April 12, 2005 In this Issue: - Dates & Deadlines - Summer Textbook Scholarship - Honors Lost & Found - UHON Summer Session - Textbook Reminder & Bills - Spring 2005 Quiz Bowl - HP T-Shirts - Richie Brown Senior Recital - HP Weekly Column - From Selma to Washington -- Dates and Deadlines: Fri. Apr. 29: Completed thesis due for May graduation Sat. Apr. 30: last day of classes Mon. May 2: Statement of Academic Interest due (after 4th semester of classes) Mon. May 2: Memorandum of Study due (after 6th semester of classes) May 2-6: Final exam week Sat. May 7: Commencement -- To use your textbook scholarship for summer courses: go to the financial aid homepage at www.unl.edu, then click on Summer Financial Aid. You should do this before you register for summer classes. If you run into problems because you're already registered, contact S & FA. -- In the main Honors Office lost and found are a number of discs and CD's, as well as a lady's watch and a digital camera left in one of the study rooms. To claim any, come to the main HP office. -- We will be offering a 3 credit-hour UHON 198H this summer: Summer Session (July 17- Aug 5)> "Man and Nature: Contrasting Perspectives." Taught at Cedar Point Biological Station (website:http://www.unl.edu/cedarpt). Students will read books and papers prior to and during the 3 week course. Readings will present contrasting views on the multiple relationships that exist between humans and the natural world, in contexts such as animal research, agriculture, and the use of natural resources. Readings will be coordinated with field trips to relevant sites in the Cedar Point area. Our visits will include discussions with officials, scientists and land owners who run working ranches, wildlife refuges, irrigated croplands, and research stations among other places. We'll also spend time learning about the organisms living in and around Cedar Point. Students will be required to participate in all trips and discussions. Students will keep a journal, prepare 2-3 short written and/or verbal presentations of issues. The final project will be a term-paper consistent with the theme of the course and can be made designed to be relevant to the individual student's interests and/or career goals. Particularly well-suited to students in majors such as journalism, education, visual arts and fields related to biology (including pre-health, agriculture and natural resources, as well as biology) who have a strong interest in the biological world. -- Textbooks: you MUST purchase all books and course packets for your classes through the UNL Bookstore. Should a faculty member have made other arrangements, contact the Bookstore first and have them order the text for you. Bills for textbooks you retained from the fall term will appear on the next consolidated billing. The amount will be buyback value of the textbooks that the bookstore shows as not returned by the deadline date in December. They have reviewed each student's account and noted the texts retained for a continuation class for the spring. These books have been removed from the current billing, but you will need to return those books at the end of this semester. The bookstore has made every effort to be sure that this billing is accurate, but if you have a question, the Bookstore has a listing of the titles on your consolidated billing. Contact the Bookstore at 472-7313 or email Dan Smith at with any questions. The Bookstore thanks you for the opportunity to serve you. -- SPRING 2005 QUIZ BOWL SUN, APRIL 17 3:00pm CITY CAMPUS UNION Here's your chance to test your knowledge for a chance to win gift certificates to Best Buy! Join us for free food, pop and competition! Everyone's welcome, so get some friends together and send us your team of 4 at unlhonorsboard@yahoo.com by FRIDAY, APRIL 15. -- Honors Program T-Shirts are In and Going Fast...... Check them out at http://honors.unl.edu/tshirts/index.html If you'd like one for only $7.50, email Britni Bethune at brbeth01@yahoo.com (They're going fast) -- Richie Brown will perform his senior recital for a degree in guitar performance at the Westbrook Music Building on Sunday, April 24th at 1:30 pm in room 119. The concert will feature solo and ensemble pieces and is free to the public. -- Check for the weekly column, which we will begin featuring, by Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States and UNL English Department faculty member. -- From Selma to Washington: A Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Event #1: 7-8:30pm, April 14th (Thursday), at the Champion's Club: a presentation/discussion with Rev. C.T. Vivian and Ms. Joanne Bland, moderated by Patrick Jones. Rev. Vivian participated in the Nashville sit-in movement in 1960-61, the 1961 Freedom Rides, and then became an Executive Board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a part of Martin Luther King's inner-circle. In SCLC, Rev.Vivian played a prominent part in numerous civil rights campaigns, including the historic Selma voting rights campaign of 1965. Rev. Vivian is prominently featured in the award-winning, multi-part "Eyes On the Prize" documentary series. Ms. Bland is from Selma, Alabama, and also participated in the voting rights campaign there which led directly to the passgae of the Voting Rights Act. Eleven years old at the time, Bland was on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday" and has the distinction of being the youngest person arrested and put in jail during that campaign. She is currently the Director of the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma. While in Lincoln, Vivian and Bland will share their experiences of the Selma voting rights campaign of 1965 and discuss Selma's crucial link to the passage of the VRA. Their experiences are uniquely complimentary. It is a tremendous honor for UNL to host these two "living legends" of the civil rights era! There will be a reception following this event. Event #2: 7-8:30pm, April 18th (Monday), at the Nebraska Union: a panel discussion featuring Sam Issacharoff, a prominent legal scholar from Columbia University, Michael Pitts, from the Justice Department, and D'Andra Orey, of the UNL Political Science Department. All three of the panelists are prominent experts in the field of voting rights. This panel will focus on the legacy of the Voting Rights Act and the state of voting rights in the U.S. today. This event is meant as a contemporary compliment to the more historical event on Thursday night. Again, we are excited to have such esteemed experts in the field of voting rights in Lincoln to share their perspectives on the state of voting rights in the United States today.