SHSU
Update For Week Of Sept. 18
Career Service To Host Kick Off Party, Career Expo
Career services will give away prizes and popsicles during
its 2005 Career Expo kickoff party on Tuesday (Sept. 20),
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center Mall
Area.
The event will include music, as well as drawings for items
donated by the Huntsville community and some of the over
99 companies that will be represented at the Career Expo,
including
an $85 certificate from Transmissions, Etc., for transmission
work, as well as $25 gift certificates from local cleaners,
Luby’s restaurants, and a $40 gift card and bag from
Target, among others, according to employment specialist
Vinessa Mundorff.
The Career Expo will be held on Wednesday (Sept. 21), from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum.
Representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
KRTE TV, Kelly Scientific Resources, Farmers Insurance, Zachry
Construction
Corp. and US Comptroller of the Currency, as well as various
financial institutions and police departments from across
the state, will be in attendance.
Companies will be seeking students and alumni from all academic
backgrounds for full-time positions and internships.
Job seekers are encouraged to dress professionally, bring
multiple copies of resumes and be ready to network, Mundorff
said.
For more information, contact Career
Services at 936.294.1713.
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Xu
To Introduce Chinese Culture Through Lecture Series
Chinese
visiting scholar Hong Xu will give students some insight
into the Chinese culture this semester with a lecture
series
beginning with a discussion on the Chinese Spring Festival
on Sept. 28.
“
Chinese festivals are a very important part of the Chinese
tradition and culture,” Xu said. “The most important
is the Chinese Spring Festival.”
The Chinese Spring Festival, compared to Christmas in the
West, marks the beginning of the new lunar year on the Chinese
Lunar
Calendar. The first day of the first lunar month, the festival
also marks the beginning of a month-long Spring Festival
season, which includes the lion dance, fireworks and spring
couplets,
which are decorations, Xu said.
Along with the festival and its origin, Xu will discuss how
people prepare for the festival, through themes, food and
decorations, as well as things that are considered taboo.
In addition, she
will serve traditional foods served during the season after
her discussion.
Xu, who is visiting SHSU through the Fulbright program, is
from Tianjin Foreign Studies University in China, where she
teaches translation in the English school. She was raised
in Sihong, China, a county a few hundred miles from Shanghai,
she said.
Her first speech will be held at 3 p.m. in the Evans Complex
Room 313. Dates and times for Xu’s other discussions
have not yet been decided.
Other topics slated for the semester include other festivals,
cultural differences between Americans and the Chinese and
sight-seeing cities.
For more information, call the foreign
languages program
at 936.294.1441.
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Offices Host ‘BOLD’ Workshop
For Student Leadership
The Dean of Students' Office, in conjunction with the Office
of Student Activities, will challenge students to be “BOLD” with
its first daylong leadership program on Friday (Sept. 23).
The Bearkat Ongoing Leadership Development leadership program,
a non-credit initiative created by the Dean of Students'
Office, will consist of three separate one-day leadership
development
conference-style sessions focusing on different aspects of
leadership development, according to Student Activities’ assistant
director Leah Mulligan.
These leadership development workshops will target three
themes: “The
Emerging Leader,” “Spirituality and Leadership” and “Leadership
in a Multicultural Society, she said.
The workshop on “The Emerging Leader” will focus
on leader listening, examining some of the relevant dynamics
of communication and the listening skills
needed to be an effective leader; doing the right things right, which focuses
on the idea of ethical leadership and social responsibility; developing a leader's
attitude, a time of self-reflection activities for student assessment led by
the instructor; and seeing the battlefield, focusing on being proactive in
difficult situations versus acting reactively.
Students who attend these workshops will be able to indicate
their attendance at BOLD programs on their SHSU Co-Curricular
Transcript.
Registration will begin at 10 a.m. in the Lowman Student
Center Theater on the first floor. There is no charge for
the program, and lunch for conference
attendees
will be provided. The day is scheduled to at 4:30 p.m.
Two other conferences will be held for the other themes later in the fall and
in the spring.
For more information, call Student
Activities at 936.294.FUN1, or visit the
office in LSC Room 328.
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Four Speeches To Mark Constitution Day Celebration
SHSU will help students understand the U.S. Constitution
more deeply through its first Constitution Day celebration
on Tuesday (Sept. 20).
An opening ceremony and introduction will begin the day
at 8:30 a.m., with Vice President for Academic Affairs
and Provost David Payne welcoming attendees
and
showing a video on the historical events leading up to the creation of the
consitution.
Discussions will be held throughout the day on various aspects of the constitution
beginning at 9:30 a.m., when associate professor of political science John
Domino will present “Originalism, Strict Construction, and the ‘Living Constitution’:
Making Sense of the Fray Over Judicial Activism.”
History assistant professors Tom Cox and Jeff Littlejohn will discuss “Wartime
Civil Liberties in Historical Perspective” from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.,
and from 12:30-1:50 p.m., philosophy assistant professor Glenn Sanford will discuss “Science
and the Constitution: The Scopes Trial and the Continuing Controversy over
Creation and Evolution.”
Finally, from 2-3:20 p.m., Dennis Longmire, director of the College of Criminal
Justice’s Survey Research Center, will talk about “The Constitution
and the Administration of Justice—Including a Special Look at Capital Punishment,” followed
by the closing remarks by Interim Vice President for Student Services Frank
Parker.
All sessions will be held in Lowman Student Center Room 320
A free copy of the pocket guide “The United States Constitution: What it
says, what it means” will be provided to the first 500 attendees, courtesy
of the Annenberg Foundation.
Coffee, doughnuts and other refreshments will also be provided.
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AAI To Host
Three Awareness Events
The SHSU Alcohol Abuse Initiative will give students the “vital signs” of
alcohol poisoning and other issues, as well as “sex signals” in
communication with several events over the next few weeks.
The Sept. 20 presentation, “Vital Signs” will cover recognizing
and responding to alcohol poisoning as well as stress the importance of
calling for
emergency assistance.
During the event, which will be held at 3 p.m. in the Lowman Student
Center Theater, Interfraternity Council president Trey Taylor will run
through a
demonstration on the Alcohol 101+ program, which illustrates the dose-response
effect of
alcohol
and how it can lead to alcohol poisoning, according to Michelle Lovering,
Health Center health programming coordinator.
“
This program is designed to emphasize the seriousness of alcohol toxicity and
let students know that while a night of drinking or using Alcohol 101+ may be
all ‘fun and games,’ that fun can lead to a life-or-death situation,” she
said.
On Sept. 28, Catharsis Productions troop members will show “the good, the
bad and the ugly about dating and relationships” with a presentation called “Sex
Signals.”
The show, which blends “a unique combination of improvisational comedy,
education, and audience participation,” will be performed at 7 p.m.
in the LSC Theatre.
“
The event is actually an acting production with two actors who include lots of
humor, improv and audience participation in their piece about communication between
the sexes, dating and relationships and sex,” said Elizabeth Hayen Charrier,
counseling psychologist at the Counseling Center. “The purpose of
the event is to get students to consider how communication, and miscommunication,
about
relationships and sex happens.
“
The presentation is very entertaining and informative,” she said.
Finally, on Oct. 4, the AAI will give a “Head to Toe Perspective” of
the health consequences of alcohol at 5 p.m. in the LSC Theater.
This program will discuss the physiological effects of alcohol poisoning,
as well as “the short-term and long-term effects of alcohol consumption, including
the fact that alcohol is a contributor to numerous chronic diseases,” Lovering
said.
For more information, contact Lovering at 936.294.4347 or mlovering@shsu.edu,
or visit the Alcohol Abuse Initiative Web site at www.shsu.edu/aai/events.
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Graduation Application Deadline Approaches
Students who anticipate
graduating May 13, 2006, should file degree applications
by Oct. 14 in the Registrar’s
Office, on the 3rd floor of the Estill Building.
For more information, call the Registrar’s
Office at 936.294.1040.
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Three
Artists’ Works Exhibited In Gaddis Geeslin
The works of three artists will be on display in the Gaddis
Geeslin Gallery Sept. 19 through Oct. 13.
A reception for the exhibit, which will feature sculptures by Martin Brief, photo
collages by Nick Nelson and mixed media by Karen Shaw, will be held on Oct.
13 from 5-7 p.m.
Shaw, a New York artist, makes drawings and sculptures with a conceptual foundation
using a process in which she designates a numerical equivalent to each letter
of the alphabet.
She then takes found objects, such as receipts, newspaper ads and acupuncture
charts and translates the numbers on these objects into esoteric poetry, according
to slide librarian Debbie Davenport.
Brief, an artist from Farmville, Va., exhibits three small sculptures with openings
that invite the viewer to look inside. The interior spaces are cavernous tombs
filled with stacks of paper, books and boxes.
Nelson, an artist who lives and works in Statesboro, Ga., begins with color photographs
and makes marks on them, applies thick gooey wax and adds insects, words cut
out of magazines, and other found items.
His work juxtaposes the order of mathematical drawing with chaotic splatters
of paint, and plays insects against images of stars as a means of comparing the
miniscule to the immense, Davenport said.
Shaw, who will attend the reception, will also have a brief and informative slide
presentation before the reception starting at 4 p.m. that same day in the Art
Auditorium, located in Art Building E Room 108, according to slide librarian
Debbie Davenport.
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery is located in Art Building F. For more
information, contact the art
department at 936.294.1315.
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Anthology To Showcase Series Of Artists
A new DVD collection, “Point of View: An Anthology
of the Moving Image,” will be played in the New Media/Projects
Space in SHSU’s art department throughout the year.
The first work, by South African artist William Kentridge,
will be shown Sept. 19-30.
Kentridge’s work, “Automatic Writing,” is
a hauntingly beautiful series of animated black and white
drawings that brings viewers into the artist’s unconscious
using surrealist techniques to explore the point where writing
and drawing intersect, according to slide librarian Debbie
Davenport.
“
Point of View” was produced by the New Museum of Contemporary
Art in New York. The anthology consists of a boxed set of
11 DVDs, each containing a commissioned work by an international
video artist, and was put together by Dan Cameron, senior
curator at the New Museum.
Each DVD also contains an interview with the artist, which
viewers may see on request.
“
Automatic Writing” will be followed by a work by Francis
Alys entitled “El Gringo,” from Oct. 3-13.
In “El Gringo,” viewers experience the discomfort
of being an outsider when the camera is confronted by a pack
of snarling dogs, Davenport said.
For more information, contact Davenport at 936.294.1317 or ddavenport@shsu.edu.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Sept. 18, 2005
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