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Traveling art show popular BY ALEXIS BNERSON The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery has a tradition of offer ing students and spectators around the state an opportunity to feature an art exhibit in their home towns. The Stieglitz Circle, which is the statewide exhibit for the 2000-2001 year, will reach 14 smaller communities in Nebraska by Oct 26. Inspired by photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz, the exhibit contains oil and water color paintings, photography and a sculpture, said Nancy Dawson, community programs coordinator at the Sheldon. “Our (the Sheldon’s) collec tion is made up primarily of 20th Century artists,” Dawson * said. “And the number of artists Stieglitz had an influence on made this seem like an interest ing focus.” This statewide outreach program started 14 years ago in response to western communi ties in Nebraska whose students didn’t have access to an art gallery, Dawson said. “Being from the east, it’s hard to assume that people from other areas would have the interest and be able to drive here to see the gallery,” said Dan Siedell, curator of the Sheldon. In Grand Island, where the exhibit was held from Oct 30 Dec. 1, 2000, almost every school brought classes to see the exhibit, said Celine Stahlnecker, senior library assistant at the Grand Island Public Library. 1 heard a lot ot woos and ‘awes,’" Stahlnecker said. “The littler kids got pretty excited.” Currently, the exhibit is being held at the Holdrege Public Library, During the past two years, about 1,000 people have visited the exhibit, said Jeff Gilderson-Duwe, director of the Holdrege library. “This is a great program,” said Gilderson-Duwe. “We’re thrilled to have works of this caliber in our library.” Each town the exhibit visits is responsible for finding volun teers to sit with the art and docents, or guides, to give tours through the artwork. Holdrege has an unusual approach to its docents. The library has high school art stu dents become educated about the art and guide the tours, Gilderson-Duwe said. “Holdrege is the only com munity on our schedule that has high school students as guides,” Dawson said. This year was unique, how ever, because five works sched uled to tour in the exhibit were not allowed to travel because of insurance reasons. “This was a little upsetting,” Siedell said, “because we had originally planned to have 20 works travel. But I consider this a minor blip.” mere is some concern tor the future of the Sheldon’s statewide program, Gilderson Duwesaid. Dawson, however, is not as concerned. She said she felt they would be able to put together great exhibits and stay within the insurance guidelines in the future. In fact, the statewide exhibit has been so well received in the past that the Sheldon has start ed showing the exhibits after their statewide tours are fin ished, Siedell said. "Many people here hear about the exhibit and want to see the work,” Siedell said. “It’s a very good show.” NU students leamtopour BY BILLY SMUCK With a book in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other, four NU students have found how bar tending adds both a sweet and sour twist to the college lifestyle. Aaron Diskin, a junior com munication studies major who’s been bartending at Woody’s Pub &Grill for the past two and a half years, couldn’t complain about his schedule. “When you look at our bars, we dose at one,” he said. “In New York, they dose at four or five.” New York is the state where the 1988 hit “Cocktail,” a movie that inspired many wannabe bar tenders because it portrayed a glamorous side of the trade, was filmed. It also depicted the reali ties of Tom Cruise’s character falling asleep in dass because of late nights on the job. “It’s a little difficult to arrange your schedule. You don't take 8:00 dasses if you can help it,” Diskin said. “Unless I absolutely have to, I won’t take a class before 10:30.” Brett Dangler, a junior ele mentary education major who bartends at the Spigot, loves his job but admits juggling school and work can be overwhelming. It s kind of rough, said Dangler. “Ids difficult because I go right from class to work, then back home to study and back to work again. A full day of classes and work is hectic.” In addition to the schedule, the student bartenders said lack of sleep and stress level were part of what they called the “minimal downside” to bartending. “I think there’s a lot more stress than other jobs,” Diskin said. “It gets more difficult towards the end of the night deal ing with realty drunk people who are starting to get pushy and, a lot of times, rude.” Many students have rigorous schedules and jobs they don't like; however, all four agree that tend ing bar isn’t one of diem. “I am never going to quit this job; they’re going to have to fire me,” said Summer Spivey, a senior educational psychology major who tends bar at Studio 14. Spivey, who claims she “gets paid to party,” said that there were more positives than negatives when it came to tending bar. Diskin, who agreed with Spivey, said: “Honestly I think bar tending is the best job you can have in college. “You meet lots of people, have lots of fun and make contacts like crazy, and you make pretty good money doing it” Sandys bartender and senior math and education major Kim Haisch said the money was good, but that wasn’t the only reason she was tending bar. “I wanted a different job from the job I had before,’’ said Haisch, who worked at a factory card out let "I wanted something new, and since I was a regular here, I figured why not?” Haisch, along with the other bartenders, said tips were good, however there were always cus tomers who didn’t tip much if at all. “Last night, people were tip ping quarters. So my manager started giving back silver dollars Please see BAR on 6 Steven Bender/DN Liz Maag (left) talks with Summer Spivey on Saturday night. Spivey, a UNL senior, works as a bartender at Studio 14 about 12 to 15 hours per week. -„v jwiciiuciwci/vn jsp. . Derivative central: It's fun, but you've seen 'Snatch' many times before BY SEAN MCCARTHY No movie could have kicked off Inaugural Weekend better than Guy Ritchie's “Snatch.” Moral critics will decry the movie’s vulgarity, endorsement of crime and chronic occurrences of bad hygiene. Socially conscious critics on the left will decry the movie's misogy nist and homophobic tones as well as its violence. For most of us in the middle of the political spectrum, there will probably be a collective yawn of familiarity. A diamond is stolen, and a cast of Euro _ trash hoodlums and American scum bags try to “snatch” the treasure. Violence and mayhem ensue as the camera zooms in and out on guns, attack dogs and shots of alcohol. “Snatch” isn’t only familiar to the audience; the actors probably had a strong sense ofd£j& vu. Brad Pitt plays a gypsy who has a knack for flooring peo ple with a single punch. (Pitt reveled in beating people to a pulp in "Fight Club.”) Benicio Del Toro plays hench man Franky Four Fingers who has compulsive gambling issues. (Didn’t Del Toro learn anything about the hor rors of gambling when he starred in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?”) And Dennis Farina plays New York diamond expert Cousin Avi, who has constant problems controlling the people who surround him. With Farina’s experience in movies such as “Midnight Run” and “Get Shorty,” his problems of being typecast are certain ly not alleviated with this film. The movie itself seems to be a twist ed hybrid of great moments in popular film. The bare-fisted brawls recall “Raging Bull.” The mix of idle conversa tion and hyper-violent scenes is straight out of “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs." Probably the most blatant rip-off would be when Mickey (Pitt) gets pelt ed with a punch that sends him to the canvas during a rigged boxing match. The pain is so intense that he goes through a brief hallucinogenic trip where he is swimming a la “'D-ainspotting.” “Snatch” isn’t without merit. Please see SNATCH on 6 Courtesy photo Dennis Farina (left) stars in the movie "Snatch*