Horticulture Club president Kyoko Ikegami sorts plants for the club's annual poinsettia sale in one of the Horticulture greenhouses. The Horticulture Club has five plant sales during the year, selling house plants in the fall, poinsettias for the holiday, and lilies, bulbs and bedding plants in the spring.

Focus Is International Affairs Briefings

Law Prof Schaefer Working at NSC in 1999

By Tom Simons, Public Relations

For what promises to be an interesting year in the area of international trade in 1999, the National Security Council will borrow some talent from the University of Nebraska College of Law in assistant professor Matt Schaefer.

Schaefer will be director in the NSC's International Economic Affairs Office, briefing more senior NSC officials for their meetings with the president and foreign dignitaries, recommending policy on international trade issues, and consulting with Congressional staff or representatives of foreign nations on trade issues.

"It's going to be an interesting opportunity and hopefully a good time to be in Washington, D.C.," Schaefer said. "There's a need as well as a chance that there we be some developments regarding international trade policies within the next year.

"There's the possibility of fast-track negotiating authority for the president. There's a whole series of trade initiatives going on within the World Trade Organization. There are negotiations proceeding on a free trade agreement for the Americas - basically a NAFTA expansion. And there are negotiations going on in the Asia-Pacific region."

The NSC assignment will be Schaefer's second tour of duty in Washington. Before joining the Nebraska faculty in 1995, he spent two years in the capital as an international trade consultant for the National Governors Association.

"My previous experience helped me dramatically in the classroom by making the learning experience more interesting and useful for the student. I think this will have a similar effect. In teaching international trade law, you really need to know the practical elements, the politics and the policy," said Schaefer, who will continue to teach his NU international trade law and policy seminars in 1999 through a combination of commuting, the Internet and the telephone.

The Shot Seen 'Round the World, 1976 (Photographer unknown)

College of Journalism Photo Collection Displayed at Sheldon

The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden presents Icons of Public Memory: Photographs from the Collection of the College of Journalism.

The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery has long been committed to the photography medium as an important artistic expression of the 20th Century and has developed a comprehensive collection of fine art photography, consisting of more than 5,000 images. However, until recently, the photography collection had mostly excluded an important aspect of the medium, photojournalism.

Photojournalism has played an important role in shaping our perception of ourselves as Americans, as human beings. These "icons of public memory" have impacted every aspect of our public and private lives. It was therefore with enthusiasm that the Sheldon Gallery has collaborated with the College of Journalism and Mass Communication in developing, caring for, and programming, the College's photojournalism collection.

The collaboration between the Sheldon Gallery and the College of Journalism and Mass Communcation began several years ago as George Tuck, professor in the College of Journalism and himself a photographer, initiated a project to assemble a collection of photojournalism from local, regional, national, and international photographers, many of whom had studied personally with Tuck.

With the enthusiastic support of the then dean of the college, Neale Copple, and continued support by the current dean, Will Norton, Tuck has amassed a collection of more than 500 photographs, which have been cared for by the Sheldon Gallery. Icons of Public Memory offers a selection of about 120 of these photographs which have shaped our image of the world.

Tuck states, "The heart and soul of this collection is the work of an amazing number of former students. The midwest for many years has had the reputation of producing an inordinately large number of photojournalists who have made their visual marks upon the journalistic world. These talented, hard-working individuals have covered routine city council meetings, struggled with the inevitable feature shot hunt and performed brilliantly in breaking news situations."

Most of these photographs find their way into the newspapers that provide the communication backbone of every community. Other photographs are transmitted world-wide and are made by photojournalists working for the major wire services, such as The Associated Press, the old United Press International, Reuters and Agence France Presse. University of Nebraska students have worked for every one of them, some in executive capacities, and have contributed more than their fair share of memorable photos.

"These former students responded generously to my calls asking them to donate prints to the collection. Other prints were solicited from photo agencies, newspapers and wire services. The Associated Press and Hal Buell, its former director of photography, deserve special praise for their generosity and support," Tuck said.

Tuck observes, "I envision a collection that will continue to grow and reflect the truly talented individuals who frequently work anonymously in photojournalism. Pictures destined for tomorrow's newspaper do not necessarily need to vanish from sight and memory, rather some of those images are of such visual and historical importance that they deserve to have a life beyond the daily paper. They need to be viewed in a historical and aesthetic context by the public, studied by scholars and archived by professionals."

The exhibition continues to March 14.

Martin Luther King Jr. Activities Planned for Jan. 18

Chancellor James Moeser invites the campus community to participate in activities and events celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday on Jan. 18, sponsored by various organizations at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

This year's theme is "More Than Just A Day: Remembering, Reflecting and Renewing."

The morning's events in the Lied Center will begin at 10 a.m. with a welcome and presentation of the Chancellor's Awards honoring individuals in the community and the university for their extensive work in the furtherance of Dr. King's legacy. The national repertory theatre, Junebug/Jack, a program of songs, stories, historical anecdotes and traditional tall tales, will perform from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

A complimentary lunch will be served in the Nebraska Union, followed by an afternoon of workshops, panel discussions, and speakers to be held in the newly renovated rooms. Watch the Scarlet for further information.