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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.
