Tickets remain for the national championship celebration and farewell to Coach Tom Osborne. The event, slated for 7 p.m. April 24, will feature a rededication of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium, a salute to the champions, a farewell to Osborne and the dedication of the Tom Osborne Field.
Ticket manager John Anderson said the stadium (which will be able to accommodate 55,000) is a little more than half sold and plenty of good seats remain. One $6 ticket will admit fans not only to the celebration, but also to the spring game the following day.
The Friday night celebration will face the East stands and all seats are reserved, but fans will be able to buy any remaining tickets at the door.
The Athletic Department has a couple of surprises in line for the special occasion. Director of Athletics Bill Byrne said, "We are planning a very special evening in order to thank our fans, congratulate the 1997 national champions, and to say good-bye to the best coach in the history ofcollegiate football. In addition, the rededication of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium and the dedication of the field to Tom Osborne are events that will go down in history. We've had a packed house since 1962 and we hope to be packed again next Friday as we salute Coach Osborne and the team."
The U.S. Postal Service has developed a commemorative cachet envelope for the evening of April 24. The cachet features renowned Federal duck Stamp Artist Neal Anderson. The cancellation booths will be at Gate 1 and under the North Stadium.
The Drug Free Rally will again take place on April 25 at halftime. Participants will sit in West Stadium, Row 21 and below. Rally participants and sponsors/parents will be required to check in at the baseball diamond before 12:10 p.m. on Saturday to obtain admission passes to the stadium. Students, school sponsors and bus drivers may attend the game and rally at no cost. Parents accompanying rally participants will have to purchase a $3 ticket to get into the spring game and will be able to sit with their child in the West Stadium. Tickets will be available at the baseball field. Parking for school buses will be in Lot 9, located at 14th and Holdrege and on Avery Avenue.
Stadium Drive will be closed to vehicle traffic on both Friday and Saturday, beginning at 3 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. on Saturday. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. on Friday and 11 a.m. on Saturday.
Stadium Gates 14-24 will be open on the East side and Gate 1 on the South will be open (will serve as student-athlete guest pass gate). Tickets will be sold on the East, Southwest and Northwest comers of the stadium. The main ticket office, located in the parking garage across the street, will be open all day and evening on Friday until the start of the program, and will open at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. The West Stadium area will not be open for tours.
During pre Spring Game ceremonies, the University of Nebraska will accept a check from the Sawyer Brown Band. The band, led by Mark Miller, held a benefit concert at the Nebraska State Fair last August to raise funds in memory of Brook Berringer who died in a plane crash on April 18, 1996. The check will be presented by Bill Denker, president of the State Fair Board, to Nebraska Director of Athletics Bill Byrne. Jan Berringer, mother of Brook, will be present on behalf of the Sawyer Brown Band, Mark Miller and the Berringer family. The benefit concert established the Brook Berringer Memorial Scholarship, which will endow a football scholarship in honor of the former quarterback.
Also during pregame ceremonies the Tom Novak Trophy and the Guy Chamberlin Trophy will be presented to 1997 seniors as voted on by the media. In a breakfast on April 25, the Native Son Award will also be presented.
There is such a thing as a free lunch. New Student Enrollment is looking for faculty and staff members to volunteer this summer to entertain the parents of entering students as part of the Take A Parent to Lunch program. All university employees are invited to participate. NSE needs 15 to 25 volunteers each day.
From June 9 through July 10 there are 21 opportunities to meet entering students' parents in an informal way. Each participant will meet a group of six to eight parents at Keim Hall on East Campus and have a complementary meal with them at the East Union from approximately noon to 1 p.m.
Those who have participated during the past 10 years give the program high marks. Marilyn Schnepf, associate professor and chair of nutritional science and dietetics, said the strength of the Take A Parent To Lunch Program is in parents seeing that faculty are approachable and that faculty do in fact care about the students. Pat Dussault, associate professor of chemistry, said the interaction is important reciprocally, putting a human face on the university/parent relationship.
Parents' typical questions are about the curriculum, class sizes, campus safety, off-campus atmosphere and, if they are UNL alumni, what changes have taken place since their college experience. George Veomett, associate professor of biological sciences, has participated both as a faculty member and as a parent. He says the program is eye-opening from both directions, and that the New Student Enrollment programs are superb for the incoming students as well as parents.
For more information or to volunteer, contact Emily Millard at New Student Enrollment, 472-1705.
- Meg McDonald, Public Relations
The University of Nebraska Federal Credit Union celebrates its 60th anniversary at the annual meeting April 23 in the Nebraska East Union. The evening begins with a sandwich buffet at 6:30 p.m. followed by entertainment, a look at the credit union through the decades and a business meeting.
Before the meeting, members will elect four to the board of the directors. These volunteers set the policies and services of the credit union. Nominees are Agnes Adams, Arthur Bryant, LaRita Lang, Pamela Peters and Joseph Svoboda.
Everyone is welcome. Call the Credit Union at 472-2087 for more information.
The UNL Garden Friends have received nearly $2,600 in donations toward the restoration of trees that were damaged or destroyed in last October's snow storm. These funds will be matched by the Garden Friends.
Since the restoration process is ongoing, contributions, designated for tree restoration, will continue to be sought, and can be sent to: UNL Garden Friends, P.O. Box 81501, Lincoln, NE 68501.
Because of the national championship celebration and other activities at Memorial Stadium April 24, this month's public viewing night at the UNL Student Obseratory on top of the Stadium Parking Garage has been postponed to May 1.
The May 1 viewing will be in conjunction with the Lincoln celebration of International Astronomy Day. The Student Observatory will be open from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. and the featured object will be the waxing crescent moon. The moon will be two days shy of its first-quarter phase (May 3), so its mountains and crater ridges will stand out sharply.
From specially arranged tours to spring football to an awards ceremony, University of Nebraska alumni from the classes of 1948 and 1958 will find something for everyone at the Nebraska Alumni Association's Reunion Weekend '98 April 24-26.
The reunion begins the morning of April 24 at the Wick Alumni Center, where college deans and faculty will host the alumni at a special breakfast. Reunion participants will be given a tour of the special collections at Love Library, followed by lunch with Chancellor James Moeser and the Alumni Association Board of Directors. In the afternoon, alumni may tour the university's College of Fine and Performing Arts facilities. A 5 p.m. reception at the Cornhusker Hotel features the music of the Scarlet and Cream Singers and leads into the 7 p.m. National Championship/Tom Osborne celebration at Memorial Stadium.
Activities April 25 begin with the Red/White spring football game. The reunion continues with the annual awards banquet in the Centennial Room of the Nebraska Union at 6:30 p.m. Alumni Achievement Awards, Young Alumni Awards, the Family Tree Award and 40- and 50-year certificates will be presented at the banquet. It concludes with an April 26 brunch at the Cornhusker Hotel.
Reservations for any or all events may be made through the Nebraska Alumni Association, Wick Alumni Center, 1520 R St., P.O. Box 880216, Lincoln, Neb. 68588-0216, (402) 472-2841. There is a $10 weekend registration fee and additional charges for some of the events. The deadline for reservations was April 13.
The College of Engineering and Technology will host an open house from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 24 in celebration of E-week.
All E-week activities will take place in the engineering complex, which includes Nebraska Hall and the Walter Scott Engineering Center.
A highlight of any E-week are the student contests. This year's schedule of contests includes the egg drop contest from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m; the straw bridge contest, 10 to 11 a.m.; unsinkable boat contest, 11 a.m. to noon; and the tower of power contest, 2 to 3 p.m.
Tours of the engineering complex will be given throughout the day. Tours will include all departments housed in the complex, plus displays, labs, classrooms and the college's new computer lab.
Engineering students' design projects will also be on display all day. Other displays include open labs where faculty will demonstrate some of the equipment used in teaching and research.
The Great Plains Studies Lecture "Wildflowers of the Great Plains" by James Estes was incorrectly listed in The Scarlet for April 18. That seminar was originally scheduled for March 18, but due to a scheduling conflict had to be postponed until this fall. We apologize for any inconvenience this misinformation has caused.
A retirement reception for Bill Sesow, associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Teachers College, will be held from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. May 1 at Misty's Restaurant, Havelock. Call Sharon Rorie, 472-2231, for reservations.
"Show Me The Money! - The Cost of Education," will be presented by Melvin Jones, vice chancellor for business and finance, at 11:45 a.m. April 22 in the Selleck Continental Dining Room.
Jones will give UAAD members an inside look at the cost of education trends facing UNL. Topics of discussion will include: Commission on the Cost of Higher Education Report; the diminishing role of tuition; reallocation/budgeting; process reengineering (cost avoidance, pricing and the university as big business).
Lunch is available from the Selleck cafeteria or on a brown-bag basis. If you bring your lunch, enter the Continental Dining Room through the east door inside the Selleck courtyard.
The Ethnic Minority Research Symposium will be April 22 in the Centennial Room of the Nebraska Union. It will begin at 9 a.m. with poster and oral presentations by students and end at 5 p.m. The symposium highlights the research efforts of university graduate students. A program of scheduled presentations is available in the office of Graduate Studies, 301 Canfield Administration Building. For more information, call 472-8891.
Just imagine a sky full of stars and the Earth without the Moon. Travel beyond the solar system to see the Sun as a different star, and then witness the last days of the universe. Imagination is the key to this cosmic journey in a new show opening April 18 at Mueller Planetarium. This program includes constellations, computer imagery and a beautiful view of the night sky.
"Just Imagine" will be presented on Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. through the end of May. The running time of this show is approximately 35 minutes. Tickets are $4 for adults and $3 for students, children and seniors. Tickets are sold 30 minutes before showtimes in the Planetarium lobby. Mueller Planetarium is located in the University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall. Visit the Planetarium on the Internet at http://www.spacelaser.com.
For more information, call 472-2641.
If you are planning to be away from your primary address this summer, please advise the libraries of your temporary address. You can file a change at the circulation desks or e-mail the information to scottc@unllib.unl.edu.
If the libraries have your e-mail address and you will not be able to check it during your absence, please let the libraries know that as well, so notices, if necessary, will be sent by paper rather than electronically.
If an address is not available, please make arrangements for someone to check your mail, and have access to any library materials you have checked out. This is important for two reasons: 1) materials may need to be renewed during your absence, and 2) books may be recalled for use by another patron.
If items are not returned by the new due date indicated on the blue recall card, fines are accrued. All library users, including faculty and staff, are liable for this type of fine. Additionally, non-return of recalled items impedes research of those who requested them.
Enjoy a week in London and Paris visiting great museums, art collections and architectural sites from Dec. 26 to Jan. 10, 1999. A day trip to Cambridge allows for a visit to King College Chapel. An affordable trip in which all participants can earn 3 credits (a $150 audit fee will be charged to no credit-seeking enrollees). E-mail gkendall@unlinfo.unl.edu for information and prospectus.
Communications and Information Technology is offering the Spring quarter of hands-on computer training classes beginning April 23. Topics covered include Windows 95, WordPerfect 8, PowerPoint 7, Netscape Navigator, Eudora, and HTML. These classes are held in the computer lab in the Animal Science Complex on East Campus. These classes vary in length from three to five hours.
Information on registration cost, class topics, and schedule of classes is available on the Web at: http://www.ianr.unl.ed u/compute/classes.htm. You may also register for the classes at this site.
If you would like to receive the printed flyer, Information Technology Training Schedule: Spring 1998, call 472-5630 or send e-mail to ianr022@unlvm.unl.edu.
Information on self-study opportunities is available on the Web at: http://www.ianr.unl.edu/compute/ .
The Chancellor's Commission on the Status of People of Color will host two open forums next week. They are 2-3 p.m. April 23 in the East Union and 10-11 a.m. April 24 in the Nebraska Union.
An important goal of the commission is to help improve campus life for people of color at the university. These forums are meetings to provide an opportunity for the university community to converse with the chancellor and other university administrators about issues that you find pertinent. Your input will help improve our campus.
Twenty-eight Nebraska families are needed to host Japanese students participating in a Cooperative Extension 4-H exchange program July 25-Aug. 23.
"This year celebrates the 25th year that Nebraska 4-H has had a reciprocal exchange with LABO, a Japanese youth organization that emphasizes cultural education and learning English," said Kathy Potthoff, state 4-H youth program coordinator at the University of Nebraska.
Host families are being sought by May 15 so they have time to correspond with the 12- to 18-year-old visitors before they arrive in Nebraska. Each family will be asked to host one of the 28 Japanese boys or girls. The Nebraska families must have a child at home who is the same sex and within two years of the visitors' age.
Host families don't have to be 4-H members but must attend an orientation session.
The families don't need to change their summer schedules to accommodate the Japanese students because the visitors "want to experience daily American life," Potthoff said.
Families interested in serving as hosts can call their local Cooperative Extension office, Potthoff at (402)472-9021 or Bill Caldwell, NU's 4-H International coordinator, at (402)482-9011. Families also can write to the state 4-H office, Room 114 Ag Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Neb., 68583-0700.
- Molly Klocksin, IANR newswriter
An international conference on politics and the media featuring renowned author Sissela Bok will be April 23-25.
The conference features distinguished speakers from a variety of professions. They will explore the political influence of the news media, styles of communication and issues in journalistic ethics and political theory. Topics include the limits of privacy for public officials, the responsibilities of journalists, the public journalism movement, and the growing power of sound bites and political advertising.
The keynote speaker is Sissela Bok, nationally noted writer and philosopher, who will speak about "Journalists, Media Violence and the First Amendment" at 7:30 p.m. April 23 in the Lied Center's Steinhart Room. Bok is a distinguished fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She has written about bioethics, applied ethics, biography and autobiography and public affairs.
Other speakers are Clive Cookson of London's Financial Times on "Communicating Risk: Mad Cows, Killer Bugs and Politics," 3:15 p.m., April 24, Steinhart Room; Anthony Hartle, U.S. Military Academy, "The Military and the Media: Truth or Consequences," and Paul Pines, a novelist and critic, "Dancing with 'the Bork': Media, Mind Control, and the Poetic Imagination," both at 10 a.m., April 24, Steinhart Room; Myra Ferree, University of Connecticut, "The Framing Context between Pro-life and Pro-choice Movements," 8:30 a.m., April 24, Steinhart Room; and Dennis Thompson, Harvard University, "Privacy, Politics and the Press," 2 p.m., April 25, Nebraska Union.
The conference is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences public discourse and human values area of strength. For more information contact Robert Audi at (402) 472-2426 or Laura White at (402) 472-2891.
"Medicine and the Holocaust, The Killing of the Disabled in Nazi Germany," is the title of the annual Holocaust Commemoration Lecture April 22.
Henry Friedlander, professor of history at Brooklyn College, will deliver the free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Collection on the second floor of Love Library, 13th and R streets.
Friedlander was born in Berlin in 1930 and was incarcerated during World War II in various camps, including Auschwitz, and immigrated to the United States in 1947. He is the author of "The German Revolution of 1918" and coeditor of "The Holocaust: Ideology, Bureaucracy and Genocide," seven volumes of the "Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual," and of the 26-volume "Archives of the Holocaust" series. His 1995 book, "The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution," is considered the authoritative work on the Nazi murder of the disabled.
This talk is sponsored by the Harris Center for Judaic Studies and the department of history.
The Center for Great Plains Studies presents the Great Plains Music & Dance Festival April 4-11, 1999. This festival will feature nightly performances throughout Lincoln by vocal and dance artists from the Great Plains. As part of that festival the Center's 23rd interdisciplinary symposium with academic papers will be held April 9 & 10, 1999 at the Cornhusker Hotel.
The Center welcomes submissions for proposals for papers, panels, workshops, or demonstrations that deal with musicological and dance historical subjects (including biographies, evolution of musical styles and genres, and specific events such as the Trans-Mississippi Exposition); ethnomusicology focusing on anthropological and sociological subjects; interdisciplinary approaches exploring the interrelationships of music and/or dance to other arts; music and dance therapy; theoretical studies, including analyses of specific musical compositions or elements of music or dance style; or demonstrations of specific pieces, styles, or modes of performance enhanced with a limited live performance component.
Disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to this topic may include sociology, history, Native American Studies, music, theatre, literature, art and art history, African American Studies, geography, philosophy, film studies, Latino/a Studies, rural sociology, ecology, anthropology, gender studies, and museum studies, among others.
Contributors should submit proposals of 150-200 words plus a brief resume by June 1, 1998. Submit your proposal and brief resume by June 1 to: Ron Bowlin and Randall Snyder, Co-Chairs Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska 1213 Oldfather Hall, PO Box 880314 Lincoln, NE 68588-00314 Phone: (402) 472-3082 FAX: (402) 472-0463 E-Mail: gps@unlinfo.unl.edu.
A regional symposium on geographic information systems next month will combine formal presentations with working meetings aimed at identifying common concerns and solving problems.
The 1998 Mid-America GIS Symposium will be May 4-7 at the Cornhusker Hotel.
Geographic information systems are computer-based systems for displaying and analyzing maps and other forms of spatial information.
The symposium presentations and discussions will focus on a variety of issues, with groups arranged by various segments of the industry, including property assessment, public works, transportation, utilities and agriculture, said Jim Merchant, research geographer with the NU Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies, a unit of the Conservation and Survey Division that is also a part of the School of Natural Resource Sciences.
Also, action groups composed of representatives of various parts of the industry will work together to devise strategies to address specific issues. Progress on solving them will be addressed at the next such symposium two years from now, Merchant explained.
In addition to the presentations and discussion groups, the first day of the conference will offer more than 20 short courses on a number of fundamental and advanced GIS topics. Break-out sessions and panel discussions will look at such issues as rural and local implementation, property assessment and real estate mapping, transportation and utilities, environmental protection and natural resources and demographics.
Registration is $125 at the door, $40 for students. For more information, contact Jim Merchant at (402)472-7531 or e-mail: jm1000@tan.unl.edu; or talk to Rick Miller at (913)296-0877 or e-mail: rmiller@fog.kwo.state.ks.us
- Charlie Flowerday, editor, Conservation and Survey
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