Interim Chancellor to Appear on "Consider This"

How does the university move forward after the recent controversy surrounding the handling of finances in the athletic department?

UNO's Interim Chancellor, John Christensen, will address this topic and others when he joins host Andrea McMaster on this week's "Consider This."

The program will air on NET2 (NET's cable network) today, Sept. 25, at 1:30 p.m. and Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 8 a.m.

"Consider This", a production of UNO Television, also airs on The Knowledge Network of Greater Omaha. Visit the Web at http://www.tknomaha.org for dates and times. Archived editions of the program are available on the Web at http://www.unotv.unomaha.edu.

Speech Center to Offer Fall Lunch and Learn Series

The UNO Speech Center will offer three free workshops this semester on presentation skills. All students are invited to attend, and free pizza and pop will be provided. The workshops, listed below, will all be held in the Milo Bail Student Center Council Room.

Tuesday, Sept. 26
- Planning Your Next Presentation: How to Create Structure
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 11
- Banish Those Butterflies: Overcoming Speech Anxiety
Noon to 1 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 26
- Let Your Body Speak: Delivering an Effective Presentation
Noon to 1 p.m.

To register for one or more sessions or for more information, contact Marlina Howe at the Speech Consulting Center at 554.3201 or mmhowe@mail.unomaha.edu. Space is limited so students must register at least two days in advance.

UNO Fall Job Fair Sept. 27

Editor's note: The UNO Spirit Committee has designated this activity as a UNO spirit event.

Career Exploration and Outreach will host a fall job fair Wednesday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom. The job fair will feature employers who are actively seeking candidates for open positions and internships.

Professional interview attire is expected, and students should have already pre-registered to attend the fair. To register for the job fair, students must have a profile on the UNO CareerConnect system at http://unoceo.unomaha.edu.

For more information about the job fair, CareerConnect and other services, contact Career Exploration and Outreach at 554.3672 or stop by 211 Eppley Administration Building.

Job fair sponsors are Union Pacific, Applied Underwriters, FirstComp, Streck, Walgreens, ConAgra, First National Bank of Omaha, Gallup, National Indemnity, US Bank, UPS, Northwestern Mutual, Interpublic Group, PayPal, Alegent Health and Enterprise.

Each month during the fall and spring semesters, the UNO Spirit Committee will designate campus events as "UNO Spirit Committee Events." UNO students, faculty and staff who attend the events will be issued a "Spirit Ticket" by presenting a valid MavCard ID. Each of the designated events will host a "Spirit Station" staffed by volunteers who will check IDs and issue tickets. A drawing for a door prize or promotional item will be held at each designated event, and all Spirit Ticket holders at the event will be eligible to win. In addition to the monthly drawings, a drawing for a grand prize will be held at the conclusion of the campaign in the spring. All those who attend a designated event during the fall and spring semesters will be eligible for the grand prize.

"Funds of Knowledge" Talk Set for Oct. 3

Luis Moll, associate dean for academic affairs and a professor of language, reading and culture at the University of Arizona College of Education, will visit the UNO campus Tuesday, Oct. 3, to lead a discussion on connecting funds of knowledge and classroom learning.

The event will be held from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the W.H. and Dorothy Thompson Alumni Center Bootstrapper Hall.  It is free and open to the public, but groups of five or more are asked to send an e-mail with their attendance numbers to tstran@mail.unomaha.edu.

Dr. Moll will share video depicting brief segments of families in action and ask for the audience's perspective from a "funds of knowledge" viewpoint, examining the accumulated bodies of knowledge of households that reflect the social, political, economic, historical and cultural contexts of families. 

His presentation will provide background in the theoretical framework and methodological issues related to his research of the connection among culture, psychology and education especially as it relates to the education of Latino children in the United States.

An elected member in the National Academy of Education, Dr. Moll has also published a co-edited volume titled Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms (Erlbaum).

For more information, contact Carol Lloyd at 554.3471 or clloyd@mail.unomaha.edu.

Writing Center to Offer Fall Workshops

The UNO Writing Center will offer six free workshops this semester on writing skills. All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend. Reservations are not required.

All workshops will be held at the center's 150 Arts and Sciences Hall location. For more information, call 554.2946.

Wednesday, Oct. 4
Session: Rein In Runaway Sentences: Comma Splices, Run-on Sentences and Fragments
Time: 1 to 2 p.m.
Presenter: Connie Eberhart

Wednesday, Oct. 11
Session: Getting from Point A to Point B: Creating Good Transitions
Time: 1 to 2 p.m.
Presenters: Al Kammerer and Bobbi Olson

Thursday, Oct. 19
Session: Battle Royale:  Active Voice vs. Passive Voice
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Presenter: Kate Gaskin

Tuesday, Oct. 24
Session: How Do I Document This Source Using MLA?
Time: 11 a.m. to noon
Presenter: Carol Dillon

Thursday, Oct. 26
Session: Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Writing a Timed Essay Exam
Time: 10 to 11 a.m.
Presenters: Joel Thomas and Kim Schwab

Tuesday, Oct. 31
Session: How Do I Document This Source Using APA?
Time: 11 a.m. to noon
Presenter: Carol Dillon

"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" Opens Charla Series

The Charla Series at UNO will open it's 2006-07 season Friday, Oct. 6, with a film screening of "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada." 

The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 6 p.m. in the Eppley Administration Building Auditorium.  A discussion with Steven Torres, an assistant professor of foreign language and literature at UNO, will follow the film.

"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" - starring Tommy Lee Jones - features ranch hand Pete Perkins, who looks to fulfill a promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.  The film highlights Perkins' dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.

The event is sponsored by the UNO Office of Latino and Latin American Studies (OLLAS), the U.S. Department of Education, and UNO Student Organizations and Leadership Programs. 

For more information, call 554.3835.

Pulses Series: Library to Celebrate Opening of New Addition

As a student, do you know what services your library has to offer? The following is the fourth in a series of informational articles designed to introduce students to services and activities at University Library. Library staff is providing the Pulses articles. The topic of this week's article highlights activities planned for the dedication of the library's new addition.

Mark Your Calendars - Library Celebrates New Addition!
University Library is gearing up to celebrate the new Dr. Guinter Kahn Addition with a week's worth of festivities.

"This is a great time for us to thank our patrons - the students, staff, faculty and community members - for their patience during construction, and for making us a vital part of the campus," said University Library Dean Steve Shorb. He noted that more than 600,000 people visit the library each year and, with the new addition opening, he expects that number to top one million.

Festivities begin with an invitation-only donor reception sponsored by the University Foundation. Other events will include:

Wednesday, Oct. 11
- Dedication Ceremony, library main floor
11 a.m.

- Yellow Barn Press Exhibit Opening
7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 12 ("Tours & Technology Day")
- UNO Library Friends and UNO Child Care Center Reception
2 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 13 ("Student Appreciation Day")
- Free Lunch @ your library café
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

- Alumni Tour - Class of 1956
1 p.m.

- Community Appreciation Event
3 to 6 p.m.

UNO Library Friends to Host Oct. 12 Book Discussion

The UNO Library Friends will host a discussion on A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz Thursday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m. in University Library.  Moshe Gershovich, a UNO Department of History associate professor, will lead the discussion.

Publishers Weekly describes the book as "a powerful, nimbly constructed saga of a man, a family and a nation forged in the crucible of a difficult, painful history."  The story is primarily set in Oz's childhood in Jerusalem during the 1940s and 50s.

Gershovich earned a bachelor's degree from Tel Aviv University in Jewish and Middle Eastern history, and a doctorate in history and Middle Eastern studies from Harvard University. He taught Middle Eastern history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1995 to 1998 and then received a Senior Scholar Fulbright Scholarship to teach and conduct research in Morocco.  He also taught at Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane from 1998 to 2000.  In 2001, he joined the UNO faculty, where he has been teaching modern Middle Eastern history.

Gershovich has published a book, titled French Military Rule over Morocco: Colonialism and its Consequences (Cass, 2000), as well as numerous scholarly articles in journals such as Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Military History, Maghreb Review and Journal of North African Studies.

For more information, call 554.3205.

Teams Sought for 13th Annual UNO Bell Tower Challenge

The 13th annual UNO Bell Tower Challenge is set for Wednesday, Oct. 18.

At noon, teams of students, faculty and staff will compete to stack as many food cans as possible while the bells of the Henningson Memorial Campanile chime. Awards will be presented to the teams that stack the most cans, the most creative teams (which can include costumes) and the most enthusiastic teams.

The event is sponsored each year by Eta Sigma Gamma, a health education honorary at UNO.

"We would love to set a new record this year," said David Corbin, event founder and a professor in the UNO School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. "That means we need to collect more than 5,700 pounds of food."

All canned goods will be donated to the Omaha Food Bank (http://www.omahafoodbank.org). More than 33,000 pounds of food have been collected for the food bank since the event's inception.

Dr. Corbin cited a recent Omaha World-Herald article, which highlighted the Food Banks need for community assistance.  It stated: "The higher energy prices over the past year are forcing more working families to seek emergency assistance from Omaha's food pantries."

The Omaha Food Bank distributes food to about 360 agencies in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa, and the demand is up according to the Omaha World-Herald: "During the first seven months of 2005, it (the food bank) had distributed nearly three million pounds of food. Through July of this year, the food bank exceeded that number by more than 300,000 pounds."

The deadline to register for the Bell Tower Challenge is Friday, Oct. 13, at noon. To access the entry form or more details about the event, visit the Web at http://www.unomaha.edu/healthed/BT.html.

For more information, contact Dr. Corbin or Shandalee Ramet, Eta Sigma Gamma representative, at 554.2670 or dcorbin@unomaha.edu.

MavMoney Promotion Under Way at MavCard Locations

In conjunction with the fall semester, MavCard Services is currently conducting a weekly drawing for MavMoney.

Those who use their MavCard at selected locations across campus can win a $20 automatic cash deposit to their MavCard. UNO Food Services, the UNO Bookstore, Pepsi and Canteen will sponsor the promotion. To be eligible for the drawing, faculty, staff and students need to use their MavCard at a sponsored location.

For more information, or to check out this week's winner, visit the Web at http://mavcard.unomaha.edu/.

Maverick Watch

Go Mavs!  Support your Mavericks by attending their home events.

Students are admitted free to all home athletic games with a valid UNO ID (MavCard) and game-day ticket. The spouses, significant others and children of students also are admitted free. At the game, students must present their MavCard to receive a ticket. Tickets will be available on the day of the game at each home event. For more information, call 554.MAVS (6287).

At home this week...

Wednesday, Sept. 27
- Soccer vs. Wayne State (Neb.)
UNO Soccer Field at Ak-Sar-Ben
4 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 29
- Soccer vs. St. Cloud State
UNO Soccer Field at Ak-Sar-Ben
1 p.m.

For more information about UNO Athletics, visit the Web at http://gomavs.unomaha.edu/.