SHSU
Update For Week Of Feb. 22
Health Fair To Be Held
On Tuesday
The Student Health Center, Recreational Sports and the Counseling
Center will sponsor a spring health and wellness fair on Tuesday
(Feb. 24). The fair will take place in the LSC Mall Area and
Atrium from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The event will feature several interactive activities including
a drunk driving simulator and giant inflatable games, as well
as numerous give-a-ways.
Students will also have access to a wide variety of health
and wellness demonstrations conducted by university departments,
student organizations, and various community representatives.
The event promises to be a fun, educational experience, according
to health center director Keith Lott.
In the case of cold or rainy weather, the event will take
place in the LSC Ballroom. For more information, call 936.294.4347.
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LSC To Host Murder-Mystery
Scavenger Hunt
Who “murdered” dean of students Frank Parker?
That is the riddle the Lowman Student Center Office wants
solved during the Mardi Gras Murder Mystery scavenger hunt
on Tuesday (Feb. 24). The event will be held from 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
Grand prizes for student participants include a catered dinner
for eight, free use of textbooks for a semester, a digital
camera, college survival kits and Kat Klub parties.
Prizes for faculty and staff scavenger hunters include coffee
and pastries for 10 in Cyber Confections, a Sony Walkman,
Kat Klub Party with sundaes for 25, an Alumni Association
shirt and 10 one-hour sessions with an SHSU personal trainer.
The LSC scavenger hunt is held once a semester and is sponsored
by the Lowman Student Center, Student Activities, Dean of
Students’ Office, Program Council, Student Government
Association, the Barnes and Noble University Bookstore, and
ARAMARK.
For more information, contact the LSC Office at 936.294.1759.
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SHSU Impresses Former
Russian Professor, Visitor
Irina Naoumova, a former faculty member from Kazan State
University in Russia, believes that Sam Houston State University
is well-positioned to take advantage of globalization.
Naoumova, who also serves as a consultant for several Russian
firms on international business issues, visited SHSU and spoke
to communications and business classes Monday and Tuesday.
SHSU has some “amazing faculty members,” she said
Wednesday before returning to her present position as a visiting
associate professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
She called the faculty members she met “very professional,”
“very friendly.”
She was impressed at the sense of teamwork she found at SHSU,
she said. “You are a real family.”
She was also impressed by SHSU's international initiatives.
“I believe the future belongs to those universities
who are actively concerned about their international image,”
she said, “and not many can say that.”
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SHSU To Play Host To Regional
Dance Festival
Sam Houston State University will host the American College
Dance Festival Association’s festival for the South-Central
Region on Saturday (Feb. 28).
Approximately 550-600 dance students are expected to attend
the festival from 31 different universities, including Southern
Methodist, University of Houston, Texas Christian, Lamar and
Texas Woman’s, according to Kista Tucker, assistant
professor of dance.
“During the festival, we have around 70 classes being
taught by guest teachers from the different schools and 10
concerts are being held,” Tucker said.
“There will be three adjudicators to look at works from
various schools,” she said. “Then the pieces that
represent the best quality, as far as choreography and performance,
will go into a major concert that’s called the gala
concert on Saturday evening at the University Theatre Center.”
At this year’s gala three pieces from the concert will
be selected to compete in Washington, D.C., because it is
a “national” year, according to Tucker.
Due to the lack of seating space, neither the performances
nor the gala concert will be open to the public.
For more information, call the dance department at 936.294.1875.
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Program Council To Teach
Self-Defense Techniques
The Program Council will offer students the opportunity
to learn how to defend themselves with the “Protect
Yourself! PC Self-Defense Seminar” on Tuesday (Feb.
24). The seminar will be held at 7 p.m. in the Health and
Kinesiology Center Aerobics Room.
Also this week, the PC will host a diversity luncheon, on
Wednesday at 12 p.m. in Lowman Student Center Room 320 and
a PC picnic at 11 a.m. in the LSC Mall Area.
For more information, call the Program Council office at 936.294.1763.
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Music Professor To Play
Solo Piano Recital
Sohyoung Park, School of Music instructor of piano, will
give a solo piano recital on Tuesday (Feb. 24) at 7:30 pm
in the Recital Hall.
Park’s program includes A Minor Partita by J.S. Bach,
C Major Sonata by J. Haydn, and all 12 etudes, op.10 by F.
Chopin.
“It is a rare opportunity to listen to the whole set
of Chopin etudes in a live performance,” Park said.
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Art Dept. To Display Two Exhibits
Through March 25
The works of two “complicated” artists, English-born
Margaret Realica and Chinese-born Lampo Leong, will be on
display in the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery from Feb. 23 to March
25.
Realica, who attended the School of Art in Leicester, in England,
moved to Hawaii in 1971 where she became interested in ceramics,
taking classes at the University of Hawaii. She now lives
in Northern California and specializes in porcelain sculptures.
“Her work has been exhibited widely and has permanent
collections at the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and
the Arts and the Contemporary Museum in FHB (First Hawaii
Bank),” said Debbie Davenport, art slide librarian.
Realica’s work is assembled and cemented with rods,
Plexiglas and electrical pieces, also using tubing and transparencies
to achieve her effect.
“It’s not like ceramics,” Davenport said.
“It’s very different looking, and it’s very
interesting looking.”
Leong received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Guangzhou
Fine Arts Institute in Guangdong, China, where he was born
in 1961, and his Master of Fine Arts degree from California
College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, Calif. He is now an
assistant professor of art at the University of Missouri.
His latest series, Contemplation Forces, incorporates rhythm
of cursive calligraphy in the dynamic quality of Western abstract
painting and uses very bright colors, Davenport said.
“He does oriental calligraphy on rice paper, collaging
them on canvas and then enlarges the painting by advanced
digital imaging,” Davenport said. “Then he repaints
on top of that five, six seven layers of paint.”
A public reception will be held in the gallery on Thursday
(Feb. 26) from 5-7 p.m. and refreshments will be served.
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery is located in Art Building F. For
more information, call Davenport at 936.294.1317.
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Alumnus To Speak
At Physics Colloquium
Mark Spearman, a 1976 graduate in physics of Sam Houston
State University, will present a colloquium entitled, “Opportunities
in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research for Physicists,
” on Tuesday (Feb. 24). His speech will be given at
2 p.m. in Farrington Building Room 207.
Spearman received his doctorate in industrial engineering
in 1986 from Texas A&M University. He has served as a
faculty member at Northwestern University and Georgia Institute
of Technology.
Currently, he is chair of the department of industrial engineering
at Texas A&M University.
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Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Feb. 22, 2004
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