Thursday, October 3, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
Page 9
Joslyn's College Night offers
arts to students and faculty
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By Laura Hansen
Staff Reporter
A free evening of art, music,
films, food and fun is in store for
students, faculty and staff of area
colleges and universities at Joslyn
Art Museum's seventh annual College
Night event.
Joslyn's Ann Elomani said that
College Night is sponsored by the
Joslyn's Women's Association.
Colleges all over the Midwest,
including Nebraska, Kansas, Mis
souri, Iowa and South Dakota are
invited to attend.
Scheduled from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Friday, Elomani said College Night
gives students in the arts and
humanities a chance to meet people
with the same interests from all
over the midwest. She said turnouts
average more than 400 students.
Elomani also said the event gives
students a chance to visit the state's
largest art museum and to get an
idea about Joslyn's programs and
services free of charge with student
ID's.
College night, inspired by the
professional staff of Joslvn and tho
Joslyn Women's Association, strives
to get youth to Joslyn, Elomani said.
College Night will also give
students a chance to see two
temporary collections on exhibit
now at Joslyn.
Elomani said that "Art for Hire"
is the work of a variety of artists
commissioned to paint the frontier.
She said this exhibit includes the
works of 50 artists, including
Remington, Russell, Eastman, and
more.
The second temporary exhibition
is titled "Peace and Friendship." It
is a collection of Indian peace
medals, Elomani said. She said these
are medals given to the Indians by
the United States Government in
exchange for peace, and include
medals given by presidents Wash
ington through Harrison.
In addition to their temporary
collections Joslyn has 4,000 years
worth of history in their permanent
collection, Elomani said. She said
some of the highlights of the
permanent collection are the Western
American Art, their 19th century
European Art, and a newly installed
ureek vase collection.
In addition to all of Joslyn's
regular entertainment there will be
prizes, music, and film at College
Night.
Elomani said door prizes will
include free Joslyn memberships,
Bagels and Bach tickets, and gift
certificates.
There will also be music provided
by the Omaha folkrock duo of Earl
Bates and Michele Phillips. The two
play songs by Dan Fogelberg, Paul
Simon, Crosby, Stills and Nash, and
others. Elomani says music has
been a tradition at Joslyn College
Night.
Joslyn will also show the movie
"Spinal Tap," directed by Archie
Bunker's "Meathead," Rob Reiner.
"Spinal Tap" is a cult movie praised
as a satire on the rock music scene
in general, and rock concert docu
mentaries in particular.
College Night will also provide
mexican munchies and assorted
beverages for snacking.
For more information call 342
3300 and ask for Judi Rosenblatt.
College fiction-writing contest gives
chance to be published in Playboy
Gifted college writers have a chance
to gain national recognition in to Play
boy magazine.
Playboy is holding it's first college
fiction contest. First prize is $3,000 and
publication of the winning story in
Playboy. Second prize is $500 and a
one-year subscription to Playboy.
Elizabeth Norris of Playboy public
relations said Playboy believes that
there is a lot of writing talent in the
nation's colleges waiting to be dis
covered. The contest rules call for a typed,
double-spaced manuscript of 25 pages
or less. Entries will be judged by the
editors of Playboy. All stories submit
ted become the property of Playboy
Enterprises. The deadline for entries is
January 1, 1986.
All entires should be addressed:
Playboy College Fiction Contest; 919 N.
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111. 60611.
Contest rules and details are also
posted in Andrews Hall on the contest
bulletin board. Rules are also pub
lished in the October issue of Playboy.
Film characters closely resemble
real-life James Dean, student says
DEAN from Page 7
Bryson Watson, 19, has also watched
each of Dean's other feature films more
than seven times.
Watson has a collection of about 35
James Dean posters, more than 70
postcards, 10 books, a ceramic mask,
pens, a jacket and an album Her
license plate reads "Rebel."
She prefers Dean over all of his
modern counterparts, she said.
"He (Dean) didn't have the 'macho'
image that modern idols do," she said.
"He was tough on the outside but on
the inside he had more compassion
than he knew what to do with."
Watson's fascination for Dean began
three years ago when she was casually
glancing through a movie star book and
came across his picture. She knew then
she had to find out more about him, she
said.
The more she found out, the more
she had to know, Watson said.
Another Dean fan, Jean Taylor, first
saw Dean on a movie poster when she
was working at a gift store five years
ago. Taylor, a 20-year-old advertising
student at UNL, was similarly fascinated
by Dean's face. Her curiosity led her to
look up an old issue of her South
Dakota hometown newspaper to find
an account of Dean's death. Later, she
began collecting anything and every
thing she could get her hands on about
the actor, she said.
"I tried to figure out what he was
like and what his impact was on the
movie business," Taylor said.
Part of her fascination stemmed
from the tragic quality of Dean's life
(his mother died when he was 8 years
old) and his violent and early death,
Taylor said.
Dean died when he was 24 years old.
"He was someone who was no longer
touchable and that made him kind of
like gold," Taylor said.
Another Dean fan, Val Didrichsons,
became interested in the actor after he
saw "Rebel" and "East of Eden" in a
Chicago film festival five years ago.
Didrichsons said he admired Dean's
reckless character and his courage.
"He was what everybody wants to be
but can't be in real life," Didrichsons
said.
After Didrichsons saw Dean's film, '
he also developed an interest in Dean's
off-screen life. After reading several
biographies, Didrichsons said he found
that Dean closely resembled his
rebellious but moralistic film charac
ters. Dean himself once described his life
as "a walk on a tightrope."
"If the rope's hard, its got to be
leading somewhere," said Dean, accord
ing to a 1975 biography by John Howlett.
Didrichsons identified with Dean's
Midwestern up-bringing (Dean was born
in Indiana) and admired his reckless
ness, he said.
Two other Dean fans said that they
were introduced to the actor through
friends and fashion.
Kelly Hinkley, a 21-year-old student
at Southeast Community College, has
five James Dean posters. She received
the first one as a gift. She bought the
others to decorate her apartment, not
because she was fascinated with Dean,
Hinkley said.
Although she had seen "Rebel,"
Hinkley said she knew very little about
the actor, besides what he looked like.
"It's mainly just something to
collect," Hinkley said.
Sarah Irwin, a 20-year-old UNL
student, became a Dean fan her senior
year in high school because it was a
"new wave thing to do," she said.
Irwin, who's originally from California,
collected Dean memorabilia including
posters, postcards and a T-shirt two
years before she saw one of his movies.
However, Irwin said, she liked Dean
even more after seeing "Rebel Without
A Cause," last summer.
"He's incredibly good-looking, he
always does what he wants, and he's
very cool," she said.
Although each Dean fan seems to
have different reasons for admiring
Dean, a healthy James Dean following
survives 25 years after Dean died.
Part of the Dean appeal can be
traced to his early death, a UNL anthro
pologist said.
"He's got a romantic image that's
not subject to the aging process," said
Elizabeth Grobsmith, an associate
professor of anthropology.
Dean would probably be pleased
with his survival.
"If a man can bridge the gap between
life and death, I mean, if he can live on
after he's died, then maybe he was a
great man," Dean once said, according
to the Howlett biography.
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The NU Concert Band and the UNL
Symphony begin their performance year
at Kimball Hall tonight at 8 p.m.
The 58-member concert band is com
prised mostly of underclassmen who
auditioned with prepared solos and
sight reading during the first three
days of class.
They will open the evening's perfor
mance, which features "3rd Suite" by
Jager and a John Krantz's transcription
of George Gershwin's "American in
Paris." The concert band is conducted
by William Ballenger.
An intermission will allow time for
Seminars offered
Author and professor Dr. Richard L.
Austin will lead "The Book Publishing
Seminar" for authors of professional or
reference books. The seminar will be
held at various locations across the
United States including Lincoln on
Oct. 9, Omaha on Oct. 16, Dos Moines
on Nov. 7 and Kearney on Nov. 21. The
seminars are sponsored by the UNL
Department of Conferences and Institutes.
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the university's top concert group, the
84-piece UNL Symphony, to set up.
Membership in this organization also
was by open audition at the beginning
of the semester.
Last spring, according to Rose John
son, adminstrative assistant in the UNL
Band office, the symphony was invited
to perform in Boulder, Colo., before the
American Bandmaster's Association, an
honor bestowed by special invitation
only.
The Symphony also toured western
Nebraska and eastern Colorado.
The symphony will perform "Four
Scottish Dances" by Malcolm Arnold,
an overture by Mendelssohn and a
movement from Puccini's opera "Manon
Lescaut" under the direction of Robert
Fought.
Both the symphony and the concert
band also will perform Sousa marches.
According to Johnson, the bands will
play next in November and currently
arc planning a tour of Kansas and Iowa
for some time in March or April.
The performance is free of charge
and everyone is welcome, she said.
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