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Arts & Entertainment Melissa McReynokte/Daily Nebraskan The Harvest Room Students, staff use Harvest Room for various activities during day Editor’s Note: The Daily Ne askan Arts and Entertainment iff has designated this week fiion dining Week. We will take u on a mouth-watering voyage rough the various eating estab hments in the Nebraska and ist unions. I' Mark Lage ff Reporter The Harvest Room Cafeteria is c a little ocean shore in one mer of the student union world a school day. Waves of eating d studying students pour in and t at regular intervals; some wash Eing out there all day. larvest Room day begins m., sparsely populated by ployees and only the ear student birds. The light side the bank of windows the north wall is still in ss of taking over from the inside light, provided by large chandeliers of the wagon-wheel baroque tradition. The best thing you can say about the cafeteria’s decor is that it is easily ignored. The colors are brown, drab green, drab orange and drab tan. I never realized there was such a thing as drab tan until I saw the Harvest Room. For some reason it always reminds me of a mid-1970s fabric store. The only thing missing is piped-in AM radio featuring The Carpenters and Melissa Manchester. Besides the above mentioned chandeliers, the ceiling is littered with vents, speakers, small round recessed lights and mysterious looking trap doors. It is randomly stained from years of cigarette smoke and dust Which brings us to one of the best features of the Harvest Room: since the clampdown in the Crib, it is the only place in the union where you can sit at a table, smoke, and not have to look at a television. The population makes modest and steady gains throughout the morning, until the first serious wave arrives at lunchtime — high tide. The lunch menu is fairly varied and occasionally dangerous -- if you stick with the basics like roast beef, grilled cheese or the entree of the day, you’ll be fairly safe. The food is reliable. If you eat from the Mexican line, you proba bly won’t feel too well by the early afternoon. If you go through the newly expanded salad bar, you’ll be in good shape. The fruit sitting in the little wicker basket leaves a lot to be desired. It tastes like furniture pol ish. Shortly after noon the crowd hits its peak, and it is usually diffi cult to find tables. They are filled with eating professors, students, eating employees and a few tables full of regulars who have been there all day and don’t even think of the Harvest Room as a place to eat. The silence of the early morn ing has been replaced by a loud steady hum of jabbering conversa tion and whining. A lot of whining takes place in the Harvest Room. See DINING on 10 ‘Through the Lens’ exhibit displayed at Richards Hall By Jeff Engel Staff Reporter A national photograph exhibition entitled “Through the Lens” is on display through Nov. 21 at the Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Gal lery of the" Department of Art and Art History in Richards Hall. o pt al [PREVIEW I From 300 submitted entries, 50 original photos were chosen by Keith F. Davis, curator of Fine Art Collec tions for Hallmark Cards, Inc. Of the 50, a number of works on display received honorable mention or nur chase prize awards. A number of Lincoln and Nebraska artists are rep resented in the show. David Read, UNL professor of art, was present at the judging and said Davis made an eflort to select a faith ful cross-section of photos represen tative of modem concerns and direc tions in photography. Davis has come up with as good a condensation of the total submis sions as is possible as far as the sub jective process is concerned,” Read said. The exhibit, which is composed of both color and black-and-white pho tograph's, presents a diverse range of ideas and techniques. Susan Moss, director of the Richards Hall gallery, said that sub mission requirements allowed for any photographic process to be used as tong as the works presented were original prints. Most of the photos are straightfor ward; the artist’s ideas expressed in a composition produced through con ventional or traditional means. But the exhibit also includes its share of technical experiments. A photogram and a three-dimensional work arc examples in which the way the print was made plays a non-traditional role in the artist’s concept. Moss also said the prints had to have been made within the past two or three years. The exhibit gives a sense of the contrast inherent in .the photographic medium between an interest in simple and sophisticated expression, as well as relations between artist and subject and the role luck plays in the more spontaneous works. Read said that luck is an interest ing thing to consider when it exists as an element in a photographic work of art. “Sometimes when people say ‘luck’ they make it sound like they’re lessening the role of the photogra pher, but that’s not true at all,’* Read said. The spontaneity of many ot the works on display present the artist’s study of the possibilities involved in luck, he said. “The artist intelligently courts luck with ideas about what could happen. One of the things I find excit ing is that he knows he can’t predict what is going to happen so when the film is processed the artist has got some surprises coming,” Read said. The best artist would find it diffi cult if not impossible to duplicate this quality of spontaneity in the studio, he said. “Any work of art is about some thing, but it’s also about how the artist changes that thing or experi ence .or place when he tries to de scribe it,’’ Read said. > “This is true both in the most straightforward photograph and a more manipulated photo,” he said. Read will give a talk about the exhibit 3 p.m. Thursday at the Gal lery. The exhibit is open to the public free of charge. Gallery hours are from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday. UNL site of roving show By Julie Naughton Staff Reporter If you have ever wished your opin ions could make you rich and/or famous, hang around the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City Campus today. You could end up being filmed for a national col leg iale game show, a campus spokesperson announced this week. Roving cameramen will film UNL students’ candid responses for Cam pus Camera, a game show targeted at college students across America, announced Denise Campbell, Uni versity Programs Council Spetial Events chairperson. Students will be quizzed today on dating and campus life. TTie responses will be used in the actual game show, to take place Thursday. Campus Camera travels to various college campuses in the United Slates. According to Campbell, the show is a cross between “Family Feud” and “The Love Connection.’’ The main pari of the show will take place Thursday evening. As stu dents enter the game show, they will receive a ticket, and six tickets will be chosen randomly to select the two teams that will compete. These six people then will try to guess the re sponses of previously filmed students for monetary prizes, Campbell said. Individual team members will receive $25 for each correct response and $75 for each correct response in the bonus round. The event will be at 7 p.m. Thurs day in the Centennial Room of the Nebraska Union.lt will be hosted by General Foods International Coffees and sponsored by the UPC Special Events Committee, and is free and open to the public. Simelv opera depicts problems getting visas etches Boehr Reporter.___ -ie Consul,” a three-act opera people illegally fleeing their y, will be performed at the rsity of Nebraska-Lincoln 6,18 and 19. UNL Opera Theatre, under rection of music instructor Bartholomew, will present the tporary tragedy by Gian-Carlo ti at Kimball Recital Hall, rk Vanderbeek, promotions nator for the School of Music at UNL, said “The Consul” focuses on a wife’s difficulty in obtaining a visa to join her husband in another country. “It shows how the difficulty in getting a visa drives a family over the brink,” he said. In the opera John Sorel flees an unnamed country to save his life and the lives of his friends. He leaves behind his baby, his mother and his wife, Magda, who try to obtain visas to join Sorel but are rejected. The opera focuses on their plight at the consul office as time passes and the family still docs not get visas. The opera ends tragically with the suicide of Magda Sorel. • . “The Consul” is timely because of the recent accounts of people flee ing East Germany, Vanderbeck said. “Every day in the news you hear of people leaving their countries or waiting at embassies to get visas,” Vanderbeek said. “Though none of the countries are named,” he said, “the viewer gets the impression the country Sorel is fleeing is an Eastern European country.” But the opera doesn’t take sides for or against the East or West, Van dcrbeek said. He said “The Consul,” written in the 1940s, is a product of the Cold War and premiered at the Shubcrt Theatre in Philadelphia on March 1, 1950. Vandcrbeek said the music is very dramatic and very lyrical. Menotti is a successor to the style used by Puc cini, who wrote “Madame Butter fly,” he said. The music is scored for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, two trum pets, two horns, trombone, percus sion, harp, piano and strings. Vanderbcek said “The Consul” uses stark scenery to depict the coun try’s grim lifestyle. According to Vanderbeek, Menotti’s story lines are intriguing and always interesting. In some operas by other writers the plot is an excuse for the singing, he said, but in Menolti’s work the sing ing and story line blend quite well. Menoui came to America from Italy as a young boy, and, Vander beek said, many of the characters in his operas arc representative of people Menotti met in his life. Menotti’s other operas include “The Telephone” and “Maahl and the Night Visitors.” A pre-performance talk will be given 30 minutes before curtain time to answer questions about the opera. The location and professor giving the talk will be determined later. The Nov. 16 and 18 performances will be at 8 p.m., and the Nov. 19 performance will be at 3 p.m. •