Campus Life

The Wayne State College music department will conclude its Octubafest activities Saturday. All events are in Ramsey Theatre in the Peterson Fine Arts Building. Events include a low brass studio recital at 7:30 tonight and Saturday’s 2 p.m. final concert.

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Maunka Morgan will present the Alumni Lecture for the University of Nebraska at Omaha Native American studies program at 7 p.m. Monday. His topic will be “The Future of Self-Determined Native Nations: A Practitioner’s Perspective.” The lecture will be in Bootstrapper Hall at the Thompson Alumni Center, 67th and Dodge Streets.

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Creighton University will have an international conference titled “Nations Within Nations: Living Dialogues on Governance and Cultures” on Monday from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. It will be in room 3028 of the Mike and Josie Harper Center. Creighton’s Native American studies program will host the conference.

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The UNO Equestrian organization will host an Intercollegiate Horse Show Association event Saturday and Sunday at the Elkhorn Equestrian Center. The shows will begin at 9 a.m. each day. The University of Nebraska at Omaha Equestrian Alumni group will host a Halloween social immediately after the show; apple cider, hot chocolate, candy and games will be provided. The Elkhorn Equestrian Center is at 20901 Bennington Road.

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“Little Nooks from Great Books,” the traveling exhibit of the Kruger Collection of Miniature Furnishings and Decorative Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will be on display at UNL’s Love Library, 13th and R Streets, from Saturday through Dec. 17. The exhibit features scenes from “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “Little Women,” “Little House on the Prairie,” “Peter Pan and Wendy,” “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and “Felicity Learns a Lesson: A School Story.” The exhibit is free and open to the public.

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Author and breast cancer survivor Sandi Wisenberg will give a talk and a reading from her memoir “The Adventures of Cancer Bitch” on Tuesday at Creighton University. Her talk will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Union Pacific Room of Reinert Library. At 7:30 that night, also in the U.P. Room, she will read from her memoir. The events are free and open to the public.

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The All-College Open House, an opportunity for the public to get a glimpse of what’s going on at Southeast Community College, will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at each of the three campuses: Beatrice, Lincoln and Milford.

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Longtime Kearney, Neb., residents Margaret and Henry Hohnholt have donated a collection of shells and other sea life they gathered over their lifetimes to the University of Nebraska at Kearney biology department. The collection numbers over 1,000 individual specimens of shells, corals, sea fans, sea urchins, sea stars and related organisms.

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The Mid-Plains Center for Enterprise recently announced a new collaboration with Union Pacific Railroad. Testing for certain U.P. pre-employment functions, under the auspices of Prometric testing company, has been launched at the North Platte Community College’s North Campus. — Compiled by Sue Story Truax