SHSU
Update For Week Of Nov. 27
Student Activities To Deck
Mall Area With Ceremony
Faculty, staff and students will celebrate the spirit of
the holiday season with the 85th annual Tree of Light on Thursday
(Dec. 1).
The tree-lighting ceremony will be held from 6-7 p.m. in the
Academic Building 1 Mall Area.
University President James F. Gaertner will speak at the event,
the Orange Pride dance team and university choir will perform
and hot chocolate, hot wassail and cookies will be served.
In addition, the Office of Student Activities will collect
canned goods at the ceremony for a drive to benefit the Good
Shepherd Mission.
All students, organizations, faculty and staff are invited
to participate, and canned goods should be brought to the
ceremony.
In addition, the office will encourage students and organizations
to bring one ornament to decorate the tree sometime before
the ceremony, according to program coordinator Angie Burns.
For more information, call Student
Activities at 936.294.3861.
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World AIDS Day Program To Give
Facts
The Office of Multicultural and International Student Services,
the Student Health Center and UNICEF will co-sponsor a World
AIDS Day program on Thursday (Dec. 1) from noon to 1 p.m.
in Lowman Student Center Room 320.
The program will feature an informative discussion and interactive
activities for all participants.
For more information, call 936.294.DVST or e-mail diversity@shsu.edu.
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Departments Open Houses For
Holidays
December is the time for fun, food and holiday cheer as departments
and colleges across campus open their doors for annual open
houses beginning on Thursday (Dec. 1).
The Lowman Student Center will kick off the open house season
for all faculty, staff and students on Dec. 1, from 10 a.m.
to noon in the LSC Ballroom.
On Dec. 5, the College of Education will host its first open
house from 2-4 p.m. in the Teacher Education Center’s
west foyer.
The Alumni Association will gather on Dec. 13, from 6-8 p.m.
for its open house in Austin Hall. Business attire is requested
for the cocktail buffet. Reservations should be made by Dec.
9 at 936.294.1841.
Finally, the Bobby K. Marks Administration Building open house
will be held on Dec. 14, from 2-4 p.m. The event will include
all three floors, with appetizers on the first, meats on the
second and sweets on the third.
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Terrorism Expert
To Give Talk On Monday
Yonah Alexander, one of the foremost experts on terrorism
in the United States, will discuss that topic on Monday (Nov.
28) in the George J. Beto Criminal Justice Center’s
Hazel B. Kerper Courtroom.
The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. and is expected to last for
one hour, with some time for questions following the presentation.
Currently a professor of international studies and director
of the Institute for Studies in International Terrorism at
the State University of New York, Alexander has an international
reputation for his research and writing in the field.
A prolific author, Alexander has published over 70 books in
the field of terrorism and international affairs and is the
founding editor of “Terrorism: An International Journal.”
The lecture is open to the students, faculty, and staff of
Sam Houston State University, as well as members of the Huntsville
community.
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Theatre To Give ‘Sweet
Charity’
The department of theatre and dance will tell the story of
an eternal optimist with their rendition of Neil Simon’s
“Sweet Charity” Wednesday (Nov. 30) through Saturday
(Dec. 3). Show times are 8 p.m. each day, with a 2 p.m. Saturday
matinee, on the University Theatre Center’s Mainstage.
Charity Hope Valentine, the eternal optimist, is often taken
advantage of by the patrons of the seedy Fandango ballroom.
Despite a string of bad relationships, she dreams of a better
life. Charity surrounds herself with new people and places,
and though still encountering a number of pitfalls along the
way, she maintains a positive attitude, certain that good
things will happen to her life and living “hopefully
ever after.”
The cast includes musical theatre majors Blythe Herring, Jeff
Barba, Nina Martinez, Grace Marie Walton, Dylan Godwin, Rachel
Sanders, Derrick Davis and Nkrumah Gatling.
Directed by theatre and dance faculty member Jonathan Charles,
the musical director is faculty member Laura Avery and conductor
is music major Luke Kirkwood.
The stage manager is senior dance major Stephanie Beall, Danny
Colosky is the technical director, and student designers are
Katie Torgerson, set; David Deveau, lights; Nick Custer, sound;
and Natalie Gasaway and Lacey Williams, costumes.
Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for senior citizens
and SHSU students with a valid ID. Group rates are also available.
The play contains adult content, and no children under the
age of 3 will be admitted.
For more information, or for reservations, call 936.294.1339.
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MISS To Host ‘Star’
Party
The Office of Multicultural and International Student Services
will honor its ‘stars’ with a Hollywood-themed
reception on Tuesday (Nov. 29) night.
The Multicultural Awareness Certification Reception, which
will be held from 6-9 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center Ballroom,
will allow those who participated in four or more MAC programs
throughout the semester to eat, as well as redeem their diversity
dollars at a diversity auction, according to MISS program
coordinator Jennifer T. Roberts.
In addition, prizes and activities are planned to recognize
not only participants, but volunteers and supporters, Roberts
said.
“Currently, we have almost 50 people from this semester
alone that will be receiving their certification,” she
said.
For more information, call 936.294.3588.
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Music Winds Down With Three
Performances
Flute students will perform a range of Baroque, Classical,
Romantic and 20th Century pieces for the flute studio recital
on Friday (Dec. 2).
The concert will be held at 2 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
Featuring such songs as Wolfgang A. Mozart’s “Sonata
III in A Major,” Louis Moyse’s “40 Little
Pieces” and Benjamin Godard’s “Allegretto,”
student performers will be accompanied by piano faculty member
Yung-Eun Choe, according to assistant professor of flute Kathy
Daniel.
“Some of it is very melodic, and some of it is very
technical,” she said.
The concert is free and open to the public.
Also this week is a guitar ensemble concert, on Tuesday (Nov.
29), at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall, and the annual choir
and orchestra Christmas concert, on Friday and Saturday (Dec.
2-3), at 7:30 p.m. both days at University Heights Baptist
Church.
For more information, call the
School of Music at 936.294.1360.
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RTV Students Win Big At NBS Competition
The works of students in the mass communication department
will now compete on the national level after winning first
place in several electronic media categories at the National
Broadcasting Society conference in Austin on Nov. 12.
Radio/television major Patric Sleightholm won first place
for “Video Program Opener” and “Promo,”
both of which are featured on KSHU-TV News 7.
Sleightholm, as executive producer, along with Kristina Adams,
Leah Burger, Dustin Dyer, Brian Hernalsteen, DeDe King, Courtney
Lundgren, Kristen Lundgren, Zach Schroeder, and Alex Stivers
claimed first place for the Sports Program category with “Bearkat
Sports Report.”
In addition, Scott Eilers and Dan Landson won first place
in the Documentary category with “Back to the Country.”
The competition is open to all NBS students across the region.
The conference is open to schools from Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas,
Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado. Television and radio professionals
are invited to speak to students about a various array of
topics.
Winners of the national competition will be announced at the
NBS national meeting at Washington, D.C., in March.
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Kappa Delta Pi Receives Achievement
Award
SHSU’s chapter of Kappa Delta Pi recently received
its fifth Achieving Chapter Excellence award during the group’s
45th biannual convocation in Orlando, Fla.
The award was accepted by chapter president Melanie Parnell,
vice president Amy Sanderson, who was also awarded a Kappa
Delta Pi Educational Foundation scholarship, and group adviser
Margaret Hammer.
The SHSU chapter received the award due to its increased attendance
in meetings and by helping students meet state requirements
by offering professional development credits for the meetings
and programs.
More than 1,200 Kadelpians came together for the convention,
which included guest speakers Harry Wong and Crystal Kuykendall,
both teachers and authors.
Kappa Delta Pi is an international honor society in education.
Membership for the chapter is by invitation only, with qualification
requirements such as a minimum grade point average of 3.0
and expressed intention of continuing in the education field.
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Professor Contributes To
Recently-Released Report
A report developed at a conference attended by SHSU radio/television
professor Tony DeMars is now available online.
The results from the conference, “A Wake Up Call: Can
Trust and Quality Improve Journalism?,” can be accessed,
complete with downloadable transcripts, mp3 audio files, photos
and videos, at http://www.restoringthetrust.org/final_report.shtml.
It was released Nov. 15.
The report was taken from the discussions of more than 100
academics and journalists who attended the event in San Antonio
earlier this year.
“A Wake Up Call” is the centerpiece of the year-long
“Journalism and the Public: Restoring the Trust”
project. Partners in the project include Leonard Witt, the
Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw
State University, and Cole Campbell, dean of the Reynolds
School of Journalism at the University of Nevada-Reno in conjunction
with Public Journalism Network and the Civic and Citizen Journalism
interest groups within the Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication.
The conference preceded the annual AEJMC convention in San
Antonio and was funded in part by the Ethics and Excellence
in Journalism Foundation.
For more information on the Restoring the Trust project, visit
www.restoringthetrust.org,
or contact Cori Marguriet at 770.423.6924 or cmarguri@kennesaw.edu.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Nov. 27, 2005
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