SHSU
Update For Week Of Feb. 5
Free Student, Employee
Tickets Available For Baseball Opener
The SHSU Athletics Department is inviting students to be
a part of Bearkat history with the grand opening of the new
Baseball stadium on Friday (Feb. 10).
Only 325 tickets will be available for free for the 7 p.m.
first pitch and are available in the Student Activities Office
or at the Athletic Field House at Bowers Stadium.
Tickets will be available, by showing a SHSU student ID, beginning
at 8 a.m. on Monday (Feb. 6). Free tickets for the Bearkat
Softball home opener, on Saturday (Feb. 11) at 3:15 p.m. will
also be available.
Tickets for the entire weekend baseball series versus Texas
Southern and the Texas A&M game will be available the
following Tuesday.
Students who do not secure a free seat within the stadium
can receive free admission with a student ID to the overflow,
standing-room-only sections down the right field line or can
purchase other stadium seating at the ticket office or ticket
windows the day of the game, as available.
Faculty and staff members will also receive a free general
admission ticket, on the third base side, with an ID.
Free tickets to the student section, as well as the faculty
and staff ticket area, are of limited quantities and are expected
to go quickly; therefore, all are encouraged to pick them
up as early as possible, according to external operations
coordinator Chris Park.
For more information, call the Athletics
Department at 936.294.1726.
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Korean Fulbright Scholar
To Discuss Teaching English
Jeon Byouk-yuk, also known as Eric, an exchange scholar visiting
the United States through the Fulbright American Korean Studies
Institute for Korean Secondary School Teachers of English,
will tell of his experiences as a language teacher, as well
as the program itself, on Tuesday (Feb. 7).
The presentation will be held in Lowman Student Center Room
304 at 3:30 p.m.
“Eric has been assigned to Sam Houston State University
and Brian Miller, SHSU’s teacher education field experience
coordinator, worked with the Conroe Independent School District
to place Eric with Conroe High School for his two-week residency,”
said Donna Rogers, coordinator and international student advisor
for the Office of International Programs.
“Our new director, Dr. Reiko Clark, wanted to give our
campus community an opportunity to meet Eric, hear about his
experiences, and learn about SHSU's participation in the program,”
Rogers said. “This is done in an effort to internationalize
our campus.”
Participants in the Fulbright program are assigned to specific
universities in America, which then coordinate with area school
districts to place these teachers in secondary school ESL
programs to perform a site residency.
American teachers also participate in this program, going
to Korea to perform residencies.
The event is open to anyone interested in meeting Eric and
hearing of his experience as a teacher of English in the Korean
secondary school system, Rogers said.
For more information, call the OIP
at 936.294.3892.
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Eating Disorders To Be
Brought To Light With Contest
To raise awareness for National Eating Disorders Awareness
Week, the SHSU Counseling Center will host an art contest
for students to express their thoughts on these issues.
Works of all kinds, including paintings, sculptures and writings,
will be accepted through 5 p.m. on Feb. 24 at the Counseling
Center, located across from the Lee Drain Building and next
to the Farrington Building.
The awareness week is held across the country from Feb. 26
through March 4.
“Most people have struggled with accepting our bodies
for what they are (not what we think they should be), dieting
to fit a perfect size, or going to extreme measures to lose
weight,” said counseling psychologist Beth Charrier.
“We want to raise the awareness of SHSU students about
body image distortion, unhealthy eating patterns, symptoms
of eating disorders and some resources for help,” she
said.
The works will be displayed during a program on March 2 in
the Lowman Student Center Mall Area, or the LSC Atrium in
case of rain, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For more information, contact Charrier at 936.294.1720.
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PC Displays Black Culture
For History Month
The Program Council kicked off Black History Month last week
and has slated a variety of activities throughout February
to “celebrate the past and look forward to the future."
“As the black history chair, I really strive for us
to celebrate more than what we traditionally know as black
history. Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcom X were tremendous
assets to the African-American community; however, we have
so much more to celebrate,” said Donielle Miller.
“Black history a has beautiful and colorful past, filled
with many awesome individuals,” she said. “Our
present is also filled with remarkable leaders.”
On Friday (Feb. 10), the group will hold PC movie night, showing
“Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” at 7 p.m. in Lowman
Student Center Room 320.
The PC and Women United will present “Diva!: Celebrating
50 years of Black Women in Music” on Feb. 16.
The event, which will include musical performances from the
1950s to present, will be held at 7 p.m. in the LSC Ballroom.
Another PC movie night will be held on Feb. 17, showcasing
“Hustle and Flow,” starring 2006 Academy Award
best actor nominee Terrence Howard. The movie will be played
at 7 p.m. in LSC Room 320.
On Feb. 20, the old African-American tradition of quilting
will be the focus for “History in the Making: Bearkat
Patchwork,” at 11 a.m. in the LSC Mall Area.
“Bearkats will be able to decorate their own square
of fabric, and we will be connecting all the squares to create
a Bearkat quilt displaying our diversity,” Miller said.
Finally, the PC will close out Black History Month with a
jazz concert in front of the Alumni Fountain on Feb. 28 at
8 p.m.
“There will be a jazz cafe atmosphere, with mini cafe
tables and hot chocolate,” Miller said.
For more information on any of these events, call 936.294.1763.
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Wind Ensemble To Play At
Mance Park
The SHSU wind ensemble will present its first concert of
the semester on Thursday (Feb. 9) at the Mance Park Middle
School Auditorium.
The concert will include a variety of music, from contemporary
to traditional wind music.
Scott D. Plugge, associate professor of saxophone and associate
chair, will perform the “Concerto for Alto Saxophone
and Wind Orchestra” by Ingolff Dahl.
The final work of the concert, “Phantasticke Spirites,”
is a recent work by Texas composer Donald Grantham, who will
be the guest composer for the SHSU Contemporary Festival later
this semester.
Admission is $8 for adults; $5 for seniors, non-SHSU students
and children over 12; free for children under 11 and free
for SHSU faculty and students with an ID.
For more information, call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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Center Hosts ‘Non-Traditional,’
‘Highly-Motivated’ Workshops
The Student Advising and Mentoring Center will offer a “Study
Skills for Non-Traditional Students” workshop series
beginning Monday (Feb. 6).
The series will consist of five, 50-minute sessions, which
will be held on Mondays at noon.
The sessions will be held weekly through March 6. Because
workshops will be held at noon, participants are encouraged
to bring a lunch.
The program is designed to meet the needs of non-traditional
students, with special topics including stress management,
balancing school and family, prioritizing, goal-setting and
traditional study skills material, according to graduate fellow
Gerri Johnson.
In addition, the SAM Center will sponsor a "Study Skills
for the Highly Motivated" workshop series beginning Thursday
(Feb. 9).
Like the series for non-traditional students, the series for
the highly motivated will consist of five, 50-minute session
series to be held on Thursdays at noon.
Both series will be held in the SAM Center, in Academic Building
4 Suite 210, through March 6 and March 9, respectively.
“This program was designed for students who are eager,
hardworking, and perhaps considering graduate school,”
Johnson said. “The course will be an interactive discussion
based on critical thinking skills.”
To sign up, send an e-mail with contact information to
gerri@shsu.edu or
call 936.294.4444.
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Warner, Lynch Selected
As ‘Teachers’ Choice’
“Preschool Classroom Management,” a book by
education professors Laverne Warner and Sharon Anne Lynch,
has been named a “Teachers’ Choice” book
in Learning Magazine’s 12th Annual Teachers’ Choice
Awards program.
The awards program received over 400 entries this year, all
of which were tested and evaluated by a nationwide panel of
teacher-judges. Each entry was tested in the classroom and
evaluated on quality, instructional value, ease of use, and
innovation.
The book has been called “an invaluable resource for
both new and experienced teachers providing classroom-proven
techniques to address behavior problems before they become
a problem,” according to a Gryphon House, Inc., press
release. Gryphon House, Inc., is the book’s publisher.
Warner is the coordinator and professor of early childhood
education program at SHSU and past president of the Texas
Association for the Education of Young Children.
Lynch, a professor of special education at SHSU, has worked
as an educational consultant, an educational diagnostician
and a special education teacher.
Both authors have published articles in numerous education
journals.
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Burris Gives Talks On Security
David Burris, SHSU’s university articulation coordinator
and computer science professor, recently discussed techniques
for secure data transmission and provided an afternoon seminar
for the Houston Chapter of the Information Security Systems
Association.
His luncheon talk concentrated on obfuscation of data for
secure transmission using a number of techniques, including
steganography and digital watermarks.
The techniques discussed were applied to transmission of geological
data by petrochemical companies, monetary markets, industrial
espionage and terrorism, according to computer science department
chair Peter Cooper.
That afternoon, Burris provided a seminar in cryptography,
digital signatures, secure socket layers, virtual private
networks, certificate authorities, digital envelopes and related
topics, with emphasis placed on strategies and techniques
to protect the business interest of attendees.
Attendees included representatives from engineering firms,
government, law enforcement, banking, education, petrochemical,
legal professions and private security companies.
The program was held in Houston at the Houston Engineering
and Scientific Society Club.
The presentations were in support of the university’s
Center of Excellence in Digital Forensics.
The ISSA is an international organization dedicated to developing
and instituting procedures to assure the confidentiality of
digital information during transmission and storage.
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NGL Hits The Big 50(000)
On Feb. 2, the faculty and staff of the Newton Gresham Library
celebrated processing 50,000 transactions on OCLC ILLiad(tr),
the library’s interlibrary loan management system, since
the implementation of the system in September 2004.
ILLiad, the InterLibrary Loan Internet Accessible Database,
is a computer software program designed to manage the interlibrary
loan process with a greater degree of automation and less
paperwork for library patrons and staff.
The 50, 000 transactions include borrowing requests from SHSU
students, faculty and staff for resources
from other libraries, along with lending requests from other
libraries for resources from the NGL.
The reciprocal nature of interlibrary and loan and resource
sharing provides access to items not available locally, while
providing patrons of other libraries the same privilege, according
to director of library services Ann H. Holder.
In addition to regular interlibrary loan activities, the OCLC
ILLiad(tr) system also supports SHSU students in distance
learning settings, as well as Faculty Direct, a library service
which offers delivery of articles and books that the library
holds to SHSU faculty members.
“Use of OCLC ILLiad(tr) has streamlined Interlibrary
Services workflow, and more importantly, speeded the process
of obtaining materials from other libraries, so that SHSU
students, faculty and staff get the resources they need more
quickly”, said Ann Jerabek, head of interlibrary services.
Other members of the NGL’s interlibrary services team
are Bette Craig, borrowing supervisor; Hilda Murillo, lending
supervisor; and Sammie Phelps, library assistant.
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Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Feb. 5, 2006
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