SHSU
Update For Week Of April 29
Semester Comes To An End
The spring semester will come to a close on Thursday (May
3).
There will be no classes on Friday for the final exam study
day, with final exams being held May 7-10. Residence halls
will close at noon on May 11.
To see the final exam schedule, visit http://www.shsu.edu/students/finalexam.html.
Commencement ceremonies will be held at 6 p.m. on May 11
for the College of Education, at 10 a.m. on May 12 for the
Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Business Administration,
and at 2 p.m. on May 12 for the Colleges of Criminal Justice
and Humanities and Social Sciences. All ceremonies will be
held in the Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum.
Speakers
for the three ceremonies will be Eduardo Sanchez and Rob Eissler.
Students may sell their textbooks back to the Barnes and Noble
University Bookstore from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through May 10
in the Lowman Student Center Atrium.
In addition, from May 7-10 the bookstore will buy textbooks
in front of the Newton Gresham Library and between the Lee
Drain and Farrington buildings.
A student ID is required when selling textbooks.
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Physics To Give Final Glimpse
Of Spring Skies, Orion
The physics department will host its final showing of the
“Spring Skies and Orion” planetarium series on
Friday (May 11).
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 aims to increase 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.
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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SHSU To Host Interest-Oriented
Summer Camps
From music to video game art and even criminal justice, Sam
Houston State University will be home to a variety of summer
camps for youth of all ages.
Camp Invention, a day camp for youth in first through sixth
grades that fosters creativity, teamwork, inventive-thinking
skills and science literacy, will be held July 9-13.
For more information, contact Patsy Collins at icc_pwc@shsu.edu
or call 936.294.4661 or register online at www.campinvention.org.
SHSU’s animation program will host a five-day introduction
to the Maya animation interface and character animation for
video games to serious campers who are interested in learning
how to create the animations that bring real time characters
to life.
The SHSU Video Game Art Workshop, for students in 8th through
12th grades will be held June 4–8. For more information,
contact assistant professor David Dawson at 936.294.3200 or
visit the Web site http://davidscottdawson.com/.
Students ages 15-17 who are interested in a career in criminal
justice can get a glimpse into the profession during the SHSU
Criminal Justice Camp, a residential camp that will be held
June 10-14, July 8-12 and July 22-26.
For more information, or to register, contact Doris Powell
at icc_dcp@shsu.edu
or 936.294.3637.
Finally, the SHSU School of Music will offer a variety of
camps for those musically-inclined students, including junior
high band; junior high orchestra; junior high and high school
piano; leadership, drum major and new marcher; and all-state
choir.
Camps are offered as residential and day camps and will be
offered throughout the summer.
A complete schedule of music camps, as well as registration
information, can be found at http://www.shsu.edu/~music/camps
or by contacting Nicole Alfred at 936.294.3994.
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Summer Camps To Teach Athletic
Skills
The SHSU Athletics Department will help students fine-tune
their football, soccer, baseball, basketball, volleyball
and softball skills during residential and day camps this
summer.
Todd Whitten, head football coach, is offering three summer
campus for young athletes with an interest in building upon
their football skills and improving their strength and condtioning.
Football residential camp is July 8-July 10, with day campus
June 12 and July 19. Contact coach Trent Grona by e-mail or phone at 936.294.1732.
Directed by women’s soccer coach Marcia Oliveira,
soccer residential camp will be held June 17-22 and day camp
will be held June 4-8. For more information, contact Kelvin
Riddler at 936.294.4138 or visit the Web site www.gobearkats.com/soccer/camp.
The Mark Johnson Baseball Camps will be held June 4-6 for
youth day camp (grades 1-6), June 11-12 for pitcher/camper
camp (grades 7-12), June 18-20 for youth hitting camp (grades
1-6), June 18-20 for hitting intensity camp (grades 7-12),
and June 13 and July 30 for collegiate prospect camp (grades
9-12).
For more information, contact Justin Hill at 936.294.4435
or by e-mail at jhill@shsu.edu.
Young athletes with an interest in building upon their football
skills and improving their strength and conditioning will
have the opportunity to do so during the Todd Whitten Football
camps, on June 12 and July 19 for day camps and July 8-10
for residential camp.
For more information, contact Trent Grona at 936.294.1732
or by e-mail at grona@shsu.edu.
The women’s basketball day camp, directed by SHSU head
coach Brenda Nichols, will be held June 25-28. For more information,
contact assistant women’s basketball coach Jamene Caldwell
at 936.294.3915 or by e-mail at jamenec@hotmail.com.
The Bob Marlin Basketball Camp, for men’s basketball,
will be held June 18-21. For more information on the day camp,
contact assistant coach Jason Hooten at 936.294.1748 or by
e-mail at johooten@shsu.edu.
SHSU volleyball residential camp, lead by Bearkat head coach
Brenda Gray, will be held July 8-11. For more information,
contact Gray at 936.294.1736 or by e-mail at bgray@shsu.edu.
Softball day camps, for girls of all ages and led by head
coach Bob Brock, will be held at a variety of times throughout
the summer, including June 11–13, June 18–20,
June 25–27, July 9–11, July 16–18, and July
23–25.
For more information, or to register, contact Brock at 936.294.3920,
936. 294.1745, by e-mail at ath_rlb@shsu.edu,
or visit www.gobearkats.com/softball.
Other athletics camps that will be held on the SHSU campus
include cheerleading, soccer goalkeeping and jump roping.
The National Cheerleading Association residential and day
camps, for junior high and high school students, will be held
June 4-7, June 9-12, June 16-19, June 23-26, July 14-17 and
July 21-24.
For more information regarding the National Cheerleading Association
summer camps, contact Bill Patterson at 800.NCA.2WIN or by
e-mail at bpatterson@nationalspirit.com
or visit the NCA Web site at www.nationalspirit.com.
The Star Goalkeeper Academy residential camp will be held
June 10-14. For more information, visit the Star Goalkeeper
Academy Web site at www.stargoalkeeper.com
or call 860.659.5955.
USA Jump Rope’s Southern Jump Rope Camp, a residential
or day camp, will be held June 30 through July 4. For more
information, call 800.225.8820 or visit www.usajumprope.org.
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Music To End Semester With
Four Concerts
The School of Music will wind down the spring semester with
four performances beginning on Sunday (April 29).
The Bassoon Studio Recital will feature classical, romantic
and 20th century music and will “poke fun at opera”
during the concert, at 2 p.m. in the Recital Hall, according
to Scott Phillips, assistant professor of bassoon.
On Tuesday (May 1), the tuba studio will perform a variety
of more modern solos for the instruments at 2 p.m. in the
Recital Hall.
The Tuba Studio Recital will also include senior horn student
Kira Lowe.
Among the pieces that will be included in the performances
are Alexi Lebedev’s “Concerto in One Movement,”
John Stevens’ “Elegy,” Franz Joseph Haydn’s
“Two Classical Themes” and James Grant’s
“Stuff,” among others.
“The studio recital is a wonderful opportunity for the
students to perform as soloists in a formal recital setting,”
said Bob Daniel, adjunct professor of tuba.
That evening, the electronic music class will present their
“very impressive” projects and compositions completed
for the MUS 468-08 class, as well as a few additional guest
composer pieces, according to music lecturer John Crabtree.
The concert, to be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall,
will also be “somewhat informal” and audience
“reactions are expected as well as encouraged,”
he said.
“All compositions are electronic and generated from
audio clips and purely synthesized sounds that the students
created from simple sources,” Crabtree said. “We
also plan to incorporate a 4.1 surround system during playback
to enhance the sound landscape experience.”
Finally, director of keyboard studies Sergio Ruiz will perform
pieces for the piano on Wednesday (May 2).
Ruiz’s faculty music recital will be held at 7:30 p.m.
in the Recital Hall.
The concert will include W. A. Mozart’s “Sonata
in D Major,” Enrique Granados’ “Danza Española
No. 5,” George Gershwin’s “Preludes for
Piano” and Samuel Barber’s “Sonata for Piano,
Op. 26.”
Admission is free for all of the performances.
For more information, call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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ROTC Acknowledged For Army-Benefiting
Blood Drive
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| Associate vice president for Academic
Affairs Richard Eglsaer recently accepted a plaque on
behalf of SHSU for its work with the Robertson Blood Center.
With Eglsaer is Capt. Grace Deneke, deputy director of
the blood center. |
Capt. Grace Deneke, deputy director of the Robertson Blood
Center at Fort Hood presented a plaque to SHSU on April 18
for the ROTC program’s “excellent support in blood
drives.”
Since 2004, the RBC has worked with the Bearkat Battalion
and Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Post 5871
to schedule blood drives and collect donations in support
of U.S. military personnel deployed overseas and soldiers,
as well as their families at military hospitals.
In 2006, the Bearkats sponsored a competition between Texas
ROTC battalions that resulted in more than 600 units of blood
collected at SHSU.
“This contribution made a substantial difference in
the mission of the Army Blood Program and the lives of men
and women supporting our nation,” said Perry Jefferies,
RBC director.
Richard F. Eglsaer, associate vice president for Academic
Affairs, accepted the plaque for the school during the Reserve
Officer Training Corps’ Bearkat Battalion annual award
ceremony. The plaque will be displayed in the Military Science
Office.
“By working with the local VFW posts, the ROTC department
is able to leverage the experience and volunteerism of the
veterans of earlier conflicts while they are able to impart
their experience to the future leaders of the armed forces,”
Jefferies said. “The Bearkat ROTC Battalion is among
the most successful in the country regarding recruiting and
military-event competitions.”
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Senior Wins Finance
Scholarship
SHSU senior finance major Zachary L. Schindler was one of
11 students recently awarded with a $2,000 scholarship from
the Houston chapter of the Financial Executives International.
Financial Executives International-Houston Chapter is a preeminent
association for Chief Financial Officers and other senior
finance executives.
The organization’s scholarship foundation recognized
Schindler and the other recipients during its 2007 Academic
Honors Day Program in February.
Since 1970, FEI has awarded scholarships totaling approximately
$250,000 through our Academic Honor’s Day Program, funded
primarily through members’ dues and voluntary contributions.
“From the feedback we continue to receive over the years
from scholarship winners, we are pleased to personalize the
educational experience, with a focus on recognizing academic
accomplishment by awarding scholarships to deserving students
in assisting them in completing their degree programs,”
said Rebecca McCulloch, communications chair.
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Jennifer Gauntt
April 29, 2007
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