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Volume 94
Issue 14
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Monday, March 25, 2013
PINE LOG The
The Independent Voice of Stephen F. Austin State University
Page 6
Ten-run inning vaults
SFA past Nicholls
State for first
conference win
of the year.
WEDNESDAY
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By Courtney Schmidt
Staff Writer
The S.A.V.E. coalition of
Nacogdoches had its last
meeting of March before
its first event for Sexual
Assault Awareness Month
in April on Friday, March
22, in the Health Clinic
conference room.
According to the
U.S. Department of
Justice’s National Crime
Victimization Survey, over
200,000 victims, age 12 or
older, were sexually as-saulted
in 2011, and that
every two minutes, some-one
in the U.S. is sexually
assaulted.
Standing for Sexual
Assault and Violence
Education, the coalition
leader, Joyce Pitts, Primary
Prevention Coordinator,
lead the discussion on
past events, such as the
Whataburger Fundraiser,
where twenty-five percent
of the proceeds went to the
coalition, as well as future
events in April.
“This is a wonderful way
to get the community in-volved
in taking a stand
By Courtney Schmidt
Staff Writer
For the first time since 2008, SFA’s Sylvan Forestry
Club took home a first place trophy in the Southern
Forestry Conclave competition in Auburn, Alabama,
on Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16.
This year was the 56th annual Conclave.
With a total of 18 students, the Sylvans competed
against 13 other schools, all from southern states
with events ranging from both the technical and
physical aspect of forestry.
“Basically the technical events are things we could
potentially do in a job or learn in class,” Grant
Korbel, senior forestry wildlife management and
Sylvan member, said. “The physical events evolve
from traditional lumberjack jobs.”
Technical events include photogrammetry, wood
technology, diameter breast height estimation, com-pass
and pacing, dendrology and timber estimation.
Physical events include crosscut, bow saw, pole
climb, archery, knife throw, axe throw, log roll, birling
and underhand chop.
Caleb Murray, senior, said in a previous story, “It’s
just kind of like a livelihood. This is how East Texas
got to be the way it is. This is where we’ve made our
mark as forestry, and it’s a passion really.”
With this new win, the Sylvan team will be more
than excited to arrive at next year’s annual event at
Virginia Tech and even more so when it is SFA’s turn
to host the big event in 2017.
By Emily Jensen
Staff Writer
On March 18, students and faculty became aware of meal plans and
dining dollars being reset due to a missing piece of code. Stores stopped
accepting dining dollars and Jack Bucks, but as of March 22, the pro-gram
is back to running its correct course.
On March 9, the beginning of Spring Break, a new computer program
was put in place that would help secure residence halls. The program
was designed to tell the computer that students are no longer entering
their halls.
When students returned from Spring Break the program was switched
plans.
a t tempt e d
to fix it, and
on Tuesday
night I was
called and
they said,
‘We don’t
Center, said.
to stop accepting dining dollars.
A step was left out of the program that caused the meal plans to be
reset. There was no command to tell the computer to leave meal plans
alone, and if that had been done on both programs, this would not have
happened.
“I know we’ve had an I.D. system here for about 37 years,” Smith said.
“To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time this has happened.”
As of March 22, Smith received clarification that all students’ meal
plan assignments had been reinstated. As for students who had dining
dollars on March 9 and used some of them when the program got reset,
the balances have been deducted appropriately.
“The next part of what I did was to issue instructions to begin accept-ing
dining dollars,” Smith said. “Everybody should be able to go in to any
cash register and acquire their balance.”
Students should now be able to use their dining dollars at the loca-tions
on campus, and the balance they have now is of the balance they
had March 9, minus the added spending they did March 18 and 19.
As for the students who did not have dining dollars before March 9 but
spent the money when the system reset, Smith said there is no solution
at this time.
“It was imperative to restore all of those people that did have money
in the system,” Smith said. “[For] hose people that do not have money in
the system we did not keep their toll, and what to do about that has not
been decided.”T
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junior theater major, said. “I’m glad they got it fixed, but for a
while, it was really frustrating.”
However, not all students were affected by the reset. It’s unclear why
some students had their meal plan reset while others didn’t, and Smith
is unaware of anyone living off campus who was affected by the reset.
“I’m upset I didn’t get the opportunity to spend money that wasn’t
mine,” Jason Collins, a senior music education major, said.
Meal plans should now be back to normal, but any students wishing
to share their opinion about the issue may send a letter to the editor
for consideration to be run in the next issue. Send letters to hcole@
thepinelog.com.
ejensen@thepinelog.com
By John Cleveland
Staff Writer
It’s that time of year again when students strap empty holsters to
their waists in protest of state laws banning the carry of concealed
weapons on college campuses. SFA founded its first chapter of the
Students for Concealed Carry on Campus three weeks ago, just in
time for the annual Empty Holster Protest that is held April 8-12 on
campuses across the nation.
The SCCC is a national organization that believes campuses would
be safer if students with concealed handgun licenses were allowed
to carry their guns to class. There are currently around 200 schools
across the nation that allow concealed carry on campus. One of their
mottos for this year’s demonstration is: “prepared, not paranoid.”
Josh Brown, founder and president of SFA’s chapter of the SCCC
and a junior criminal justice major, said he hopes the event raises
awareness of the campus gun control issue.
“We’re defending our right to defend ourselves,” Brown said. “We
appreciate everything the campus police do, but they can’t be every-where
all the time.”
To be a part of the protest, students simply wear an empty gun
holster on their waist as they conduct their on-campus business. The
empty holster represents the defenseless state the government has
left students in. SCCC members will set up a table near the Student
New program resets dining dollars,
puts false amounts in student accounts
Sylvans take home first in annual Conclave
SCCC straps on empty holsters
in protest of state laws, joins
campuses across the nation
Next Publication:
Due to holidays and conferences The Pine Log will not
have another issue until April 11. The weekend following the
break all the editors will be in Fort Worth attending Texas
International Collegiate Association where they will be com-peting
against colleges across Texas in journalism events.
S.A.V.E.
promotes
sexual assault
awareness
Grant Korbel/Pine Log Photo
Brock Vincon and Caleb Murray competed in the Men’s Crosscut at the 56th annual Southern Forestry Conclave competition in
Auborn, Ala.
S.A.V.E, page 5
SCCC, page 5
Courtney Schmidt/Pine Log
Photo
back on, allowing them into residence buildings.
When the program went into effect on March 9, it did
more than block students from getting back
in the dorms; it also turned off meal
plans. On March 17, it did the op-posite
and turned the meal
plans back on, as if they
were brand new meal
“It was dis-covered
on
Monday. Some
things were
have a fix,’”
Sam Smith,
director of stu-dent
services
and director of the
Baker Pattillo Student
Students were spending
money they didn’t have, clear-ing
out the C-Store and taking ad-vantage
of the accident. Because of the
excessive spending, Smith said he gave the order
The command was given to the computer program by the
school, not the Aramark dining services.
The program was designed to help
keep the residence halls safe, and
Smithsaid he apologizes for
the incident.
Students who were
unable to use their
meal plans dur-ing
the time
when the
school was
not ac-
Twitter.
Twitter user
said, “What
the actual (ex-pletive).
I can’t use
dining dollars any-where
because of some-thing
you messed up on? Now
I starve, thanks! #(expletive)you.”
“I didn’t think it was fair because I had
dining dollars before the break,” Elyse Dishman,