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PINE LOG
Lumberjack
Basketball is at
home
Saturday
against
McNeese
Turmoil in
Egypt leads
to more
problems By Allison Percival
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Every college student fantasizes about landing that
dream job after graduation; however, for a couple of SFA
students that dream is already becoming a reality.
Hospitality majors Shayna Borhaug of Lake Dallas and
Cordero Chavira of Jacksonville have both scored their
first jobs in the industry helping to coordinate this year’s
Super Bowl at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
Borhaug is working for Dallas Fan Fares, a global event
coordinating company that also is the official corporate
hospitality group for the NFL. She will be stationed at the
Hilton Anatole in Dallas, NFL’s official hotel, and will be
helping give two of Fan Fares’ special clients the ultimate
Super Bowl experience.
She said besides attending the big game the clients
have chosen to spend some time golfing, relaxing at a
spa and dining at various Dallas restaurants.
“Their happiness is my ultimate goal, and myself and
the staff of Dallas Fan Fares are working around the clock
all day, every day to ensure this,” Borhaug said.
Borhaug said she started her career by interning at
Dallas Fan Fares in the summer of 2010. A friend of
her mother’s worked for the company, and because it
sounded interesting, Borhaug applied for an interview,
which lead to her internship.
“Without the experience of my event-planning and
customer-service classes at SFA, I could easily find
myself lost in this environment,” Borhaug said. “But
because I have this knowledge, I am confident, and my
company is confident in me as well.”
Borhaug will graduate in December 2011 and go to
work full time for Dallas Fan Fares.
Chavira will be volunteering at the Dallas-Fort Worth
Airport as a concierge and will be giving Super Bowl attend-ees
“the skinny” on all of North Texas hotels, VIP parties and
tourist areas.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be able to say I
helped out at the Super Bowl,” Chavira said. “I want to gain as
much experience as possible and enjoy the moment.”
Chavira applied online after first hearing about the oppor-tunity
from Dr. Carl Pfaffenberg, associate professor of
human sciences, in August. He will be one of the more
than 10,000 volunteers helping Super Bowl Sunday run
smoothly.
“I was told to expect anywhere up to 100 private jets
and several commercial lines filled with Super Bowl at-tendees,”
Chavira said. “I had to do a lot of the searching
for a hotel since nearly all of them have been booked for
months.”
Gaining work experience, meeting new people and
taking hundreds of pictures are only a few items on
Chavira’s to-do list for the Super Bowl. He’s hoping to
get his name out there and acquire more knowledge to
open his own chain of hotels after graduation in May
2012.
“I want to turn the hotel industry around, and hope-fully,
from this experience I can make that happen,” said
Chavira.
While these two students are just getting started in
the corporate world, 2010 hospitality graduate Phillip
Mitchell is already working in the industry.
Mitchell is working for Legends Hospitality in Dallas
and will be providing meals to both the Pittsburg
Steelers and Green Bay Packers players before the game.
He also will be serving food to the media and broadcast
companies who will be working inside the stadium. He
said he will be in charge of taking care of nearly 500
people.
“I’m very excited that the game is finally here,”
Mitchell said. “I’ll get to actually watch the game while
I’m working with the media.”
Mitchell originally was an intern for Legends
Hospitality in June before he graduated in August. After
he received his diploma, they offered him a full-time
job. On a day-to-day basis, he gets to serve the Dallas
Cowboys and cheerleaders, and coordinate everything
from communicating with the press to working in the
locker rooms.
Mitchell said all of his classes helped prepare him for
his first job, and he’s always referencing the knowledge
he learned as a student at SFA.
“If it weren’t for my classes and professors at SFA, I
wouldn’t be where I am now,” Mitchell said. “Being able
to intern before graduation also gave me some experience to
understand what I was in for.”
apercival@thepinelog.com
SFA students go behind the scenes at the Super Bowl
By Moises Hernandez
STAFF WRITER
With Super Bowl Weekend coming up SAA
is bringing its yearly Super Bowl XLV party to
SFA students once again.
Victoria Hogan, coordinator of this year’s
event, described the party’s relocation to
a newer and much roomier environment:
“This semester is going to be a little different
than the past couple of years. It’s no longer
going to be in the movie theater. It’s going to
be at the Campus Rec Center, and the atmo-sphere
is going to be a lot different.”
Hogan said the change resulted from the
recent partnership between SAA and the
Campus Rec Center.
“We were originally going to do this at
the movie theatre, but Campus Rec wanted
to get involved, and they wanted to do stuff
with us, too. They’re going to do Football
Trivia Questions.” The event will start at 5:30
p.m. Sunday at the Student Rec Center in the
basketball courts.
“There’s going to be a Half-Time Football
Skills Test,” Hogan said. “People who want
to be involved will participate in throwing
the football and running through tires. It’s
a good way to get people hyped up for the
second half of the game. We’re also doing a
Pool Buy-In where you buy a square for a
dollar. You can buy up to three and at the end
of each quarter we’ll look at the score and
whoever has that square will get a portion of
the money that it’s in.”
The previous Super Bowl was projected
in the Movie Theatre in the BPSC, but with
new technology and more room, SAA has
designed a view system unlike anything seen
yet.
“The flat-screen TV in front of the Rec
Center is going to be inside the basketball
court, and a projector will project the game
on the wall,” Hogan said. “The TV is going
to be used to show the two most spirited
fans, one from the Packers and one from the
Steelers. Whoever is most spirited will sit in
front of the HD TV. The projector will then
show the game on the wall. It’s going to be a
tailgating atmosphere. Bring your chair and
blankets and pillows.”
Students are encouraged to bring their
tailgating equipment and attitudes when
entering the Campus Rec grounds. Food and
festivities will be provided.
“We’re going to be seeing a lot of rivalry
and chats. We’re splitting up the gym, half
and half, so there can be some competition
going on. There will be food available, finger
food and barbeque from SAA.”
Hogan predicts a great number of students
will enjoy this year’s event and is confident in
the success of the putting the party in a new
location.
“It’s a good way to get a lot of people on cam-pus
together with their rivalry of football,” she
said. “A lot of people come out for the food and
the fun and they know SAA events are always a
good time.”
Hogan explains her outlook on her own posi-tion
in SAA.
“Being a second semester coordinator
feels kind of overwhelming, but then it’s kind
of a privilege to set up a huge event for the
entire SFA campus. Just knowing that kind
of pumps you up and makes you feel excited
about putting on a good event and hoping it
goes well in order for it to happen again next
year.”
mhernandez@thepinelog.com
Two hospitality majors will
work as event coordinators
for Super Bowl XLV events
On February 6, the AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers and NFC champion
Green Bay packers will compete in the 45th annual edition of the Super Bowl.
The game will be played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX.
By Jamie Livingston
STAFF WRITER
Two SFA graduate students recently
became national finalists in the Garnier
Fructis Better Way video contest.
Aaron Harlan and Michael Tubbs
are competing for the grand prize of
$10,000.
Tubbs, also adjunct faculty, helped
Harlan, an advertising design major
and first-year graduate student, create
a video that fit the contest’s theme.
“Our video is titled ‘The Better Way
to Take Photos with Your Phone’”,
Tubbs said, “It is a humorous solution
for poor quality photos from a mobile
phone.”
The idea came after the two stu-dent’s
poked fun at the infomercial
setting of Tubb’s phone.
Tubbs convinced Harlan to enter
the contest, and the two filmed the
video on the SFA campus.
“If we win, we will be receiving sev-eral
things, but the most important
prize will be confidence. The advertis-ing
world is one that we are both inter-ested
in making careers in. This video,
regardless of its sarcasm or scale, is
a step in the right direction,” Harlan
said.
Voting ended Jan 31 for the video,
but both students plan to continue
making videos and entering other con-tests
throughout the spring.
Their video can be viewed on the
official contest site www.break.com/
thebetterway.
The winner of the contest will be an-nounced
February 16.
jlivingston@thepinelog.com
SAA readies for annual Super Bowl Party at Rec Center
CODY DEROUEN/THE PINE LOG
Residents of Nacogdoches and students at SFA awoke Tuesday morning to find the city and University
campus covered in ice. Chilling temperatures have swept across much of the United States, and the
Nacogdoches area experienced rolling blackouts on Wednesday morning into the late afternoon.
Nighttime temperatures have routinely dropped into the teens, and more precipitation (possibly
snow) may fall on Thursday night.
Winter rears its ugly head in Nacogdoches Graduate students place
as finalists in ad contest
‘The Better Way to
Take Photos with Your
Phone’—
a humorous solution for
poor quality photos from a
mobile phone