SHSU
Update For Week Of Oct. 23
Students To Vote On New Dorm
Name
Residence Life will hold voting for its "Name the Residence
Hall" contest on Thursday and Friday (Oct. 27-28).
Students were asked to submit potential names last week, with
a panel of faculty, staff and students selecting their five
favorite submissions by Wednesday.
Voting will take place through the SHSU home page, and the
name with the most votes will be submitted to university President
James F. Gaertner for approval.
The winning submission from the five will receive a $100 gift
certificate for the Barnes and Noble University Bookstore.
The new residence hall, currently called "Housing Project
3," will have 400 beds and will be built on the south
end of campus.
For more information, call Dana Grant, assistant director
for business and operations for Residence
Life, at 936.294.1816.
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Organization To
Masquerade As Literary Characters
Sigma Tau Delta, SHSU’s international English honor
society, will host a "literary masquerade" on Thursday
(Oct. 27), at 6:30 p.m. in the Old Main Pit.
Attendees are encouraged to dress as their favorite literary
character of any genre, for fun, games, prizes and refreshments,
according to Penny Pitrucha, Sigma Tau Delta’s public
relations officer.
In addition, prizes will be awarded for the most original,
most authentic and most creative costumes.
The event will last approximately an hour and a half and
is open to the public.
For more information, contact David Sweeten at david_sweeten@hotmail.com,
or visit the organization’s Web site at http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_www/SigmaTauDelta.
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Sam-Info Line Gets Disconnected
Sam Houston State University Telephone Services has inactivated
the Sam-Info telephone line (936.294.3900) due to its expense
and a drop in usage.
Students could call 936.294.3900 to register and look up grades.
It offered similar services to that now available on the SHSU
Web site.
The service was offered through fall registration, but because
of the lack of use it has been discontinued.
The University of Texas at Austin had services similar to
the Sam-Info line, but they have recently disconnected theirs
as well.
“We disconnected this service because it is too expensive,”
said James Stevens, associate vice president for information
resources. "This service also required too much maintenance
for the small number of students who were using it."
As fall semester comes to an end, registration and grades
can be accessed through SHSU’s Web site, http://www.shsu.edu/,
or for further assistance, call 936.294.1111.
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Yearbook To Hold Campus-Wide
Photo Shoot
The staff of the Alcalde, SHSU's yearbook, will be snapping
pictures for the 2005-2006 publication Monday through Friday
(Oct. 24-28), from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily in the Lowman Student
Center Mall Area.
The free photo shoot is open for all students, faculty and
staff.
Upcoming books will be sold at the shoot for $55, and books
from the previous year will be sold for $85.
For more information, call the yearbook office, located in
Dan Rather Communications Building Room 308, at 936.294.4445.
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Spring Registration
To Be Held Nov. 2-30
Spring 2006 registration, in cooperation with the Student
Advising and Mentoring Center, will begin Wednesday (Nov.
2), beginning with honors students.
Registration for doctoral, graduate, post baccalaureate, and
seniors will begin on Nov. 6, followed by juniors on Nov.
7, sophomores on Nov. 8 and freshmen on Nov. 9, with open
registration held until 4 p.m. on Nov. 30.
Registration for all groups begins at 10 p.m. on the previous
evening of the scheduled date.
Advising will continue for all students during these times,
and students who need to find the location of advisement for
particular majors should visit http://www.shsu.edu/~sam_www/locations.html.
Registration assistance will be available in the Registrar's
Office, on the third floor of the Estill Building, from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 2-30.
Students who are to be advised in the SAM Center should make
appointments with advisers between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. by calling
936.294.4444. Walk-ins are welcome but will be have to wait
for those with appointments.
The SAM Center will also make appointments between 5-7 p.m.
on Mondays and Wednesdays but will not accept walk-ins until
registration officially begins, on Nov. 6.
Students subject to mandatory advisement must be advised before
they can register for the spring semester.
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Young To Take Over Honors
Program In Spring
Gene Young, professor of English, will take over as director
of the Honors Program beginning in January. Young will replace
Glenn Sanford, who recently announced a desire to step down
from the position at the end of the fall semester.
Young came to SHSU in 1992 as a professor and chair of the
department of English and foreign languages. In 1999, he decided
to return to teaching full-time at SHSU and gave up the chair
position.
A Borger, Texas, native, he graduated from West Texas State
University, now West Texas A&M, in 1968 with a Bachelor
of Arts degree before serving five years as an Air Force officer
and B-52 navigator.
He returned to WTSU for his master's degree in English, which
he completed in 1974 and received his doctorate in English
from the University of Tennessee in 1979.
Teaching 20th-century American literature, literature and
culture of Texas and secondary English teaching methods, he
has taught at Texas A&M and Morehead State University
in Kentucky, where he served as director of the technical
writing program, as well as head of the department of English,
foreign languages, and philosophy.
Outside teaching, Young is an avid fiddler who plays in three
different bands including the Young Family String Band, which
includes his wife and daughters; with the local "No Foolin"
String Band; and the Sam Houston Friends of Traditional Music.
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Art Exhibit To Feature Paintings,
Sculptures, Drawings
Works by four artists will be featured in the Gaddis Geeslin
Gallery beginning Monday (Oct. 24), through Nov. 17.
The exhibit will include paintings by Melissa Gwyn and Anthony
Pontius, sculptures by Anne Mondro and drawings by Bryan Ritchie.
A reception will also be held Oct. 27, from 5-7 p.m. in the
gallery, located in Art Building F.
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery is open Monday through Friday,
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information, call the art
department at 936.294.1315.
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Phares 'Throws' Thesis
Concert
The works of dance graduate student Robin Phares will be
performed during her graduate thesis concert Thursday and
Friday (Oct. 27-28).
"Thrown," choreographed for undergraduate and graduate
students, will be presented at 8 p.m. in Academic Building
3's Dance Theater, in Room 101.
The evening will include a solo work for Phares, several group
works and a range of music that includes Radiohead, Ween,
Deep Forest and Moby.
Following the performance, there will be a cookies and punch
reception in the lobby.
Tickets are $5 and will be sold at the door.
For more information visit the dance department Web site at
www.shsu.edu/dance
or call the dance box office at 936.294.3988.
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of Public Relations at SHSU. For electronic access to SHSU
news see the public relations Web page Today@Sam.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Oct. 23, 2005
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