SHSU
Update For Week Of Feb. 24
Community To Commemorate Namesake’s
Birthday
The Huntsville and SHSU communities will celebrate Gen.
Sam Houston’s 215th birthday with a weekend of festivities
beginning Saturday (March 1).
The Sam Houston Memorial Museum will host a reception that
day featuring food, music and programs about the general from
3-5:30 p.m. at the Katy and E. Don Walker, Sr., Education
Center.
During the public event, the Huntsville community will get
a first glimpse at Denton Florian’s not-yet-finished
documentary on the life of Gen. Sam Houston, can hear the
Huntsville Children’s Choir perform and hear a shorter
version of the museum’s Gone To Texas Program, in which
Una Grace Nash portrays Sam Houston’s wife, Margaret,
according to museum director Pat Nolan.
The museum will continue the celebration on Sunday (March
2), the general’s birthday—also designated as
Texas Independence Day, Texas Flag Day and Walker County Pioneer
Day—during a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. at the Walker Education
Center.
At 1:30 p.m., the SHSU history department and the Walter P.
Webb Historical Society will continue its traditional “March
to the Grave,” beginning at Austin Hall.
Author, columnist, publisher and Texas historian Bob Bowman
will speak at the ceremony, held at Oakwood Cemetery at 2
p.m.
Finally, the day will end with a toast to Texas and birthday
cake at the Wynne Home Arts Center, at 1428 11th St., immediately
following the ceremony.
The cost for Sunday’s luncheon is $15. All other events
are free and open to the public.
Sunday’s festivities are also sponsored by with the
Walker County Historical Commission, the Sam Houston Statue
and Visitors Center and the Wynne Home Arts Center.
On Monday (March 3), SHSU's Program Council will continue
the celebration with hot dogs and birthday cake from 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center Mall Area.
Sammy the Bearkat is also scheduled to join the party, as
well as Sam Houston's great grandson, who will take pictures
with attendees.
The Walker Education Center is located at 1402 19th St., and
the Oakwood Cemetery is located at Sam Houston Memorial Drive
(Avenue I) and 9th Street. In the event of rain, Sunday’s
memorial ceremony will be held at Mance Park Middle School.
For more information, call the Sam
Houston Memorial Museum at 936.294.1832 or the
Program
Council at 936.294.1763.
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Event To Encourage Walking
‘Across Texas’
The SHSU community and people around the state will begin
its annual “Walk Across Texas” on Thursday (Feb.
28).
The statewide physical fitness program will kick-off with
a 5 p.m. registration and ceremony, followed by a 5:30 p.m.
walk at Intramural Field No. 1.
Through the program, individuals or teams of eight will log
the miles they walk from March 2 to April 26 with the goal
of reaching 830 miles, the equivalent of walking across Texas.
This activity has no cost, but “you need the desire
to meet new friends and walk for good health,” according
to Kathy Turner, Walker County Extension agent for the Texas
Cooperative Extension, which cosponsors the event with SHSU.
“Last year we had weekly walks in the Huntsville area
and plan on doing the same this year,” she said.
The first 300 participants registered will receive pedometers
to track their progress during the eight-week activity that
helps promote regular exercise.
Once a team is formed, captains will be updated through e-mails
and individual contacts.
Captains can register a team by contacting Turner at 936.435.2429
or e-mailing k-turner@tamu.edu.
Participants can also register during the day of the kick
off, though they are preferred before Feb. 28, according to
Turner.
“Walk Across Texas” is open for anyone to participate.
For more information, or a registration form, visit http://walkacrosstexas.tamu.edu.
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UTA Dean To Study Conjectures
For Piney Woods
Minerva Cordero-Epperson, associate dean of the honors college
at the University of Texas at Arlington, will look at several
problems and long-standing conjectures and how they have been
solved by using several areas of mathematics on Wednesday
(Feb. 27).
“Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computers: Connections
and Interplay,” the second spring Piney Woods Lecture
Series presentation, will be held from 2-3 p.m. in the Lee
Drain Building Room 214.
A Puerto Rico native whose mother only completed the seventh
grade, Cordero took her own initiative to purchase an SAT
review book while in high school.
Her SAT score has remained the highest ever achieved at her
high school, Miguel Melendez Munoz High School, in Cayey.
Cordero attended graduate school at the University of Puerto
Rico and was awarded a National Science Foundation Minority
Graduate Fellowship, which allowed her to attend the University
of California at Berkeley, from which she received her master’s
degree in mathematics in 1983.
She continued her graduate studies at the University of Iowa,
receiving her doctorate in 1989, and has been a faculty member
at UTA since 2001.
In 2007, she was recognized by the Texas Section of the Mathematical
Association of America for “Distinguished University
Teaching.”
Following her lecture, a reception will be held on the fourth
floor of the LDB that will give students the opportunity to
meet and talk with Cordero.
The Piney Woods Lecture Series is funded by the Mathematical
Association of America, the Tensor Foundation, the SHSU mathematics
and statistics department, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
The series is designed to “invite well-known female
mathematicians to the SHSU campus to speak, and therefore
provides SHSU graduate and undergraduate students exposure
to well-known female mathematicians in a variety of research
areas,” according to Jacqueline Jensen, assistant professor
of mathematics.
For more information, call the mathematics
and statistics department at 936.294.1563 or
visit http://www.shsu.edu/~mth_jaj/pwls/.
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Event To Create Mayhem
At HKC
Mayhem will ensue at the Health and Kinesiology Center on
Wednesday (Feb. 27) when the Department of Recreational Sports
gives students a night of food, games and prizes.
Midnight Mayhem will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight.
“The purpose of the event is for students to come and
enjoy a fun night, meet other students on campus and relieve
stress, without alcohol,” said Tina DeAses, Rec. Sports’
senior assistant director for marketing, promotions and special
events.
The gladiator-themed event will include a costume contest,
gladiator obstacle course and a joust inflatable, as well
as dodge ball.
Rec. Sports will also give away T-shirts, a TV, iPod and a
half-court shot at the end of the evening worth $500.
In addition, there will be food and raffle drawings.
For more Information, call DeAses
at 936.294. 3658.
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ADAI To Help Students ‘Write’
Their Passages
The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Initiative will ask students to
share their “rites of passages” visually on Wednesday
(Feb. 27).
"wRite of Passage," a “community art project,”
will be held from 2-3 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center Room
304.
During the event, students will be asked to share their stories
about the major events in their lives traditionally considered
to be "rites of passage.”
“There are many rites of passage or transitions during
the journey between childhood and adulthood,” said Kim
Baechtel, ADAI steering committee member, including puberty,
driving, a first date, losing one’s virginity, graduation
and marriage. “Although these events can be positive
and joyful experiences, they may also be painful, negatively
affecting the person's self-image. If alcohol and/or drugs
were involved, the adverse effects can be even greater.
“Because human beings ‘construct’ their
sense of self out of emotions, experiences, thoughts, and
beliefs, ‘rite of passage’ events can have a dramatic
affect on a person's self-concept,” she said.
Expressing these feelings and experiences on paper during
“wRite of Passage” will allow students to create
a sense of detachment that will enable them to reflect and
find new insight, Baechtel said.
“The art project is effective because it is often easier
to express something personal in a non-verbal way,”
she said.
“wRite of Passage” is part of the Six Weeks of
Alcohol Awareness Training program, an educational series
aiming to increase awareness of alcohol abuse issues among
the Bearkat community.
Through SWAAT, students earn prizes by attending events, which
accumulate as students attend more programs.
For more information, or a complete schedule of events for
the semester, visit the ADAI Web site at www.shsu.edu/adai
or contact Rosanne
Keathley, ADAI coordinator, at 936.294.1171.
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Class To Host Fashion
Show For Charity
SHSU family and consumer sciences students will give back
to the community while showing off the latest spring fashion
trends during a charity show on Saturday (March 1).
The annual fundraiser, benefiting Habitat for Humanity, will
be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Town Theatre, located at 1023
12th St., just off the square downtown.
Produced by FCS lecturer Harriet Griggs’ “Fashion
Promotion” class and guided by Habitat for Humanity’s
fundraising committee, Huntsville community members will model
clothes provided by local businesses.
Tickets can be purchased for $20 at Audies, Baskin’s
Department Store, Cavender’s Boot City, Comet Cleaners,
Curves for Women, Fabric Carousel, The Facemaker, J.C. Penney,
Kaldi’s, McNease Drugs, Style In and Walker County Hardware.
For more information, call Griggs at 936.294.4512.
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Program To Honor ‘Outstanding’
Underclassmen
“Academically-talented” underclassmen who would
like to learn about what SHSU can offer them through scholarships
and organizational activities can do so during the Elliott
T. Bowers Honors Program’s “Reception for Outstanding
Freshmen and Sophomore students” on Wednesday (February
27).
The event will be held from from 1-3 p.m. at Austin Hall.
The honors program student ambassadors, the honors council
and faculty advisers will be on hand to provide information
about honors education, academic scholarships, study abroad
programs and such academic organizations as Alpha Lambda Delta,
Phi Theta Kappa, Golden Key, Orange Keys, Alpha Chi and the
McNair Scholarship Program.
“Academically-talented” students include those
with a 3.4 cumulative grade point average or better within
all majors.
Refreshments will be served at the event, which can also serve
as a networking opportunity for “meeting other outstanding
undergrads,” according to honors program staff member
Maria Holmes.
To RSVP, or for more information, contact Holmes at 936.294.1477
or maholmes@shsu.edu
or visit the Honors
Program Office in Academic Building IV Room 105
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
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Disney To Recruit Monday,
Tuesday
If your ideal internship includes spending some time with
Mickey, Minnie and Pluto, the Career Services Office can help
make it a reality.
The Disney College Program will be on campus recruiting students
from a variety of academic backgrounds to work at Disney World
in Orlando during the fall semester on Monday and Tuesday
(Feb. 25-26).
Monday's session will be held at 5 p.m. in Smith-Hutson Building
Room 134, and Tuesday's session will be held at 2 p.m. in
Lowman Student Center Room 302.
Interns can work “onstage,” performing such tasks
as vacation planning, working the rides or theatre shows,
guest monitoring, performing in characters, food service,
hospitality, merchandise sales or even life guarding. “Backstage”
roles include costuming or working in the kitchen.
During the program, Disney will also provide interested students
information on housing, the educational opportunities that
accompany the internship, the application process and other
benefits of the internships, according to the Disney College
Program Web site.
Internships with the Walt Disney World Resort are paid, according
to Nicola Rowell, Disney recruiter.
“This is a great opportunity to be part of the Disney
magic and start building a strong résumé,”
she said.
A complete overview of the Disney College Program is available
online at
http://www.wdwcollegeprogram.com/sap/its/mimes/zh_wdwcp/index.html.
For more information on the presentation, call Career
Services at 936.294.1713.
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Music To Present Trio Of Concerts
The School of Music will spread some post-Valentine’s
Day romance and give patrons triple the listening pleasure
with three concerts beginning Monday (Feb. 25).
“Doubles,” an evening of chamber music for two
clarinets and piano, will be held at 7:30 p.m. that day in
the Recital Hall.
The duo clarinet concert will feature SHSU clarinet professor
Patricia Card, Stephen F. Austin State clarinet professor
Chris Ayer and Baylor University piano professor Kae Hosoda-Ayer
playing works by Mendelssohn, Brahms, McCabe and a fairly
new work by Gary Schocker, according to Card.
“The music is great, and we have all thoroughly enjoyed
our collaboration on this project,” she said.
The recital is free and open to the public.
Ayer also will give a clarinet masterclass at 2 p.m. on Monday
in Music Building Room 328, during which students will play
and receive comments from Ayer.
On Tuesday (Feb. 26), associate director of bands Alfredo
Vélez will conduct the SHSU Symphonic Band in a concert
featuring the works of such famous musicians as John Philip
Sousa, Darius Milhaud and Samuel Hazo.
The performance, featuring trumpet soloist and graduating
senior Edgar Jaime, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Criminal
Justice Center’s Killinger Auditorium.
The concert is free.
Finally, the SHSU Symphony Orchestra will present an evening
of “Favorite Romantic Symphonic Works” on Saturday
(March 1).
The concert, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the University
Heights Baptist Church, will feature cellist Marilyn Tovy,
a student of cello professor Daniel Saenz.
The program will include Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Overture
to Prometheus, Opus 43” and Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky’s
“Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Opus 64.”
Admission is $10 for adults and non-SHSU students seven years
of age and older and $5 for SHSU students and senior citizens
with an ID.
For more information, call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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‘Stars’ Rise
For Professor, Alumnae
Two criminal justice alumnae, one of whom is also a professor
at SHSU, were listed among the “Twenty Academic Stars”
singled out in a research paper published in the “Journal
of Criminal Justice Education.”
Criminal justice associate dean and associate professor Janet
L. Mullings and Leanne F. Alarid, a 1996 graduate who now
teaches at the University of Texas at San Antonio, were both
selected as “stars” out of a pool of “88
female scholars who graduated between 1996 and 2006 from 18
North American doctoral programs in criminology and criminal
justice,” according to the paper.
Mullings is also a 1996 SHSU graduate.
“Academic Stars” were selected based on “article
placement in the 22 academic and nine elite journals based
on the Carnegie Classification of the scholars’ respective
employers.”
The study, “Research Trajectories of Female Scholars
in Criminology and Criminal Justice,” is found in the
journal’s November 2007 edition.
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Jennifer Gauntt
Feb. 22, 2008
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