SHSU
Update For Week Of Sept. 9
ADP To Tackle Burning Issues
In ‘Flags Of Our Fathers’
The American Democracy Project will examine the ‘burning
issue’ of war-time propaganda on Saturday (Sept. 15)
with the kickoff of its new film series.
“Flags of Our Fathers,” the first “Burning
Issues Film” for the series, will be shown at 7 p.m.
at the Katy and E. Don Walker, Sr., Education Center.
“The purpose of the ‘ADP Burning Issues Film series’
is to contribute to the academic and cultural life here at
SHSU by bringing in films that address or relate to critical
issues facing the world today,” said John Newbold, the
film series coordinator for the ADP.
“Flags of Our Fathers,” will also be shown at
3:30 p.m. on Sept. 18-19 in the Lowman Student Center Theatre.
All of the monthly “burning issues” films will
be shown three times to accommodate local Huntsville residents,
as well as SHSU students.
“We are hopeful that students and townsfolk alike will
find these films a great opportunity to see some films that
ordinarily might not show in this area,” Newbold said.
Each showing will be followed by a brief reception with punch
and cookies, and a discussion, which will vary depending upon
the subject matter of the film and the guest discussants.
Admission to all shows is free.
Based on true events, “Flags of Our Fathers” deals
with the World War II battle at Iwo Jima and war-time propaganda
surrounding the most famous photograph in military history,
taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.
Based on the novel by James Bradley, the movie stars Ryan
Phillippe, Jesse Bradford and Adam Beach and was directed
by Clint Eastwood.
“This isn't so much a conventional war movie as it is
a thought-provoking meditation on our collective need for
heroes, even at the expense of those we deem heroic,”
Newbold said.
“Eastwood takes us deep into the horror of war (in painstakingly
authentic Iwo Jima battle scenes) while emphasizing how three
of the surviving flag-raisers became reluctant celebrities—and
resentful pawns in a wartime publicity campaign—after
their flag-raising was immortalized in the most famous photograph
in military history.”
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Distinguished Educator
Nominations Due Oct. 12
The SHSU College of Education is seeking alumni educators
who have made significant contributions to the field for its
“2008 Distinguished Educator of the Year” awards.
Nominations will be accepted until Oct. 12 in five categories:
Distinguished Elementary Teacher, Distinguished Secondary
Teacher, Distinguished Support Professional, Distinguished
Administrator/Supervisor and Friend of Education.
Support professionals include, but are not limited to, counselors,
specialists, diagnosticians and librarians; and the Friend
of Education award recognizes individuals or businesses that
have made a significant contribution to the field of education.
Nominees must be a SHSU College of Education alumnus and have
demonstrated expertise or outstanding service, either current
or retired, in the classroom, school, district and/or community.
The Friend of Education is not required to be an SHSU alumnus.
A letter of recommendation describing why the nominee should
receive a Distinguished Educator of the Year Award should
also be included with the application.
Self-nominations are also welcome.
A semi-formal, black tie optional ceremony recognizing award
winners and nominees will be held on March 1, 2008, in the
Lowman Student Center Ballroom.
Nominations forms are available online
and should be submitted to SHSU College of Education; Attn:
Event Coordinator; Box 2119; Huntsville, TX, 77341; or by
fax to 936.294.1102.
For more information, contact Sherry Hirsch, COE events coordinator,
at org_coe@shsu.edu
or 936.294.1101.
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Gaertner To Get ‘Up
Close And Personal’ During Lecture
University President Jim Gaertner will kick off the Student
Advising and Mentoring Center’s “Up Close and
Personal” speaker series with a discussion on Wednesday
(Sept. 12).
The 30-minute lunchtime presentation will be held at noon
at the Farrington Pit.
The series is “designed to help our students and university
community build mentoring relationships with our outstanding
faculty,” said Bernice Strauss, director of academic
support programs for the SAM Center.
Gaertner, an SHSU alumnus, became the university’s 12th
president in August 2001.
He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees
from SHSU and his doctorate from Texas A&M University,
where he taught from September 1973 to August 1976.
In addition, Gaertner spent seven years as an assistant and
associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, including
a year as director of the Notre Dame London MBA program.
At the University of Texas at San Antonio, he served as professor
and director of the division of accounting and information
systems, dean of the College of Business, interim provost
and vice president for Academic Affairs.
His publications include more than 35 articles, books, book
reviews and refereed presentations. He has given more than
100 lectures in the United States, England, China, Canada
and Mexico and presented executive education courses on various
topics.
In the event of inclement weather, the event will be held
at the bookstore atrium on the first floor of the Lowman Student
Center.
For more information, call the
Student Advising and Mentoring Center, at 936.294.4444.
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ADAI To Play Alternative ‘Game
Of Life’
Students will have the opportunity to be a winner at the
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Initiative’s “more realistic”
version of the game of life on Wednesday (Sept. 12).
“Game of Life” will be held at 3 p.m. in Lowman
Student Center Room 110, next to the Kat Klub.
The game, redesigned by the members of the peer education
organization, ROOTED (Respecting Ourselves and Others Through
Education), incorporate more than the usual "get married"
or "pay taxes" life cards, according to Michelle
Lovering, ADAI
proactive prevention chair.
“This game will include real consequences of excessive
alcohol consumption, should that be a part of someone's life,”
Lovering said. “This program is designed to be both
fun and educational.”
The game will be played multiple times to allow all students
to participate, and those waiting for their chance to play
will be able to play other games, such as cards and dominos.
The Game of Life is part of the ADAI’s Six Weeks of
Alcohol Awareness Training program, an educational series
aiming to increase awareness of alcohol abuse issues among
students.
Through SWAAT, students earn prizes by attending events,
which accumulate as students attend more programs.
For more information, contact Lovering at 936.294.4347 or
org_aai@shsu.edu.
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Series Brings Mathematician
To Campus
Rice University mathematician Shelly Harvey will discuss
"Knots in 4 Dimensional Space" on Wednesday (Sept.
12), from 2-3 p.m. in Lee Drain Building Room 214.
The talk, part of the Piney Woods Lecture Series, will introduce
the knot theory via an open problem first posed in the 1950's
because of its relation to classifying 4-dimensional manifolds,
according to an abstract of the speech.
Harvey has served as an assistant professor of mathematics
at Rice since 2005. She previously taught at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and was a National Science Foundation
Mathematical Sciences Postdoctorate Research fellow, according
to her vita.
She has given more than 37 invited addresses on some her research
interests, which include Low-dimensional topology and geometry,
group theory and non-commutative algebra.
Following the lecture, a reception will be held on the fourth
floor of the LDB that will give students the opportunity to
meet and talk with Harvey.
This is the second year of the Piney Woods Lecture Series,
which is funded by the Mathematical Association of America
and the Tensor Foundation and the SHSU department of mathematics
and statistics, as well as the College of Arts and Sciences.
The lecture series is designed to “invite well-known
female mathematicians to the SHSU campus to speak, and therefore
provides SHSU graduate and undergraduate students exposure
to well-known female mathematicians in a variety of research
areas,” according to Jacqueline Jensen, assistant professor
of mathematics.
For more information, call the mathematics
and statistics department at 936.294.1563.
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Michigan Prof To Discuss
Childhood Obesity
David E. Frisvold, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health
Policy Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor,
will discuss the economic implications of childhood obesity
on Thursday (Sept. 13).
Frisvold will present his paper, "Childhood Obesity and
Exposure to Head Start Services," as part of the SHSU
Economics Fall 2007 Seminar Series at 3:30 p.m. in Smith-Hutson
Building Room 139.
“Nowadays the frontiers of economic research have gone
far and beyond what people would typically think to be economics
topics,” said Hiranya Nath, associate professor in SHSU’s
economics and international business department. “David’s
research belongs to health policy issues which are very much
part of health economics.”
Frisvold’s paper estimates the impact of an intervention,
such as Head Start, on childhood overweight and obesity, according
to the paper’s abstract.
“While Head Start is more commonly known as an educational
intervention, a large part of the program includes nutrition
services and nutritional education to parents and children,”
the abstract said. “For black children, Head Start participation
is shown to reduce the likelihood of being obese in later
childhood.”
Frisvold earned his bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest
University in 1998 and both his master’s and doctorate
in economics from Vanderbilt University.
His research and teaching interests include labor and health
economics, economics of education, econometrics and public
economics.
For more information, contact Nath at eco_hkn@shsu.edu
or visit http://www.shsu.edu/~eco_www/resources/seminar_fall2007.htm.
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Career Services To Give
Résumé, Interviewing Tips
Career Services will prepare students for its annual Career
Expo with a number of workshops beginning on Tuesday (Sept.
11).
That day, students can learn the benefits of attending job
fairs, general professional etiquette, how to best prepare
for the event, and what to do after it’s over during
the “How To 'Work' The Career Expo” workshop,
which will be held from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Career Services
Library.
On Wednesday (Sept. 12), Career Services experts will give
needy students some “Résumé Rescue”
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center Mall Area.
Students can also have their resumes critiqued during another
“Résumé Rescue” on Sept. 17. The
event also will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the LSC
Mall Area except in the event of rain, in which case it will
be held in the LSC Atrium.
Finally, the office will give students “Successful Interviewing
Skills” tips on Thursday (Sept. 13), from 5:30-6:30
p.m. in the Career Services Library.
The workshop will cover general professional etiquette and
appropriate dress; describe various types of interviews; and
discuss important interviewing strategies, how to best prepare
for interviews, and how to answer difficult questions.
While there is no need to register beforehand for the Career
Services workshops, space is limited to less than 50 people.
The Career Expo will be held on Sept. 19.
For more information, call Career
Services at 936.294.1713.
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Music To Host Flute, Choral
Concerts
The School of Music will present two concerts highlighting
a variety of musical periods beginning Thursday (Sept. 13).
Christina Guenther-Scott, an assistant professor of flute
at Stephen F. Austin State, will lend her expertise to SHSU
students with a masterclass, during which Jessica Borski,
Amy Kennedy, and Sarah Bunk will perform, from 2:30-3:45 p.m.
in the Recital Hall.
Through a masterclass students play in front of their peers
while the guest instructor works with them. It provides an
opportunity for the performing student and the audience to
learn from the teacher, according to Kathy Daniel, SHSU assistant
professor of flute.
That evening, Guenther-Scott will perform sonatas from Johann
Sebastian Bach, Carl Reinecke and Bohuslav Martinu at 7:30
p.m. in the Recital Hall.
Both the masterclass and the concert are free and open to
the public.
On Saturday (Sept. 15), 13 students, two continuo players
and associate director of choral studies James Franklin will
show their “Lamentations” through literature from
the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
The early music choral concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. at
the First United Methodist Church in Huntsville.
The concert, which “explores music that deals with weeping
or lamenting,” will feature a “very moving”
piece by Giacomo Carissimi entitled “Jephte,”
Franklin said.
An adaptation of the biblical passage from the Book of Judges,
“Jephte” tells about Jephthah, the leader of the
Gileadites, who asks God to grant him victory over his enemy.
“In exchange for his victory, Jephthah vows to sacrifice
as a burnt offering whatever comes out of his door, upon his
arrival back home, to meet him,” Franklin said. “Much
to his surprise and heartache, his daughter (Filia) is the
first to greet him. Filia then asks if she might go up to
the mountains with her companions for two months and bewail
her virginity, virginity being a metaphor for innocence and
lack of having truly lived a full life.”
The choir will also perform two J.S. Bach chorales, one from
the St. Matthew Passion and the other from the St. John Passion,
and two “very poignant” settings of the death
of King David's son Absalom will be sung.
Tickets are $10 adults and children, $5 for SHSU student and
senior citizens, and free for SHSU faculty and staff members
and music majors.
For more information, call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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Golf Tourney For Theatre, Dance
Tees Off Sept. 15
Golfers can still sign up for the SHSU department of theatre
and dance’s first Scholarship Golf Tournament to be
held on Sept. 15 at the Raven Nest Golf Club.
Poncho Roberts, who is nearing completion of his degree at
SHSU and is taking theatre and dance courses, is the tournament
chairman.
“We're going to make this the best scholarship golf
tournament Huntsville has ever seen," Roberts said. "Not
only will it be fun but the profits will go to a great cause--scholarships
for deserving students."
The tournament schedule includes registration at 8 a.m. and
a shotgun scramble start at 9 a.m. Lunch, prizes and awards
are scheduled for about 1 p.m.
Roberts also said Wiesner of Huntsville is offering a new
car as the tournament's "Hole in One Award." The
entry fee of $400 per four-person team includes all fees and
a number of extras.
For more information, call Roberts at 936.291.0057 or Sarah
Elder at 936.294.1329.
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SAM Center To Give Study,
Transfer Tips
The Student Advising and Mentoring Center will teach students
to “study smart” and help transfer students “successfully
transition” with two programs beginning on Monday (Sept.
10).
The first Study Skills Workshop Series is comprised of six
one-hour sessions that focus on studying smart, procrastination,
time management, reading textbooks and note taking, test taking
strategies and stress management.
Sessions will be held on a variety of days and times through
Nov. 19 to accommodate student schedules, and a second session
will begin on Oct. 22.
Tips for Transfers, a 50-minute workshop for transfer students
that will provide an overview of support services and academic
expectations, will be held at noon and again at 6 p.m. on
Sept. 10.
Sessions will also be held on Sept. 11, at 6 p.m.; Sept. 13,
at 9 p.m.; and Sept. 14, at noon.
All sessions for both workshops will be held in the SAM Center,
located in Academic Building IV Room 210.
Space is limited, and students are encouraged to 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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Library To Open House For Faculty,
Staff
The Newton Gresham Library will introduce faculty, staff
and administrators to the research and curriculum information
available at the library, as well as its podcasts, during
its open house on Wednesday and Thursday (Sept. 12-13).
“2008 @ Your Library” will be held from 2-4 p.m.
on both days in Newton Gresham Library Room 155.
Refreshments will be served, and attendees can sign up for
a drawing that will give away flash drives.
For more information, contact Jennifer Skains, in the NGL,
at 936.294.1613 or jns001@shsu.edu.
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SHSU Grad Student
Wins $10,000 Scholarship
SHSU graduate student Ronald Proctor, Jr., was recently
selected as one of 15 “exceptional students from across
Texas” to receive a $10,000 scholarship from the Texas
Business Hall of Fame Foundation.
Proctor will be recognized during a luncheon ceremony on Nov.
5 at the Westin La Cantera Resort in San Antonio.
"Each one of these 2007 scholarship recipients personify
the values that the Hall of Fame most hopes to perpetuate:
entrepreneurial spirit, integrity and personal drive to make
the most of themselves and the community around them better
places to live,” said foundation chairman Harriet Marmon
Helmle.
“These students are gaining the final touches to their
formal education that will allow them to compete, contribute
and thrive in this new increasingly interconnected Global
Market Place."
To date, the TBHF has awarded more than $3 million in scholarships
to students pursuing a business education at Texas’
leading institutions of higher learning.
Students seeking a scholarship from the foundation must be
nominated by the dean of their MBA school, maintain a 3.5
grade point average or better, have completed at least one
semester in an MBA program and demonstrate entrepreneurial
spirit.
Other selected students represent such universities as Acton
School of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas
State University at San Marcos and Texas A&M University,
among others.
In addition to the scholarship winners, the foundation will
honor four Texas Business leaders during its luncheon.
The Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation is a non-profit
organization of 75 directors who are business leaders from
cities throughout the state.
The organization’s mission is to recognize the accomplishments
and contributions of Texas business leaders, to perpetuate
and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal
integrity and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
For additional information, call the TBHF office at 713.993.9433
or visit www.texasbusiness.org.
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Jennifer Gauntt
Sept. 7, 2007
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