SHSU
Update For Week Of Dec. 9
Rec Sports To Offer Finals
Relief
The Department of Recreational Sports will give students
a break from studying for their final examinations with food,
prizes and massages on Monday and Tuesday (Dec. 10-11).
Finals Relief will be held from 5-8 p.m. on Dec. 10 and from
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Dec. 11 in the Health and Kinesiology
Center.
"This time of year, students are looking for stress relievers,
and we want to offer them a positive way to relieve stress,"
said Tina De Ases, Rec Sports senior assistant director for
marketing and special events.
Students who need a break can color pictures, get a massage,
make a stress ball, or race up the climbing wall.
This year’s event is being held twice to accommodate
commuter students who don’t have the opportunity to
participate in the night event, De Ases said.
“We decided to do it earlier in the day to see if we
can offer help to more students on campus,” she said.
The event will be held in conjunction with the Alcohol
and Drug Abuse Initiative and the Counseling
Center.
For more information, contact De Ases at 936.294.3658 or tdeases@shsu.edu.
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Dance Seniors To Reach REM
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Students practice for the Senior
Studio Performance Concert, which will be held On Dec.
11-12 in the ABIII Dance Theater.
--Photo by Kally Donaldson-Evans. |
Fourteen senior choreographers will present their own dances
during the fall studio performance concert on Tuesday and
Wednesday (Dec. 11-12).
The concert, Rapid Eye Movement, will be held at 8 p.m. on
both days in the Academic Building III Dance Theater.
Each choreographed piece deals with dreamscapes, personal
interpretations and individual statements about the world,
according to Hilary Bryan, visiting assistant professor of
dance.
The “extremely diverse” works will delve into
such topics as Parkinson’s disease, Japan, spirituality,
the hijab worn by women in the Middle Eastern countries and
women and body issues, as well as some light-hearted pieces.
“There are several pieces that specifically deal with
dreaming, but the idea is of these diverse snapshots of life
and personal interpretations of what’s going on in the
world,” Bryan said.
The concert, which is the culminating event for the choreography
series, will also include a “huge cast” of approximately
40 dancers.
“This is what they’ve been gearing up for their
whole career here at Sam, so it’s a really, really big
event for them,” Bryan said.
Admission is free; however, seating is limited, so attendees
are encouraged to arrive early.
For more information, call the dance
program at 936.294.1875.
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Graduating Seniors To Exhibit
Works
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| This piece by Ashley Ward will be one
of many on display in the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery through
Dec. 15 as part of the art department's Graduating Senior
Exhibit. |
Graduating art majors will reveal their paintings, drawings,
collages and photography beginning Monday (Dec. 10) in the
Gaddis Geeslin Gallery.
The Graduating Senior Exhibit will be held through Dec. 15,
when a reception will be held following the commencement ceremony.
The reception, expected to begin around noon, is open to the
public, and refreshments will be served, according to art
department audio/visual librarian Debbie Davenport.
The exhibit will feature Bachelor of Fine Arts candidates,
including Martha Leatherman, Stacey Thomas, Ashley Ward, Arnea
Williams and Josh Wilson.
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery, located in Art Building F, is
open Monday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m.
For more information, call the art department at 936.294.1317
or visit http://www.shsu.edu/~gallery/.
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Teske To Visit Germany
For Hate Crimes Research
Raymond Teske, Jr., professor of criminal justice, will
be on developmental leave from Sam Houston State University
during the 2008 spring semester to do research in Germany.
Teske will continue his research on the prosecution of hate
crime offenders there, comparing the prosecution outcome and
sentencing with a control sample of non-hate crime related
offenses.
He will also continue work on hate crime statistics created
for him and a German colleague by the state police in Baden-Württemberg.
Comparable data and cases are being analyzed in Texas.
A third project on which he has been working for more than
five years involves a study of changes in crime rates before
and after unification in Germany.
Each of the projects represents a joint venture with professor
Hans-Jörg Albrecht, director of the Max Planck Institute.
Albrecht is a former Beto Chair lecturer and has visited the
Criminal Justice Center to make presentations on several occasions.
Teske's three-month stay in Germany is being funded by an
honorary award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,
which will pay for his living expenses, airfare, supplemental
allowances for research, and conference-related travel within
Germany, as well as expenses for his wife, Jane, to accompany
him during his stay.
Teske was first awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
for young scholars in 1980 and spent 12 months at the Max
Planck Institute establishing and carrying out the first large-scale
(sample of 3,600) crime victimization survey in Germany.
"I am extremely grateful for this award, at this level
of support, and for all of their previous support, from the
Humboldt Foundation, the Max Planck Institute, and Sam Houston
State University," Teske said.
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Education Professors’
Book Wins Another Award
The early childhood education book “Inclusive Lesson
Plans Throughout the Year,” written by four SHSU faculty
members, has been awarded as “Judges’ Selection”
and an “Outstanding Product for 2007” by Early
Childhood News.
The book won the ECN “Directors’ Choice Award”
earlier this year and was selected from all of the “Directors’
Choice” category winners for the “Judges’
Selection Award,” according to a press release from
Gryphon House, Inc., the book’s publisher.
“Inclusive Lesson Plans Throughout the Year” was
written by Laverne Warner, professor emerita of early childhood
education; Sharon Lynch, professor of special education; and
Diana Nabors and Cynthia Simpson, both of whom are assistant
professors in the language, literacy and special populations
department.
Organized by season, the book has over 150 lesson plans for
early childhood teachers who work with children with special
needs.
Each plan has a learning objective, materials list, directions
for preparation, an assessment component, extension activities
to connect the lesson plan to different areas of the curriculum,
and adaptations for children with a variety of special needs.
In addition, each lesson plan has modifications for children
with autism spectrum disorder; speech/language, visual, hearing
or orthopedic impairments; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder; and learning disabilities.
Earlychildhood News is an online resource for teachers and
parents of young children, infants to eight years of age.
“Inclusive Lesson Plans Throughout the Year” was
published in May 2007 and can be purchased online for $29.95
(ISBN No. 9780876590140).
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Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Dec. 7, 2007
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