SHSU
Update For Week Of April 8
Counseling Center To
Screen, Educate For Alcohol Issues
Is your life on the rocks because of your excess drinking?
Recent research has strongly tied alcohol abuse on college
campuses to accidents, sexual assault, injury and even death.
In conjunction with the National Alcohol Screening Day on
Wednesday (April 11), the Sam Houston State University Counseling
Center will present the straight facts on alcohol, how it
affects your body, the risks you may face if you drink too
much and what you can do to regain control.
Screening sessions will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on
the third floor of the Lowman Student Center, where health
professionals will also be available to answer questions and
talk.
In addition, an information booth will be set up in the LSC
Mall Area and a “What Happens when you Drink”
beer goggles demonstration will be set up in the LSC Atrium.
For more information call 936.294.1720.
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Office To Prepare
Students For ‘Destination Graduation’
The Registrar's Office will give upcoming graduates a one-stop
'destination' where all their questions can be answered on
Wednesday (April 11).
"Destination Graduation" will be held from 1-4 p.m.
in the Lowman Student Center Ballroom.
Departments from across campus will be on hand to answer such
questions as "Where do I go for the ceremony," "Is
there anything else I need to do," or "What do I
do after graduating?"
"We just want to offer students a way to find out what
is going on so that there are no surprises at the end of graduation,"
said Maria Busby, assistant registrar.
The event is open to all students who have applied for May
2007 graduation, including all bachelor's, master's and doctoral
programs.
There will be a Destination Graduation T-Shirt giveaway, while
supplies last, and freebies from the Registrar's Office and
many of the other departments.
For more information, contact Deanna
Briones at 936.294.1035 or visit http://www.shsu.edu/~reg_www/destination.
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SHSU’s ‘Outstanding’
To Be Honored At Sammy Awards
SHSU and the Student Activities Department will recognize
more than 18 organizations and students for their contributions
to the community and for their leadership abilities during
the 13th Annual Sammy Awards on April 18.
The ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. in the Lowman Student
Center Ballroom.
The event will include performances by SHSU’s theatre
and dance department, the SHSU Jazz Ensemble, the Opera Workshop
and senior Jeremy Holzbach.
Among the awards that will be presented are outstanding first-year,
sophomore and junior student leaders, the McDermett Memorial
Award for a female senior, the Creager Memorial Award for
a male senior, the Outstanding Non-Traditional Student Leader
award and the Sammy Award, as well as outstanding organization
awards and excellence in service awards from each of the five
colleges.
The Sammy Awards is the official ceremony that recognizes
SHSU’s outstanding student leaders and organizations.
“It is a wonderful opportunity for all to recognize
the amazing students that SHSU has to offer,” said Brandon
Cooper, program coordinator for student activities.
The event is free for anyone who wants to attend.
For more information, visit The 13th Annual Sammy Awards Web
site at http://www.shsu.edu/~slo_sad/sammys/index.html
or call 936.294.3861.
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Physics To Show Spring Skies,
Orion
The physics department will continue its series of planetarium
showings by giving students, faculty and staff a glimpse of
the “Spring Skies and Orion” on Friday (April
13).
The series, which shows attendees which constellations, stars
and planets they can expect to see in the upcoming weeks,
will be held at 7 p.m. in the Planetarium, located in Farrington
Building Room F102.
The program, which began last semester, aims at increasing
public awareness and interest in the field of astronomy, according
to Michael Prokosch, staff aid for the physics department
and SHSU alumnus who also teaches elementary school at Lansberry
Elementary in Trinity.
The show will last approximately one hour and will include
a tour of the winter constellations and the department’s
prearranged movie, "Orion," specifically formatted
for viewing on a dome-shaped screen.
The Planetarium, which seats up to 29 visitors, includes a
dome that is approximately 18 feet in diameter and more than
20 feet high in the center, Prokosch said.
“Essentially a time machine, the planetarium's projector
can show how the night sky appears to an observer at any point
in time from any place on the earth, from 100,000 years in
the past, to 100,000 years into the future,” he said.
The final program for the semester will be presented on May
11 at 7 p.m.
Admission is free, and if seating is full, a secondary show
may be given if time permits.
For more information on current show times for the Planetarium
or the Observatory, call 936.294.3664.
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Music Hosts Trio Of Concerts
April 10-12
The SHSU School of Music will present a variety of concerts
this week, including an organ recital and performances by
the chamber music society and brass quintet.
On Tuesday (April 10), assistant professor and area coordinator
of keyboard studies Jay Whatley will perform a variety of
works for Lent and Holy Week.
The faculty organ recital, which will be held at 6 p.m. at
the First United Methodist Church, will include pieces by
Bach, Manz, Sowerby, Kirnberger, Near, Bossi, Willan, and
Langlais, he said.
On Wednesday, the SHSU Chamber Music Society and Symphony
Strings will perform at 6 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
The program will include such pieces as Antonio Lucio Vivaldi’s
“Concerto for Two Trumpets in C major,” Johann
Sebastian Bach’s “Concerto in D Minor for Two
Violins,” and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “String
Quartet No. 3,” among many others.
On Thursday, music faculty members will show off their talents
for the Faculty Brass Quintet, at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital
Hall.
The ensemble, which includes Randy Adams and Steve Warkentin
playing trumpet, Peggy DeMers playing horn and alphorn, Henry
Howey playing trombone and Bob Daniel playing tuba, will include
works by Giovanni Gabrieli, Ingolf Dahl, Jean Daetwyler and
Eric Ewazen, several of which have been transcribed by Howey,
according to Adams.
Admission is free.
For more information, call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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Weekend Concerts To Include
Choir, Opera
The School of Music will give patrons a weekend of music
April 14-15 that will include a choir concert, guest artist
and a performance by the SHSU Opera Workshop beginning at
5 p.m. on Saturday.
That day (April 14), the SHSU Concert Choir and Women’s
Chorus will feature the Britten 'Ceremony of Carols,' as well
as folk songs from Scandinavia, Great Britain, Germany and
the USA.
The performance, under the direction of conductor James C.
Franklin, will be held at the University Heights Baptist Church,
on Sycamore Street.
Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for non-SHSU students, and
free for SHSU faculty, staff, and students.
Later that evening, Steinway guest piano artist Han Boepple
will perform as part of the John Paul Scholarship Series at
7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
A professor of piano at Santa Clara University since 1978
and department chair since 1995, Boepple has been presented
as guest soloist with distinguished American orchestras since
his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at age 10.
He will perform pieces from J.S. Bach, Robert Schumann, Alexander
Scriabin and Frederic Chopin during his SHSU concert.
Admission is free, though donations will be accepted to benefit
piano scholarship students.
Boepple will also teach a masterclass with SHSU students on
Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Music Building Room 205.
Finally, on Sunday, the SHSU Opera Workshop will present a
free showcase for the public, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Recital
Hall.
“This show is also being presented at a few area high
schools for the purpose of showcasing the operatic vocal talent
we have here at SHSU,” said Dawn M. Padula, visiting
assistant professor of music.
"An Opera Showcase" features several “action-packed,
high-energy scenes” from Verdi's “Falstaff,”
sung in Italian with English surtitles; Britten's “A
Midsummer Night's Dream,” sung in English; Lehar's “The
Merry Widow;” Offenbach's “Orpheus in the Underworld,”
sung in English; and Rossini's “Il Barbierie di Siviglia,”
sung in Italian with English surtitles.
Several of these scenes are audience favorites from Opera
Workshop productions past, often with new cast members, she
said.
The majority of the scenes will be performed by the Opera
Players, the more advanced group of students, while the show's
finale features students from both sections, the Opera Player
and the Opera Workshop.
For more information, call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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Students To Take A Break
From Tutoring To Present
SHSU’s Writing Center will be closed on Thursday and
Friday (April 12-13), when 11 of its undergraduate and graduate
tutors will present at and host the International Writing
Centers Association conference in Houston.
“They will be helping to run the conference, which will
be attended by over 500 writing center tutors and administrators
from the United States, Hong Kong, Qatar, Korea, France, Greece
and other countries,” said Diane Dowdey, director of
the writing center.
Presenters include English graduate students Jose de la Garza
and Semira Taheri, who will discuss “Cultural Space:
Launching Concepts in the Space of Understanding” on
their experiences as bilingual writing center tutors, and
Samuel Unger, who will discuss “Tutoring our Elders:
Writing Centers and Cultural Space for the Non-Traditional
Student.”
History graduate student John Fennessy, criminal justice undergraduate
student Amanda Nolan, and English undergraduate student Christina
Norum will present “The Writing Center as Oz.”
In addition, undergraduate tutors Kris Gottlieb, David Clarke,
and Allison Newton will present on “The Matrix Factor,”
while David Sweeten and John Paul Ewing will be “Putting
Aristotle and Plato to Work: Using Classical Rhetoric in Writing
Center Tutoring Sessions.”
“The chance to meet people who had the same commitment
to helping students learn to write was wonderful,” said
Jennifer Rudolph, a writing center tutor who presented at
a previous IWCA conference. “Attending the conference
also helped me see what a great center we have here.
“It was amazing the number of people all over the world
who had heard about our writing center,” she said.
No other university has as many tutors accepted to present
as Sam Houston State University, Dowdey said.
Writing tutors and administrators from Stanford, Duke, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue, University
of Texas, Texas A&M, and University of Wisconsin are among
those who will be presenting.
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Beta Gamma Sigma Inducts
54 For 10th Anniversary
The James E. Gilmore Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international
honor society for students enrolled in collegiate business
programs at AACSB International accredited institutions, inducted
52 students and two faculty members into the organization
during its annual banquet on March 22.
Among those inducted were graduate students Jolene Bon-Jorno,
Galina Lamont, Andreas Sadlier and Anna Turri.
Seniors inducted into the group included Ros Brown, Jessica
Butler, Kelli Cain, Laura R. Castillo, James Clarke, Huong
Julia Clay, Nicole David-Nickolay, Jackson Felder, Amber Garrison,
Jennifer Gaulitz, Hayley Harris, Daniel L. Hirsch, Yvonne
Holcomb, Adam Jackson, Katelyn Jackson, Christine Joines,
Timothy Karamitsos and Bill Manning.
Also, Eddie Mayo, Courtney McMinn, Kimberly D. Meaux, Brandon
Montagne, Stephen J. Monych, Maegan Nappier, Isioma Okwuwa,
Gregory O’Neill, Amy Payne, Luke A. Prihoda, John Ratchford,
Amanda Richmond, Zachary Schindler, Tricia Shipman, Elizabeth
Simmons, Samuel Vaughn, Bobbie Warner and Brandon Wigent.
Junior inductees included Scott Bishop, An Dang, Robin Dosie,
Steven Dreibelbis, Stephanie Emig, Megan Englishbee, Morgan
Hill, Deanne Lehner, Annie Miller, Michelle Moul, Christine
Smart and Mary Taylor.
In addition, faculty members who are not Beta Gamma Sigma
members are invited to join upon being awarded tenure, which
included Mark Frank, associate professor in the department
of economics and international business and Philip Morris,
associate professor in the department of accounting.
The chapter, which commemorates its 10th anniversary this
year, also awarded two scholarships during the ceremony, a
$1,000 scholarship to Benjamin Smith, a senior accounting
major, and a $500 scholarship to Karamitsos, a senior accounting
major.
To be eligible for membership with the organization, second-semester
juniors must be in the top 7 percent of their class based
on overall grade point average, seniors must be in the top
10 percent and graduating master’s students in the top
20 percent.
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Tri-Beta Honored For ‘Chapter
Excellence’
SHSU’s Delta Tau chapter of the Tri-Beta Biological
Honor Society won the District 2 Chapter Excellence Award
during the organization’s annual conference March 30
through April 1.
“The last time we won this award was in 2001-2002,”
said Carlye Schulte, Delta Tau public relations officer. “This
award basically lets everyone know that Sam Houston State
University’s Delta Tau chapter of Tri-Beta is the best
chapter in the Texas region.”
SHSU’s chapter, which had 21 student and faculty member
representatives participating in the conference, also served
as the host of the event, which was held at the Oklahoma University
field station on Lake Texoma.
“We had an awesome turnout of about 140 students and
faculty from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas,”
Schulte said.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
April 6, 2007
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