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Photo by Stow Coanwr
Kzlhy CoaneO, backgrounded by her paiatisg,
"Pfesy Pup," is one of the 2C3 cadergraduate
artists whose works sie on exhibit at Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery. In the foreground is
"Pickles, I guess."
Dy Mark Kc!dgaard
Duplicating pickles is not as easy as one might think.
Kathy Connell, a senior from Crete, decided to do it
for an art class project. The result is "Pickles, I Guess,
part of the undergraduate art exhibit at Sheldon Memorial
Art Gallery.
The exhibit, which continues through May 2, consists
of more than 200 works by 1 17 UNL students. Members
of the Art Dept. selected the works, which ange from
photography to painting to sculpture.
Connell said her plan was not to interpret pickles or to
abstract pickles, but to make fake pickles that look
exactly like the real thing. She said she chose the "slip
casting" method to make the pickles, using two-piece
plaster molds of real pickles and pouring thin, watery day
into them.
The plaster absorbs water from an outer layer of har
dened clay. She said she poured out the fluid remainder, .
called "slip," and when the mold was removed she had
false, hollow pickles. Connell said she then painted them
with oils, made a label and mounted them inside a jar.
"We left the fake pickles sitting around and when a
friend came by he didn't notice anything unusual about
them," Connell said. "I was hoping he would try to eat
one,buthedWt."
Connell also has an. oil painting on display called
"Piggy Pup," which shows a friend on a doorstep petting a
small dark animal. She said it was a kitten, but it
resembles a puppy. It is not a pig.
Another work, "Almost Heaven" is a board covered
with green material. It features trees, tiny sheep, and a
rainbow. The work is a variation on Connell's motto,
"Cute but decadent."
"I aimed for pure cuteness," she said, "cute forcute's
sake." She refused to elaborate any theory of cute, saying
she considers that a job for the critics.
SAC band to perform
The Strategic Air Command Band, Flair, will present
a free concert in the Nebraska Union Ballroom at 2 pjn.
Thursday.
Sponsored by the UNL Air Force Reserve Officer
Training Corps (ROTC) detachment, the program will
include music of yesterday and today from pop to rock
and country and includes hits by Elton John and the
Doobie Brothers. The group blends horns, guitars and
vocals. .
The concert is part of ROTC week at UNL, which
started Sunday.
cssi Union hosts
Wsirn cosicrt
Asleep at the Wheel will perform at 8 pjn. Thursday
in the East Campus Union Activities E'dg., 33rd and
Holdrege streets. -
The Nebraska Union Concerts Committee is sponsor
ing the Austin, Tex., band, with tickets costing $230
for UNL students, $3 for others.
The band originated about five years ago on a West
Virginia farm near the town of Paw Paw, where Ray
Benson and his high school friend Lucky Oceans, along
with Leroy Preston, a Boston musician, deckled to form
a band.
The band first played rock'n'roll, but soon turned to
country, a style they never abandoned.
The band has grown into a nine-piece western swing
band in the Bob Wills tradition.
Members are Chris OTtonnell, vocals; Floyd Domino,
piano; Tony Garner, bass; Scott Hennige, drums; Ed
Vizard, tenor and alto saxophones; and -Danny Levin,
fiddle.
The band appeared on the Nebraska Educational
Television Network program "Soundstage," March 28.
Jon Emery and the Missouri VaGey Boys also win
perform at the concert.
Prod ucer reveals
'Star Trek's' TV.
possibility tonight
By Anita Stork
Will the U.S.S. Enterprise and "Star Trek" return to
the television screen? Gene Roddenberry, creator and
producer of the original "Star Trek " will announce the
answer tonight at 8 pjn. in UNL's Coliseum.
Roddenberry s appearance is sponsored by Union
Program Council's Talks and Topics committee and ad
mission is SI. 50 for students, $2.50 for others.
In a telephone interview Saturday, Roddenberry
said he also will disclose when filming of the Star Trek
wide-screen movie will begin.
Roddenberry said "there were numerous problems"
connected with planning the movie.
"The studio refused to give me creative control"
Roddenberry explained. "Now, however, I am super
vising the script and doing some rewriting."
Avoids "trekkfes"
Roddenberry spends much of his time writing,
avoiding "Star Trek" conventions that attract thou
sands of "trekkie" enthusiasts.
"Im not a performer," Roddenberry said. "The
huge mass of people (at those conventions) scales me
and I can't get through the crowd without a security
guard accompanying me "
However, he said he frequently lectures on college
campuses, touring four times annualy for a week to 10
days,
"Students ask good questions," Roddenberry ssid.
"For some writers, Hollywood becomes the center of
their lives. It can be very confining and traveling keeps
that from hsjpenlng to me.
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years, he once the fbssit was estehEshed a pilot
show was writtea ia cj SO diys.
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1566 prtsdse. Fclloisss its csscsHitkia, the National
Eroedcastir.3 Company (NEC) received 1C0,CG0 pro
test letters from "Star Trek" fans,
Roddenberry seid th3 series faded from ICC be
cause it started before the United States was vd tito
spece, and also before the networks started consilerizs "
descrephics." -.:: ..
If the network had considered the qm!ity of the
audisr.ee and not merely the size, "Star Trek" niiit
tin continued for 10-yeers and 1 would be the
cTlioasire scae people thLk I tsi. ; ;
"Stex Trek" reruns currently pl-y n 49 Assericea
msikets and 52 forea countries. One hundred fia
dubs are ia the United States alone, he cIJ, and at
tributed the show's success to two points.
"The show was about something end had a reel
cesser" Roddenberry ssii. "Secondly, the cheiactsrs
.'ere red heroes ia a tise cf tnt&erocs."
They stood for moral inteity, rhere cr.es rcrd is
a bond, he added.
The racst satisfying aect cf "Star Trek," Rcddea
teny said, vea fens reeetisa.
THs hate told me they have decided to attend ccl-
fce beause cf the show and cider people tsrete thsy
developed mere tt&raace for dUTtnnt points cf view "
he said. "When you change lives for the better, then
youve reaDy acccnpli.sd scmethir"
Roddenberry said he currently has a contract for
another televidoa series, and is writing documentaries.