SHSU
Update For Week Of Nov. 6
Raven Village Wins Naming
Contest
Over 1700 students voted in the Department of Residence
Life’s “Name the Residence Hall" contest
through online voting on Oct. 27-28.
With approximately 35 percent of the student body vote, Raven
Village will be presented to university President James F.
Gaertner, as well as the Texas State University System Board
of Regents for approval before the name can become official.
The five students who submitted the name Raven Village will
each receive a $20 gift certificate to the Barnes and Noble
University Bookstore.
Over 700 different names were submitted for consideration
and were narrowed down by a panel of faculty, staff, and students
to five names: Raven Village, Lone Star Village, San Jacinto
Hall, Templeton Hall, and Frank Cloud Hall.
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Cavalry, History Dept
To Give Vet Day Demonstration
The SHSU history department and the 11th Texas Cavalry Reenactment
Group will celebrate Veterans’ Day on Friday (Nov. 11)
with “The Life of Billy Yank and Johnny Reb,”
a U.S. Civil War demonstration.
The demonstration will include cavalry members teaching
history students from professors Susannah Bruce’s and
Caroline Crimm’s classes about the lives of American
Civil War soldiers, the basic maneuvers these men performed
on the battlefield, the weapons used and how weapons were
loaded and fired.
The event, which is open to the Huntsville community, will
be held from 9 a.m. to noon on the Sam Houston Memorial Museum
grounds, between the Woodland Home and 19th street.
For more information, contact Bruce at 936.294.3659 or sbruce@shsu.edu.
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‘Mystique’
Author To Discuss Pulitzer-Winning Book
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'Mystique' author
Sheridan Prasso |
Pulitzer-prize winning author Sheridan Prasso will discuss
her book, “The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha
Girls and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient” on Tuesday
(Nov. 8), at 11 a.m. in the Lowman Student Center Theater.
Prasso, a writer, editor and Asia specialist with more than
15 years of experience covering the region, writes about global
issues and international affairs, particularly from cultural,
economic, and business perspectives.
Her articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic,
The New York Times, Fortune, BusinessWeek, TIME, The Far Eastern
Economic Review, The International Herald Tribune, The Los
Angeles Times, and The World Policy Journal, among other publications.
In addition, Prasso spent eight years with BusinessWeek, as
its New York-based Asia editor, as a senior news editor, and
as a contributing editor; served as Cambodia bureau chief
for Agence France-Presse from 1991 to 1994, setting up the
first permanent Western news bureau to reopen in Phnom Penh
since 1975; and worked with The Associated Press in Washington,
D.C., and Chicago, and later worked in New York as an AP business
writer; among other positions.
She holds a master’s degree in social anthropology from
Cambridge University, and a bachelor’s degree in international
affairs from George Washington University.
Among her accolades, she is the recipient of a Human Rights
Press Award for coverage of Cambodian land mine victims, and
shared in six awards for team coverage of the Asian financial
crisis and its aftermath.
Her book, “The Asian Mystique,” is published by
PublicAffairs press.
A book signing will follow the lecture, which is free and
open to the community.
The event is sponsored by the SHSU history department and
the Asia Society of Texas. For more information, contact Tracy
Steele, associate professor of history, at 936.294.1480 or
his_tls@shsu.edu.
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Texas Professor To Speak
For Beto Series
Sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin
Mark Warr will be the featured speaker for the College of
Criminal Justice’s Beto Chair Lecture Series on Tuesday
(Nov. 8).
Warr will discuss “Safe at Home: The Transition from
Public to Private Life in the United States, 1960 –
2000” from 1-2:30 p.m. in the Criminal Justice Center’s
Kerper Courtroom.
The lecture will be followed by a discussion in the Bates
Room for graduate students, and a reception will also be held
in the Alumni Room from 4-5 p.m.
For more information, call 936.294.1635.
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Beta Gamma Sigma Taps 14 For
Membership
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| Angela Kober (center) was one of 14
recently tapped into the business organization Beta Gamma
Sigma by COBA Dean R. Dean Lewis and faculty adviser Elsie
Ameen. An induction ceremony will be held Nov. 14. |
Fourteen students were recently tapped into the James E.
Gilmore Beta Gamma Sigma Chapter at Sam Houston State University.
Those students who will be inducted into lifetime membership
at a ceremony on Nov. 14 include William Alexander, Victoria
Marie Conarroe, Anne Therese Downs, Keith Mark Gabrysch, Shahnawaz
Jivani, Angela T. Kober, Kyle Edward Reinhardt, Bina Devi
Rollo, Anna Melissa Smith, Holly Janelle Sommer, Britany Alexis
Vinsant, Ruba Khalil, Jessica Leigh Stevenson and John Michael
Wood.
Beta Gamma Sigma is the international honor fraternity for
colleges of business accredited by the AACSB-International.
Members must be juniors in the top 7 percent of their class,
seniors in the top 10 percent based on overall GPA or graduating
master’s students in the top 20 percent. In addition,
members must meet other criteria.
R. Dean Lewis, dean of the College of Business Administration,
serves as chapter president and Elsie Ameen serves as secretary-treasurer
and faculty adviser.
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Company To Perform Range
Of Dances
The SHSU Dance Company will allow audiences to “fly
with us” through a wide variety of performances with
its Fall Spectrum concert on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
(Nov. 10-12).
Ballets and modern routines choreographed by the SHSU dance
department faculty members will be showcased on the University
Theatre Center’s Mainstage Theatre at 8 p.m. each day,
with a 2 p.m. Saturday matinee.
In addition, there will be a guest performance by a group
from North Harris Community College, choreographed by the
dance director there, Pamela Heard, and a ballet choreographed
by a guest artist from Houston performed by the company.
The concert will include a wide range of works, including
a contemporary, “jazzy” ballet; a modern piece
with an African feel, through music and movement, a tango
piece and a “hysterical” work called “Bean
Soup,” which addresses 40 to 50 different kinds of beans,
according to assistant professor of dance Kista Tucker.
There will also be a work, choreographed by Tucker, which
she describes as making a “social statement,”
called “Two Tears In The Dirt.”
Based on the famine and war in Somalia in the early 1990s
and the experience of one reporter who witnessed massive amounts
of death while in the country, the piece is about “the
way society works” and the way those in the “higher
echelons” made the decision to allow people to die,
Tucker said.
“Somebody asked her (the reporter) what was the worst
thing she saw or experienced while there. She said the worst
thing, and she didn’t even have to think, she already
knew what it was, was the people were dying everywhere, and
it was terrible,” Tucker said.
“One day, she looked over to the side where they were
burying more people and in this one grave, they were burying
this little boy who was probably about four or five years
old, and she saw two tears come out of his eyes as they were
putting dirt on him,” she said. “The kid really
wasn’t dead; he probably would have died very, very
shortly after that, but people were dying so quickly that
he was just assumed to be dead.”
The SHSU Dance Company is a group comprised of over 40 graduate
and undergraduate students.
Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for SHSU students
and senior citizens. For more information, call the dance
department at 936.294.1875 or to purchase tickets
call 936.294.3988.
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Horn, Piano, Orchestra Recitals
Scheduled For Week
The School of Music will present three concerts, including
piano, French horn and orchestra recitals, beginning Monday
(Nov. 7).
Students from the horn studio, under the direction of associate
professor of horn Peggy DeMers, will play a variety of solos
from various composers and all eras, at 4:30 p.m. Monday in
the Recital Hall.
Accompanied by piano professor Jay Whatley, the group will
explore different genres, such as concerti, sonatas, and various
other works, DeMers said.
The concert is free and is open to the general public, as
well as students.
On Tuesday (Nov. 8), Sergio H. Ruiz, director of keyboard
studies, will present the first of what will become the John
Paul Piano Scholarship Series concert, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Recital Hall.
The performance will feature works by Mozart, Liszt, Granados,
and Prokofiev, Ruiz said.
The concert also is free to the public, though donations
will be accepted at the door, with proceeds benefiting piano
scholarships.
On Saturday (Nov. 12), director of orchestral studies Carol
Smith will lead the SHSU symphony orchestra in a tribute to
Smith’s mentor, teacher and friend A. Clyde Roller at
7:30 p.m. at University Heights Baptist
Church.
“Clyde Roller was my teacher and friend who died about
two weeks ago,” Smith said. “He is the former
resident conductor of the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
“Two years ago, he came and spent two weeks with our
students on campus and conducted the Beethoven Symphony No.
5,” she said.
The concert will feature Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky’s
Symphony No. 4 in f minor, Opus 63.
“The Tchaikovsky we are going to play is one of the
most well-known symphonies of Tch and one of the most difficult
technically,” Smith said. “I do think that this
performance may be the most accomplished and the most exciting
and most satisfying of my 27-year career at SHSU.”
Tickets are free for SHSU faculty and students with an ID,
$8 for adults and $5 for children. For more information on
any event, call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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Albert Named To Journal
Editorial Board
Donald Albert, associate professor of geography, has been
invited to join the editorial board of “Complementary
Health Practice Review.”
As an editorial board member, Albert will help ensure the
continued success and growth of the journal by being involved
with the areas of recruitment of publications, promotion of
the journal and manuscript development.
For over a decade the international, peer-reviewed journal
has published manuscripts on a broad spectrum of topics related
to alternative, complementary and integrative health care.
The journal’s mission is to disseminate communications
of the highest quality on topics that impact complementary
and integrative practice, promoting discussion across disciplinary,
organizational, and specialty boundaries.
Both quantitative and qualitative research is considered,
as are evidenced-based literature reviews.
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PC To Make Students Laugh, Lower
Stress
The Program Council will bring two comedians known for their
hip-hop dancing and side-splitting comedy with PC Comic View:
Alfred and Seymour on Tuesday (Nov. 8), at 7 p.m. in the Lowman
Student Center Theater.
Winners of the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities’
2004 and 2005 Comedy Act of the Year award, the duo has appeared
on the Tonight Show, the Jenny Jones show and have music videos
used for such commercials as Pepsi, Sprite, and American Express.
Alfred and Seymour, cousins, have also performed around the
world, appearing as the People’s Choice Award winner
in Halifax, Canada, and did national tours in China, Japan,
Australia and New Zealand.
“Alfred and Seymour are the perfect cure for the common
comedy series,” their Web site said. “The comedy
is rad, the dancing phat, and you’ll leave their show
a better person for their message of love, life, and laughter.”
For more information on the two, visit their Web site at http://www.everythingbutthemime.com/alfredandseymour.htm.
Also this week, the PC will teach students the Chinese practice
of positioning objects in patterns of yin and yang with Feng
Shui on Wednesday.
The program, held at 11 a.m. in the LSC Art Gallery, will
show students how to move their furniture around to lower
stress levels, according to PC vice president of public relations
Jeff Oribhabor.
For more information on either event, contact the Program
Council at 936.294.1763.
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Jennifer Gauntt
Nov. 6, 2005
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