SHSU
Update For Week Of Oct. 16
Firefest To Add Some
Heat To Rivalry Game Week
The Office of Student Activities will ‘fire’
students up for the Battle of the Piney Woods with its annual
spirit rally on Wednesday (Oct. 19).
Members of the SHSU marching band, cheerleaders and representatives
from the football team, who will say a few words about the
upcoming game, will all be on hand for Firefest, at 8 p.m.
on Intramural Field 3.
“There will be lots of free food, games and giveaways,”
said Christi Byerley, Student Activities student assistant.
Activities planned include Sumo wrestling, wax hands, bash-a-car,
Sammy Buzzcuts, a quarterback challenge, a variety game, three-point
shoot-out and slam dunk contest, as well as the bonfire, and
fire show.
For more information, call 936.294.3861.
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MAES Vice President To Serve
As Grassroots Speaker
Keith Marrocco, national vice president of operations for
Mexican American Engineers and Scientists, will accept questions
from students as part of the Grassroots: A Series of Conversations
on Leadership in a Diverse Community speaker series on Wednesday
(Oct. 19).
The event will be held at 5 p.m. in Academic Building 4’s
Olson Auditorium.
This semester’s discussion will follow a slightly different
format, with a more question-and-answer type feel, though
the speaker will be at liberty to add to or digress from the
question, according to Bernice Strauss, director of academic
support programs for the Student Advising and Mentoring Center.
A reception, during which attendees can meet and chat with
Marrocco, will immediately follow in the SAM Center, in AB
4 Suite 210.
The event is sponsored by the academic support programs of
the SAM Center, the Elliott T. Bowers Honors Program, the
International Hispanic Association, Lambda Theta Alpha Latin
Sorority, Inc., Ronald E. McNair Post baccalaureate Achievement
Program, the NAACP, Women United and Omega Delta Phi Fraternity,
Inc.
The Grassroots series was established in April 2003.
For more information, call the SAM
Center at 936.294.4444.
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Spirit Could Win Student
Groups $100
Student organizations will have the opportunity to show who
has the most school spirit and pick up a few bucks during
SHSU’s volleyball game against Stephen F. Austin State
on Tuesday (Oct. 18).
The game will begin at 7 p.m. in the Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum,
where organizations should sign up to compete.
The group that is wearing the most orange and is the loudest
will win $100 as the “most spirited organization.”
For more information, call spirit
programs at 936.294.4239.
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SGA To Let Students Beef About
Their Griefs
Have a beef with financial aid, intramural sports or anything
else campus-related?
The Student Government Association will provide an outlet
to vent those frustrations while offering up a Burger King
Whopper with its annual “Beefs for Griefs” program
on Tuesday (Oct. 18).
The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Lowman
Student Center Mall Area.
“Basically, if they give a grief, something they’re
having problems with on campus, they will get a coupon to
go down stairs and have a Whopper,” said Sarah Reed,
SGA grievance committee chair. “We just get the questions
for the people, and then we are going to try and solve the
problems or find someone who can.”
Grievances will be accepted in written forms, which will be
provided, including a name and telephone number, as well as
a Sam ID number for the Dean of Students’ Office records,
and are placed in a box.
“They won’t be read there (at the event),”
Reed said.
Problems submitted often affect SGA legislation, and after
they are solved or questions are answered, committee members
will contact the person who submitted the inquiry to let that
person know SGA has looked into their problem.
Reed said submissions should be as specific as possible and
that they are expecting to hear about issues related to financial
aid and intramural sports, as those kinds of problems have
arisen in the past.
The committee won’t, however, be accepting parking-related
issues, as those are generally out of their hands.
“Unfortunately parking issues aren’t something
we can handle, at least not right now,” Reed said. “This
next year, we’re not going to take parking issues at
all, so we can get better feed back on things we can (handle).”
For more information, contact Reed at 936.294.1938 or stdsdr25@shsu.edu.
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Drive To ‘Give Gift
Of Life’
The department of Recreational Sports will sponsor an American
Red Cross Blood Drive on Thursday (Oct. 20), from 9 a.m. to
3 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center Ballroom.
Students will be set up in the LSC Mall Area Monday through
Wednesday before the drive for anyone who wants to sign up
for a time.
“We had a very successful blood drive last month, with
160-plus participants and six student organizations co-sponsoring
the blood drive,” said Tina DeAses, assistant director
of wellness programs. “We'd love to match or beat that
number.
“The blood drive is really going to help out the American
Red Cross right now,” she said. “With all the
emergencies that have recently happened, blood is in high
demand right now.”
For more information, contact DeAses, at 936.294.3658 or tdeases@shsu.edu.
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Center Focuses On Writing
Right
The SHSU Writing Center will give students tips on writing
thesis statements, citing correctly and proofreading during
four workshops in the next two weeks.
On Monday (Oct. 17), Courtney Howe and Crissy Ayres will show
students how to move from selecting a topic to defining a
paper’s focus to writing a convincing thesis statement
with “From Idea to Thesis Statement,” at noon.
On Wednesday, Internet sources and citation styles will be
the topic for discussion with “Don’t Get Bit by
the Internet: Correctly Quoting and Citing Internet Sources
In the Humanities,” led by Brook Barnes and Melanie
Machost, at 1 p.m.
Next week, on Oct. 25, Beau Walsh and Katie Magouirk will
give “Proofreading Strategies” at 4 p.m.
Finally, on Oct. 27, Jennifer Rudolph and Katherine Echols
will explain another citation format with “APA Citations:
Don’t Get Kicked Out of the University,” at noon.
All workshops are conducted by graduate and undergraduate
tutors and are held in the Writing Center, located in Wilson
Building Room 114.
For more information, call the Writing
Center at 936.294.3680.
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SAM Center Offers More Study
Advice
The Student Advising and Mentoring Center will teach students
how to “study smart” with its second Study Skills
Workshop series of the semester beginning Monday (Sept. 24).
The six, one-hour sessions will introduce study skills, as
well as discuss procrastination, time management, reading
textbooks, note and test taking strategies and stress management.
Sessions will also be held at a variety of times to accommodate
student schedules.
The first workshop series will last through Dec. 9.
For more information, or to register, call 936.294.4444 or
drop by the SAM
Center, in Academic Building 4 Room 210.
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Morphew Reads Her Work
At Poetry Fest
Melissa Morphew, associate professor of English, served as
one of two guest poets at Houston's Twentieth Anniversary
Poetry Fest, which was held Oct. 1 and Oct. 6-9.
Morphew read several poems from her soon-to-be released book,
“Fathom,” for approximately 20 minutes on Oct.
9, at the University of Houston Downtown.
As a guest poet, which she was asked to serve as based on
her reputation and publications, the Houston Poetry Fest will
also publish her poem “The Thrill Seekers” in
the 2005 Poetry Fest Anthology, she said.
Morphew’s participation in the festival also gave her
exposure for other events. While at Poet Fest, she was asked
to do a reading on Oct. 15 in the Barnes and Noble Woodlands
Poetry Reading Series at The Woodlands Mall.
“I feel quite honored by the entire thing,” Morphew
said. “The Poetry Fest was a lot of fun. I met a lot
of wonderful Houston area poets and made some new friends.
“I hope to get my students to enter the contest next
year and have some of them become juried poets for the festival,”
she said. “This was the first I knew of it. Not being
from this area, I am always discovering new and wonderful
literary opportunities for myself and my students.”
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Watts Gives Talks In Turkey
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| Watts (right), with Tunch Erem, president
of Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey, during his
visit to the country. |
Richard E. Watts, professor and director of the Center for
Research and Counselor Education, was one of three Americans
invited to serve as a keynote speaker for the Turkish Psychological
Counseling Congress Sept. 21-23.
Watts was invited by the Turkish Psychological Counseling
Association to present a lecture and a workshop for the congress,
held on the campus of Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey.
His keynote speech was titled “The Contemporary Relevance
of Adlerian Therapy,” and the workshop was given on
“Counseling with Toys: Basic Principles and Procedures
of Play Therapy.”
Although Watts is a new faculty member at SHSU, previously
teaching at Texas A&M University-Commerce, Kent State
University and Baylor University, he is not new to SHSU.
He attended SHSU from 1976-1980 and received his undergraduate
degree in music education in 1980 and returned “home”
to teach this past fall, he said.
Watts has published over 70 professional articles and book
chapters. His fifth book, “Adlerian Therapy: Theory
and Practice,”the first Adlerian-oriented book ever
published by the American Psychological Association Press,
is due out in October.
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PC To Bring Laser Tag, Soul Food,
Speaker To SHSU
The Program Council will host a variety of events this week,
beginning on Tuesday (Oct. 18), when the Lowman Student Center
Ballroom will be set up for laser tag from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
On Wednesday, the PC will pit student organizations against
one another to see who can make the best “soul food,”
with “Soul Food: Sam Style,” beginning at 11 a.m.
in the Quad Area.
Finally, on Thursday, guest speaker and entrepreneur Steve
Harper will share his insight for building a purposeful life
by creating a culture of selflessness and reaping the benefits.
The program, called “The Ripple Effect: Maximizing the
Power of Relationships,” will be held at 2 p.m. in the
LSC Theatre.
For more information about any of the PC
events, call Jeff Oribhabor at 936.294.1763.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Oct. 16, 2005
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