SHSU Update For Week Of Oct. 5
Health Center Sponsors
Denim Day For Cancer
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, the
SHSU Health Center will host the Lee National Denim Day fundraiser
on campus on Oct. 10.
This university wellness committee-endorsed fundraiser is
the largest one-day fundraiser to aid the Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation and its fight against breast cancer.
Participants are asked to make a $5 donation and wear jeans
or denim to work or class to show support against the fight
to end breast cancer. Join the Student Health Center and the
University Wellness Committee in the fight against breast
cancer and show the world that “Denim is Powerful Stuff!
”
Faculty and staff should look for additional information coming
to their department through interdepartmental mail. Students
may contact Jennifer Holderman, peer educator, at 936.294.4347
for more information.
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Res Life Sponsoring Dining
Facility Naming Contest
Residence Life is sponsoring a contest to name the new dining
facility on the south side of campus. All students are eligible
to enter the contest, and can submit entries at the front
desk in the Residence
Life Office or by e-mailing the entry to danagrant@shsu.edu.
Students will be able to participate in the selection of the
winning name on Oct. 20-21 by voting for their favorite on
the SHSU home page.
The person who submits the winning entry will win $100 in
Bearkat Express to be used at Café Belvin or the Paw
Print. If more than one person submits the winning entry,
the prize will be divided amongst all the winners.
All entries must be received by 5 pm on Oct. 15. For more
information, call Residence Life at 936.294.1816.
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Mental Health Screenings
To Be Administered Tuesday
The SHSU Counseling Center will hold its annual fall Mental
Health Awareness Day on Oct. 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
the Counseling Center.
Free information and confidential screenings for depression,
anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol abuse, and
eating problems will be provided.
Anyone concerned about themselves or others is encouraged
to attend to learn more about these issues. For more information,
contact the Counseling
Center at 936.294.1720.
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Teacher Job Fair To Be Held Wednesday
Over 80 school districts will be represented at the Fall
Teacher Job Fair, sponsored by Career Services. The event
will be held on Oct. 8, from 12:30-3:30 p.m., in the Bernard
G. Johnson Coliseum.
All students and alumni interested in a career in education
should plan to attend and are encouraged to bring multiple
copies of their resumé, as well as dress professionally.
Students and alumni will be admitted to the coliseum floor
at 12:30 p.m. on the day of this event. Job seekers are encouraged
to attend early in the afternoon, as some representatives
leave early.
For more information, call Career
Services at 936.294.1713.
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Dean Of Students Seeks ‘Who’s
Who’ At SHSU
The Dean of Students Office will be accepting nominations
for “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities
and Colleges” until Oct. 10.
“Selection for Who's Who is a distinction intended for
only our top-ranking students,” the nomination form
states. “Selections should be made on the basis of academic
performance, citizenship, service to the institution, and
responsible participation in extracurricular activities.”
Administration and faculty may nominate three students based
on the following criteria: undergraduate students must be
at least in junior standing by the beginning of the current
semester, hold a cumulative grade point average of at least
2.5 and be currently enrolled for at least 12 credit hours.
Transfer students must have at least two long semesters at
SHSU, with a total of 30 semester hours, in addition to the
other qualifications. Graduate students must have an undergraduate
degree from SHSU and be presently enrolled for 9 hours, with
the exception of assistant instructors who are teaching a
full load of six hours and enrolled in six hours.
Students who do not meet the requirements will be withdrawn
from the selection ballot.
Nomination forms should be turned in to the Dean of Students
Office, located in Lowman Student Center Room 215.
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Douglass To Serve As
Student Services Council Chair
Thelma Douglass, SHSU vice president for Student Services,
has been elected to serve a two-year term as chair of the
Texas Council of Student Services Vice Presidents, Texas Public
Universities, beginning this month.
Council membership is made up of 40 Texas public universities,
including four-year colleges and universities, health science
centers and members of university systems within the state.
The council's purposes are to facilitate communications among
the senior student affairs officers of Texas public universities,
serve as a resource for information regarding legislative
and other governmental activities that impact the work of
the profession; and serve as a forum in which opportunities
or issues confronting the profession or campuses may be discussed.
"The vote of confidence of my colleagues in the State
of Texas to serve as chair is humbling, while at the same
time, a great opportunity to serve an organization in higher
education," Douglass said.
Douglass has served as a vice president at Sam Houston State
University since June 1996 and prior to that as associate
vice president for Student Services and dean of students,
beginning in 1993.
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Speech Professors Get Research
Published In Textbook
Associate professor of speech communication Richard Bello
and assistant professor of speech communication Frances Brandau-Brown
have had their published research cited and discussed in the
most recent edition of Interplay, a widely-used textbook in
the field of interpersonal communication.
One of their co-authored studies, which appeared in volume
66 of the Southern Communication Journal in 2001, was the
subject of a “focus on research" sidebar in the
chapter on emotions and communication.
“The sidebar went into some detail about our research,
which dealt with the effects of negative emotions, such as
loneliness, on interpretations of messages, focusing on aspects
that would be most interesting and useful to undergraduate
students of interpersonal communication,” Bello said.
“When I first found out that our work was cited in the
text, I went and looked it up and thought it would just be
a brief citation. But what was really interesting is that
they took a whole half a page just to discuss that one article,”
he said. “That’s more than you normally get, so
that was really exciting.”
In the same edition of the text, another article by Bello,
co-authored with Louisiana State University professor Renee
Edwards, which recently appeared in volume 27 of Human Communication
Research, was cited in a discussion of equivocal communication.
“It’s (equivocal communication) communication
that is intentionally vague,” Bello said. “The
text emphasizes how this research shows that equivocal language
can sometimes be used to save face while simultaneously communicating
the intended content meaning of the sender.”
The textbook is published by Oxford University Press.
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Museum To Exhibit Artifacts
For Archaeology Month
In honor of Texas Archaeology Month, the Sam Houston Memorial
Museum will present an exhibit and a program focusing on the
Mexican Army.
Beginning Oct. 7, artifacts from the Mexican Army’s
retreat in 1836 and photos of archaeology digs around the
state will be on exhibit in the Walker Education Center Atrium.
“The Mexican Army and Archaeology in Texas” will
be on display through Oct. 31.
On Oct. 9, “Mar de Lodo: Tracking the Mexican Army Through
the Sea of Mud April 29-May 9, 1836,” a program and
reception featuring avocational archaeologist Gregg Dimmick,
will be held from 6:30-9 p.m. in the Walker Education Center
Auditorium.
Dimmick will give a slide lecture on his archaeological discoveries,
tracing the routes and campsites of the Mexican Army following
the Battle of San Jacinto during the Texas Revolution.
The Katy and E. Don Walker, Jr., Education Building is located
at 1402 19th St. For more information, contact the Sam
Houston Memorial Museum at 936.294.1832.
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Artists Display Works In Gaddis
Geeslin Gallery
 The
works of Mark Eshbaugh, Leighton McWilliams and Rachel Weinstein
will be on exhibit in the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery, located
in Art Building F, through Oct. 23.
A photographer from Chelmsford, Mass., Eshbaugh will show
selections from his current body of work, “Day’s
End.”
In his works, Eshbaugh prints black and white photographs
of landscapes straight from the negative and then manipulates
the prints with a variety of chemical toners to achieve subtle
colorations, a process which interacts with the timeless beauty
of the landscape to create an emotional response in the viewer.
A photographer from Arlington, Texas, McWilliams combines
photos with found objects in hand-made mahogany boxes. These
pieces, called “photo-constructions,” have a personal
reference that alludes to an event in his life.
Weinstein, who lives in Providence, R.I., creates ethereal
landscapes using oil on linen and charcoal paper. Weinstein’s
images of forest spaces evoke the cycle of seasonal renewal
and capture the subtle nature of change.
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery is open Monday through Friday,
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, contact Debbie
Davenport in the art
department at 936.294.1317.
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Outdoor Recreation Plans Biking
Trip
The Outdoor Recreation division of Recreational Sports will
sponsor a Double Lake mountain bike trip on Oct. 14 from 4-8
p.m. in Coldspring, approximately 45 minutes east of Huntsville.
Transportation, Cannondale F400 bikes and water and sport
drinks will be provided, as well as guidance and instruction.
Participants should prepare for a new stop on the Suburau
Texas Fall Cup mountain bike racing series.
The cost for the trip is $10 for students, $12 for faculty/staff
and $15 for guests. Participation is limited to 6, and there
will be a pre-trip meeting on Oct. 13, the sign-up deadline,
at 5:30 p.m. in Health and Kinesiology Center Room 104.
For more information, contact Marvin Seale in outdoor recreation
at 936.294.3656 or at seale@shsu.edu.
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Boeske To Attend International
Education Program
Brenda Boeske, coordinator of operations for the Office
of International Programs, has been accepted into NAFSA: Association
of International Educators' Academy for International Education,
a two-year training program intended for institutions interested
in developing or expanding their international education services.
“I believe that education is the key to success in my
position as coordinator of operations for the Office of International
Programs at SHSU,” Boeske said. “Participating
in the Academy for International Education is an excellent
way for me to obtain my goals and objectives. SHSU's top administration
has shown a commitment to internationalizing our campus by
centralizing international student, study abroad, and exchange
scholar services into one office.”
Over the two-year period, participants will attend six conferences
and seminars, three per year, covering all aspects of international
education. The first will be held in New Orleans, La., from
Oct. 27 to Nov. 1, in conjunction with the regional conference.
The goal of the program is for participants to gain knowledge
in all aspects of international education; to learn skills
for developing and managing international education programs
and services; and explore new strategies for managing the
office with one-on-one mentorship and by networking with other
NAFSA colleagues, according to Boeske.
“I hope to gain, from the experience of others, information
that will strengthen our international student processing
and international student services,” she said. “But
more than that, I hope to begin the process of creating an
exciting and viable study abroad program that is tailored
to the needs and wants of SHSU's students.”
NAFSA was founded in 1948 as the National Association of Foreign
Student Advisers to promote the professional development of
American college and university officials responsible for
assisting and advising the 25,000 foreign students who had
come to study in the United States after World War II. By
1990, as the number of foreign students in the United States
approached the 400,000 mark, there were 6,400 NAFSA members
on 1,800 campuses, and increasing numbers of U.S. students
were studying abroad.
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Pate Elected To Education Council
Executive Committee
Ruth Pate, journalism instructor, has been elected to a two-year
term on the executive committee of the Southwest Education
Council for Journalism and Mass Communication.
The board, which is comprised of nine elected members of the
executive committee, meets twice a year. The group will meet
next during the Southwest Symposium in Salt Lake City on Nov.
7-8.
The SWECJMC is the regional affiliate of the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the accrediting
body for journalism programs. There are 45 schools who hold
memberships in SWECJMC, including Baylor University, University
of Texas-Austin, Texas A&M University, Texas Christian
University and Brigham Young University, among many others.
“Since the president of SHSU (James Gaertner) has expressed
support for accreditation, it would seem this is an excellent
opportunity for the university to gain visibility and status,”
Pate said.
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Jennifer Gauntt
Oct. 5, 2003
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