SHSU
Update For Week Of March 18
Campus To Open For
Potential Students March 24
Prospective students and parents will have the opportunity
to visit the Sam Houston State University campus to see what
the university has to offer on Saturday (March 24).
“Saturdays@Sam!,” sponsored by the Visitor Center,
will begin with check-in and parent coffee from 8-9 a.m. in
the Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum, followed by an opening session
from 9-9:30 a.m.
Throughout the day, students and their parents can meet with
academic advisers at the university’s Student Advising
and Mentoring Center, have academic sessions with two different
colleges of potential majors, tour residence halls and the
campus, attend an organizations fair, and get information
from various departments on campus.
Breakfast and lunch items will be available for purchase throughout
the day at the Johnson Coliseum concession stands. Lunch will
also be available from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Café
Belvin for $5 and at the Paw Print.
The next “Saturdays@Sam!” will be held on in the
fall.
Registration forms, online registration, directions to the
university and more information is available online at http://www.shsu.edu/~visitor/saturday.html.
More information may also be obtained by calling 936.294.1844
or e-mailing visitsam@shsu.edu.
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‘Excellent’
Staff Members Sought
Nominations for the Staff Excellence Award and Recognition
of Service Program are due April 2.
The annual Staff Excellence Awards “honor three employees
who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence,” including
one exempt and two non-exempt staff employees, according to
the nomination form.
Non-exempt employees are those subject to overtime pay.
A recipient must be a full-time, non-temporary staff member
with a minimum of two years service at time of nomination;
demonstrate outstanding abilities, innovative ideas, efficient
operations, high level of motivation; be respected by the
university community; and cannot be a previous recipient.
A list of previous recipients can be found at http://www.shsu.edu/~hrd_www/excellence/past.html.
Recipients also receive a financial stipend.
Any full-time SHSU faculty or staff member can nominate, and
faculty and staff may nominate more than one person. Selections
are made by the university’s eight-member staff excellence
committee.
Forms also may be picked up and returned to the Human Resources
Department, in Estill Building Room 334, or through campus
mail at Box 2356 SHSU.
For more information, or to nominate someone online, visit
http://www.shsu.edu/~hrd_www/excellence/.
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Indian Literature Expert
To Speak
Anjali Daimari, an expert on Indian literature, will discuss
“Voices of the Northeast: New Writings in Indian English
Literature” on Monday (March 19).
The lecture, sponsored by the English department, will be
held from 5-6 p.m. in Evans Building Room 105.
Daimari is a lecturer of English literature at Gauhati University
in India. Her research interests include Indian writing in
English, feminism and questions related to “self,”
“silences,” and “identity.”
She is also an expert on Indian English writers U. R. Ananthamurthy,
author of “Samskara;” Gopinath Mohanty, author
of “Paraja;” and Mahasweta Devi, author of “Rudali.”
Daimari will be in Huntsville visiting friend and SHSU assistant
professor of economics Hiranya Nath.
“Since Dr. Daimari is an expert on Indian literature,
and since we heard of her visit in Huntsville, we wanted her
to give a talk in her expertise, Indian literature, in the
English Department, where one of the fields of study is multicultural
literature,” said Helena Halmari, associate professor
of English.
“This is most fitting to the curriculum in the English
department, where the study of literature—all over the
world—is the main target,” she said.
For more information, contact the English
department at 936.294.1403 or Halmari
at 936.294.1420.
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Registration
Dates Change
Registration for the summer and fall semesters has been
changed to March 23 through May 2.
Opening dates and times have changed for each classification
and will begin at 1 p.m. on March 23 for honors students.
Doctoral, graduate and post graduate students, as well as
seniors may register beginning on March 26; juniors may register
on March 28; sophomores, on March 29; and freshmen, on March
30.
Registration will begin at 1 p.m. for all undergraduate students.
For more information, call the Registrar’s
Office at 936.294.1040.
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SAM Center To Give Study Skills
Advice
The Student Advising and Mentoring Center will teach students
how to “study smart” with its second Study Skills
Workshop series of the semester beginning March 19.
The six, one-hour sessions will introduce study skills, as
well as discuss procrastination, time management, reading
textbooks, note and test taking strategies and stress management.
Sessions will also be held at a variety of times to accommodate
student schedules.
Space is limited, and students must call or stop by the SAM
Center to sign up.
For more information, call 936.294.4444, e-mail samcenter@shsu.edu
or visit the SAM
Center, located in Academic Building IV Room
210.
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Honors Student To Show
‘Order Of Movement’
Senior dance major Amy Wright will present “Kineseos
Taxis,” an undergraduate honors thesis concert, on Thursday
and Friday (March 22-23) at 8 p.m. in the Academic Building
III Dance Theatre.
The concert will include six “extremely varied dances”
choreographed by Wright and performed by undergraduate dance
and musical theatre students, she said.
The program will incorporate styles including modern, theatre
jazz, and tap, opening with a theatre jazz piece to music
from Leonard Bernstein's "Wonderful Town."
The main work in the concert is a modern dance based on the
William Cullen Bryant poem "The Flood of Years."
“This piece is about the lives of all kinds of people
from all different walks,” Wright said.
The concert also includes two tap pieces: a trio of two modern
dancers and a tap dancer “which explores the juxtaposition
between these two very different but very beautiful genres”
and another to a jazz piece by pianist Doug Smith, she said.
"Kineseos Taxis," which comes from Plato's laws,
literally means "order of movement" and is how Plato
defines rhythm, according to Wright.
“The concert is part of an honors thesis project that
addresses the function of art, specifically dance, in the
lives of the people in a society,” she said. “The
purpose of the thesis is to prove how necessary art is to
people.”
Admission to the concert is free.
For more information, call the Dance Box Office at 936.294.3988.
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Music To Host Quintet
Of Performances
The SHSU School of Music will return from the Spring Break
holiday on a high note, presenting five different concerts
beginning on Tuesday (March 20).
On that day, three faculty members will present music for
the clarinet, piano and saxophone at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital
Hall.
Featuring faculty musicians Patricia P. Card playing clarinet,
Sergio Ruiz playing piano and Scott Plugge playing saxophone,
the concert will include pieces such as Johannes Brahms’
“Sonata in F minor, Op. 120 Nr.1” and Nikola Resanovic’s
“The Ox and the Lark."
On Wednesday (March 21), the SHSU Steel Band will perform
an eclectic set of music including Caribbean soca and calypso
styles, reggae, Latin jazz and arrangements of popular music.
The performance will be held at noon at the Farrington Pit
Stage, next to the Farrington Building.
A limbo contest will also be held during the event.
The ensemble, under the direction of John Lane, assistant
professor of percussion, is available for future events or
for hire, he said.
That evening, Trent Hanna, music theory professor, will perform
a “contemporary classical” concert featuring some
of his original piano compositions from his debut CD at 7:30
p.m. in the Recital Hall.
The CD, Sojournal (which is “a combination of the words
sojourn and journal”) is based on different places Hanna
has visited over the past few years, he said.
“Dorland,” completed in 2001, won first prize
in the 2006 Contemporary Japanese and American Music Composition
Contest and took him to Japan over Spring Break to perform
two concerts of his works, he said.
“A Tiburon Panorama,” the most recently composed
piece on the recital, depicts different places around the
San Francisco Bay Area.
Another composition will include a choreographed piece by
Kista Tucker, professor of dance, and will be performed by
Jessalyn Pratka and Elspeth Erickson.
Also this week, the School of Music will host the SAI Musicale,
on March 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall and a flute studio
recital, on March 25 at 2 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
For more information on any of the concerts, call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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Biology Group To Host
Conference
The Delta Tau chapter of the Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society
will host the organization’s regional conference on
March 31.
The chapter plans to bring approximately 20 student presenters
and volunteers to host the regional meeting, where students
from Tri-Beta chapters from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and
Louisiana will meet and present research work, according to
Carlye Schulte, public relations officer for SHSU’s
chapter.
The event will be held at the Oklahoma University field station
on Lake Texoma, Schulte said, but as hosts, the Delta Tau
chapter is responsible for making arrangements for the conference,
including setting up catering and conference rooms, printing
out schedules, assigning rooms and “just basically setting
everything up and making sure everything runs properly.
“We are also involved in contacting everyone and getting
everything together,” she said. “The volunteers
from our chapter will help out during the conference and will
present research work, which all add points to the regional
competition for best overall chapter. We hope to get this
honor.”
The group will also participate in a scrapbook competition,
for which each presenter competes for best presentation and
research work.
For more information, contact Schulte at org_bbb@shsu.edu.
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Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
March 14, 2007
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