeutter.

Library Announces New Loan Periods

UNL Libraries has announced new loan periods for monographs for UNL staff and graduate students. As of June 1, UNL libraries changed the current staff loan period from 28 days with 12 28-day renewals to a loan period of 56 days with six 56-day renewals. This extended loan period will apply to monographs only. No other changes in circulation policies for staff will be made.

To activate this change, books must be brought in after June 1 to be discharged and recharged.

Degree Application Deadline June 21

June 21 is the deadline for applying for a degree to be received on Aug. 17. A $25 non-refundable degree application fee must accompany the Application for Degree form. The fee applies only to the term marked on the application and is not transferable to another term. Applications are to be filed at the Records Office, 107 Canfield Administration Building.

SIS+ Training June 18

The Student Information System Program will offer a SIS+ training session from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on June 18 and July 2 in the Wick Alumni Center. The class will cover logging onto SIS+ and an overview of accessible SIS+ screens. These sessions are free to faculty and staff. Space is limited; registration is required. For more information or to register, send an e-mail to sistrain@unl.edu or call Angie Parnell at 2-8

Corporate Run June 30

The Office of Campus Recreation will be coordinating UNL's involvement in this year's Corporate Run scheduled for June 30. The 1996 Corporate Run will begin on the northeast side of Lincoln High School (Capital Parkway and J Street) and follow a course on Lincoln streets. The Corporate Run has two components: a five-mile run with an open team division and a women's team division, and a two-mile run/walk. Non-employees may receive an individual entry form by calling 2-2479. Race entry forms are available in Room 32 of the College Activities Building on East Campus or the City Campus Recreation Center. The entry fee is $9 for UNL employees including a Corporate Run T-shirt. The deadline for entries to be a part of the UNL team is June 10. For further information call 2-2479.

Web Site Available for Administrative System

The Administrative System Project continues on schedule. Updates and minutes of committee meetings can be viewed at: http://www. uneb.edu/adminsys/adminsys.htm

Employees of the University of Nebraska are encouraged to submit their comments and suggestions using the forms at the Website.

Youth Programs at Campus Recreation

A variety of programs for youth will be offered this summer at Campus Recreation, including children's swimming lessons; Youth Recreational Leadership Camp for youth entering 7th through 10th grades; instructional activities such as canoeing, baseball umpiring, CPR instruction, volleyball officiating, hiking/backpacking and racquetball; and Husker Kids Day Camp. For registration and more information, contact Campus Recreation at 2-3467.

Cruising the Internet Session June 20

The next "Cruising the Internet" session, "Beyond Netscape" will be at 11 a.m. June 20 in the East Union. Two new programs that work with Netscape will be demonstrated. "Unmozify" allows users to browse off-line through previously visited pages. "PointCast Network" software works with Netscape to provide access to its free service that broadcasts news and information directly to computer screens.

No registration is required. "Cruising the Internet" sessions are sponsored by Communications and Information Technology, 2-5630.

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