SHSU
Update For Week Of Oct. 2
Several Events Rescheduled After Rita
Due to the university’s closing Friday afternoon and
Monday for Hurricane Rita, several events have been rescheduled.
The World Wrestling Entertainment live event scheduled for
Sunday (Oct. 2) has been postponed. All previously-purchased
tickets will be honored when WWE returns, at a date to be
determined.
For refunds on purchased tickets, visit the Bernard G. Johnson
Coliseum box office, located at door No. 1, starting Monday
(Oct. 3), with the tickets in order to process the refund.
Box office hours are Monday through Friday, from 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m., and Saturday, from noon to 3 p.m. For more information,
call 936.294.3021.
For information on the WWE rescheduled date, visit www.wwe.com or call 203.352.8600.
Parent/Family Weekend, originally set for Sept. 23-25, has
been rescheduled for Nov. 4-6, with more details to come.
The Hurricane Katrina Benefit concert, featuring the SHSU
jazz band, New Orleans evacuee and professional vocalist
Betty Shirley,
and jazz combo Straight Ahead, will now be held on Saturday
(Oct. 15).
The benefit will be held from 1-4 p.m. at the Jane Monday
Amphitheater, located at 1212 Avenue M, behind City Hall.
The concert is
free to the public, though monetary or gift card donations
are encouraged for Katrina survivors. Katrina evacuees are
also encouraged to attend.
For more information, call 936.294.1376.
Finally, the SHSU Department of Theatre and Dance’s
rendition of “The Exonerated” has been rescheduled
to Oct. 12-15. The play will run at 8 p.m. daily, with a
2 p.m. Saturday
matinee, in the Showcase Theatre.
For more information, call
936.294.1339.
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Physics Prof To Speak At Colloquium
Joel Walker, professor in the physics department, will discuss “Grand
Unification and Proton Decay” during the physics colloquium
on Friday (Oct. 7).
The speech will be held from 3-4 p.m. in Farrington Building
Room 209.
For more information, call the physics department at 936.294.1601.
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SECC Campaign Kicks Off For 2005
After the most successful
contribution effort made by SHSU last year, the State Employee
Charitable Campaign committee
is hoping to exceed giving by at least 25 percent with this
year’s campaign, which is now under way.
The SECC gives each employee an opportunity to support a
favorite charity or charities on a regular basis, with each
donor controlling
to whom funds are given, as well as how much is given and
when. Contributions may be made as a one-time gift or through
payroll
deductions.
The SECC is the only campaign that is authorized to be conducted
for charitable organizations on the SHSU campus.
Forms have been sent out across campus and can be sent through
campus mail to SHSU’s SECC committee representative
John Holcombe at Box 2149.
The submission deadline is Oct. 14.
For more information, visit www.secctexas.org.
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Essay Contest
Deadline Extended
The American Democracy Project has extended the deadline
for its “essence of democracy” essay contest
to Oct. 17 due to Hurricane Rita.
The contest is open to students, faculty and staff, and the
winner of each category will receive $1,000.
Faculty and staff should write a 20-page paper on “The Soul of Democracy,” graduate
students should write a 15-page paper on “Living Democratically” and
undergraduate students should write a paper on “Why Democracy?”
Papers for all three categories should be double-spaced and in APA style. The
length of the paper excludes references.
Winners will be selected after each essay is blindly reviewed by members of
the department of English and foreign languages, for general organization,
grammar,
style and syntax; then by members of the ADP committee, for consistency, logic,
literary value and creative imagination; and finally by a committee of SHSU
distinguished professors, who will select the winning essay among the five
finalist submissions
in each category based on the essay’s overall excellence and literary
distinction.
A copy of the essay should be submitted both to Diane Dowdey, Department of
English and Foreign Languages, Box 2146 SHSU, as well as to Joyce McCauley,
Chair, SHSU
American Democracy Project, Box 2119 SHSU.
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CJ To Honor Friel For Retirement
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Former dean and distinguished professor of criminal justice
Charles M. Friel will say goodbye to SHSU after 38 years
of service with a retirement reception
on Oct. 6.
The reception will be held from 4-6 p.m. in the Criminal Justice Center Lobby.
In 1967, Friel began his career with SHSU as the first professor hired to teach
criminal justice in the Institute of Contemporary Corrections and the Behavioral
Sciences, now the College of Criminal Justice.
He served as the institute’s director from 1967-1976, which included the
development and maintenance of a statistical software library to support student
and faculty research, grant writing and supervision of the institute’s
programming staff.
In 1986, he was appointed dean and director of the College of Criminal Justice,
and during his five year tenure, he oversaw new developments such as the CJ
alumni association, a series of practitioner-oriented books, new endowment
and scholarship
programs and specialized credentialing programs for undergraduate students.
In 1997, he received SHSU’s distinguished service award and was named
distinguished professor in 2001.
In his professional career, Friel has earned the distinction of being both
an exceptional scholar and dedicated teacher. He has received numerous awards
and
fellowships, grants and contracts, has written over 170 publications and government
reports and has given more than 600 addresses and presentations to professional
groups.
For more information, call the College of
Criminal Justice at 936.294.1634.
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Policing
Institute Makes Across-Town Move
The Texas Regional Community Policing Institute celebrated
its grand opening at a new location on Sept. 20.
Formerly housed at Sam Houston State University, the TRCPI recently relocated
at the recommendation of its governing board to the Bank of America building,
located at 1 Financial Plaza, to accommodate the addition of new staff
members and increased training schedules.
“This is a milestone for us,” said director Phillip Lyons. “We
have come a long way since our modest beginnings in a small office at the
university.”
Now, with a staff of six and a much larger office space, the institute is
able to work more efficiently and offer substantially more training.
“Since our inception, we have provided 91,458 training hours to 12,381
participants,” Lyons said. “We have served more than 400 police
departments from 130 counties which comprise 91 percent of the population
of Texas.”
The TRCPI has offered interactive video training on such community policing
topics as Volunteers in Police Service, Fear Reduction, Terrorism, Citizen
Complaints
and Early Warning. Most recently, the TRPCI hosted a conference in San
Antonio on DNA Evidence and Homeland Security.
Lyons said he looks forward to offering more programs and continuing
to address the most pressing needs of law enforcement across the state
of Texas, especially
those of small and mid-sized agencies which may lack the training infrastructure
to provide the timely and responsive specialized instruction.
The TRCPI is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of
Community-Oriented Policing Services and is responsible for providing training
and dissemination
of community policing materials to criminal justice agencies and community
groups throughout the state.
For more information on training and other activities, call 936.294.3747
or visit the institute online at www.cjcenter.org/trcpi.
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Theatre To ‘Be
Aggressive’
The SHSU department of theatre and dance will present Annie
Weisman’s “Be
Aggressive” Wednesday through Saturday (Oct. 5-8) in the University Theatre
Center’s Showcase Theatre.
Show times are 8 p.m. all four days, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday.
Directed by SHSU musical theatre major Ashley Flatt, “Be Aggressive” tells
the story of Laura and Leslie, two high school spotters for the varsity
cheerleaders whose optimism and enthusiasm for cheering causes them
to take the spirit of
cheer to a whole new level.
Each girl’s personal struggles reveal how their families are also affected
by the girls’ desperate need to fit in through the play, which
attempts to bridge the gap between adolescence and adulthood.
The cast includes theatre and musical theatre majors Jen Lucy,
Ann Christianson, Cody Henson, Sarah Brune, Lindsay McCallum, Michelle
Vanegas, Cadien
Dumas, Megan Caillier and Sue Ann Cameron.
The stage manager is theatre major Ashley Simone, and designers
include theatre majors Mike Rose, set; Richard Chamblin, lights;
Nick Custer,
sounds; Lindsay
Custer, props; and Rebecca Cobo, costumes.
Tickets are $8 for general admission, with group rates available.
The show contains adult content, and no children under the age
of three
will be admitted.
For more information, call the theatre
department at 936.294.1329.
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Kat
Klub Deals Poker, Pool Tournaments
The Kat Klub will pit students against one another, as
well as against faculty and staff members, with a variety
of tournaments
in October.
On Wednesday and Thursday (Oct. 5-6) and again on Oct. 19-20,
participants will compete for the opportunity to earn a spot
at this year’s tournament of
champions during the Texas Hold’em tournament, at 5 p.m.
all nights.
On Oct. 11, an 8-ball tournament will be held at 5 p.m., and
on Oct. 13-14, blackjack the newest addition, tournaments will
be
held at 5
p.m. and 2 p.m.,
respectively.
Finally, a 9-ball tournament will be held at 5 p.m. on Oct.
26.
There is a $1 fee for both pool tournaments, and all events
will be held in the Kat Klub, on the first floor of the Lowman
Student
Center.
The Kat Klub is open Monday through Thursday, from 9:30 a.m.
to 8:30 p.m.; Friday, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, from
1-5
p.m. and
Sunday, from
3:30-7:30
p.m.
For more information, call Gary
Roark at 936.294.1722.
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Two Earn
Horticulture/Landscape Scholarships
Two SHSU students are among 21 who were recently selected
as Texas Nursery and Landscape Association Education and
Research
Foundation
scholarship
recipients for the 2005-2006 year.
Daniel Lane Hirsch, a general business major and horticulture/landscape
design minor, received the “In Honor of Ray Haynes Scholarship,” sponsored
by Excel Garden Products. The junior from Tomball hopes to
one day own a full-service landscaping firm, according to
a TNLA newsletter.
Agricultural sciences graduate student Sharon Frey is the
recipient of a TNLA general scholarship. A teaching assistant
for plant
science labs,
Frey
plans
to either continue a teaching career she left when she decided
to attend graduate school or start a horticulture enterprise,
the newsletter
said.
The TNLA Education and Research Foundation was established
in 1992.
Managed by a nine-member board of trustees, plus two staff-appointed
positions, the foundation serves two main purposes, including
conducting fundraising
activities on behalf of and to support the overall purposes
of the foundation and operating
exclusively for the purposes of awarding funds to horticulture/landscape
students for their continues education and to award funds
for research in horticulture/landscape
areas of interest in Texas.
For more information, visit the foundation’s Web site
at http://www.tnlafoundation.com/.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Oct. 2, 2005
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