SHSU
Update For Week Of Jan. 18
OneCard Office Makes
New Home In LSC
The Bearkat OneCard office has moved from Academic Building
3 to Lowman Student Center, Suite 330.
“The Lowman Student Center facility places the OneCard
in an ideal central access point,” said Troy Voelker,
Bearkat OneCard Services director. “No matter which
college a student is enrolled in or which classes are currently
on the schedule, the LSC is quickly accessible, far more so
than our prior location in AB3.
“Further, since our highest volume ATM is located in
the same building as the OneCard office now, we are also in
the right place for students with quick questions about the
use of their OneAccounts,” he said.
The OneCard office provides several services, such as taking
ID photos and issuing temporary ID cards when a cardholder
loses a OneCard and needs campus access while waiting on their
replacement.
In addition, students can deposit paper checks into their
OneAccounts, receive assistance with card activation, get
SHSU refunds, reset passwords and PIN numbers, re-order OneCards,
and receive answers to other questions pertaining to using
the card both on campus and in the local community in the
OneCard office.
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Music Festival Pays
Tribute To Former Professor, Chair
The School of Music will pay tribute to the life and music
of former professor and department chair Fisher Tull at the
42nd annual Contemporary Music Festival on Feb. 3-4.
Performances will be at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. both days
in the Recital Hall, with the Wednesday night concert being
held in the Killinger Auditorium.
University of North Texas assistant professor of trumpet John
Holt, who also plays with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, will
be the guest performer at the Tuesday night concert, which
will also feature faculty ensembles, the brass quintet and
the woodwinds quintet.
The Wednesday night concert will be performed by the Sam Houston
orchestra and wind ensemble and will feature the world premiere
of a piano concerto by faculty member Trent Hanna, according
to theory and composition coordinator Thomas Couvillon.
In addition, faculty member Randy Adams will play the trumpet
in a piece called “Rhapsody for Trumpet and Orchestra”
on Wednesday night.
Both afternoon concerts will be chamber music.
Prior to the Tuesday night performance, well-known trumpet
specialist, and friend of Tull, Dale Olsen will give a lecture
on the life and music of Tull in Fine Arts Building 201. He
will also speak on Wednesday at 9 a.m. at the same location.
All of the concerts, as well as the lecture, are free and
open to the public.
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Library Displays 100 Most
Influential Books
The Newton Gresham Library will display the 100 Most Influential
Books ever written through January.
The selection is based on the 1998 publication of the same
name by Martin Seymour-Smith and covers a period from 1500
B.C. to present.
In conjunction with the display, the library will recognize
the top 10 students, faculty and staff who have read the most
books on the list.
Titles within the selection include Homer’s “The
Illiad” and “The Odyssey,” Leo Tolstoy’s
“War and Peace,” Sigmund Freud’s “Interpretation
of Dreams,” Charles Darwin’s “The Origin
of the Species,” and Betty Friedan’s “Feminine
Mystique.”
Those who wish to participate should look at the display and
fill out an entry slip, listing the books they have read,
while the books are on display.
The library collection contains copies of 95 of the 100 titles
listed, which will be back on the shelves and available for
checkout after Feb. 1, with the exception of the oversized
two-volume set of Samuel Johnson’s 1755 Dictionary of
the English Language, which may be viewed in the reference
area.
In addition, a display honoring the late Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., will be exhibited in the foyer of the library until
Feb. 1.
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Dean Of Students Seeks
Faculty/Student Mentors
The Dean of Students' Office is seeking faculty or staff
to volunteer for the revived faculty/student mentor program
for the spring semester.
The program will match incoming freshman students with volunteers
to offer support and encourage students as they adjust to
college life in their first semester at SHSU.
The amount of time required of a faculty or staff member is
not great, and several events will be scheduled throughout
the semester to provide an opportunity for mentors and students
to interact.
For more information, or to volunteer, contact Mary Ellen
Sims, assistant dean of students, by Jan. 23 at 294.3026 or
at mesims@shsu.edu.
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Randleman Serves
5th Year On Association Board
SHSU head football coach Ron Randleman has been selected
to serve his fifth year on the American Football Coaches Association
board of trustees.
The AFCA board formulates policy and provides direction for
the organization, which was founded in 1922 by Amos Alonzo
Stagg, John Heisman and others.
Within the board, Randleman works with coaches from such colleges
as the University of Mississippi, University of Notre Dame,
University of Michigan, Kansas State University and New Mexico
State University, among many others.
“It’s set up, the board is, of all college coaches
that are NCAA coaches: a couple of Division III, a couple
of Division II, a couple of Division I-AA, and about nine
Division I-A coaches,” he said. “It’s quite
and organization because there are over 10,000 members.”
Along with the basic operation of the association, the board,
which meets twice a year for national conventions, has taken
an active stance on many other issues.
“We’re very active in the child ID program; we’ve
been very active in the Jason Foundation, which is to prevent
teen suicide; we’re working with the youth football
organizations to try to get that a little more standardized
and to give them a little more direction in the head coaching
and the practice organization,” he said. “So we
really are involved in a lot more than just college football.”
The board met earlier this year in Orlando, Fla., and will
meet again this summer.
“It’s really been a very interesting experience,
and I’ve been very fortunate to be selected to be on
that board because you don’t get many opportunities
to serve on a board like that,” Randleman said. “I
have certainly enjoyed it.”
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Doctoral Student Invited
To Attend Exclusive Seminar
Doctoral student Bernell Peltier has been selected as one
of 40 scholars in the United States and Canada to participate
in the 25th Annual David L. Clark National Graduate Student
Research Seminar in Educational Administration and Policy.
Bernell, a student in the department of educational leadership
and counseling, will travel to San Diego, Calif., in April
for the two-day seminar.
Currently, she is a principal in the Houston Independent School
District.
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Garner Receives Award From
Texas Psychologist Group
Randy Garner, associate dean in the College of Criminal Justice,
recently received a prestigious statewide award honoring outstanding
contributions to the field of Social Psychology from the Social
Psychologists in Texas.
Garner presented a discussion at the annual conference, which
was held Jan. 9-10 in Corpus Christi, entitled “The
Temporal Ordering of Gallus Domesticus versus Gallus Prezygoticus,”
also known as “Which Came First, The Chicken or The
Egg?: A Fowl Metaphor for Teaching.”
The nature of the talk centered on the use of humor, metaphor
and analogy as a pedagogical tool in education.
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Office Receives Outstanding
Services Award
The Sam Houston State University Office of Student Legal
Services was awarded the outstanding services award in January
by the Southwest Region of University Student Legal Services
Association.
The award recognizes outstanding student legal services to
SHSU students and contributions to the Student Legal Services
Association.
SHSU was a founding member of the Student Legal Services Association
a decade ago, and Jim Gibson, student legal advisor, is the
current treasurer of the association.
In January 2002, the university won the President’s
Award for Special Project Excellence, and in 1996, the Most
Outstanding Students' Legal Services Office award.
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Camp To Recruit Students For
Summer Jobs
Pine Cove Camps will be interviewing in the Lowman Student
Center on Jan. 27 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. to recruit students
to work at its Christian summer camps.
Annually, the group recruits and hires at least 500 college
students to serve in full- and part-time paid positions at
the nondenominational camps.
Pine Cove runs five distinct camps on more than 700 acres
in the piney woods of East Texas, with all camps located within
three miles of one another and 10 miles southwest of Tyler.
For more information on Pine Cove Camps, visit the camp’s
booth or go to its Web site at http://www.pinecove.com/.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Jan. 18, 2003
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