SHSU
Update For Week Of Dec. 5
SHSU-Angelina College Agreement Finalized
Sam Houston State University president James F. Gaertner
and Angelina College president Larry Phillips signed an articulation
agreement on Wednesday (Dec. 1) that allows students to hold
joint admission at both institutions and make transferring
from AC to SHSU easier.
The program is designed to encourage AC students to complete
associate degrees before transferring to Sam Houston for
a bachelor's degree. Similar agreements have been signed
with
the Blinn and Montgomery college systems.
The agreement will allow AC students to access over 30 articulation
agreements for more than 40 different degrees at the two
schools.
In addition, AC students will be allowed to have SHSU ID/Bearkat
OneCards, access to Sam Houston sporting events, use of an
SHSU e-mail account, and access to the SHSU library and campus
computer facilities while they earn their associate degrees.
The two colleges' financial aid departments will work together
to make financial aid transfer between the two institutions
as convenient as possible for students involved in articulation
agreements.
For more information about the agreement, call David Burris
936.294.1568.
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Gintz Demolition Extended, Students Given New
Option
Sam Houston State University has extended the demolition
schedule for the Gintz Family Apartments by 10 days, with
a move-out
date of June 10 instead of June 1, and the university will
have space available for displaced residents in another campus
housing unit.
The move-out date has been postponed from its original date
because the university wanted to "be aware of when Huntsville
ISD lets out and so that [students] are done with finals
to give [them] time to move," according to Heather Thielemann,
vice president for enrollment management.
The university has worked to provide assistance to the residents
of Gintz who may be having problems finding suitable, affordable
living arrangements, and will allow the residents to move
to the Colony Apartments, according to university president
James
F. Gaertner.
However, the move to Colony Apartments will also come with
a rent increase of about $100 a month, which is the rate
charged to students already living there.
Gaertner said that the university decided the Gintz apartments
have safety issues because of their age and that their renovation
would not be cost effective.
And
while the university does have plans to replace Gintz with newer housing, there
is nothing definite at this time.
Thielemann also said that modifications, such as child protective barriers
on the bottom floors, childproof porches and a play area, would be made to
the Colony
Apartments to accommodate families with small children, though a start date
has not yet been established.
"
We are honestly working hard to see that we don't displace people and that we
treat people as best we can, so this is about as good as we can come up with
right now," Gaertner said. "I think [residents] have been very understanding
so far. It's not pleasant to be displaced, but I think they realize that we
are trying to help them as best we can."
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Music To Host Holiday, Wind Ensemble Concerts
The SHSU symphonic
choir and orchestra will bring you “home for the holidays” with
a concert including classic Christmas carols on Friday and Saturday (Dec. 10-11).
Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. each day in the University Theatre Center.
SHSU music faculty members Kristen Hightower and Mary Kay Lake will be featured
singing soprano solos and Andrew Wilson will perform a violin solo at the event,
conducted by faculty members Allen Hightower, director of choral and vocal
studies, and Carol Smith, director of orchestral studies.
In addition, music graduate assistant Veronica Wilson will conduct the opening
piece for the concert, which will include such songs as “Oh Holy Night,” “Sleigh
Ride” “Silent Night,” “Winter Wonderland,” and “Oh
Come, Oh Come Emmanuel.”
Tickets for the concert are free for SHSU students, faculty and staff with
an ID, as well as children 11 and under, are $8 for adults and $5 for senior
citizens.
On Tuesday (Dec. 7), area coordinator of wind and percussion Matthew McInturf,
accompanied by graduate assistant Wes Robertson, will conduct a wind ensemble
concert.
The performance, which will include such songs as “George Washington Bridge” and “Ballad
for Band,” will be held at 7:30 p.m. at Mance Park Junior High auditorium.
For more information on either event, call the School of Music at 936.294.1360.
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Rec Sports To Relieve Finals Stress With Activities, Food
To help ease some of the stress from final exams, the Department
of Recreational Sports will host a “Finals Relief” at
the Health and Kinesiology Center on Monday (Dec. 13).
The event will be held from 8 p.m. until 1 a.m.
Rec Sports will provide food and drinks, 10-minute massages,
games and prizes, hourly aerobic breaks, and a lot of study
space.
For more information, call Tina DeAses at 936.294.1985.
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SGA Textbook Exchange Web Site Debuts
The SHSU Student Government
Association has officially launched its book exchange Web
site, which will allow students to
save money by buying and selling their
used textbooks from their fellow Bearkats.
Through the Web site, www.shsubookswap.org, students can list their used textbooks
online, as well as search for needed books.
When a needed book is found, contact information for the person who listed
the book will be provided, and a sale is done between students.
The site is offered free of charge and open for all students to use. For more
information, call the SGA office at 936.294.1938.
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MISS To End Mentor Program
With Banquet
The Office of Multicultural and International Student Services
will celebrate a successful semester of the SAMentors program
with a “Whimsical Winter
Gala” appreciation banquet on Tuesday (Dec. 7), from 7-9 p.m. in
the Lowman Student Center Ballroom.
“
We went from 100 to 200 (participants) this semester,” said MISS program
coordinator Jennifer T. Roberts. “The program is becoming very successful
because the mentors are really enjoying giving back to their protégés
all of the study skills and skills of living at Sam Houston as a successful
students and as a leader.
“
One thing I’m seeing is that we’re even having ‘families’ throughout
the SAMentors program because this semester someone would get a protégé and
that protégé would get a protégé the following the
semester,” she said. “So we’re stemming into families,
and leaders are stemming from every single aspect of the program.”
The banquet will mark the conclusion of the program for the year and will
include a graduation ceremony for the 2004 cohort of freshmen protégés.
“
They’re really excited about that because I think the completion of the
first semester is really essential and the retention for the program has been
really high as well,” Roberts said.
In addition, MISS will honor a mentor and protégé “of the
year;” will recognize those who have completed a “star chart,” which
requires student mentors and protégés to visit various departments
to find out about campus services; and will also recognize those who completed
three or more of the Multicultural Awareness Certification programs.
“
There are 17 this year (who completed the MAC programs), which is great; I’m
really excited about that,” Roberts said. “They are going to
become certified as multicultural ambassadors for the Office of MISS.”
The banquet not only gives students closure to a mentor-protégé relationship
for the semester, but allows MISS to show their gratitude for the mentors’ volunteering
to create relationships that often last until the protégés
senior year, Roberts said.
“
The program has been very, very successful,” she said. “The program
has gone away from just including people of a minority, or of a certain ethnicity,
and has stemmed into having students from all walks of life participating in
the program, including international students, Anglo students, African America,
Hispanic American, Asian American. So it’s really become multicultural.”
Because of the program’s expansion, MISS will begin interviewing for next
fall’s mentors earlier this year, moving interviews from April to
February. Anyone interested in becoming a SAMmentor can call 936.294.3588.
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Student
Design,
Display Logo At Texas Prison Museum
Work by Sam Houston State University’s
graphic design students is currently on display at the Texas Prison
Museum.
After researching and visiting the Texas Prison Museum, interviewing
its director, Jim Willett, and exploring the museum’s holdings and history, assistant
professor of art Chuck Drumm’s “Graphic Design IV” class redesigned
the museum’s logo and incorporated it into stationery sets.
In addition to these designs, the students also redesigned museum
display cases and signage and created direct mail pieces for the
museum’s
Sesquicentennial Plaza brick pavers program.
Although the Texas Prison Museum has no immediate plans to change
their existing logo, Willett attended several class critiques on
the students’ projects
and expressed delight in the creativity of the redesigns.
The Texas Prison Museum is located off Interstate Highway 45, at
Exit 118.
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Looking For Unique Gift Ideas?
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| A student checks out the many items at last year's
pottery sale. |
The SHSU art department’s Clay Club will be having
a pottery sale on Dec. 7-8, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.
The
sale will be held
in the
Lowman Student
Center Mall Area on both days.
The pottery sale will feature creative and functional work
by students and faculty.
The Clay Club raises money to expand student's education
in ceramics through visiting artists, conferences and workshops. Sixty
percent of the funds raised per item goes back to the artist,
with the remaining 40 percent benefiting the organization.
For more information, contact Cory Cryer at 936.294.1322.
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Kat Klub To Host Texas Hold ‘Em Tournaments
Students, faculty and staff will have the opportunity to
go head-to-head in the Kat Klub’s last two Texas Hold ‘Em
tournaments of the fall semester on Tuesday and Wednesday
(Dec. 7 and 8).
There will be a different tournament for each night to
allow more participants to play, according to Gary Roark,
Kat Klub director.
The tournaments have been very popular throughout the semester, Roark
said, and will be held from 5-9:45 p.m. both days in the Kat Klub,
on the first
floor of
the Lowman Student Center.
“
It is really crazy the way this has happened,” he said. “I was only
going to do one a semester, but I have so many people wanting to play that I’m
having to do it every first and third week, twice a week.
Set up Las Vegas-style, each tournament will consist of five to six
tables, with 10 people at each table.
“
We start out with $1,000 in play money and there’s no limit,” Roark
said. “You can go in at any time, and the blinds go up every
30 minutes.”
The tournaments are open to faculty and staff as well as students,
and there is no entry fee. Those who want to play should sign up
ahead of
time in the
Kat Klub, though sign ups will be held on the tournament days as
well, and participants
can play on both days.
The tournament winners will receive a Kat Klub T-shirt that tells
people he/she is a “Texas Hold ‘Em Champion.”
For more information, call Roark at 936.294.1722.
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Theatre Professor
To Present Paper In Hawaii
Maureen V. McIntyre, professor of theatre
has been invited by the third annual Hawaii International
Conference on Arts and
Humanities
to present
her research
paper, "Changes in Perceptions of the Needs and Sophistication
of the Child Audience in American Children's Theatre: From Protected
Innocent
to Conscious
Participant in a Harsh Reality."
“
I was inspired to write the paper by the past 25 summers as director of the Huntsville
Children's Theatre festival, the wonderful Huntsville children and the changes
in available subject matter for children's theatre,” McIntyre
said.
Co-sponsored by The Asia-Pacific Research Institute of Peking
University, The East West Council on Education, and The University
of Louisville’s
Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods, the conference will
be held at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu from Jan. 12-16.
Submissions to the conference were solicited and reviewed from
a broad range of academicians and professionals from arts and
humanities related
fields
from many countries.
Last year, more than 1100 people from over 40 countries attended
the conference, the primary goal of which is to provide an opportunity
for
academicians
and professionals from arts and humanities from around the world
to gather and
interact with a
variety of disciplines.
In addition to presentation at the conference, the paper will
be published on CD-ROM and on the conference permanent Web site.
McIntyre, who said this event will be the first international
conference she has ever presented at, is the lead author on the
piece. Her
co-author is her
former student, Shelley Fitze, a published playwright whose professional
name is Lane Riosley.
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of Public Relations at SHSU. For electronic access to SHSU
news see the public relations Web page Today@Sam.
The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. on Thursday for
an item to run in the column the following week.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Dec. 5, 2004
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