SHSU
Update For Week Of Oct. 24
Harris To Share His ‘Roots’
Anthony Harris, associate
professor of educational leadership and counseling, will
discuss “Growing
Up in the Segregated South” on Wednesday (Oct. 27),
as part of the Grassroots Speaker Series.
The speech will be held at 5 p.m. in the Olson Auditorium,
in Academic Building 4. A reception will follow immediately
in the Student Advising and Mentoring
Center, in AB4 Suite 210.
Harris, who grew up in Hattiesburg, Miss., during the Civil Rights Movement,
was one of five teenagers who chose to integrate Hattiesburg's W. I. Thames
Junior High School in the fall of 1966.
An activist, he participated in marches, demonstrations, sit-ins, boycotts,
and voter registration drives in 1964, the year now known for its Freedom
Summer,
as a pre-teen.
The speaker series is sponsored by the SAM Center’s academic support
programs, Elliott T. Bowers Honors Program, International Hispanic Association,
Women United
and Omega Delta Phi Fraternity, Inc.
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Librarians On Location Bring 'Help Where You Are'
Need research help on the go? Then stop by Librarians on
Location. It's research help where you are, every Wednesday
and Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., beginning on Oct. 27.
SHSU Librarians will set up a portable Reference Desk with
wireless laptops, research handouts, and promotional information
about Newton Gresham Library.
Students can stop by to receive assistance in finding sources
for papers and projects, learn how to navigate the library
Web site, use the library catalog to find books, and get
hands-on help in searching the library's databases to locate
articles.
"
The Newton Gresham Library is committed to finding better
ways to serve the SHSU community,” said Ann Holder,
director of library services. “Librarians on Location
is an outreach program designed to bring Library services
to the students where they congregate.
“
The idea is to not only answer questions and assist in research,
but to encourage students to go use the Library resources
and librarians as their primary sources of information."
On Wednesdays, Librarians on Location will be located in
the Writing Center and in the Academic Building 4 Computer
Lab, in Room 203, and on Thursdays, in the Smith-Hutson and
Lee Drain foyers.
The Librarians on Location program will run through Nov.
18.
For more information, call the Newton Gresham Library Reference
Desk at 294-1599.
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Hancock To Talk Art On Oct. 28
Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock will speak about his work on
Thursday (Oct. 28) at 3:30 p.m. in the Art Auditorium, in
Art Building E Room 108.
A young artist from Paris, Texas, Hancock’s work includes
drawings, mixed media installations, and performances and
has been shown around the globe.
The imagery in his work includes characters such as “Mound
#1,” “Torpedoboy,” “The Vegans,” and “Painter” and “Loid” who
act out narratives derived from a complex personal mythology
Hancock has developed. This semi-autobiographical saga weaves
allegory, word play, satire and humor into an inventive,
multimedia collage.
Hancock studied art at Texas A&M, Commerce and did graduate
work at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. He has received
grants from Artadia Houston, the Joan Mitchell Foundation,
and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Exhibits include the Whitney Biennial in New York in both
2002, and 2000, the Lyon Biennial in Lyon, France, and the
Istanbul Biennial in 2003.
Hancock has had solo exhibits at the Cleveland Museum of
Art; Museum of
Contemporary Art, North Miami; and the Glassell School of
the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. He is represented by Dunn
and Brown Contemporary Gallery in Dallas, and James Cohan
Gallery in New York.
The free lecture is sponsored by the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery,
and is open to the public.
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President's Halloween Carnival To Be Held Oct. 28
Sam Houston State University president James Gaertner and
Mrs.
Gaertner will host the children of faculty, staff and students
for the
annual President's Halloween Carnival on Oct. 28.
The event will be held at the Gibbs Ranch from 5:30-7:30
p.m., and
will feature a haunted house, hayride, games, treats, pictures with
Kooter the goat, a costume parade, a disc jockey and much more.
Many student organizations have volunteered to put on the event, including the
Honors Program, Kappa Alpha, Tri Sigma, Math Club, Ruth Lane Mathematical Society,
Kappa
Delta
Pi,
and
agriculture.
Other groups or individuals interested in helping can contact
Maggie Babcock at mbabcock@shsu.edu or 936.294.3415.
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Dracula’s Drive To Make Blood Less ‘Scare’-ce
The Office of Student Activities and the Department of
Recreational Sports will team up to co-sponsor “Dracula’s
Blood Drive” on Wednesday (Oct. 27), from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center
Ballroom.
The department with the highest percentage of donors will
all receive a free 10-minute massage.
Blood is at a shortage, and all donations benefit the American
Red Cross.
For more information, call Dan Kennedy, program coordinator
for Student Activities, at 936.294.3466, or Tina DeAses,
assistant director for wellness programs for Rec Sports,
at 936.294.3658.
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International Programs To Host ‘Coffee Hour’
The Office of International Programs will give both foreign
and American students the opportunity to meet for refreshments
with “International Coffee Hour” on
Thursday (Oct. 28), from 4-5 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center Kat Klub.
“
It’s just a wind-down time for them (international students) to visit with
friends they already have and meet some other international students they haven’t
met before,” said Donna Rogers, OIP coordinator of operations.
“ We invite our volunteer base, so that some of the American students who
volunteer with various aspects of our office can interact with the international
students
and get to know them better.”
Cookies, fruit, punch, tea and coffee will be served, and students can play
on the ping-pong and pool tables for free for the hour.
“
One of the main goals is to integrate them (international students) into the
regular campus community so that they will have an opportunity to meet other
students as they come in,” Rogers said. “Last month was the very
first time that some non-international students; some American students just
wandered up and asked what was going on and stayed and visited with the internationals,
and that’s one of our primary goals.”
International Coffee Hour is open to all students, faculty, staff and “anybody
who would like to come and get better acquainted with some of our international
students,” she said.
For more information, call 936.294.4737.
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Cuban Poet To Hold Reading
Jose Kozer, a well-known Cuban poet, will read some of
his works on Monday (Oct. 25) at 2 p.m. in Evans Building
Room
105.
He will also hold another reading on Tuesday at 5 p.m.
at Khaldi's Coffee House.
The readings are sponsored by the department of English
and foreign languages and Sigma Tau Delta, the international
English honor society.
For more information, contact Rafael Saumell at 936.294.1449.
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Alumna,
European ‘Star’ To
Sing At Preview Concert
For those who will not be attending the Eastern European
Tour sponsored by Travel with SH in conjunction with the
School of Music, the school will host
a preview
concert on Tuesday (Nov. 2), at 7:30 p.m. in Killinger Auditorium.
SHSU alumna and native Houstonian Melanie Holliday will serve as a featured
performer at the concert.
“
We will be playing all the pieces that will be played in Europe in addition to
playing with all the soloists who will perform in Europe,” said Veronica
Wilson, graduate assistant in orchestral studies, “which include, Melanie
Holliday, Kristen Hightower and Andrew Wilson.
“
It (the purpose of the concert) is so that people not going on the trip can enjoy
the program that we have worked hard to put together,” she said.
The School of Music group and Holliday, as well as those taking the Travel
with SH tour, will leave for Budapest, Hungary, their first stop on the tour
which
will also include Vienna and Prague, that Friday for the 10-day trip.
Holliday, “a real star in Vienna and Austria,” as well as being
well-known in Japan, has approximately 20 CDs to her credit, according to Carol
Smith, director
of orchestral studies and professor of music.
“
An international career has taken the multi-talented artist to all the major
music festivals of Europe. She has performed at the finest concert locations
at the side of famous partners and appeared in many TV shows,” Smith said. “Due
to her stage presence and professional attitude of interpreting the operetta
repertory, Melanie Holliday is a welcomed guest and enthuses the public all
over the world.”
Tickets for the concert are $8 for adults and $5 for senior citizens, children
12 and over, and non-SHSU students. Children under 11, as well as SHSU students,
faculty and staff, are free.
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Showcase Theatre To ‘Return To The Land’ Oct.
29-30
Melissa Wynn, in association with the SHSU theatre and dance
department, as well as the music department, will present
her solo work entitled “Return
to the Land” on Oct. 29-30 in the University Theatre Center’s
Showcase Theatre.
Wynne, an assistant professor in the dance department, choreographed
the work herself while working closely with several people to make
this an “exciting
collaboration between dance, music, set installation, lighting design
and film.”
Don Childs, a nationally recognized lighting designer and assistant
professor of set and light design, along with Thomas Couvillion, visiting
assistant
professor of music, and filmmaker George R. Larkins, III, have all
contributed their
own creations of original set design, music and film clips respectively
to the production.
“‘ Non-linear and non-literal’ are the two primary characteristics
of my work,” Wynn said. “‘Return to the Land’ stems
from my concern with the growth of technology and consumerism in the
society in which
we currently live. Because of such growth, I have a deep rooted desire
to return to a more natural connection to the earth.”
“
Return to the Land” will tour nationally and internationally following
its premier in Huntsville. Tickets for the 40-45 minute presentation
are $8.
For more information contact Wynne at 936.294.1588.
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Writing Center Wraps
Up Semester Workshops
The Writing Center will go over the basics
of appropriate quoting, as well as how to construct an APA
reference list with its workshop “APA Citations:
Don’t Get Kicked Out of the University.”
Undergraduate-level tutors, Jennifer Sanders, Kacey Grimes and
Melanie Machost will lead the discussion on Tuesday (Oct. 26),
at 4 p.m.
in the Writing Center.
On Wednesday (Nov. 3), the center will wrap up its workshops for
the semester with “Writing Application Essays and Statements of Purpose for Graduate
School,” at 4 p.m. in the Writing Center.
Writing Center director Diane Dowdey and undergraduate tutor Penny
Pitrucha will relate the general principles for writing convincing
and persuasive
statements that review undergraduate work relevant to a graduate
program, as well as discuss
future plans.
The center is located in Wilson Building Room 114. For more information,
call 936.294.3680.
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Business Graduate
Student Wins Award
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| Catherine C. Odasz |
Catherine C. Odasz, a 2003 College of Business Administration
accounting graduate and master’s degree candidate, has
won a $5,000 award from the prestigious Texas Business Hall
of Fame Foundation.
Odasz and 12 other outstanding Texas business graduate students
will receive their awards at a foundation luncheon in San
Antonio and
will be honored
at a dinner that evening.
As an undergraduate at the College of Business Administration,
Odasz was first in her class of 705 students. She received
several scholarships
and
holds an
overall grade point average of 4.0.
A member of the Golden Key and Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies,
Odasz currently serves as a College of Business Administration
ambassador and is a student
member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
and
the Texas Society
of Certified Public Accountants.
She is employed full-time as an account executive with Robert
Half Management Resources, specializing in the placement
of senior-level professionals within the financial information
industry.
The Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation was founded in
1983 to recognize and encourage the values of entrepreneurial
spirit,
personal
integrity,
and community
leadership. Charlie E. Amato, a 1970 COBA graduate, is the
foundation’s
current chair.
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Faculty, Staff Members Earn NETNet Certifications
Several Sam Houston State University faculty and staff
members recently earned certificates from the Northeast
Texas Consortium
(NETNet)
Center for Educational
Technologies.
Earning this certification indicates that each participant
was assessed according to a 41-point documented standard
of minimum
competence,
and their performance
was deemed to meet or exceed this standard.
The Northeast Texas Consortium (NETNet) offers this certification
to persons demonstrating proficiency in the skills required
to operate the NETNet
interactive videoconferencing system.
These state-of-the-art videoconferencing systems are
present on the 15 college and university NETNet member
campuses
across east
Texas.
Certificates were awarded to James Van Roekel, director
of academic instructional technology and distance learning;
Craig Schlicher,
programmer analyst;
Robert Werling, project coordinator; student Bethany
A. Young;
and faulty members
Phillip Lyons, Greg Gathright, and Carol Hightower Parker.
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Jennifer Gauntt
Oct. 24, 2004
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