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daily nebraskan
thursday, february 2, 1978
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Reading 'how to study9 guide more boring than studying
"Hey, let's get together and study for
the midterm."
"Midterm? I just got out of the drop
add line the day before yesterday. I haven't
found Ferguson Hall yet. How can it be
time to start studying?"
Sound, ahem, familiar? Well, midterms
are indeed coming up in a couple of weeks,
and if you haven't been studying you
probably ought to start thinking about it.
Thinking about it is easier than doing it,
anyhow.
Sim
Williams
There are many articles that allege to
help you study, usually with catchy titles
like "How to Study" or "Study Hints."
Some unwary fool let one of these
guides fall into my hands, and frankly I
can't see anything helpful in it.
For example, the guide says: "Budget
your time effectively . . . each morning
list all the things you must do for that day
. . . with non-routine things like studying,
be specific, such as 'Chemistry, Chapter 12.
Read and take notes constantly review
these priorities during the day."
If you have as many important things to
do every day as I do, making up such a
list will kill so much time you won't have
time to do them. Of course, you weren't
going to do them anyway. But why kill a
tree to list the buggers?
Here's another suggestion: "Get
acquainted with the library . . . find out
how the card catalog works. It consists of
small wooden drawers full of alphabetical
listings of the library's holdings . . . you 11
find a 'call number' which tells you the
location of the book in the library."
If you've done business with the UNL
library system lately, you're already
making a fool of yourself rolling around on
the floor laughing. If you haven't "gotten
acquainted" with the library (I understand
St. George got acquainted with a dragon
once, and your situation is similar) here's
how it really works.
True, the card catalog consists jpf little
wooden drawers-about 572 x 10 " little
wooden' drawers. You look in them for the
book you want. Then you look for a book
the library actually has that might tell you
the same things as the book you want.
The "call number" is on the book card
in the drawer. The number could look like
672.30577926, or XX007 Fq. 285491,
depending on whether it's a Dewey System
number or a Library of Congress number.
Memorize this number, since you forgot a
paper and pencil, and while the library
supplies pencils, nobody ever sharpens
them.
Now go to the information desk and
look on the Captain Midnight Secret De
coder Chart. It will tell you your book is,
for instance, on "Love North, 1st floor,
north side."
Well, there's a row of bookshelves about
a block long at that location. If you make
the right bus connection you can get to the
right shelf in an hour or so.
Then you look along a 100-foot shelf
until you come to the spot the book would
be, if some graduate student hadn't
checked it out eight yean ago to use as a
doorstop.
The above scenario assumes everything,
goes right. If things go wrong: a) the book
could be in the engineering section at Ne
braska Hall or the East Campus law library;
b) you could get stuck in the stacks
elevator and not be discovered until final
exams week or c) you could find the right
book and actually have to read the blasted
thing.
There are other equally boring study
hints, like the one to determine your bio
rhythms and study when you're most alert
I feel pretty alert now-I think FD go
study a pinball machine or an automobile
or a comely reporteress or' something.
You can't afford to waste good study
time.
Foreign film, Bogart movie
open Thursday on campus
This weekends movie fare at UNL
starts tonight with the 'Take One"
American Film Classics series presen
tation of The Big Sleep.
The Sheldon Film Theater is offer
ing a new film from Ethiopia, Harvest:
3000 Years.
In The Big Sleep, Humphrey Bogart
stars as Phillip Marlow, Rarnond Chand
ler's famous detective character. This
1946 classic also stars Lauren Bacall.
Showings tonight are at 7 and 9 in
the Union Centennial Room. Admission
is $1.50 for students and $2 for others.
Series tickets also will be available at
$7 for students and $10 for others.
Harvest: 3000 Years is a 1975 film by
Haile Gerima. It is the story of a peasant
family's struggle for survival on the
farm of a rich and unproductive land
lord in Ethiopia.
Gerima was born in Gonder,
Ethiopia, and studied at the UCLA
film school. Harvest won the Grand
Prix at the Locarno International Film
Festival and the 1976 Oscar Micheaux
Award for Best Feature Film.
The film is showing at the Sheldon
Film Theater tonight at 7 and 9:30,
and Friday and Saturday at 3, 7 and
9:30 p.m. Admission is $2.
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Gilbert and Sullivan pirates invade Kimball Thursday
By Charlie Krig
The UNL School of Music will strike a
compromising chord tonight when the
UNL Opera Theatre presents Gilbert and
Sullivan's operetta, The Pirates of Penz
ance, in Kimball Recital Hall.
Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, including
The Pirates of Penzance, combine elements
of musical theater and opera. The result is
pure entertainment.
William Gilbert stuffed the librettos
with silly rhymes and comic plots, while
Arthur Sullivan composed music to match
-fast, bright, catchy tunes that sound
i
simple but are complex to compose and
perform.
The show is the first Gilbert and
Sullivan operetta produced by the School
of Music. UNL music instructor Edward J.
Crafts is production director.
Crafts said enjoyment of the operetta
comes from the satirical plot and musical
structure.
Sullivan's score often imitates passages
from traditional "grand" operas, Crafts
said, partly because Sullivan's serious
works never were widely accepted. Sullivan
is known for his light, humorous pieces.
Gilbert's libretto concentrates on satir
ization of Victorian era officials and
morals, Crafts said. The script contains re
ferences to pirates, who actually rje
members of the House of Lords gone
wrong.
The Pirates of Penzance will run tonight
through Sunday. The Thursday, Friday and
Saturday performances are at 8 pjn., but
the Sunday show will be a 3 p.m. matinee,
Because of the long run, the show will
have two casts. The Thursday and Satur
day actors will be Chip Smith (the Pirate
King), Carrie Solomon (Mabel), Richard
Drews (Frederic), David Henry Hsen (the
Major General), Vaughn Fritts (the
Sergeant), Teresa Berry (Ruth), Kim
Jiracek (Edith), Denise Hurley (Kate) and
Ben Salinas (Samuel).
Cast members for Friday and Sunday
will be Scott Root (the Pirate King),
Connie Crom (Mabel), Malley Keelan
(Frederic), Allan Hamsher (the Major Gen
eral), Dale Ganz (the Sergeant), Marilyn
Yanik (Ruth), Mary Nutsch (Edith), Betty
Cooper (Kate) and Doug Allen (Samuel).
Four singers will appear in all four per
formances. They are Cindy Longacre
(Isabel), Jean Meyer (Queen Victoria) and
Don Yanik and Shelia Stutzman (the Box
Holders).
The orchestra conductor is Robert
Anders Emile, scenic design is by Don
Yanik, lighting design is by Zack Zanolli
and technical direction is by Bill Fankhau
ser. Musical preparation was supervised by
Harold Evans and Richard Grace, with
coaching by Mary mdermuehle and Robert
Rhein.
Tickets are $2.50 for students and
senior citizens and S3 for general admis
sion. Additional information and tickets are
available at the Kimball Box office, 113
Westbrook Musk Building.
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