May 9-11, 2008
UNL CAMPUS THIS WEEK
Final Exams Are Here
Final Examinations for Second Semester 2007-2008 will be given throughout this week (May 5 - 9).
View the university's official policy on Final Examinations and 15th Week, from Registration and Records, or see the full Final Exam Schedule.
ACADEMIC SERVICES HANDBOOK
NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM, 9:30AM - 4:30PM
Astronomy Day at NU State Museum
Astronomy Day at the University of Nebraska State Museum is May 10 and the museum's Mueller Planetarium will join forces with the Prairie Astronomy Club, Hyde Observatory, and the UNL Department of Physics and Astronomy to provide a day of fun and learning.
There will be activities for all ages from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the museum, 14th and U streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus. Exhibits and displays will line the lobby of the planetarium and the main floor of the museum, including displays of telescopes, computer astronomy and astronomical photos by members of the Prairie Astronomy Club. more...
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, FRI 6:35PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Texas A&M Aggies
TRACK AND FIELD | ED WEIR STADIUM, SAT 11AM
Nebraska Invitational
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SAT 2:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Texas A&M Aggies
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SUN 1:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers Vs Texas A&M Aggies
BOB DEVANEY SPORTS CENTER, SAT 9:30AM | LIVE WEBCAST
More than 2,400 to Receive Degrees at UNL Commencement Exercises
More than 2,400 students will receive degrees at University of Nebraska-Lincoln commencement exercises May 9 and 10. Chancellor Harvey Perlman will preside at the ceremonies, which for the first time will include separate commencement exercises for doctoral degree recipients. The main commencement exercises, for baccalaureate and master's degrees, begins at 9:30 a.m. May 10 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center, 27th and Theresa streets.
Doctoral degree candidates will receive their diplomas and their hood in a ceremony beginning at 3:30 p.m. May 9 at Kimball Recital Hall, 11th and R streets. In previous years, doctoral candidates received their hoods at a Friday ceremony and their diplomas at Saturday's exercises.
Former Omaha World-Herald publisher John Gottschalk will address graduates and receive an honorary doctor of letters degree at the main commencement exercises, where philanthropist James C. Seacrest will receive the Nebraska Builder Award from UNL. The award is given annually to individuals who have been "builders" of UNL or the state of Nebraska. more...
JOHNNY CARSON THEATRE, LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, SAT 7:30PM
Nebraska Dispatches Arrives at the Lied
Commissioned by the Lied Center for Performing Arts to create a play about the historic trial of Chief Standing Bear, Christopher Cartmill has spent a great deal of time in Nebraska not only learning about the historic figure but immersing himself in the lives of the Native peoples in Nebraska. His experiences will be shared in a one-man performance, The Nebraska Dispatches, on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The performance will be held in the Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater.
A former Lincoln resident, Christopher Cartmill has gone on to acclaim as a playwright living in New York City. Commissioned to write a play about the trial of Chief Standing Bear, the writer naively steps into the contemporary Native American world and the place he once called home. A personal, political, and spiritual journey filled with humor, unlikely connections, and almost Dickensian characters. Tickets for this performance are $18. University of Nebraska-Lincoln students with a valid I.D., as well as youth age 18 and younger, may purchase tickets for $8. Call the Lied ticket office at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 for ticket availability.
LIED CENTER
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Still Life and The Violin Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Still Life and The Violin. Both films will show through May 15.
A modern master of postmodern discontent, Jia Zhang-ke is among the most strikingly gifted filmmakers working today whom you have probably never heard of. During the past decade he has made some half-dozen documentary-inflected fictions and several documentaries that weigh the human cost of China's often brutal, dehumanizing shift from state-controlled communism to state-sanctioned capitalism, a price paid in the blood and sweat of people who have, paradoxically, inspired him to create works of sublime, soulful art. Still Life finds him working around the area of the new Three Gorges Dam (the largest in the world) in central China. Around this massive structure, he paints an interesting picture of human behaviour, touched with great cultural and political strife because of both environmental and humanitarian concerns.
In the Mexican film The Violin, Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: on one hand they are musicians and humble farmers, on the other they support the campesina peasant guerilla movement's armed efforts against the oppressive government. When the military seizes the village, the rebels flee to the sierra hills, forced to leave behind their stock of ammunition. While the guerillas organize a counter-attack, old Plutarco executes his own plan. He plays up his appearance as a harmless violin player, in order to get into the village and recover the ammunition hidden his corn field. His violin playing charms the army captain, who orders Plutarco to come back daily. Arms and music play a tenuous game of cat-and-mouse which ultimately results in painful betrayal.
More information is available at the Ross website.
