SHSU
Update For Week Of Oct. 3
Doctoral Program To Host Ethics Institute
The counselor education doctoral cohort two will sponsor
an "Ethics Institute" on Saturday (Oct. 9), from 9 a.m. to
noon on the first floor of the Teacher Education Center.
Three hours of licensed professional counselor (LPC) and
licensed marriage and family therapy (LMFT) specializations
continuing credits will be available through participation.
The cost is $25, and checks can be made out to Beta Kappa
Tau. Participants can register at the door.
For more information, e-mail Judy Detrude, director of the
Center for Research and Counselor Education, at edu_jad@shsu.edu.
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Travel With SH To Visit Mayan Civilization
Travel with Sam Houston will offer a seven-days, six-nights
Mexico Mayan Art Treasures trip Feb. 17-23.
The sign-up deadline, with the final payment due, is Nov.
1.
The tour will take participants through areas in the Northern
Yucatan, including Uxmal, Labna, Chichen Itza, Coba and Tulum,
all cities that were inhabited by
the Maya civilization.
The land and air package for the trip, offered through Gates Travel International,
LLC, is $1,950, which includes roundtrip airfare to and from Houston, accommodations
in first class hotels, meals, a private motor coach, baggage handling and all
service charges and taxes.
In addition, the cost will include lectures by guide Phillip Leonard, a lecturer
at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and staff lecturer in appraisal
studies at George Washington University.
For more information, or to make a reservation, call the Travel
with Sam Houston office at 936.294.4725, toll-free at 1-866-BEARKAT, extension 4725, or by e-mail
at travel@shsu.edu.
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Students, Departments To Tailgate Before Tarleton Game
Registered student organizations are encouraged and invited
to sign up to take part in the SHSU vs. Tarleton State
pre-game party on Thursday (Oct. 7), from 4-6 p.m.
The Student Activities sponsored event will take place
in the parking lot of Bowers Stadium, where free chicken
legs and sausage will be given to the organizations
to barbeque. Free drinks and entertainment in the form of three local bands
will also be provided, as well as numerous giveaways,
such as T-shirts, foam paws
and mini-footballs.
Student Activities said they expect numerous organizations and departments,
such as ROTC, the SHSU Alumni Association, and Chi Alpha, along with various
fraternities
and sororities, to take part in the festivities.
Organizations interested in taking part should register by 10 a.m. the day
of the game. For more information contact the office of Student Activities
at 936.294.3861.
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Marquart To ‘Talk-Back’ After Play
James Marquart, director of the SHSU Texas Crime Victims’ Institute and
criminal justice professor, will lead the Alley Theatre’s Talk-Back on
Oct. 10, following a performance of “The Exonerated.”
Marquart will be one of several members of the national and local legal community
to speak at the Talk-Back following every performance of the play, which
runs Oct. 1-31 on the Neuhaus Stage at the Alley Theatre.
“
The Exonerated” shares the true stories of six individuals who were wrongly
convicted of murder and spent years on death row before being found innocent
and freed.
Recently named Time Magazine's Best Play of the Year, “The Exonerated,” by
husband/wife team Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, has been called "an artful
and moving evening of documentary theater" that "pays handsome tribute
to the resilience of human hearts and minds," by Charles Isherwood of
Variety.
Tickets to the performance can be purchased online through the Alley Theatre
Web site, www.alleytheatre.org, or by calling the box office at 713.228.8421.
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Students
To Meet Scholarship Donors At Luncheon
Student scholarship recipients will have the opportunity
to meet and thank those who endowed the scholarship at the
sixth annual
Scholarship Benefactor
and Recipient
luncheon on Friday (Oct. 8).
The luncheon will be held at 11:30 a.m. in the Lowman Student Center
Ballroom.
University president James F. Gaertner will emcee the event, and students
Michelle Smith and Christian Dorsey will serve as speakers.
The event is sponsored by the University Advancement division for those
scholarships set up through the division.
For more information, call Darlene
Andrews at 936.294.3623.
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Staff Council
To Host Fall Social
The SHSU Staff Council will host its annual fall social
on Friday (Oct. 8), from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Sam
Houston Memorial
Museum Grounds,
by
the Sam Houston
home.
The come-and-go picnic lunch will be held for full-time staff to
foster interaction between SHSU employees, according to Debbie Birdwell,
assistant
to the vice
president for Finance and Operations.
“
It’s a meet and greet your fellow employees as we’re starting the
new year,” she said.
In the event of rain, the luncheon will be moved to the Katy and
E. Don Walker Education Center.
For more information, call Birdwell at 936.294.1017.
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MISS To Spread ‘UniDiversity’ With Week Full
Of Events
The Office of Multicultural and International Student Services
is working to foster an existing unity on campus through
UniDiversity
Week, being
held Oct.
4-8, according to MISS program coordinator Jennifer Roberts.
“
We feel that a lot of people know about other cultures, but they don’t
try to embrace different cultures,” Roberts said, “so we’re
trying to get Sam Houston to embrace other cultures and expand their
knowledge base.”
The week will kick off with “The Magic Box,” a diversity
workshop that will be held on Monday in Lowman Student Center Room
302. The event, open
to faculty, staff and students, will be held at 4 p.m. and will last
about an hour.
“
This activity is going to be based on stereotypes and dispelling those stereotypes,” Roberts
said. “It’s a great activity for people who want to learn
about the cultures of other people.”
On Tuesday, MISS will work with the Program Council for their Oktoberfest
celebration, which will provide root beer and information about the
event that stems from
the German celebration.
A “Wall of Prejudice” workshop will be held on Wednesday, at 4 p.m.
in LSC Room 302 and will focus on “breaking down the barriers and building
a community at SHSU,” Roberts said. This workshop will also
last for about an hour.
On Thursday, MISS will focus on building fraternity and sorority
unity with a “Greek
Organization Think Tank Breakfast.”
“
Three people from each governing board from all four governing boards on campus
will be asked to attend,” Roberts said. “It’s a
free breakfast for them, and they get to bring certain ways to build
Greek
unity on campus.”
Those who want to participate in any of the events do not need to
sign up in advance. For more information, call the Office
of MISS at 936.294.3588.
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‘
Rimers of Eldritch’ To Play On Mainstage Oct. 6-9
The SHSU theatre department will tell the story of how
innocence is corrupted and morality is questioned as an upstanding
community
member
is tried
for the murder of the town outcast in “The Rimers of Eldritch,” from
Oct. 6-9 at the Mainstage Theatre in the University Theatre Center.
Performances will be held at 8 p.m. nightly, with a 2 p.m.
matinee on Saturday.
The play, written by pulitzer-prize winning author Lanford
Wilson, looks at the code of personal ethics in the small town
of Eldritch
as the outcome
of
the trial
is revealed.
Directed by theatre professor Maureen McIntyre, faculty member
Don Childs designed the lights and set and Kris Hansen designed
the costumes.
Theatre
student Sheena
Cooper will design the sound, and senior theatre major Kyle
Schreck is the stage manager.
Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for senior citizens
and SHSU students with an ID. Group rates are also available.
The play contains adult content and children under the age
of three are not permitted in the theatre.
For more information, or to reserve tickets, call the theatre
box office at 936.294.1339.
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CJ Faculty, Staff, Students To Participate
In Conference
The annual meeting of the Southwestern Association of Criminal
Justice will be held Oct. 7-9 in Houston at the Hilton Houston
Plaza. This
year’s conference
theme will be “Researching Criminal Justice Organizations.”
SHSU faculty members who will be attending and presenting
papers include Sam Souryal, Willard Oliver and Glen Kercher.
The Criminal
Justice
Center will
also be well-represented by doctoral students Kelly Cheeseman,
Amanda Farrell, Jiletta
Kubena, Vesna Markovic, Robert Morris, Sunghoon Roh and Robert
Worley, who will serve on panels and present papers.
In addition, criminal justice Alpha Phi Sigma honor students,
Brett Finn, Abby Glisan, Lisa Lee, Allison Newton, Ronmel
Urbina, Chris
Valdivia, Spencer Walker
and Ginny Wilson will be in Houston to attend and participate
in their first academic conference in order to learn more
about criminal
justice
topics
and interact with other university students throughout the
six-state region.
Dean Richard Ward, associate deans Wesley Johnson and Randy
Garner, and assistant dean Janet Mullings will represent
the interests
of the CJC
at the conference.
Deans Garner, Mullings, and Johnson will participate in a
special workshop on criminal justice program accreditation.
Johnson serves as a trustee to the Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences (ACJS).
The SWACJ, comprised of criminal justice educators and practitioners
from Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and
Texas is a regional
affiliate of
ACJS. The association strongly encourages the participation
of students in its annual meetings.
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Writing Workshops ‘Quote’ Documentation
Steps
The Writing Center will teach students ‘how to quote effectively’ with
their “Using Other People’s Words” workshop on Wednesday
(Oct. 6).
The workshop, which will be held at noon, will focus on using textual evidence
appropriately and gracefully in a way that creates seamless prose and maintains
the writer’s voice.
Writing Center undergraduate- and graduate-level tutors Gary Wilkens, Brook
Barnes and Maren Salyers will also teach students the conventions for incorporating
quotes and paraphrasing, as well as how to use source material from non-literary
papers.
On Thursday (Oct. 7) at noon, the center will help prevent students from
getting “bit
by the Internet” with its quoting and citing Internet sources in the
humanities workshop.
Conducted by Jennifer Rudolph, Veronica Mosely and Melinda Freeman, the workshop
will focus on MLA documentation style for Internet sources and will discuss
what needs to be documented.
The Writing Center is located in Wilson Building Room 114. For more information,
call 936.294.3680.
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Three Profs Display Works In Gaddis Geeslin
Professors Cory Cryer, Kristy Deetz, and Lari Gibbons will
be exhibiting their works, in the forms of paintings, drawings,
mezzotints and ceramics,
in the
Gaddis Geeslin Gallery through Oct. 21.
A visiting assistant professor of ceramics in the SHSU art department this
year, Cryer’s porcelain dinnerware expands on the importance that dishes
play in our every day lives: how they provoke memories, contain sustenance
and refer to identity, according to slide librarian Debbie Davenport.
Deetz, an artist who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, paints
in encaustic, a paint made from beeswax and pigment, on wooden panels that
are sometimes carved.
Her illusionistic paintings include tromp-l’oeil images of drapery, still
life objects, landscapes and diagrammatic perspective lines. She said her works
represent “points where ideas, people, cultures, and emotions cross
and sometimes merge.”
An art professor at the University of North Texas in Denton, Gibbons uses
charcoal drawings and finely detailed mezzotints as a stage in which commonplace
objects,
such as obsolete tools, household items and other detritus, are dislocated
in time, place, function and scale.
Her multi-image compositions invite the viewer to explore, compare and ultimately
reevaluate the relationships between natural and manmade objects, Davenport
said.
A gallery reception will be held on Thursday (Oct. 7), from 5-7 p.m. and
is open to the public.
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery is open Monday through Friday, from noon to 5
p.m. For more information contact, Davenport at 936.294.1317 or art_dld@shsu.edu.
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Library To Host Reception For Collection Installation
The Newton Gresham Library will have a reception for the
permanent installation of the William J. Breitenbach Mexican
Mask Collection on Friday (Oct. 8).
Champaign and hors d’oeuvres will be provided at the
reception, which will be held from 6-8 p.m. on the fourth
floor of the library.
For more information, or to RSVP for the reception, call
936.294.1613.
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PC
Brings Oktoberfest, ‘Secret’ MTV Guest To Campus
The Program Council will be celebrating Bearkat Oktoberfest
on Tuesday (Oct. 5) at 12:30 p.m. in the LSC Mall Area. This
culture program will
present
the history of Oktoberfest as well as give students the chance to partake
of free
pretzels and root beer.
On Wednesday (Oct. 6), students will have a chance to meet a star from
one of MTV’s numerous shows in the special MTV Celebrity Mystery
Guest event, at 7 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center Ballroom. This guest
is so
secret that
not even the Program Council knows who it is.
Finally, the Program Council will also be hosting a free screening
of the summer comedy flick “White Chicks,” starring the Wayans
brothers, on Friday, at 7 p.m. in the LSC Theater.
For more information on any of these events, call 936.294.1763.
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Education
Organization To Teach About Job Interviews
The SHSU Student Council for Exceptional Children will
host “Job Interviews-What
You Need to Know” at their meeting on Monday (Oct. 4) from
5:30-6:30 p.m. The meeting will be in the Teacher Education Center
in Room 119.
“
The focus is on teachers applying and interviewing for employment after graduation
from SHSU,” said SCEC publicity chairperson Alegra Hardy,
adding that the meeting is open to anyone who wishes to come.
SCEC is the SHSU local affiliate chapter to the national Council
for Exceptional Children. Both levels of the organization advocate
for
quality education
of all children, with an emphasis for students with special educational
needs getting equity in funding per tax dollars, access to an
equal quality of
education
and quality training for those who work with this population,
that goes from the severely physically and emotionally handicapped
to
gifted and
talented
students, Hardy said.
Both organization levels influence educators and Legislators
on local, state and national levels to provide research-based
information about
those students
and their needs; viable treatments for care; instructional methods
and interactions that work with these children from pre-school
to 22 years
old, as well as
beyond into college completion; and parental support information
and community resources
for parents and students.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Sept. 26, 2004
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