SHSU
Update For Week Of March 2
Fellows To Guide
Immigrants To Citizenship
SHSU’s Political Science Junior Fellows and the Huntsville
Public Library will help bring immigrants “A Step Closer
to the American Dream” with a free citizenship training
program beginning March 19.
The five-week program, designed to guide United States’
immigrants along the path of citizenship, will be held through
April 16 and will covers topics such as eligibility, paperwork,
tests and interviews.
“The curriculum is a quick and easy guide to U.S. government
and history,” said fellows adviser Mike Yawn. We want
to make this as user-friendly as possible.”
Presentations will be made by Yawn and Richard Lane, the Huntsville
Public Library’s Literacy Director, and the Political
Science Junior Fellows will lead guided activities and breakout
sessions in each class.
“This is a great opportunity to provide immigrants with
the preparation necessary to become a United States citizen,”
Lane said.
The program is designed for immigrants with an intermediate
or advanced knowledge of the English language.
“As an immigrant, I feel particularly obligated to facilitate
the citizenship process,” said junior fellow Tania Hernandez.
“This country has offered me many opportunities, and
I would like others to have the same opportunities I have
had.”
Space is limited and the deadline to sign up is March 12.
For more information, or to sign up, contact Yawn at 936.294.1456
or at mike.yawn@shsu.edu.
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Center To Screen Students
For Eating Disorders
National statistics show that approximately .5 to 1 percent
of females in late adolescence to early adulthood have full
criteria for anorexia nervosa and approximately 1-3 percent
of females in this age group have full criteria for bulimia
nervosa.
“There are certainly many others who will have some
of the characteristics of an eating disorder without meeting
full criteria,” said Bill Metcalfe, director for SHSU’s
Counseling Center. “There are also smaller numbers of
males that have eating disorders.”
Because more than 90 percent of those who have eating disorders
are women between the ages of 12 and 25, according to a 2003
report by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the
Counseling Center is offering free eating disorder screenings
Tuesday through Thursday (March 4-6).
Part of National Eating Disorder Screening Day, the 5-10 minute
screenings will be held from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1-3 p.m.
each day at the Counseling Center, in the Lee Drain Building’s
North Annex.
During the past year, the Counseling Center has seen approximately
30 students who have indicated that an eating disorder was
one of their areas of concern, according to Metcalfe.
“We are not always able to work with these students
because of the often specialized nature of treatment for this
disorder, in some cases requiring residential or intensive
outpatient treatment, but we can try to refer those students
to the appropriate treatment venue,” he said.
As many as 20 percent of those with an eating disorder die,
giving the disease the highest mortality rate of any mental
illness, according to the Eating Disorder Coalition.
Students who know someone who may be afflicted with an eating
disorder are also encouraged to visit the Counseling
Center on those days.
For more information, call 936.294.1720.
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Team To Unveil Three Potential
Campus Plans
JJR, of Ann Arbor, Mich., SHSU’s campus planning team,
will present three alternatives for the university’s
2010 Master Plan for public consideration on Wednesday (March
5).
The meeting will be held from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Lowman Student
Center Theater.
In addition to the 45-minute presentation on the progress
of SHSU’s Master Plan, which will include three potential
concepts for how the campus could be developed in the future,
the open forum will include 45 minutes of interactive dialogue,
during which participants will be asked to give feedback and
vote on alternative aspects.
The input received will aid the consultant team in identifying
a preferred direction for the next steps of the master planning
process.
For more information, call 936.294.1912 or e-mail masterplan@shsu.edu.
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Theatre Prof
To Discuss ‘Real’ Shakespeare
SHSU theatre professor and Kennedy Center award-winning playwright
Ron Song Destro will offer a free visual presentation entitled
"Who Was the Real William Shakespeare?" on Wednesday
(March 5).
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The talk, based upon a series of lectures Destro has given
at such places as Harvard University and Chautauqua Institution,
will be held at 5 p.m. in Newton Gresham Library in Room 155.
Siding with many of the world's greatest authors, including
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James and Mark Twain,
Destro sets out to disprove the traditional theory that the
plays and poems attributed to William Shakespeare came from
the pen of the humble man from Stratford-upon-Avon.
Instead, he proposes a different author, one who used the
name "Will Shake Spear" as a clever pseudonym.
In addition to well-known writers, proponents of this theory
include world-renowned theatre people such as Orson Welles,
Leslie Howard, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi and Michael York,
as well as three U. S. Supreme Court Justices.
Destro received the Kennedy Center New American Play Award
for his New York-produced play Hiroshima, a collaboration
with Yoko Ono.
He studied Shakespeare in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic
Art Marymount Programme and is the founding director of the
Oxford Shake-speare Company in New York and the Lone Star
Shake-speare Festival in Texas.
Destro’s presentation will last for an hour, followed
by questions and comments from the audience.
The presentation is free and open to the public, and refreshments
will be served.
For more information, call the Newton
Gresham Library at 936.294.1613 or Destro
at 936.294.1338.
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Economics Professor To Expose
Lame Ducks
Per Fredriksson, tenured associate professor of economics
at the University of Louisville, will discuss “Lame
Duck Governors and Vertical Tax Externalities” on Wednesday
(March 5).
The lecture, part of the Economics Spring 2008 Seminar Series,
will be held from 3:30-5 p.m. in Smith-Hutson Building Room
139.
Fredriksson has “very impressive credentials,”
having taught at the University of Adelaide in Australia and
at Southern Methodist University and worked as a consultant/economist
at the World Bank, according to Hiranya Nath, associate professor
in SHSU’s economics and international business department.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Stockholm School
of Economics in Sweden and his doctorate from the University
of Pennsylvania.
For more information, call Nath
or the economics
and international business department at 936.294.1265.
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Presentation
To Show ‘Dirty,’ ‘Pretty’ Sides Of
Immigration
The American Democracy Project will give a “thrilling”
and realistic look at the lives of illegal immigrants during
its next “Burning Issue” film, “Dirty Pretty
Things,” on Saturday (March 8).
The Academy Award-nominated thriller will be shown at 7 p.m.
at the Katy and E. Don Walker, Sr., Education Center.
“Dirty Pretty Things” tells the story of Okwe,
an African-in-exile, who drives a cab during the day and works
as a desk clerk in a good hotel at night in London.
In four or five frantic days, he tries to save another illegal
immigrant, Senay, from the clutches of the cheerfully sinister
manager of the hotel in which they both work during which
time they are offered forged passports in return for a kidney
or some other organ that can be sold on the black market.
“However harried, Okwe, a great chess player, has to
see every move in advance as he defends himself and his friends
from the treachery on all sides,” said David Denby in
a review on Amazon.com.
Not a “violent thriller,” “Dirty Pretty
Things” is rated “R” for sexual content,
disturbing images and language.
The movie will also be shown at 3:30 p.m. on March 11-12 in
the Lowman Student Center Theater.
All three "Burning Issues Film" series showings
are free and open to both the SHSU and Huntsville communities.
Each showing will be followed by a brief reception with punch
and cookies, and a discussion, which will vary depending upon
the subject matter of the film and the guest discussants.
"The purpose of the 'ADP Burning Issues Film series'
is to contribute to the academic and cultural life here at
SHSU by bringing in films that address or relate to critical
issues facing the world today," said John Newbold, ADP
film series coordinator.
Among its accolades, “Dirty Pretty Things” was
nominated for an Oscar in 2004 in the “Best Writing
(Original Screenplay)” category.
For more information, contact Newbold
at 936.294.1274.
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Tour To Explore ‘Winter
Sky’ Through ‘Hubble Vision’
The physics department will give a public tour of “what’s
currently up in the winter night sky” and information
on the Hubble Space Telescope during its planetarium series
program on Friday (March 7).
The planetarium series program, which shows attendees which
constellations, stars and planets they can expect to see in
the upcoming weeks, will be held at 7 p.m. in the planetarium,
located in Farrington Building Room F102.
The show will last approximately one hour and will visit the
constellations visible during the long, cold months of the
winter season, according to Michael Prokosch, staff aide for
the physics department.
“They will hear the tale of Orion and meet other mythical
figures represented as constellations, such as Gemini and
Taurus,” he said. “‘Winter Sky’ mixes
ancient Egyptian, Roman and Greek astronomy lore.”
The program will also explore “all things Hubble,”
from its launch, discoveries, and famous images taken, such
as the Hubble Deep Field, Hubble Ultra Deep Field, the Pillars
of Creation and more with “Hubble Vision,” according
to Prokosch.
“The Hubble Space Telescope is expected to receive a
final service mission from the space shuttle in summer of
2008 to extend its life well into the next decade,”
he said. “Space will never again look the same.”
The planetarium seats up to 29 visitors and includes a dome
that is approximately 18 feet in diameter and more than 20
feet high in the center, according to Prokosch.
Admission is free.
Other show dates for the semester include March 17, April
11, April 25, May 9 and May 3.
For more information on current show times for the planetarium
or the observatory, call 936.294.3664 or e-mail
Prokosch at vis_mwp@shsu.edu.
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Annual HUB Show To Be Held March
11
Sam Houston State University, along with several other local
entities, will host the 12th Annual Vendor HUB Show on March
11.
Vendor booths for Historically Underutilized Businesses will
be set up in the Lowman Student Center Ballroom from 9 a.m.
to noon that day showcasing products and services available
to departments, as well as displaying opportunities in which
departments can increase SHSU’s HUB participation.
All faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.
The show is co-sponsored by the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice, the City of Huntsville, Walker County and the SHSU
Small Business Development Center.
For more information, call the Purchasing
Department at 936.294.1894.
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Exhibit To Show ‘First’
Faces Of Women
The Office of Multicultural and International Student Services
will be “Celebrating Women Throughout History”
with a art exhibit in the Lowman Student Center Gallery beginning
Sunday (March 2).
The exhibit, held in honor of Women’s History Month,
in March, will include poems; historical documents, including
“fascinating” cartoons, posters, and books related
to the women's suffrage movement; and “photographs of
not only significant women in history, but also women who
continue to make a difference in society today,” said
MISS program coordinator Ashley McDonough.
“We have incorporated many lesser-known women in history,
including the first woman to run for president, become an
astronaut, graduate from college, as well as many women who
are also ethnic minorities and who made a significant contribution
to society and the advancement of social equality,”
she said.
All of the documents and photographs in the gallery were collected
and researched by the Student Activities’ staff from
library resources.
The exhibit will run through Friday (March 7) and will provide
the opportunity for students to “learn something new
and unique about women through history,” McDonough said.
For more information, call the Office
of MISS at 936.294.3588.
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Choirs To Sing German Songs
Of "Heimat"
Brahms, Mendelssohn, Bach, Schütz -- these composers
provided some of the world's greatest music. Ensembles from
Sam Houston State University and Houston's Lamar High School
will sing some of this music, in German, in a concert entitled
"Heimat" (the Homeland) at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday
(March 6).
Allen Hightower directs the Sam Houston State University Chorale,
and Scott Houston directs Houston's Lamar High School Chorale
and Madrigals, in a varied program of sacred and secular music.
The free event will take place at Houston's historic First
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Midtown, founded in 1851 as
the Erste Deutsche Evangelische Lutherische Kirche.
First Evangelical Lutheran Church is located at 1311 Holman
Ave., across from the Houston Community College central campus.
For more information visit www.felchouston.org
or call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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Summer Graduation Applications
Due Soon
Students who anticipate graduating in August are to file
degree applications by March 7 with the Registrar’s
Office.
Those who fail to apply by the deadline will be assessed a
$25 late application fee in addition to the $25 graduation
fee.
Applying late may also result in names not appearing in the
commencement program or the honors program.
The Registrar’s Office is located on the third floor
of the Estill Building.
For more information, call 936.294.1040.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Feb. 29, 2008
Please send comments, corrections, news tips to Today@Sam.edu
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