The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, January 14, 1981, Page page 8, Image 8
r page 8 dajy nebraskan Wednesday, January 14, 1981 j G'teOiGi,lllDInlOi(il(inG VS. f M Photo by Jack Mitchell 1 fcw- - . J-i . ,.,f 1 I i ,. -1 I - T Picture courtesy of Columbia Artists Photo by Jack Mitchell Picture courtesy of Columbia Artists Entertainment helps welcome spring at Kimball By Penelope M. Smith This semester, to take your mind off the cold and take you as painlessly as possible into Spring, Kimball Recital Hall has a ggarland of art entertainment, from famous cellists to internationally known dance compan ies. Kimball offers tickets to students at approximately half price. For example, admission to the performance by cellist Nathaniel Rosen is $7 general admission and $3.50 for students. In addition, students can buy stud ent tickets to events a week before they go on sale to the general public. Sunday, Jan. 18, Kimball's Performing Art Series begins with the Paillard Chamber Orchestra from France. The Paillard is an orchestra subsidized by the French government. They have done extensive touring and re cording and have won 22 Grands Prix Internationaux awards. They will be performing Handel's "Concerto Grosso in C major;" Bach's "Concerto for Violin in E major, BWV 1042,';" "Concerto for Three violins in F major" by Telemann; Pachelbel's "Cannon in D maj or;" and Bach's "Concerto for Two Violins in C minor. BWV 1060." Tickets are $4 for students and $7 regular admission. February 5 through 8, the UNL School of Music will perform Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio." Admission is $3 for students and senior citizens and $4 general admission. The opera is a delightful harem romp that tells the tale of a woman abducted by a passionate pasha and her fiance's attempts to rescue her. It will be performed in English. Saturday, Feb. 14, internationally-acclaimed cellist Nathaniel Rosen will perform at Kimball. In 1978 Mr. Rosen won the Tchaikovsky Competit ion Gold Medal in Moscow, the first American cellist ever to do so. The Paul Taylor Dance Company will perform Fri day and Saturday Feb. 20 and 2 1 . Tickets are $4 for students and $7 general admission. Paul Taylor is one of America's most valuable and enjoyable choreographers. His lyrical fusion of modern and ballet is a blend of sensuous serenity and cutting irony that is a pleasure to watch. The Feb. 25 and 26 performance of "Macbeth" by the Folger Theatre has been cancelled. Kimball announced that refunds are being mailed. Friday March 6, the Canadian Brass will perform. Tickets are $3 for students and $6 general admission. The Brass has been described as "daring to merge classical music with blasphemous wit and humor." Their repertoire ranges from Fats Waller and Gershwin to Handel's "Water Music." Sunday and Monday, March 15 and 16 marks the appearance of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Tick ets are $5 for students and $10 for general admission. The Gewandaus is considered one of the finest orches tras in the world. It is also Germany's oldest, having been founded in 1743 by Johann Sebastian Bach and a group of merchants and noblemen. Over the years it has been conducted by such great men as Mendelssohn and Mahler. The Performing Arts Series will conclude with the ap pearance of the Joffrey II Ballet March 30 through April 1. Tickets are $4 for students and $7 for general admis sion. This is a repeat performance for the Joffrey II, the preparatory company of young professional dancers for the Joffrey. Terminal student columnist sends coded message By Jamie Krutz "Every day I learn more and more about less and less. Soon I'll know ail about nothing." Love II bathroom wall You see them everywhere you turn. They arc huddled in dingy cracks and crevices. They skulk and lurk behind couches and chairs in the far uncharted depths of the union. They he in wretchedness and filth in the most miserable of campus gutters. but seriously Just who are these pitiful creatures? Are they some new type of loathsome disease, some new plague of ver min invading and infesting UNL? They stay around long after they should have left. Often they seem to take on a semi-human appearance. They can be seen dragging old rotting army surplus book bags around, and they mutter to themselves a lot. Most afternoons they can be found alone in the library or in a less than trendy bar weeping and gnashing their teeth. Yes, as has by now become obvious to the astute and percpetive reader, I can only be referring to what doctors call the 'Terrninal Student." By the way, anyone reading this while attempting to contend with a dorm meal should take heed. Deal with only one disgusting topic at a time. Read this later. Or better yet, cat later. The 'Terminal Student' Having gotten that warning in. I feci safe in proceeding. The "Terminal Student" is the pitiful wreck of a bright young mind which has been here too long. Numerous studies indicate undergraduates can only tolerate college for a certain period of time before loss of sanity and even tual senility result. After this point, a horrible death, (or worse yet, an attempt to get into grad schoo. ), follows. The period of "safe" time in college varies with the in dividual. Some students can tolerate only one week before the first signs of mental and physical deterioration can be seen. Others are able to brave through as many as four years with only minor brain damage. The average, (or mean, as Economics TA's like to say), is three years and five months. It can be clearly seen then that the grossest caricatures of former promise, the emptiest shells of previous poten tial, what we scientists call the "basket cases," are those who have been in college for more than four years. I have a particular interest in this subject because, I uh . . . well I've been here ... uh ... for four and a half years, (rant, rave, drool, etc.) Even as I write this, my teeth are gnashing uncontrollably and insane muttering echoes off of the walls around me with frightening reas surance. My only hope is that, through the avenue of this column, I can reach out with occasional, (very occasion al), lapses into sanity, with a message of warning to those wise enough to listen. This then is my only reason for accepting the position of columnist. I unselfishly dedicate myself toward attempting to turn others from the path ol insanity. I am a prophet whose time has come. I am a voice crying from the proverbial wilderness. Ixl not this happen to you. The real reason Anyway, the rag needed another columnist. And as T. Marm says, the extra bucks don't hurt. Actually, the Daily Nebraskan has been crying for a column like this for years. Four and a half years, I ihink. Some say the crying won't stop with the advent of this column. All I can say is I column as I sec 'cm. OK, I can sec nobody is buying this so far. You guys arc too sharp. I should have known the wool can't be pulled over a UNL student's eyes. The truth is, as you've probably figured out by now, this column is a coded message to the guys digging the tunnel. That's right, some of us TS's have gotten together and we've put our rotting army surplus book bags down for good. We're tunneling out of here with an old bent bit of Krugerrand we found in the dirt near the alumni cen ter. The code is simple: every time this column is printed it means the coast is clear; start digging. That much I can tell you. What I won't tell you is that the tunnel begins in the basement stacks of the library My hps are sealed . . . Except when my teeth are gnashing! Next week: a serious look at campus politics.