SHSU
Update For Week Of May 1
AAI Red Flags Alcohol Abuse With Week-Long Event
One SHSU group is putting up the red flag on alcohol abuse.
As part of the Alcohol Abuse Initiative’s Red Flag
Week, from May 2-6, an awareness and scavenger hunt-type
event will be held on Monday and Tuesday, from 9 a.m. to
2 p.m. daily in the Lowman Student Center Mall area.
The event will consist of actual red flags carrying messages
of different warning signs of alcohol abuse on them being
posted across campus.
Participating students will sign up at a table in the mall
area to receive a card, after which they will look for
five flags around campus to write down certain ‘symptoms’ of
alcohol abuse.
The card will then be returned to the AAI’s table,
where prizes and food will be disbursed, according to health
programming coordinator Michelle Lovering.
“ The red flags are an opportunity for interaction and learning, “Lovering
said. “Hopefully it will help students learn the symptoms themselves
and will give students exposure to them (the symptoms).
“ This is our last effort to raise awareness about alcohol abuse to the
students
this semester.”
Though the scavenger hunt will only be the first two days, the flags will be
up all week, Lovering said.
For more information about Red Flag Week, contact Lovering at 936.294.4347
or mlovering@shsu.edu or visit www.shsu.edu/aai.
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Parents To Send Well Wishes
With Apple Days
The SHSU Parents’ Association will give students food
for thought during the spring Apple Days on Monday and Tuesday (May 2-3).
Volunteers and association members will be in the Lowman Student Center
Mall Area, near the Alumni Fountain, beginning at 8:30 a.m. both days
handing
out applies, Scantrons, muffins and cookies while supplies last.
The event is held to provide students with support as finals draw closer
and students are working on or finishing up class projects, according
to Parents’ Association
faculty adviser Mary Ellen Sims.
The snacks will also be available for faculty members “because it’s
the end of the semester for them too,” Sims said.
“ We just want to wish everybody good luck at the end of the semester,” she
said.
Each semester, the Parents’ Association hosts two Apple Days, giving
out more than 1,200 apples and 5,000 Scantrons to students to give students
a treat
before finals.
The Parents’ Association is an organization of Sam Houston parents who
actively support students throughout the year, by raising funds from member dues
and the sale of merchandise for its annual scholarships. The association co-sponsors
Parents’ Weekend each fall semester, welcomes new Bearkat parents
during New Student Orientation each summer, as well as sponsors Apple Days
and awards
six $1,000 scholarships each year.
In addition, an association board meeting will be held on Tuesday, at
11 a.m. in the LSC.
For more information about the association or Tuesday’s board meeting
call Sims, assistant dean of students, at 936.294.3026 or e-mail at mesims@shsu.edu.
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Program
Offers Opportunity To Study In Mexico
Students who would like a change of scenery for summer
classes have the opportunity to study in Mexico through SHSU’s Puebla Field
School.
Classes are taught by SHSU faculty members, on the campus of Universidad
Iberoamericana, in the Colleges of Business Administration, Arts
and Sciences, and Humanities
and Social Sciences.
Courses offered for the Summer 1 session include management 430B/marketing
575B; management 430E/marketing 575A; art 493J and 493U; Spanish
263, 369 and 376;
and political science 387 and 481.
Through the program, students not only have the opportunity to
interact with the local community, but also to attend field trips
to major businesses,
museums and archaeological sites, according to program director
Frieda Koeninger.
Lodging is provided either through a Holiday Inn in downtown Puebla
for $1750, which does not include a meal plan, or through home
stay with
a Mexican family
for $1450, which does include meals. Tentative travel dates are
June 2-29.
Both plans include airfare; transportation to and from Puebla from
the airport; seven field trips, one to Mexico City; and access
to facilities at Universidad
Iberoamericana. However, tuition and fees are not included in the
cost.
Scholarships are available through COBA.
Founded in 1531, Puebla now ranks as the fourth largest city in
Mexico. The rich culture of Puebla is a blend of colonial architecture
and
traditional art forms
with a modern business and industrial sector, Koeninger said.
For more information, contact Koeninger at fol_fck@shsu.edu or
936.294.1443.
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Dance Major, Non-Major Workshops To Be Held May 2-4
The culmination of a semester of hard work for SHSU dance
students will be displayed through three performances May
2-4.
On Monday and Tuesday (May 2-3) dance non-majors will perform
various tap, jazz, beginning ballet and salsa dances at
7 p.m. in the Academic
Building
3 Dance
Theatre.
“ It’s really fun,” said associate professor of dance Cindy Gratz. “The
place just gets so filled with parents and friends.
“ The really popular ones are the hip-hop classes; everyone wants to see
that,” she
said. “I don’t know what the lyrics mean, but they
really seem to have fun.”
On Wednesday (May 4), dance majors will give the audience a glimpse
into “what
goes on in upper-level classes” at 7 p.m., also in the AB
3 Dance Theatre.
“ The major’s (performance) is a little more subdued, b/c it’s a little
more serious study,” she said.
All three performances will include dances “that aren’t seen any
other place” or are independent studies that aren’t
performed in other concerts, such as the Dance Spectrum or Dances@8,
Gratz
said.
“ One of our majors had been in the Army, and spent six months in Iraq.
She’s
making a dance about the effects of that and what it was like for her,” she
said. “Another girl just likes to tap dance; so her independent study was
to find a tap dancer that she really liked, and she liked Ann Miller, and to
recreate an excerpt from one of her (Miller’s) dances.”
Following the Wednesday night performance, an award ceremony will
be held to recognize the students and present scholarships.
For more information contact the dance
department at 936.294.1875.
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Clay
Club To Sell Handmade Pottery May 2-4
Pottery and clay sculptures
created by SHSU ceramic students, alumni and faculty will
be exhibited and sold at the Clay Club’s
semi-annual sale, Monday through Wednesday (May 2-4) from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.
The sale will be on the Art Complex lawn in front of Art Building
F on Monday and in the Lowman Student Center Mall Area on Tuesday
and
Wednesday.
The SHSU Clay Club is a student-run organization whose mission
is to expand education in ceramics through visiting artists,
conferences and workshops.
Annual events
such as the pottery sale help to fund an active visiting artist
program
and student participation in national ceramic conferences.
For more information, contact Kim Childress, art department
secretary, at kchildress@shsu.edu or 936.294.1315.
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Pictures
Of Old West To
Be Exhibited Through June 5
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| This photo, entitled "The Horse Wrangler"
by Erwin E. Smith, is one of many on display in the Walker
Education Center through
June 5. |
Pictures of famous rider Kitty
Canute, cowboy artist Erwin Smith and others who lived in
the times of the Old West will
be on
display in
the Katy and
E. Don
Walker, Sr., Education Center beginning May 3.
“
Cowgirls and Cowboys of Texas,” a photograph collection
of “real
old-time cowpokes, wranglers and hands” in the 19th
Century and early 20th Century from the Library of Congress
archives,
will be on display
through June
5, according to curator of exhibits David Wight.
“ We thought it would be of interest to the community; cowboys and Texas
are almost
synonymous,” Wight said.
Among the photographs of famous cowboys and cowgirls are
pictures of Theodore Roosevelt wearing a cowboy outfit and
members of
Pawnee Bill’s Wild West
Show, as well as photographs entitled “A bad hoss” and “Branding
cattle on the prairies of Texas.”
For more information, visit the Sam
Houston Memorial Museum Web site or call 936.294.1832.
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Music Ends Semester On High
Note
The SHSU School of Music will end its semester with piano
trio and orchestra concerts this week, beginning on Monday
(May
2).
SHSU faculty members Andrew Wilson, Lisa Vosdoganes, and
Sohyoung Park will perform on the violin, cello and piano,
respectively,
for the
trio concert
on Monday,
at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
The three will perform two major works for their instrumentation, “Trio
in D Minor, op. 32” by Anton Arensky and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano
Trio No. 1 in B-flat Major, op. 97 "Archduke.” Concert
admission is free.
On Thursday (May 5), the SHSU Symphony Orchestra and the
SHSU Chamber Players will give the audience “An Evening of Encores,” with a concert consisting
of “a variety of styles and genres with music from Handel to Puccini,” according
to Patricia Card, assistant professor of music.
The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the main auditorium
of University Heights Baptist Church, with guest student
conductors Veronica
Wilson, Ryan Gilchrist,
Clay West, Brian Eisemann, Wesley Robertson, Justin Nuckols
and
Patrick Newcomb.
Solo performers for the concert include Wendy Raines and
Geoff McInturf, oboes; Kimber McClellan, bassoon; J.T. Frankney,
trumpet; Joel Bernal
and Andrea Harrell,
clarinets; Brendan Emig, baritone (voice); Rachel Saines,
soprano
(voice); and Erin Daniel, violin.
Concert admission is free for those with an SHSU ID, $5 for
students and senior citizens and $8 for the general public.
For more information, contact the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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Beto
Presented Lifetime Achievement Award
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| Dan Richard Beto |
Dan Richard Beto, executive
director of SHSU’s Correctional
Management Institute of Texas, was recently awarded the prestigious
Charles W. Hawkes
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Probation Association.
Beto was given the award at the organization’s annual
conference on April 12 in Austin.
Fred Rangel, the organization’s president, said that the award was given
to Beto in recognition of his “many achievements and
lifetime service to the probation profession.”
Prior to being named CMIT executive director in 1994, Beto
devoted more than a quarter of a century to the probation
profession. During his career,
Beto
served as a juvenile probation officer in Harris County,
U. S. Probation Officer for
the Southern District of Texas, and was director of two community
supervision and corrections department in Texas.
As CMIT executive director, Beto is responsible for the Texas
Probation Training Academy, which delivers a majority of
probation officer
training in the state.
A past president of the Texas Probation Association and the
National Association of Probation Executives, he also served
on the Reinventing
Probation Council
of the Manhattan Institute.
The award, the association’s highest honor, is named
for the late Charles W. Hawkes, who served as chief probation
officer
for
Jefferson
County and who
was one of the leaders in advancing the probation profession.
“ I am extremely honored to receive this award from my peers,” said Beto. “The
Charles W. Hawkes Lifetime Achievement Award is recognition
every probation professional dreams of.”
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Jennifer Gauntt
May 1, 2005
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