"Legacy" IntactArtist Fred Hoppe, right, helps position his sculpture, "Husker Legacy" Monday in front of Memorial Stadium. The sculpture will be dedicated during Homecoming before the NU vs. Texas Tech football game on Oct. 18. (Photo by Richard Wright). |
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Mental Health professionals from the University Health Center's Counseling and Psychological Services unit and the Employee Assistance Program will conduct free screenings Oct. 9 as part of National Depression Screening Day.
Students, faculty and staff can learn the signs and symptoms of depression and take a free screening test from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Pewter Room of the Nebraska Union.
At any given time, some 17.5 million Americans are affected by depression, which affects both sexes and people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds.
Screening participants will hear a brief talk about the causes, symptoms and treatments of depression followed by a short video presentation. Individuals will complete anonymous written tests for depression and have the opportunity to discuss the results with a mental health professional. Guidance and referrals will be available to those who may need further clinical evaluation.
According to the Mental Health Association, symptoms of depression include:
People who have several of these symptoms for two weeks or longer may suffer from clinical depression, a medical illness that can be successfully treated.
Educational videos, software and resource guides from NASA will be distributed to the 19 Educational Service Units in Nebraska by the University of Nebraska State Museum. The Nebraska NASA Space Grant Consortium has provided a grant of $1,000 to assemble the educational kits and send them to E.S.U. offices in 19 cities across the state.
Teachers can use the science and math curriculum material for free in their K-12 classrooms. The tapes and software emphasize skills such as problem solving and conducting experiments. The "Liftoff to Learning" video series comprises 14 tapes, including a video called "Toys in Space" in which shuttle astronauts lead a lesson in experimenting with toys in a gravity-free atmosphere.
One of the 13 software programs provided to the E.S.U. offices is called "Images of Mars" and presents information on research missions to the red planet. Teacher resource guides accompany the material.
The material also is available at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Resource Center at the NU State Museum, but statewide distribution of the tapes and software will make it easier for teachers outside Lincoln to use the material, said Marian Langan, educational coordinator for the museum.
"Getting the best NASA educational materials into Nebraska classrooms is our goal," Langan said.
Teachers interested in the material should contact their local E.S.U. office.
-Mary Jane Bruce
Frisbee Fetching FestivitiesJohn Glennon and his acrobatic Blue Heelers entertained the crowd between halves of the women's soccer match on Sunday. NU blanked Texas Tech 5-0. (Photo by Richard Voges) |
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Are you taking advantage of the networking opportunities offered by e-mail? Do you feel comfortable subscribing to and using electronic mailing lists to reach clientele and colleagues? Do you actively participate in online discussions or are you more comfortable "lurking" anonymously?
If you'd like to improve your skills and increase your confidence in using electronic mailing lists, then consider participating in this new course.
"E-Mail: A Step Beyond the Basics '97" is a course designed to introduce advanced applications of e-mail across Internet. The three-lesson course will be taught during October and November solely through e-mail across Internet. The course will focus on using Internet mail for mailing groups and file retrieval through almanac, majordomo and listserv.
This course will be taught by education specialists from nine land grant universities and agricultural organizations in the United States and Canada. You will meet colleagues from these organizations and participate in relevant discussions with them while you learn and practice the skills involved in successfully communicating with e-mail.
You will learn how to join mailing groups and participate in discussions through e-mail; how to find mailing groups in your subject area; and the do's and don'ts of communicating electronically.
You will not learn how to use your mail software (Pegasus, Eudora, or anything else); how to create a mailing list; or how to use the world wide web. (The lessons will include information about some web resources, but access is optional.)
The time frame is late October through November with a new lesson every two weeks
Course prerequisites include the ability to send and read e-mail, reply to messages, edit forwarded messages, and manage your e-mail account. You must have have a personal e-mail account (not office or co-worker's) and you must be a self-directed learner and a good reader.
By signing up you are committing to: reading e-mail regularly. (daily is ideal), a minimum of one hour/week access time (two hours/lesson), participating in course-related mailing lists (All exercises will be completed independently, but success in the course depends on participation.)
To register for this class, send an e-mail message by Monday, Oct. 13, to: listserv@unlvm.unl.edu.
In the body of the message, type ONLY the command: <subscribe BTB97 Your Name> (For example - subscribe BTB97 Pamela Peters. Do not include your signature or any additional text.
-Pamela K. Peters, Education Coordinator, IANR CIT
International Affairs invites all students, faculty, and staff to the program of activities called "NE-BRATH-KA." This program is a chance for to learn about the Native American cultures in Nebraska and meet some Native Americans on campus, in the community, and in other states. The activities for the Fall Semester are free and numbers are unlimited, so join us for a cultural exchange. We are looking for a core group of participants for the activities throughout the year, but all students, staff, and faculty are welcomed and encouraged to join any of the activities during the semester.
(All activities take place in the International Student Lounge, 1237 R St., unless otherwise noted)
For more information, contact Inger Bull at 472-5358 or at icurtis@unlinfo.unl.edu.
This program is partially funded by a grant through the United States Information Agency through NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
Nebraska Public Radio Network will be "Big Radio on Campus" when it presents a live, all-day broadcast from the campus of Chadron State College from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 8.
In addition to regular programming, Nebraska Public Radio announcers Chris Kohtz and Bill Stibor will be on hand in the Chadron State College Student Center interviewing students and faculty members, as well as featuring on-campus happenings within the Music, Theater, and Forensics departments at Chadron State.
Nebraska Public Radio is one of 10 National Public Radio member stations or networks throughout the U.S. chosen to participate in "The NPR Initiative." The Initiative is intended as an awareness-raising campaign, targeting NPR programming to college students and minority communities.
The Chadron State broadcast is the first of three such broadcasts scheduled for the NPR Initiative. Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln and the University of Nebraska at Kearney will be the sites of campus broadcasts in November.
"We're very excited about this Initiative," said Bill Thomas, program director for NPRN. "Nebraska Public Radio is the only network participating in the NPR Initiative that serves a statewide area. In addition to broadening our audience among college students, this project gives us the opportunity to get out and meet some of our current listeners and supporters face-to-face. We hope people in the Chadron area will not only tune in that day, but also stop by our broadcast booth on campus."
The next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies will be "Are Great Plains Communities Dead or Alive? A Panel Discussion."
The seminar will be from 3:30-5 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Great Plains Art Collection in 215 Love Library, 13th and R streets. The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception at the art collection are free and open to the public.
Panelists include Harlow Hyde, budget officer at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and author of the June 1997 Atlantic Monthly article "Slow Death in the Great Plains;" Sharon Gaber, assistant professor of community and regional planning at UNL; and John Austin, research associate at the Bureau of Business Research in UNL's College of Business Administration. The discussion will be moderated by Sam Cordes, professor of agricultural economics and director of the Center for Rural Community Revitalization and Development at UNL.
The seminar will provide a wide-ranging discussion on how to monitor the pulse of rural communities, especially in Nebraska, and what the prognosis for the future might be.
The Olson seminars are sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies. For more information, call the center at (402) 472-3082.
The SOS Program has received the 1997 Outstanding Contributions Award from the Chancellor's Commission on the Status of People of Color.
SOS stands for Student Opportunities and Services. A unit within the Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs, it is a federally funded program that helps at-risk students pursue higher education. Tutoring, academic and personal counseling, career advising, financial aid advice and specialist services in writing, math and reading are among services provided by SOS staffers.
The program has five professional staff members, two graduate assistants and two support staff as well as several student workers. Some 400 UNL students are in the SOS program; just over half are racial or ethnic minority students.
SOS staff members include Jimmi Smith, director of the office of multi-cultural affairs; Bruce Ouderkirk, writing/learning specialist; Sheri Hastings, mathematics/learning specialist; Nina Neubert, academic counselor; and staff secretaries Rasma Strautkalns and JoAnn Strick.
Civil War Roundtable of Lincoln and the Friends of the Libraries, UNL, will present "General George Edward Pickett, Confederate States America: The Man Behind the Myth," with speaker Edward Longacre, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16 in the Instruction Room, second floor, Love Library.
Longacre, staff historian at the Headquarters of the Air Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, will talk about George Pickett, leader of the most famous charge in American history. While the name is well known to anyone acquainted with Civil War history, the man behind the name - a complex and contradictory personality - is much less well-known. A gallant leader who risked his life in many battles, Pickett failed to accompany his troops in the attack at Gettysburg that immortalized him. An incisive, quick-witted tactician whom many observers considered a born soldier, he graduated at the foot of his West Point class. A chivalrous Virginian who claimed to fight the war by a gentleman's code, in 1865 he barely escaped prosecution as a war criminal.
Longacre will attempt to explain the behavior patterns of this famous yet little-known and therefore little-understood soldier, while stripping away many myths and misconceptions that surrounded his career.
Longacre received his M.A. from UNL in 1974 and his Ph.D. from Temple University in 1988. He was previously staff historian at the Headquarters of the Strategic Air Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.
Refreshments will be served following the talk. Gretchen Holten Poppler, history bibliographer at UNL Libraries, will demonstrate a recently acquired CD-ROM containing the Official Records of the American Civil War. These documents are essential for any serious study of the Civil War. The CD-ROM was a gift of the Civil War Roundtable of Lincoln.
For more information contact Steve Gunzel 475-4240 or Eva Sartori 472-6987.
Author Sharon Solwitz will read from her fiction at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 in 228 Andrews, the English Department Lounge. The reading is free and open to the public.
Solwitz is author of "Blood and Milk," a collection of short stories published this year by Sarabande Books. Her literary prizes include a Pushcart Prize, the Dan Curley Award, the Tara Fellowship in Short Fiction from the Heekin Foundation, the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize, the Nelson Algren Prize (three times) and the Hemingway Festival Prize.
Her visit is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies and the Prairie Schooner.
The Teaching and Learning Center will host "Student Services for Multimedia Development," at 8 a.m. Oct. 7 in 124 Henzlik Hall. Gail Latta, UNL Libraries, will facilitate this discussion.
Where can faculty turn for assistance in developing multimedia applications for instruction? A variety of units at UNL provide services to assist faculty in utilizing new technologies for teaching.
This session will provide an overview of services and facilities provided by these units to facilitate the incorporation of instructional technologies. Marie Barber, Distance Education; Dan Cotton, IANR's Communications and Information; Ken Jensen, Instructional Design Center; Sara Moshman, New Media Center; and Bruce Sandhorst, Information Services' Instructional Technologies Group, will describe and demonstrate the scope of applications for which they provide consultation and support. New directions and services currently under development will also be discussed.
To register, contact the Teaching and Learning Center, teaching@unlinfo.unl.edu, or call 472-3079.
A special Purchasing Card Training session has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Oct. 17 in Room 41, Filley Hall.
Additional sessions have been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Oct. 16 and Oct. 30, in Room 125A, 1700 Y St.
Call Darla Huff, 472-5050, to register. Space is limited.
University Health Center Wellness Services is offering flu shots for students, faculty and staff from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Oct. 1, 7, 21, 29, Nov. 4 and 12 at the Nebraska Union.
The shots will be offered from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Oct. 2, 8, 22, 30, Nov. 5 and 13 at the East Union. The cost is $8.
Also available is a Wellness Profile at a cost of $10. The Wellness Profile will be done from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 4 at the Nebraska Union and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Oct. 22 and Nov. 13 in the East Union. The profile includes hemoglobin, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, total cholesterol, glucose and triglycerides. You must fast 12 hours prior to the profile.
Other immunizations available: Hepatitis A, $53; Hepatitis B, $46; Pneumococcal, $27; and Tetanus, $12.50.
For more information or to make an appointment, call 472-7414.
The Collegiate Health and Fitness Tour will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the loop between Vine and U streets east of Memorial Stadium on Oct. 14-16. Activities will include flu shots (from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.), cholesterol screenings, interactive health promotion activities, and a "Well Worth It" Resource Fair. Free give-aways include t-shirts, fanny packs and chances to win a 1997 Jeep Wrangler, airfare for two on TWA, a cruise and more.
Nominations for the Floyd S. Oldt Boss of the Year Award will be accepted through Oct. 9 by the University of Nebraska Office Personnel Association.
The annual award recognizes University of Nebraska employees who demonstrate outstanding skills in employee supervision and interpersonal relations.
Any full-time employee with managerial, adminstrative and or supervisory responsibilities is eligible, although prior recipients are ineligible to win the award again. The winner will be recognized at a luncheon Nov. 11.
For more information visit the UNOPA web site, UNL netnews or contact Diane Wasser @ 472-6251 or e-mail AGEC090@unlvm.unl.edu.
Back by popular demand . . .Mug Root Beer Float PartyThursday, Oct. 9, noon to 1 p.m. Nebraska East Union, west lobby, across from the Information Desk Free root beer floats, made with University Dairy Store ice cream and Mug root beer. See you there! |
Few people exemplify the University of Nebraska football program as well as receivers coach Ron Brown, who will be profiled in the "Perspectives" segment of Statewide, the Nebraska ETV Network's magazine series, at 8 p.m. Oct. 10, repeating at 7 p.m. Oct. 11 and at 1;30 p.m. Oct. 12. The program also provides up-to-the-minute news reports from across the state and other features.
In 11 years as the Cornhuskers' receivers coach, Brown has sent 20 receivers into the NFL ranks. But it is his off-the-field activities that make him one of the most inspirational leaders of the team, reports Statewide correspondent Brad Penner. Brown hosts a weekly Christian radio show carried by stations across the state and is a speaker and writer for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Each summer, he runs seven statewide Christian camps for lower income children. He has written a book, Unfinished Business, about the Cornhuskers' 1994 championship season and is the subject of a biography, I Can, by Arthur L. Lindsay.
Hal France, artistic director and principal conductor for Opera Omaha, is this week's guest on Roger Welsch &, when the interview series airs at 8:30 p.m. Oct. 10 on the statewide Nebraska ETV Network.
Welsch notes that, "There are those who think of opera as snooty music for snooty people. My guest this week, Hal France, is doing his best to change that image. His energetic and imaginative work with Opera Omaha is drawing larger and younger audiences . . . and more mainstream audiences, too. Why, in September 1997, Hal even invited me to participate in an outdoor concert he conducted with the Omaha Symphony and members of Opera Omaha. And if that isn't pushing the envelope of opera expectations, I don't know what is!"
The weekly Roger Welsch & series features humorist and author Welsch in discussion with a variety of Nebraskans - from authors and educators to historians and prominent citizens - whose contributions to the good life in Nebraska make for interesting conversation.
This week's episode of Outdoor Nebraska features a "Cowboy Shoot" and a youth dove hunt near Plattsmouth. Outdoor Nebraska airs at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 on the statewide Nebraska ETV Network and repeats at 8 a.m. Saturday morning.
In the first feature, Outdoor Nebraska steps back in time with a "Cowboy Shoot." Viewers can watch Old West characters (complete with aliases like "Doc Holliday" and "Whiskey Shooter") challenge the shooting range with old-fashioned firearms from the turn of the century, while "buffalo hunters" try their luck shooting at silhouette ram targets. Also part of the excitement are "scenarios" such as a barroom scene where shooters using shotguns have to knock down targets after walking through swinging doors, and a sleeping cowboy who has to jump out of his bedroll and use his six-shooter to hit targets.
The second feature joins a group of young people participating in a special youth dove hunt at the Schilling Wildlife Management Area near Plattsmouth.
In the "Wilderness Workshop" segment, Dick Turpin shows viewers how to use Harvey's Bowl Wax for more than just seating a toilet in their homes. In the "Nature Walk" segment, viewers get the opportunity to explore the new MacAllister Trail at Smith Falls State Park, and in this week's "Nebraskaland Moment," they can spend time with paddlefish anglers along the Missouri River during opening morning of the paddlefish snagging season.
Outdoor Nebraska is produced by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission in association with the Nebraska ETV Network. The series is co-hosted by Mark Nelsen and Ralph Wall, producers for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
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