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Volume 94
Issue 8
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
PINE LOG The
The Independent Voice of Stephen F. Austin State University
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The
controversey of
paying student
athletes. Is a free
ride payment?
By Jessica Gilligan
Managing Editor
Roger Creager will perform at
Banita Creek Hall at 8 p.m. Feb. 22
with special guest Josh Grider. He’s
switching things up on this tour, call-ing
it the Texas Fiesta Tour which he
and his band kicked off in January.
“It’s like a typical Roger Creager
show with all the things I want when I
got to a concert,” he said.
A lot of the fun, interactive inspi-ration
reportedly came from Jimmy
Buffett’s concert style. He wants to
have more interaction with his fans
inside the bars he performs in.
“The first 100 or so people inside
the door will get an acoustic show,”
Creager said. He will take requests
and play songs he wouldn’t play with
the entire band later that night.
When asked if he has a pre-show
routine, Creager replied, “A little bit.
I try to focus on the music before I
come out.” Creager’s favorite song
to perform is” Late Night Case of the
Blues” and the song that means the
most to him is “I’ve Got the Guns.”
Though Nacogdoches isn’t his fa-vorite
place to perform—Gruene Hall
is—he’s toured in Nacogdoches sever-al
times. Talking about Nacogdoches
Creager commented, “I’ve never lived
there but just visiting has been a
blast.” He then went on to compli-ment
“the good people and fun col-lege
town.”
Not mentioning his first degree in
accounting was from Sam Houston,
Creager shared that he got his second
degree at Texas A&M in agriculture.
By Hannah Cole
Editor
Rising Texas country artist from Lubbock, Wade Bowen,
is performing at Banita Creek Dance Hall Saturday eve-ning
.
Although he did not start playing guitar until he was 17,
Bowen began playing gigs in college while attending Texas
Tech University.
“It was just cool getting to go to class and play in a band
at the same time,” Bowen said. “Probably my craziest
nights in college were just playing at the local bars and
watching my friends go crazy.”
Although George Strait is one of Bowen’s biggest idols,
Robert Earl Keen inspired his first band “West 84”.
“He was a big changing point in my life,” Bowen said on
his website. “I realized by listening to him that there was
way more out there than I ever knew. So I started getting
into Guy Clark and other great Texas music. But I was ob-sessed
with Robert Earl. When we started the band we were
sort of a Robert Earl cover band.”
Even though Bowen says one of his favorite places to
perform is Billy Bob’s, Nacogdoches is home to many great
memories. He and his fellow country music buddy Randy
Rogers have had great times playing jitterbugs at Banita
Creek Dance Hall.
After college, Bowen took the leap to go solo and real-ized
he loved writing his own songs. Bowen writes 95% of
his songs.
“I might every now and then put one on that I didn’t
write just because it’s something different then what I’m
used to playing,” Bowen said.
Bowen said his favorites song is “Before These Walls
Were Blue.” This song means so much to him because it is
about his boys. Although it is tough being on the road often,
Bowen says he loves his job and that when he is home with
his family he is home. “I don’t have to do anything else so
that’s really nice.”
For more information about Wade Bowen visit his web-site
www.wadebowen.com. To purchase tickets to his show
this Saturday visit www.banitacreekhall.com.
By John Cleveland
Staff Writer
The SFA Athletics Department choreographed a Lumberjack themed
“Harlem Shake” video Tuesday evening at Homer Bryce Stadium. A group
of more than 150 students joined the Internet sensation by dressing up in
costumes, chaotically gyrating and jumping around aimlessly.
Josh Jorgenson, the coordinator of athletic operations, was in charge of
directing the crowd of students huddled at the 25-yard line on the field at
Homer Bryce Stadium.
“The whole idea is to act spontaneous and crazy,” Jorgenson said. “We had
no idea what to expect until people started showing up.”
A smorgasbord of characters made an appearance despite the chilly
weather conditions. Characters included; a unicycler, flag twirlers, Mario
and Luigi, light-saber duels, ponchos and sombreros, cowboy hats, a small
terrier, Darth Vader, centaurs, a gorilla suit chasing a banana suit, a giant
penguin puppeteer, cheese-heads and a pantless, stuffed-giraffe rider.
Students came out for all sorts of reasons.
“I just found out about this whole thing Friday,” sophomore participant
London McCann said. “When I heard SFA was doing one, I just had to do it.”
Jada Hughes, also a sophomore, had other motives.
“I just wanted to get on YouTube without doing something that would
keep me from getting a job in the future,” Hughes said.
The majority of “Harlem Shake” versions found on YouTube are formatted
similarly. They begin with the song “Harlem Shake” by Baauer playing in the
background while a group of motionless individuals occupy a room. There
is only one person dancing, usually in costume, while the others act oblivi-ous
to the presence of the dancer.
Then, when the base drops in the background music, the rest of the indi-viduals
in the picture frame join the lone dancer in a jubilant jig.
Jack Backers College Bookstore
is opening a second location on E.
College St., store owners Alan and
Pam Fitch announced today.
The collegiate retailer will assume
the storefront previously occupied by
Varsity Bookstore, which closed Feb.
15. The location will remain closed
for approximately six weeks to allow
time for remodeling and re-brand-ing
before opening as Jack Backers
College Bookstore in late April.
“The location on East College Street
will allow us to better serve custom-ers
who live on the SFA campus,” said
Alan Fitch. “The location is within
easy walking distance of many dorms
and classrooms.”
The store’s current North Street
location will remain open, offering
a convenient shopping location for
students living off campus as well as
local citizens and visiting alumni.
“We remain committed to provid-ing
low cost textbooks and superior
customer service,” Fitch said.
Jack Backers College Bookstore
opened in June 2008 and is the only
alumni-owned bookstore serving
SFA. In addition to college textbooks,
the store offers a full line of officially
licensed SFA clothing and gifts, in-cluding
brands such as Nike, Hurley,
Under Armour, Ping and Columbia.
Its online store, ShopSFA.com, is
the official marketplace of the SFA
Alumni Association.
Fitch said Jack Bakers is firm in
its commitment to SFA, and that the
store re-invests thousands of dollars
each year into U niversity scholarships
and programs.
Wade Bowen
brings country
to Nac dance hall
Creager gets off the stage to bond
with fans in his new Fiesta Tour
Creager, page 3
Jack Backers to open second
location in old Varsity Bookstore
Shake, page 3
Alyx McLuskie/Pine Log Photo
Along with Tuesday’s Harlem Shake, students also participated in another similar video last week.
Harlem Shake
shakes up SFA