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Salesperson Marlyn Anderson, a sophomore Spanish major, arranges merchandise in the Dinosaurs, Etc. gift shop in Morrill Hall. The period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is traditionally one of the shop's busiest. (Photo by Richard Wright) |
"Black Love: The Essence of the Black Family" will be the theme of the 21st annual Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government Feb. 19-22 at the University of Nebraska.
Featuring several prominent speakers on black issues, the conference will promote leadership, communication, academic success and political awareness among black college students. More than 1,000 students are expected to attend.
Speakers include George Frasier, founder of Success Source Inc. and author of "Success Runs in Our Race, The Complete Guide to Effective Networking in the African American Community;" Nikki Giovanni, poet, author and editor; Julianne Malveaux, economist and syndicated columnist and host of her own syndicated public affairs television show; and Harvard religion professor Cornel West, author of "Race Matters," "Keeping the Faith" and "Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin."
Hosted by the NU Afrikan People's Union, the student-coordinated conference will offer workshops on blacks in the political process, health care, cooperative economics and student leadership. Other events will include a career fair, graduate and professional school expo, a gospel music extravaganza and a step show.
For more information, call Cynthia Gooch in the university Multicultural Affairs office at 472-2027.
-Amy Cyphers
The office of the vice chancellor for business and finance is hosting a reception from 2-4 p.m. Dec. 17 for Paul Carlson, associate vice chancellor for business and finance. Carlson is leaving the university in January to become vice president for finance and administration of Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
The reception will occur in the first floor lounge of the South Stadium. Carlson's friends and associates are invited to attend.
The 1997-98 Aliant Communications Phone Books have recently been delivered to campus offices (or soon will be).
To recycle old telephone books, including old Omaha phone books or UNL student directories, deposit them in Dumpsters marked "Office Paper Only" on Dec. 18 or 19 only.
Page 23 of the 1997-98 Centrex lists office paper Dumpster locations.
If you have questions or a problem, call the recycling office at 472-6099.
Construction work for the Skyboxes continues on the west side of Memorial Stadium. Construction fences have been put up to protect people from potential danger. Even though the construction gates may be open, avoid entering these areas.
Facilities Planning and Construction strongly encourages all pedestrians to walk on the west side of Stadium Drive from T to V streets. At the intersection of Stadium Drive and V streets, new curb ramps will be added to aid in accessibility. Caution also should be given to vehicles on this strip of Stadium Drive, as it has been narrowed to only two lanes of traffic. For more information, contact Larry Blake, project manager, Facilities Planning and Construction, 472-4865.
Because of the holiday closedown the cut-off date for Human Resource requisitions for the week of Dec. 22 will be extended. Requisitions received in Human Resources, 407 Canfield Administration Building, by 5 p.m. on Dec. 17 will be posted on the Dec. 22 job list and advertised accordingly (prior to or during the break). The next job list following Dec. 22 will be published on Jan. 12 for requisitions received through 5 p.m. Jan. 6, 1998.
The International Eyeopener Breakfast scheduled for 7:30 a.m. Dec. 11 in the East Union will feature Wesley Peterson. Peterson will present "A Report on Bosnia." Faculty, staff, students and the public are welcome. Call the International Programs Office at 472-2758 for reservations.
A retirement reception will be held for Doug Cease, Roger Weber and Sid Maynard, from 3 to 5 p.m. Dec. 16 in the Selleck Hall private dining room. Cease, Weber and Maynard are Aliant Communications telephone installers/repairmen who have worked exclusively at UNL for more 20 years
Ask yourself this question: "Will my computer and all the software I use operate properly after Dec. 31, 1999?" If your answer is "I think . . ." or "I hope . . ." or "I'm pretty sure . . ." you may be in for a big surprise. What can you do to protect yourself from the Year 2000 virus? Get involved with UNL's Year 2000 Task Force. The Year 2000 Task Force meets monthly; watch the Scarlet for meeting times and location. Call 472-7690 for more information.
The Teaching and Learning Center will host "Collaboration Among Institutions" from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Dec. 10 in the Selleck Hall private dining room. Sheldon Stick and Don Uerling, educational aAdministration, are the group's facilitators.
Distance Learning technologies open the door for collaboration among institutions. This session looks at collaborative efforts of the A*DEC land-grant universities, as well as Western Governor's Conference Initiatives.
To register, contact the Teaching and Learning Center, <teaching@unlinfo.unl.edu>, or call 472-3929.
Many airlines have recently reduced the commissions paid to travel agencies. This has resulted in some agencies adding a professional fee to all transactions (airline tickets issued, voided, exchanged or refunded). At this time, Travel and Transport will not assess UNL the $10 professional fee.
These sites regularly post airfare bargains and, in most cases, allow you to sign up for e-mail lists that automatically notify you of good deals.
Airline Web Sites:
American Airlines, <www.americanair.com>; Continental, <www.flycontinental.com>; Northwest Airlines, <www.nwa.com>; TWA, <www.twa.com>; USAir, <www.usairways.com>.
Check the following sites for comprehensive listings of deals on airfares, as well as hotel stays and car rentals. On some sites, you'll also find travel tips and tourism information for various cities.
General Travel Sites:
Best Fares, <www.bestfares.com>; Expedia, <www.expedia.msn.com>; The Internet Travel Network, <www.itn.net>; Travelocity, <www.travelocity.com>; TheTrip.com, <www.thetrip.com>, WebFlyer, <www.webflyer.com>.
Collection and delivery, will begin a holiday schedule on Dec. 24.
Mail will be delivered Dec. 24, 30 and 31, between 7:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. at the following locations:
Nebraska Hall mailroom, 201 Andrews, Administration Building mailroom, Love Library (west dock), Nebraska Union mailroom, CBA mailroom, University Press, Hamilton Hall mailroom, Manter Hall mailbox, Oldfather departmental offices, 217 Avery, 202 Ag Hall, Plant Science, Forestry Science Lab, Vet Diagnostic, Law College, 101 Dental College, 135 Varner, Agricultural Communications Building.
Mail will be delivered Dec. 26 and 31, between 7:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. at the following locations:
118 Henzlik, Health Center, Beadle Center, 1100 Seaton, Westbrook, Behlen Lab mailbox, 1700 Y, 115 Ferguson, Burnett, 105 Home Economics, 254 Chase Hall, Animal Science, Filley Hall (Food Industries).
Faculty and staff in locations with no mail service can pick up mail at 1820 R St., West dock, between 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. on the dates listed. A University I.D. card must be presented. Off-campus mail, excluding single-piece mail, will be processed during the holiday closedown by prior arrangement only. Normal schedule will resume Jan. 5, 1998.
Any questions concerning this schedule, please call Connie Rohloff at 472-2533 or Dick Schenaman at 450-6198 by Dec. 17.
Environmental Health and Safety has scheduled two Injury and Illness Prevention Plan training sessions on Dec. 10, 10:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Contact Environmental Health and Safety at 472-4925 to register for one of these sessions. Classes with fewer than 10 signed up in advance will be canceled.
For more details about obtaining IIPP training and other options available visit the announcements on the EHS Web Page <www.unl.edu/e nviron/environ/iipp/iippdate.htm>.
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden will hold a holiday open house on Dec. 6, from 1:30 to 4 p.m. This sanctioned event of the Star City Holiday Festival will feature entertainment by such local groups as the Lincoln High Swing Choir, the Lincoln High Voices of Destiny, and the Christ Temple Glee Club. The Christmas tree will be decorated and refreshments will be served. Visitors will also be able to enjoy the special holiday exhibition Fired and Frozen: Contemporary Glass. This exhibition will present contemporary glassworks drawn from the Sheldon Gallery's permanent collection, as well as important works drawn from local and regional private collections, and work by regional glass artists.
Facilities Management and Planning is offering two identical Building Maintenance Reporter Training Sessions in December. The first meets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Dec. 11 in the East Union. The second meets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Dec. 12 in the Nebraska Union. Call Rachelle Setsodi at 472-4802 to register for either session.
NU Campus Recreation has made arrangements with the Ice Box to offer several free skate nights. The next free skate night is Dec. 7 from 9 to 11 p.m. The free skate nights are free to current NU students and Campus Recreation members (be sure to bring your NU I.D. card). Nonmembers and guests can skate for $5. For more information call 472-3467.
Campus Recreation will be providing recreational activities in a child care setting on Dec. 6 and 13 from noon to 4:30 p.m.
Children 1-12 years of age are welcome to attend while their parents/guardians have a day of shopping, running errands, or decorating for the holidays. Cost to Campus Recreation members is $8/child/day; nonmembers, $12/child/day. Pre-registration is required. Call 472-3467 to register or for more information.
Campus Recreation is offering Red Cross swim lessons for children. The next session is Jan. 13 to Feb. 12 (T & Th from 6:15 to 7 p.m.) in Mabel Lee Pool. Various sessions are scheduled through July 31, 1998. Cost to members is $25/child/session. Cost to nonmembers is $35/child/session. Pre-registration is required. For more information call 472-3467.
A holiday open house will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Dec. 9 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Holiday music will be performed by Jim Hejduk and the Southeast High School Countesses and Noblemen. Refreshments will be served.
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9 in the Great Plains Art Collection, 215 Love Library.
Schaeffer is the author of 11 novels and five volumes of poetry, one of which, Granite Lady, was nominated for a National Book Award. Her novel Anya won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction in 1974. Among her many awards, she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the Lawrence Foundation and Prairie Schooner. Her most recent novel is The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat.
The reading is sponsored by the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies, Prairie Schooner, The Friends of Prairie Schooner, Women's Studies and the Creative Writing Program.
The Virtual Learning Seminar, a new seminar series will be offered during the UNL spring term starting Jan. 14. It will focus on "Active Learning in a Virtual Environment," and on developing virtual learning environments, curriculum design, exploring available courseware and communications toolsites and experiencing firsthand what it means to be a student in an online course.
The course will be presented by Communications and Information Technology, the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication and the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
For registration information contact Jim King, AgLEC, <jking@unl.edu>, or 472-2807.
The Nebraska Network 21 is on-line at <www.ianr.unl.edu/nn21>.
NN21 is changing the way Nebraskans will learn in the 21st century. It is bringing together education, business and communities to make education more accessible and affordable.
Centered at UNL, NN21 is part of a 13-program initiative funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation who seek to catalyze significant, future-oriented changes at land grant universities.
Faculty and staff from across the university system and beyond have formed seven action teams. Eight demonstration projects are also under way. In addition to the website, quarterly newsletters and 13 listserves help participants share information.
For more information, contact Ellen Russell, NN21 Director at 472-1692 or <erussell@unlinfo.unl.edu>.< /P>
A Crisis Leave Program that UNL initiated two years ago on a pilot basis has been adopted by the Board of Regents for universitywide use. This program permits employees to donate up to three days of vacation leave for use by their colleagues in crisis. In exceptional circumstances donations of up to five days may be made. Any regular employee who accrues vacation leave may donate, and donations are made to a central pool rather than to an individual.
With appropriate approval, employees in crisis are eligible once in a calendar year to receive up to the number of days they accrue in one year not to exceed 24 days. For example, an employee who accrues 12 days of vacation leave per year is eligible to receive donations of up to 12 days.
Normally, employees are eligible to apply for crisis leave when available sick leave, vacation leave, and compensatory leave have been exhausted because of (a) the serious illness of the employee, (b) the serious illness of the employee's spouse, child, or parent, or (c) an extraordinary circumstance involving a non-health-related personal crisis.
The newly adopted universitywide policy stipulates that employees may not donate vacation leave that would otherwise be lost. For example, for employees wishing to donate three days of leave, forms must be filed in Human Resources prior to the final three workdays of 1997 (Dec. 19, 22, and 23). Employees may not donate leave that has been lost because it was not used prior to the end of the calendar year.
Bruce Currin, assistant vice chancellor for human resources, said that the UNL campus has responded enthusiastically to the pilot program. "At UNL we want to help when someone is in trouble. This is a way to do that."
He said that employees have donated 1,083 hours since the program began in January of 1996, and 667 hours have been used. The 56 employees receiving crisis leave have used it for a variety of reasons. Several have requested crisis leave for the time required for cancer treatment; several have it used it to schedule surgery. One parent used crisis leave when her child who was seriously burned required treatment at a burn unit; crisis leave enabled one person to be with his dying mother during the last days of her life.
Currin said this is truly an opportunity for people to help others.
Questions about donating or requesting crisis leave may be directed to Human Resources, 471-3101. Forms are available in most work units and in Human Resources.
- Faye Moulton
Go where no sports fan has gone before - behind the scenes of the University of Nebraska football program - when "A Day in the Life of Husker Football" premieres at 6:50 p.m. Dec. 7 on the statewide Nebraska ETV Network.
A repeat of the program, a production of the Cultural Affairs Unit of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Television for broadcast on Nebraska ETV, will air at 8:20 p.m. that day.
Thanks to unprecedented access granted by the University of Nebraska Athletic Department, "A Day in the Life of Husker Football" takes viewers into the locker room, team meetings, strategy sessions and practices as the Cornhuskers prepare to battle the Oklahoma Sooners on Nov. 1. Cameras follow Coach Tom Osborne and the team from the closed doors of Friday's team meeting until the Memorial Stadium lights are turned out Saturday night.
The program is filled with dozens of fascinating scenes, from the unlucky graduate assistant charged with waking up players on game day to Osborne's sideline conversations with players, assistant coaches and of ficials. "A Day in the Life of Husker Football" includes scenes of Osborne's post-game radio program and the videotaping of his weekly television program.
"A Day in the Life of Husker Football" also captures the behind-the-scenes activities of other participants: the HuskerVision crew, concession workers, the University of Nebraska Sports Information Department and more. The program also goes behind the scenes as ABC Sports prepares to televise the game live.
"A Day in the Life of Husker Football" was directed by Joel Geyer and produced by the same team that created the award-winning documentary, "Coach Devaney."
It features acrobats, trapeze artists, jugglers and clowns, and yet it is not a circus in the traditional sense.
Formed in 1984 by a troupe of Montreal street performers, Cirque Du Soleil is an innovative blend of music, movement, acrobatics and theater, infused with the intangible quality of magic.
"Saltimbanco Cirque Du Soleil," airs at 8 p.m. Dec. 13, on the Nebraska ETV Network, shows off the best of the troupe's stylized spectacles and gasp-inducing feats that have drawn capacity crowds and critical acclaim worldwide.
"Saltimbanco" (a medieval Italian term meaning "street performer") features only one ring in which an ensemble of 38 brightly-attired acrobats, contortionists, jugglers, trapeze artists, tightrope walkers and clowns perform a single act at a time.
They create a vision of beauty, elegance and grace that defies the limits of physical reality. Hypnotically evocative music is provided by five musicians who play an original score that mixes jazz and new age music with rock rhythms.
While each Cirque Du Soleil member performs difficult and tension-filled feats, there are a few moments during the show when it seems that the audience has, all at once, held its breath.
The first features Nikolai Tchelnokov, his wife Galina and their impossibly lithe son Anton (7), who perform patterns of living sculptures that are less physical than mystical. The other features the Lorador brothers, Marco and Paulo, who redefine human strength as they bend and lift their Herculean physiques.
The performers - who range in age from seven to 57 - come from all over the world, but half are Canadian.
The Nebraska State Historical Society helps keep history alive by preserving and restoring historic locations that have played important roles in the development of the state and its people. Three of these sites will be featured on Nebraska's Historic Places airing at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 7, at on the statewide Nebraska ETV Network.
"Willa Cather's Home," the first segment, takes viewers to Red Cloud, childhood home of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Willa Cather. The program traces Cather's life and work, emphasizing the lifelong impact of her childhood surroundings on her writing.
"A Poet's Sanctuary" allows viewers to enter the private study of writer John G. Neihardt, Nebraska's first poet laureate. Also featured is a walk through the Lakota Sioux Prayer Garden, which Neihardt designed to honor the vision of Black Elk, the Oglala Lakota holy man depicted in his most famous biography, Black Elk Speaks.
"The Daily Grind" takes viewers to the banks of the Elkhorn River to visit the Neligh Mill, which began in the 1870s as a vision of businessman John Neligh. The program tells the story of this northeast Nebraska mill as it survives community growth and advancing technology.
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