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PINE LOG The
The Independent Voice of Stephen F. Austin State University
Page 6
Ladyjack Basketball
kicks off its season with
a scrimmage against
Howard Payne Friday
evening.
By Emily Jensen
Staff Writer
To help raise money for members of the
Lumberjack Marching Band to participate in
the London New Year’s Day Parade, there will
be an LMB 5K run/walk at 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov.
17, at the intramural fields.
The 5K route will be the same path as the
Homecoming 5K. The run will start at the in-tramural
fields, go around the stadium and end
on Raguet Street.
Registration costs $20 through Nov. 9 but
goes up to $30 the day of the run. To register
the day of, participants need to show up at 8:00
a.m.
Those interested in participating can go to
this website to register early: https://payment.
sfasu.edu/C20200_ustores/web/product_de-tail.
jsp?PRODUCTID=290.The run is sponsored
by Phi Boota Roota, the percussion fraternity in
the music department. Other music sororities
and fraternities are showing their support for
the run as well by letting students know about
the event.
“I have a couple people in the band that are
helping me plan,” said Rachel Krevat, a junior
in the LMB who is organizing the event. “It’ll be
fun; everybody likes running in the cold!”
Krevat has been planning the 5K since the
beginning of the year with Dr. David Campo,
the associate director of bands and the director of the LMB.
The money raised from the run will be going towards helping band
students pay for the trip to London.
“It’ll really help us,” Krevat said. “What organization at SFA just goes
to London?”
For more information about the 5K, those interested can join the
Facebook group by searching “LMB 5K FUN RUN/WALK.”
The marching band was invited to march in the London New Year’s
Day Parade last year, and the cost for a student to go is about $2,000. l
“What a wonderful opportunity for us to go and share our pride
about our university and our marching band with people from a dif-ferent
country at such a special time: New Year’s Day in London, 2013,”
Campo said in an interview with Purple Pride on SFA TV-2.
There are about 130 students planning on attending the London trip
Dec. 28, 2012, through Jan. 4, 2013.
The parade is broadcast to a worldwide audience of over 280 mil-lion
people and in the past has featured other universities’ marching
bands. The Jacksonville State University’s marching band participated
in the 2012 parade, as well as many other invited high school bands.
BBC, along with other networks, will be broadcasting the parade.
Those interested in watching the parade can check with their TV guide
for a listing of other stations broadcasting the event.
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5K run to help LMB get to London for New Years
By Katelynn Wiggins
Staff Writer
The Young Conservatives of
Texas (YCT) at SFA are concerned
with activism and education of the
student body as well as campaign-ing
for candidates and rating the
Texas Legislature. Karina Erickson,
secretary of YCT, aspires to work
on campaigns or be a political ana-lyst
after college.
“I’ve wanted to be a political
science major since I was 5 years
old,” Erickson said. Attending a po-litical
science conference in high
school where she was involved in
a political campaign really sealed
the deal.
Erickson is a political science
major interested most in domestic
political science. She has a sec-ond
major in radio/TV broadcast.
She has worked on multiple cam-paigns
throughout college includ-ing
those for state representatives,
county commissioners and even a
potential president.
Last week YCT traveled to
Virginia to work on the Romney/
Ryan campaign. Erickson has also
worked on Travis Clardy’s cam-paign
for state representative, John
McGuire’s campaign for county
commissioner and Gary Allen’s
campaign for senate.
Erickson worked on grass roots
activism, made phone calls, did
data entry, worked on social net-working
and placed signs, among
other things for these campaigns.
“The experience I have gotten
on the campaigns is invaluable,”
Erickson said. “That is what I want
to do. Everything I have gotten to
do through Young Conservatives is
career-based.”
Texas Legislature Internship
Program (TLIP) is an opportunity
allowing five SFA students to par-ticipate
in the Texas Legislature
during the Spring Semester.
By Rodger McLane
Contributing Writer
Students and faculty would have
no reason to assume that Bryce
Alger, a senior speech-language
pathology major, is an elected of-ficial
and serves as the chairperson
of the DeSoto Parish Democratic
Party while he is a full-time stu-dent
and the vice president of SFA
Democrats.
Alger is from rural Logansport,
La., on the banks of the Sabine
River where Louisiana meets
Texas. In his family, politics is a
tradition.
“My grandpa, Dennis Freeman,
was the mayor of my hometown for
23 years, so I was always around
politics,” he said. “My dad was the
first elected Republican city coun-cil
member in our town’s history, “
he said.
Alger’s grandfather was first
elected as a mayor in 1984 on the
democratic ticket. He later switched
to the Republican Party in 1996.
He ran for a seat in the Louisiana
House of Representatives, but was
defeated in the primary. Shortly
after the defeat, he passed away
after a battle with cancer.
“After my grandpa’s death, my
grandmother, Katherine Freeman,
filled his vacancy and was unop-posed
in her next election,” he said.
“She has been mayor for five years
now. She is up for election this
year, and while only one minor
candidate is opposing her, we are
still taking the race seriously.”
Alger serves an active role in his
grandmother’s campaign as man-ager
of her website and various
other efforts such as door-to-door
canvassing. Mayor Freeman re-cently
switched parties in support
of her grandson and education, as
she was a longtime educator in
Logansport schools.
Alger chairperson
of DeSoto Parish
Democratic Party
YTC member
hopes to further
political work
Democratic, page 2
YCT, page 2
Courtney Schmidt/Pine Log Photo
Students registered on campus to have a voice this election year. For many students, this will be their first time to vote in the Presidential Elections.
By Emily Jensen
Staff Writer
SGA will provide a shuttle bus from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on
Tuesday, Nov. 6, to take students from the Baker Pattillo
Student Center to the North Street Church of Christ to vote in
the presidential election.
The bus, called the Freedom Ride to Vote, will run continuously
throughout the day. The title of the event emphasizes that the ride is
free and encourages students to use their freedom to vote.
The only thing students need to bring is their driver’s license or
voter registration card.
“Students came to us back in September and asked if we were
going to be giving a way for students to go vote,” said Ashley McCoy,
SGA chairwoman of public affairs. “We already had the idea for the
Freedom Ride to Vote back in August.”
The ride to vote won’t disrupt the new Jack Track system. SGA has
arranged to use one of the night buses to take students to the voting
site. McCoy encourages students to take advantage of the free ride and
save gas. She also said this is a non-partisan event and open to all
students, no matter their political affiliation.
“Our main goal is just to make sure that college students are pull-ing
up their slack to go out and vote,” McCoy said. “It’s within our
duty as American citizens to take ahold of our freedom to vote.”
Early voting ends on Nov. 2, and so far over 2 million citizens have
Freedom Ride, page 2
Jennifer Rogers/Pine Log Photo
Members of the Lumberjack Marching Band will take its “Boldest Sound from the Oldest Town”
to London to lead the 2013 New Year’s Day Parade & Festival there. The upcoming LMB 5K run
will help raise funds for the trip.