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Volume 91
Issue 20
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SFA Football
takes on
Northwestern
State Saturday
Page 6
Occupy Wall
Street may
be unknown
to college
students
Inside
Battle for Chief
Caddo this
weekend
Page 6
The Crime Log
Page 2
Volleyball
player named
Second Team
All Southland
Conference
Page 6
The Pine Log’s Sudoku
Look for this
addictive number
game on page 3
every Monday
and Thursday
Opinions
Page 4
Columns
Kayla Haas
tells the reader
how to make
an undesirable
degree
marketable
Washington Post
editorial over the
President’s visit
to Asia
Entertainment
Page 3
Whiskey Myers
to play in
Nacogdoches
Page 4
Thursday, November 17, 2011 PINE LOG
The
The Independent Voice of Stephen F. Austin State University
SATURDAY
By Gina Butler
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Career Services will host the 2011 Fall Teacher Job Fair from 9:30 a.m. to
noon Friday in the BPSC Grand Ballroom.
The job fair is open to all students and alumni who seek employment in
a school district.
“Basically anyone who wants to work in a school setting should attend
the fair,” Jessica Stewart, student career advocate, said. “The recruiters are
normally looking for teachers and counselors, but occasionally they will be
looking for school nurses and other occupations as well.”
Representatives of approximately 50 school districts from throughout
the state will be in attendance.
Jenny Davis, assistant director of career services, suggests students ar-rive
to the job fair early.
“Come early to the event as some school district recruiters have to pack
up and leave the fair early since it is a Friday,” Davis said.
Students should dress professionally and bring at least 24 copies of their
resume to hand out to employers.
To prepare for the job fair, career services offers Walk-in Wednesdays to
students who want their resumes critiqued on the spot.
“This job fair is another great networking opportunity,” Davis said.
“Students get the chance to speak with employers who are seeking out SFA
students and graduates to fill their vacant positions.”
For further information on the job fair, contact career services.
gbutler@thepinelog.com
By Maggie Oberpriller
STAFF WRITER
This week is Geography Awareness Week and
the SFA Geography Club is hosting its first photo
scavenger hunt. The theme for this Geography
Week is “The Adventure in Your Community.”
The photo scavenger hunt is more than just a
celebration of Geography Week; it is an effort to
get students involved in the community and to
explore Nacogdoches and all it has to offer. The
president of the Geography Club, Ellen Denney,
hopes this will encourage students to go around
Nacogdoches and learn some of its history.
“The geography club really wants students
to explore Nac,” Said Denney, senior geography
major.
This is the first year that the club has done a
photo scavenger hunt, and the club has a lot of in-formation
to offer students about Nacogdoches.
“Being in the Geography Club helped me to
learn more about Nacogdoches, and I was born
and raised here,” said Dan Jones, senior geog-raphy
major. Jones has participated in several
things hosted by the Geography Club, such as a
cemetery clean up.
“It was good being able to get out doors and do
something with your hands to help the commu-nity,”
Jones said.
The photo scavenger hunt is a great way to have
a fun time with friends and explore Nacogdoches.
There are 10 places around Nacogdoches where
people can go and take pictures. You must take
the picture with you in it or have a group of
friends in the picture with you at each location.
“We collectively picked the locations as a club,
and most were picked from stories that our
advisor, Dr. Jeff Roth, had told us about that in-terested
us,” Denney said. The Geography club
agrees that Dr. Roth is a great influence on the
Nacogdoches community and his efforts to make
students aware of it.
The 10 locations for the scavenger hunt are Oak
Grove Cemetery, Nine Flags Park, The Stone Fort
Museum, The Last Mound in Nac, Eyes of Father
Margil, Nac Historic Train Depot, Java Jacks, The
Battle of Nacogdoches historical marker, The
Sterne Hoya House and Shelley’s Bakery. All the
locations can be found easily using Google maps
and are all within 10 miles around Nacogdoches,
to allow participants to bike or walk.
The Geography Club is excited for students to
visit these locations. Many students go to all the
regular restaurants around town, such as the fast
food places; however, the places on the scavenger
hunt are only places in Nacogdoches, so hope-fully
students can try them out and realize how
great they are.
If you are wanting to participate in the photo
scavenger hunt, just go to the 10 locations and
take a picture with you or friends in it. Email
all 10 photos to NacScavengerHunt@gmail.com.
There will be a Java Jacks gift card awarded to the
best entry of photos.
Participants have until Nov. 23 to turn in their
photos.
moberpriller@thepinelog.com
Photo scavenger hunt hosted by Geography Club
As an expansion of the exhibition
“John Heliker: Drawing on the New
Deal 1932-1948,” the SFA’s School of
Art will host a panel discussion on the
famed American artist and his work at
5:30 p.m. today at The Cole Art Center
@ The Old Opera House in downtown
Nacogdoches.
The exhibition, on view in the
Reavley Gallery of the Cole Art Center
through Saturday, Nov. 26, features
a relatively unknown body of work
by Heliker (1909-2000), who achieved
early fame for his expressionistic
work. The majority of the works are
on loan from the Heliker-LaHotan
Foundation.
Panel members are Patricia Bailey,
president of the Heliker-LaHotan
Foundation; Dr. David A. Lewis, SFA
professor of art history and curator of
the exhibition; and Michael T. Ricker,
independent scholar and art collector
from the Dallas area. Each of the pan-elists
will discuss a different aspect of
Heliker and his work.
Bailey, who knew Heliker for many
years, will speak about the work the
artist created during the second half
of his life. She will also offer infor-mation
about the organization and
function of the foundation, which op-erates
an artists residency program at
Heliker’s summer home on Cranberry
Island, Maine.
Lewis, who was awarded a 2009
summer residency at the Heliker
Lahotan Foundation, will speak about
the extensive research he has com-pleted
on the artist. Lewis wrote the
essay and edited the supporting ma-terials
for the 96-page, fully illustrat-ed
catalog for the exhibition recently
published by the SFA University Press.
Copies will be available for purchase
at the panel discussion.
Ricker, who designed the catalog,
has considerable expertise in the field
of American drawings from the 1930s
to 1940s, said Lewis. “He will offer in-sights
into Heliker’s place within the
larger movements of American draw-ing
during that period.”
Panel members will allow time for
audience participation. Admission is
free.
The Cole Art Center is located at
329 E. Main St. For more information,
please call (936) 468-1131.
pinelog@sfasu.edu
The director of the Richard and Lucille DeWitt School of Nursing at SFA
has been named a National League for Nursing ambassador and will help
keep faculty and administration members informed about the league’s
initiatives, grant opportunities, conferences, publications and workshops.
Dr. Glenda Walker will encourage participation in NLN professional
development programs and research grant applications, as well as submis-sion
of abstracts and manuscripts for an annual education summit and the
league’s peer-reviewed journal.
According to Dr. Beverly Malone, CEO of the NLN, the ambassador
program was created to make it as easy as possible for nursing faculty
members and nursing programs at all levels of academia to enhance pro-fessional
development.
“At the same time, we expect the ambassadors to communicate to NLN
professional staff and the board what issues and challenges are of greatest
concern to nurse educators in the field so that we can maximize the ef-fectiveness
of our programming and services,” Malone said. “The ambas-sadors
are, in effect, the NLN’s ‘eyes and ears’ on campus. We are confident
that the insights gained through this valuable relationship will help make
the NLN more responsive to the needs of our dedicated nurse educators.”
Walker has more than 33 years of experience in nursing education ad-ministration,
including experience in both private and public universities
and in a health science center.
Walker developed the first specialty track in the nation for family vio-lence
at Vanderbilt University, where she taught psychiatric content for the
family nurse practitioner program. As the associate dean of academic af-fairs
and director of graduate nursing programs at the University of North
Dakota, Walker developed a graduate program in rural health nursing and
served as the director for graduate programs in nurse anesthesia and adult
health.
In 1987, Walker moved to an administration position at the University
of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. She was associate dean of
clinical and community affairs and the director of nursing research at the
Harris County Psychiatric Hospital and developed and implemented the
University of Texas Nursing Service Center while serving as associate dean
of the School of Nursing.
In 1991, Walker received a National Institute of Nursing Research grant,
which focused on sexual abuse, and she has more than 30 published ar-ticles.
In addition to generating more than $3 million in grants and gifts,
Walker has been a federal grant reviewer for the Office for the Advancement
of Telemedicine.
In 2004, Walker was elected to the Nacogdoches Women’s Hall of Fame.
She is an alumna of Leadership Texas and is a past president of the Texas
Association of Deans and Directors.
The NLN Ambassador Program was established in fall 2006 with mem-bers
who teach in all types of nursing programs – practical nurse, associ-ate
degree, diploma, baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral. Today, there are
more than 700 ambassadors representing schools of nursing in 49 states
plus Canada, Guam and the Virgin Islands. The league offers professional
development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research
grants and public policy initiatives to its 35,000 individual and 1,200 insti-tutional
members.
For more information about the NLN Ambassador Program, call (212)
812-0374 or e-mail thess@nln.org.
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Fall teacher job fair to
help future educators
Panel to discuss artist John Heliker
Walker named ambassador for National League for Nursing
Angel Tree in the Involvement Center
MARK RHOUDES/THE PINE LOG
ODK Angel Tree
hopes to help
children around
Nacogdoches
County. Students
can choose the one
they want to help
in the Involvement
Center on the first
floor of the student
center. All gifts
must be turned
in by Dec. 2. The
gifts are meant
to be from Santa,
and ODK asks
that they come
unwrapped with
no tags or letters.
Contact ODK at
468-2870 for more
information
THOMAS MOTYKA/THE PINE LOG
SFA students take to potential employers at last year’s Teacher Fair in the Grand
Ballroom.