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Volume 91
Issue 21
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Company
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to support
summer teacher
environmental
workshop
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Football wins
Chief Caddo
for third year
straight
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SFA Women
Basketball win
game over the
weekend
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Opinions
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Columns
Zoe Riemer
compares
‘Twilight’ to
‘Harry Potter’
Tinesha Mix
agrees with drug
testing of high
school students
Entertainment
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‘Twilight’ and
‘Descendants’
movie reviews
WEDNESDAY
By Paige Miller
STAFF WRITER
You know it’s the holidays when you spot the
red kettles and hear the ringing bells of The
Salvation Army “bell ringers” outside your local
supermarket or mall.
According to Sherry Pfaffenberg, this year’s
Red Kettle coordinator, they are executing mul-tiple
projects to raise more money this holi-day
season than last ($59,000). These proj-ects
include “ringing the bells earlier [in the]
year... five days prior to Thanksgiving [and]... at
University Mall during the Holiday in the Pines
event.” Pfaffenberg said The Salvation Army has
made multiple changes from last year such as
“connect[ing] with Mark Rhoudes, who has set
up the first ‘virtual bell ringing’ website for
Nacogdoches county.” To access it just go to the
website www.onlineredkettle.org/nacsfa. In ad-dition,
The Salvation Army is also “extending...
hours at Walmart... to 8 p.m.”
Every holiday season the public sees the red
kettles and smiling faces of the bell ringers, but
what exactly is The Salvation Army?
“The Salvation Army’s Mission Statement best
describes who we are: ‘The Salvation Army, and
international movement, is an evangelical part
of the Universal Christian church. Its message is
based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by
the love of God. Its mission is to preach the Gospel
of Jesus Christ and to meet human need in His
name without discrimination,’” Pfaffenberg said.
The money raised during the holiday season
goes to fund “lodging for families after fires
in their homes, meals
provided through local
shelter[s], help dur-ing
disasters,... such as
fires... and hurricanes.
[They] also provide
help with utility bills,
traveler’s needs [for]
gas, bus fare, food and
temporary shelter,”
she said. In addition,
they “provide assis-tance
for parolees and
their families by assist-ing
their families with
food, clothing, and toys
during the Christmas
season.”
Just in Nacogdoches,
The Salvation Army
has helped “approxi-mately
864 families
and counting because
we still have November
and December,”
Pfaffenberg said. “At
Christmas last year
[The Salvation Army] helped 108 families with
Christmas gifts.”
If you would like to get involved with The
Salvation Army, you can call their office at 936-
568-0900 and ask for Candyce Wagnon or 936-
645-1182 and ask for Pfaffenberg.
The immediate need for The Salvation Army
is recruiting bell ringers. Pfaffenberg said she
would personally like to thank everyone at SFA,
students, staff, organizations and all professors
who have encouraged participation with The
Salvation Army. She would also like to thank
members of Delta Tau Delta who ring on campus
every year.
“We are so grateful,” she said.
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Red Kettle Campaign underway for holiday season
Online donations available, volunteers needed to ring bell around Nacogdoches
COURTESY PHOTO
Last year the SFA Baseball team helped ring the bell at Walmart to raise
money for the Nacogdoches community and SFA students.
By Zoe Riemer
STAFF WRITER
While most students spend the
weekend before Thanksgiving
resting and relaxing, others get up
early to run for a cause.
On Saturday, the Alliance stu-dent
organization for kinesiol-ogy,
health science and dance
sponsored the 12th annual
Turkey Chase 5K run and walk.
Registration for the chase started
at 8 a.m., and the race began at
8:30 a.m. in front of the Lucille
Norton HPE complex located on
Raguet Street.
“The reason we put this on
every year is to raise money for
the organization for educational
purposes,” Clinical Education
Coordinator Stephanie Jevas said.
It cost $20 to run, and the money
raised will go toward helping stu-dents
attend the Texas Association
of Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance Conference
and the Texas American College of
Sports Medicine Conference.
“I just love this event,” junior
Audrey Yager said. “It’s usually a
really beautiful day, and I know
this is a goal for a lot of people.”
At the event there was an awards
committee that handed out med-als
to the winners of the race. They
also had T-shirts, and Einstein
Bagels helped out by donating ba-gels
to the event.
“I think this was a great oppor-tunity
for the kids to come togeth-er
and put on an event,” Jevas said.
“They got the experience doing
some administrative things, try-ing
to make contacts out in the
community and [getting] organi-zational
skills that are going to
help them as a professionals.”
The conferences that the
Alliance is trying to raise money
for will give the students the op-portunity
to network with profes-sionals
as well as students from
other universities. There will be
both student and professional ses-sions
available there as well.
“I want the students to raise
money to go to the educational
conference,” Jevas said. “It’s one
thing to find travel money for fac-ulty,
but to find extra money for
students to travel can sometimes
be a challenge. I always tell the
students you’re going to graduate
with a degree. But what’s going to
set you apart is going above and
beyond.”
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By Tinesha Mix
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
As a sorority, the women of Sigma Kappa Omega are helping
children at the Nacogdoches Head Start Center have a better
Christmas. Their goal is to help all of the 652 children by providing
them each with a gift for the holiday season. They will continue to
raise donations for the toy drive until Friday, Dec. 2.
Sigma Kappa Omega started its toy fundraiser Monday, Nov. 14.
To help with the program, all that is needed is for people to either
drop off an unwrapped toy or to give a monetary donation. So
far, they have received a few monetary donations but have yet to
receive any toys. The ultimate goal is to give all 652 children in the
program a toy or some kind of monetary donation.
The fundraiser will continue the week after Thanksgiving break
through Friday, Dec. 2. from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. outside the Baker
Pattillo Student Center.
The group encourages organizations on campus to get involved
in the project. The more helpers and donations the sorority has,
the better Christmas will be for the young boys and girls in head
start.
“We hope to see happy, smiling faces on all the children at Head
Start when they receive their wonderful Christmas gifts,” SFA se-nior
Rebecca Newman said.
It does not take much to help the program. And if the campus
community pitches in to help Sigma Kappa Omega, it will go a long
way to ensure that all have a Christmas to look forward to. Every
child deserves to be happy for this great holiday.
With a little help from the students and faculty on campus, this
will become a reality.
For more information, contact any of the Sigma Kappa Omega
sisters, or to receive more details about the fundraiser, find the
Facebook event page “Head Start Christmas Toy Drive” and join
the cause.
tmix@thepinelog.com
Sigma Kappa Omega
gives Head Start kids
a better Christmas
SFA launching online radio station featuring world music
SFA will celebrate the launch of an
Internet radio station with a perfor-mance
by a well-known musician from
Honduras at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.
30, in the Baker Pattillo Student Center
Theatre.
LaNana Link World Radio will pres-ent
world music, which includes eth-nic
music not typically heard on “pop
music” stations, along with education-al
programming targeted for SFA stu-dents
and interested members of the
Nacogdoches community, but will also
be accessible to the general public anywhere there is an Internet con-nection.
The station can be accessed at http://lananalink.sfasu.edu.
“In addition to programming world music, students will have the
opportunity to research musical styles, artists and cultural traditions
from different parts of the world and record their research as informa-tive
programs as part of course projects,” said Dr. Jeana Paul-Urena,
chair of SFA’s Department of Modern Languages. “The creation of pub-lic
programming in the target language is a wonderful, authentic and
professional experience for our language students.”
LaNana Link World Radio also will feature an interactive webpage
and in the future will include audiovisual archives.
“Although we will program Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
music representing the languages we currently teach, we also will have
other world music hours,” Paul-Urena said. “The radio station will be
student run, allowing language students the opportunity to tape and
edit their programming in the target
language they are studying. It is really
an exciting opportunity for them.”
The radio station launch event will
include a performance by Guillermo
Anderson, Honduras’ best-known
World Music Artist.
“Based in the lively Caribbean port of
La Ceiba, Guillermo Anderson infuses
Afro-Caribbean percussions with con-temporary
sounds, local rhythms, and
folklore of Honduras’ coastal regions,”
Paul-Urena explained. “Performances
are spiced with the merging of Honduran Garífuna rhythms such
as ‘Parranda’ and ‘Punta’ with better-known reggae, salsa and other
Caribbean styles.”
As an artist, Anderson has played an important role in bringing
awareness to Honduras regarding issues like the protection of the envi-ronment,
health and literacy.
“His song ‘En Mi Pais’ is already an alternative national anthem
in Honduras,” Paul-Urena said. “His concert and recording ‘Para Los
Chiquitos,’ a recording aimed at familiarizing children with rainforest
species in danger of extinction, gained him a wide children’s audience
in Honduras.”
Anderson has gained wide recognition and acclaim through his
concert performances in North, Central and South America, Europe,
Taiwan, and Japan.
For more information about the event, call (936) 468-4303.
Turkey Chase 5K raised
money for Alliance conference
Starving
kids in
college
are
a serious
matter
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Basketball
wins first
game of the
season
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“The creation of public programming
in the target language is a wonderful,
authentic and professional experience
for our language students”
—Dr. Jeana Paul-Urena
Chair, Modern Languages
Monday, November 21, 2011 PINE LOG The
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