SHSU
Update For Week Of Aug. 1
Trip To Eastern Europe
Planned For Alumni, Friends
Travel with Sam Houston is offering alumni and friends the
opportunity to visit Eastern Europe for 10 days and 8 nights
beginning Nov. 5.
The trip, which includes visits to Budapest, Vienna and Prague,
is being offered as a companion tour with the SHSU orchestra,
which will be performing at various venues in the cities,
as well as taking master’s classes.
“We will be hearing the orchestra perform. In Vienna,
they are performing with a Sam Houston alumna who is famous
all over Europe for her wonderful voice,” said Grettle
Payne, coordinator of Travel with Sam Houston.
“They’re (the music department) picking these
really wonderful venues (where orchestra is booked) in Vienna
and Prague,” she said. “It’s not your usual
tour.”
Tickets for the orchestra’s concerts are among the
many things included in the price of the tour, which is $2,795
for the land and air package, or $2,295 for land only.
The cost also includes roundtrip airfare for the land/air
package, lodging, most meals, Motorcoach transportation, performances,
sightseeing, tips, taxes, a tour manager throughout, flight
insurance and pre-departure trip cancellation protection.
“It’s a real solid value for the traveler, and
yet it does give them some things that just aren’t available
to other people,” Payne said. “The hotels that
we’re going to are ones that don’t usually allow
groups, because groups usually mean noise, so we’re
getting into really nice hotels. I think it’s going
to be real special.”
The tour, offered through Intropa Tours, is the first offered
in Eastern Europe for Travel with Sam Houston.
Payne said there are many advantages to traveling with a
tour like this one, such as smaller groups, expert guides,
a customized tour where everything is planned out and access
to popular museums is guaranteed, “tried and true”
hotels and transportation, and “none of those unpleasant
surprises where you waste your time and money and then don’t
get what you thought you were going to get.
“You’re traveling with people who have a common
interest, the common interest includes Sam Houston,”
she said. “It is a way of supporting the school, by
being involved in these trips. It’s like going to a
football game, you’re supporting your alma mater.”
The application and deposit deadline is Aug. 31. Applications
are available online at http://www.shsu.edu/~travel/trips/easterneurope/easterneurope.htm
or may be obtained by calling the Travel with Sam Houston
office at 936.294.4725 or 1.866.BEARKAT, extension 4725.
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Theatre Presents Three
Plays July 31-Aug. 6
The department of theatre and dance will tell the story of
two women who travel to Bosnia in order to help war refugees
in “Necessary Targets,” one of three plays being
performed in the Showcase Theatre this week.
Show times for “Necessary Targets” are 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday (July 31-Aug. 1).
A play by Eve Ensler, “Necessary Targets” centers
around J.S., a Fifth Avenue psychologist, and her partner,
Melissa, an author ambitious to finish her book, who try to
win the trust of five Bosnian women so the healing process
can begin.
Junior Rachel Saunders and sophomore Amber Sortino play J.S.
and Melissa, respectively, and Bosnia was created by senior
Sarah Brune, sophomores Roxy Collingwood and Lacy Williams
and juniors Ashley Flatt and Haruna Kajino.
The play, directed by senior Kandice Harris, contains mature
content.
On Monday and Tuesday (Aug. 2-3), senior Kacie Starr will
direct the SHSU production of Nicky Silver’s “The
Food Chain,” with performances at 8 p.m. each day.
The comedy and drama focuses on Amanda, an anorexic poet
of some pretensions, who has been married for three weeks,
but her husband, Ford, has been missing for two.
Based on the true story of events following the Sept. 11
attacks, SHSU technical director Larry Routh and assistant
professor of theatre Penelope Hasekoester star in the two-person
play “The Guys,” on Thursday and Friday (Aug.
5-6).
Performances will be at 8 p.m. both days.
Directed by alumnus Patrick Pearson, “The Guys”
centers around Joan, an editor who receives an unexpected
phone call on behalf of Nick, a fire captain who has lost
most of his men in the attack less than two weeks after Sept.
11.
Nick is looking for a writer to help him with the eulogies
he must present at the memorial services.
As the two make their way through the emotional landscape
of grief, they draw on humor, tango and the appreciation of
craft in all its forms to create the verbal memorials for
the fallen firefighter.
The play, written by Anne Nelson, takes a look at the ending
bonds of friendship the unconquerable spirit of New York.
Tickets are $5 for each play. For more information, call
936.294.1329.
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Bech Named To NCAA All-Academic
Team
Sam Houston State University track athlete Signe Bech has
beennamed to an NCAA all-academic team by the United States
Track Coaches Association.
Bech was one of 12 women in the NCAA's Division 1 who posted
perfect 4.0 grade point averages. Five men were also mentioned
for their academic achievements. No other Southland Conference
school was represented on either list.
Bech competed last season as a junior in the pole vault
and javelin.
A native of Denmark, she entered the NCAA Division I Outdoor
Track and Field Championships in June with the 13th best javelin
throw of the year.
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RTV Program To Be Featured On
Sunday EXTRA Aug. 1
The SHSU radio and television program will be featured on
KTRK-TV (Channel 13) in Houston during Sunday EXTRA on Aug.
1.
The segment will focus on the opportunities SHSU students
have not only in producing their own television shows but
running both television and radio stations, according to senior
RTV major Jason Plotkin, who is interning at KTRK this summer.
Maryjo Cochran, RTV professor, was also interviewed for the
segment.
SHSU alumnus Mark Jones, a producer for KTRK, put the feature
together with the assistance of Plotkin.
Sunday EXTRA, a news magazine show, runs at 7:30 a.m.
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Book On Terrorism Receives
Raving Review
A book by Sam Houston State University doctoral graduate
Sean Hill and Richard Ward, dean of the College of Criminal
Justice, has received an unusual review in a counter-terrorism
publication.
The book, "An International Compilation of Terrorist
Organizations, Violent Political Groups, and Issue-Oriented
Militant Movements" is actually the second edition of
one published in the mid-1990s by Ward.
At 961 pages, it sells for $200 and is also available electronically
as a Microsoft Word document, which makes it searchable by
key word.
Reviewer Jack Plaxe of the "Journal of Counterterrorism
& Home Security International" said that, although
two years old, the book was reviewed because "there are
few open reference books on terrorist groups that are as detailed
and comprehensive as this single volume.
"Government intelligence and security specialists can
use it as a source of public information that can be shared
with non-cleared personnel," Plaxe wrote. "For those
with responsibility for protecting facilities and personnel
overseas, it provides baseline data for use in threat assessments.
"For students and professors, it provides background
information on groups that can be used in classroom lectures
and case studies. In short, this single volume can be a valuable
reference source for anyone interested in gaining a better
understanding of terrorist groups."
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Jennifer Gauntt
Aug. 1, 2004
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