SHSU
Update For Week Of Nov. 23
Regents Approve Dining
Facility Name
The Board of Regents approved “SouthPaw” as the
name for the new south campus dining facility on Friday (Nov.
21) during its meeting at SHSU. SouthPaw is scheduled to be
completed Dec. 2 and to open in the spring.
A random panel of students, faculty and staff recommended
the name of the facility, to be approved by the regents, after
Residence Life opened a contest for student submissions. The
top three choices, out of 174 proposed names that were voted
on electronically, included “Bearkat Café",
"Eat ‘em up Kafe" and "SouthPaw."
The winning proposal was submitted by three students: Andy
DiMambro, Jason Plotkin and Kara-Lea Roberts. Those students
will receive $100 Bearkat Express, divided between the three.
The other two finalists, Barbara Roberts and Jessica Gallow,
will each receive $50 Bearkat Express.
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University
To Break For Thanksgiving Holiday
In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, there will be
no classes from Wednesday (Nov. 26) through Friday (Nov. 28).
The holiday break will officially begin at 9 p.m. on Tuesday
(Nov. 25) for students and faculty, with residence halls closing
at 10 p.m. Halls will re-open on Sunday (Nov. 30).
In addition the university will be closed on Thursday and
Friday for all staff members.
Final examinations will be held Dec. 8-11, with residence
halls closing at 10 p.m. on Thursday for the Christmas break.
The spring semester will begin Jan. 14, with residence halls
opening at 11 a.m. on Jan. 11.
The university will be closed Dec. 23 through Jan. 1.
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Lane Elected To National Office
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Robert Lane, agricultural sciences department chair, was
elected president of the American Association of Schools and
Colleges of Agriculture and Renewable Resources at the national
conference in early October.
“I’m honored,” said Lane, who served as
president-elect during the past year. “I only hope I
have the ability to accomplish most or all of the initiatives
our members are hoping I can achieve. I have a great board
of directors to work with, and I’m confident our organization
will make great strides this year.”
As president, Lane and other board members will work closely
with representatives from the land-grant universities, United
States Department of Agriculture and congress to address the
needs of higher education in agricultural sciences.
Lane’s major goals are assisting in the planning and
organization of an Academic Summit, to be held in March 2005
in Washington, D.C., and promoting a competitive capacity
building grants program for the non-land-grant universities
with agriculture programs, he said.
The Academic Summit will bring together university, industry
and government representatives from all segments of the agricultural
profession to deal with recruiting and educating those seeking
a career in the highly diverse disciplines of agriculture.
Over 400 individuals are expected to take part in this landmark
conference, which promises to bring about some major curricular
changes at both land-grant and non land-grant institutions.
Lane and others within AASCARR have been working to establish
federal funding assistance for non land-grant universities
through a competitive grants program.
“Many of the AASCARR schools have outdated and inadequate
facilities to carry out our constantly evolving mission,”
Lane said. “State budgets just can’t keep up with
what we need to teach our students and conduct meaningful
agricultural research.
“We are trying to get a funding line established in
the USDA budget that will allow us to apply for funding to
improve our laboratory facilities and upgrade our equipment.
I’m optimistic we can get it done, but it’s going
to take a lot of time, effort and patience working with a
slow-moving bureaucracy.”
Lane’s term as president ends next October, but he plans
to continue serving on the board of directors, as he has done
for the past six years.
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KSHU Conducting Listener Survey
KSHU radio, 90.5 FM The Kat, will be conducting an online
listener survey throughout the month of November to provide
feedback on various aspects of the station.
“We’re trying to get an idea of what the listeners
want to hear on KSHU, what we’re doing right, what we’re
not doing so well, those kinds of things,” said John
Nelson, broadcast operations assistant in the radio-television
department. “It’s kind of an impromptu effort
to gauge our audience.”
Feedback from the short survey will help to determine ways
improvements can be made to the station, as well as who the
station’s audience is and ways to build the audience,
according to Nelson.
“We’ve been trying this fall to start making some
changes and improving the way KSHU sounds and improving the
music and the information that we put out on it,” he
said.
“There are going to be a lot more positive changes,
and we’re working hard to be Huntsville’s choice
for variety, not just for Sam Houston, but for Huntsville,
for Walker County and up to Madisonville and that area too.”
The survey can be accessed at the station’s Web site
at www.kshu.org.
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Clay Club To Sell Pottery
The Clay Club will have a pottery sale beginning Dec. 1 on
the lawn in front of Art Building F and will continue on Dec.
2-3 in the Lowman Student Center Mall Area.
The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
Prices for each piece will range from $5 to $100, with most
costing no more than $25. Proceeds from the event will benefit
the Clay Club, the artist and club events such as having visiting
artists give speeches and other art-related educational programs.
For more information, call the art department at 936.294.1322.
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French Club Visits Houston
Museum Of Fine Arts
L'Alliançe Française, the SHSU French club,
visited the Audrey Jones Beck Building of the Houston Museum
of Fine Art, where they ate lunch in the museum bistro and
viewed The Heroic Century Masterpieces, 200 paintings and
sculptures from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, on Nov.
9.
The group was accompanied by English and foreign languages
professor Nancy Wilson and French professor Mary Gutermuth.
“The club was privileged to see many works by modern
French masters as well as American masters including Matisse,
Picasso, Van Gogh, Pollock and Warhol,” Gutermuth said.
“It was an exceptional opportunity, as this is the first
and probably the only time many of these works of art will
be shown outside of New York.”
Once the Museum of Modern Art remodeling is finished, the
works will return to New York City, according to Gutermuth.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Nov. 23, 2003
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