SHSU
Update For Week Of Jan. 23
Mardi Gras To Come To SHSU
SHSU will celebrate Mardi Gras with a jambalaya band and
a Cajun seminar on Feb. 3.
Activities for the 3rd Annual Cajun Mardi Gras Festival will
kick off with a seminar on the Cajun culture and music, at
7 p.m. in Evans Building Room 105. Terry Thibodeaux, interim
dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, along
with various band members from the Jambalaya Cajun Band,
will conduct the seminar.
Afterward, the Huntsville and campus community can put on
their dancing shoes and join the Jambalaya Cajun Band with
featured
musical guest D.L. Menard for a Mardi Gras Dance in the Lowman
Student Center Ballroom.
The dance, open to the public, will be held from 9 p.m. until
midnight. Dance admission is $10, or $5 for anyone with an
SHSU ID.
Jambalaya, one of the premier Cajun bands in Louisiana, has
been performing for over 30 years with mostly the same musicians.
They feature Terry Huval on vocals, fiddle, accordion and
guitar, and Reggie Matte on vocals and accordion.
In addition, Menard is a legend in Louisiana Cajun music,
having recorded some of the genre's most popular songs of
all time.
The band was a featured act at the Festivals Acadiens in
Lafayette last September.
For more information, call Terry Thibodeaux at 294-2200 or
e-mail at thib@shsu.edu.
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Bearkat Drive To Collect Blood Tuesday
In honor of National
Blood Donation Month, the Department of Recreational Sports
and the Student Health Center will
host
a Bearkat Blood Drive on Tuesday (Jan. 25), from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center Ballroom.
“
We want everyone to come out give the gift of life,” said
Tina DeAses, assistant director of wellness programs.
Participants must bring a picture ID and be prepared to spend
20 - 30 minutes giving blood.
All donors will receive a T-shirt and free snacks.
“
Every pint of blood saves three lives, and we want to save
at least 150 lives,” DeAses said.
For more information, call Michelle
Lovering at 936.294.4347
or DeAses at 936.294.1985.
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SBDC Offers Computer Seminars In Spanish
The Sam Houston
State Small Business Development Center will kick off a series
of computer courses that will be taught
in Spanish on Monday (Jan. 24), with “Trabajando con
Windows XP, Nivel I (Working with Windows XP, Level 1).”
Level one will be followed-up on Tuesday with "Trabajando
con Windows XP, Nivel II (Working with Windows XP, Level
2)."
Both seminars will be held from 6-9 p.m. at the SBDC Computer
Learning Center and are led by Fabiola Sanchez, a student
employee with SHSU’s Computer Services department.
The courses are open to the public and are free thanks to
a grant the center received in the fall semester from Entergy,
as well as funds from Walker County, which enables the center “to
provide computer skills that are needed for Spanish-speaking
participants to retain or obtain better employment opportunities
and contribute to the local economy,” according to
Cecilia Schlicher, SBDC training coordinator.
“ (The courses are offered) to assist in the retention of current jobs or
the creation of new jobs in the local economy,” she said. “The
Spanish-speaking population is the largest growing section of the Texas population
and numerous
industries have a Spanish-speaking worker base.”
The SBDC is located at Sam South, or 2424 Sam Houston Ave. For more information,
call 936.294.3737.
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SAM Center To Teach Study Skills
The Student Advising and Mentoring Center will begin its
study skills workshop series on Jan. 31. The series is
comprised of six sessions, each held on a
weekly basis.
The series covers topics such as “studying smart,” procrastination,
time management, reading textbooks and taking notes, test-taking strategies,
and stress management.
Each topic will be covered in multiple sessions daily, and for those who cannot
participate from Jan. 31 to March 7, the SAM Center will host a second series
from March 21 to April 25.
The workshop series is free for students. For more information, or to register,
call 936.294.4444 or stop by the SAM Center, in Academic Building 4 Room 210.
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YMCA
Reps To Speak At Jan. 27 NTSO Meeting
The next Non-Traditional Student’s Organization meeting will be held
Thursday (Jan. 27), from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the foyer on the third
floor of the Lowman
Student Center.
Guest speakers will include Kelly Prew and Sandra Clifton from the Huntsville
Family YMCA.
The meeting will be come and go, but RSVPs are requested. If a large
number of RSVPs are received, the meeting will be moved to the room adjacent
to
the foyer.
RSVPs are requested by Jan. 24 and can be sent to Frances Crawford Fennessy,
NTSO president, at roughneckbooks@hotmail.com.
For more information, call Fennessy at 936.294.1995.
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COBA To Present Successful
Women Symposium
Sam Houston State University’s Gibson D. Lewis
Center for Business and Economic Development and the Small Business
Development Center, both College
of Business Administration institutes, will host a “Successful
Women Symposium,” on
Feb. 25, from 12:30-4:00 p.m. in the Smith-Hutson Business Building.
This cross-cultural symposium will highlight the initial results
of the Successful Women Worldwide Project, a research undertaking
that
began
six years ago.
The project examines successful women throughout the world and
will attempt to identify any similar characteristics of these women
and
any variations
that may
be attributable to cultural differences.
The first in a series of Successful Women conferences, the Feb.
25 symposium will focus on women living in the western hemisphere.
Research
data collected
in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
and the Caribbean will be summarized by B.J. Punnett from the University
of the West
Indies.
As the project expands, future meetings will examine research gathered
from women in eastern regions.
Jo Ann Duffy, professor of management and director of the Center
of Business and Economic Development, is the coordinator.
To reserve a seat, e-mail the center at CBED@shsu.edu or call 936.294.4154.
For more information, including a program agenda, visit the symposium’s
Web site at http://www.shsu.edu/~coba/jbs/successfulwomen2b.htm.
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Outdoor
Rec Pedals In Semester With Adventure
The outdoor recreation
division of the Department of Recreational Sports will kick
start a semester filled with excursions on Thursday
(Jan.
27) with a mountain
biking trip at Huntsville State Park.
Participants will depart SHSU at about 3:30 p.m., with an expected
return at 6 p.m.
The cost is $15 for students, $17 for faculty and staff and
$20 for guests, which includes transportation, park entry and
bike
rental.
The sign-up deadline is Wednesday (Jan. 26), at 10 p.m. in
Health and Kinesiology Center Room 104.
All outings are part of the Outdoor Skills Series, a collaboration
of the outdoor recreation program and the Outdoor Adventure
Club.
“
The goal is to offer a wide range of outdoor adventure activities available locally
and emphasize the learning of basic skills that serve to enhance the experience
by increasing the likelihood of success, safety and enjoyment,” said
Marvin Seale, associate director of Recreational Sports
For more information, contact Seale at 936.294.3656 or by e-mail
at seale@shsu.edu.
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Program Council Seeks Committee Members
The SHSU Program
Council will have a recruitment party on Monday (Jan. 31)
in the Lowman Student Center Mall Area
at noon to
introduce, or
reintroduce, students
to the organization, as well as to enlist committee members.
“
We want to try to reach as many students as possible so we can get a better knowledge
of the types of programs they would like to see,” said Jeff Oribhabor,
vice president of public relations for the Program Council. “The
only way we can truly know is if we have enough committee members.”
The council has five regular programming chairs and two special
committee chairs, of which four are new. In addition, the group
has an executive
board, which
will have committee members as well, and also has spots open
for public relations, retention and management.
For more information, call Oribhabor at 936.294.1763.
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Rice Prof to Give Physics
Colloquium
Han Pu, professor in the Department of Astronomy and Physics
at Rice University, will speak at 3 p.m. Tuesday (Jan. 25)
on "Coupled Atom-Molecular Condensates." The Physics Colloquium
series presentation will be given in room 207 of the Farrington
Building.
"In recent years, researches in ultracold molecules have
been greatly intensified," said Han. "Cold molecules offer
new possibilities in controlled chemical reactions, search
for
permanent electric
dipole moment, more accurate determination of atomic collisional
parameters, etc.
"In this talk I will first give a brief review
on recent experimental progress in this area, then focus
on the system of coupled atom-molecule condensates, particularly
on creating stable molecular condensate from atomic condensate
using a generalized STIRAP scheme, and on the stability
properties of the coherent superposition state of the two
types of condensates."
The public is invited.
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Jan. 23, 2005
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