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Volume 93
Issue 11
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
PINE LOG The
The Independent Voice of Stephen F. Austin State University
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Ladyjacks lose
to Southeastern
Louisiana. Only third
time in history of
series.
By Katelynn Wiggins
Staff Writer
Five SFA students will have the
opportunity to experience the
Texas legislature this spring.
Texas Sen. Rodney Ellis sponsors
the Texas Legislative Internship
Program (TLIP) each year allowing
college students across the state to
participate in legislation directly.
"Students can gain a wide range
of experiences (at TLIP) because
you get right in the middle of
the legislative process," Dr. Ken
Collier, TLIP campus coordinator
and associate professor of political
science, said.
The internship is available to
students from a wide range of Texas
colleges, but only five students will
be accepted from SFA.
Applications are due Oct. 15 to
Collier. Recipients will be notified
within two weeks after applica-tions
are due.
"We welcome any major," Collier
said. The applicants have primar-ily
been political science majors in
the past, but major is not taken into
consideration during the applica-tion
process.
To improve their application,
students can "articulate how they
could benefit from this kind of ex-perience,"
Collier said.
About 12 students apply each
year, Collier said. The criteria is
based on who could grow the most
from this experience.
"It has been clear to us, some
years, that some students have a
need for this and some just want
to do something different," Collier
said.
TLIP interns have a very de-manding
job in Austin. When the
legislative process begins, some
interns may be assigned to follow
a bill from start to finish, Collier
said. And if that bill is discussed at
midnight, the intern will have to
be there.
The internship begins a couple
of weeks before school begins
and runs through the end of May.
Students will receive nine hours of
upper-level political science cred-it.
If a student needs three more
hours to remain a full time student,
they may work out an independent
study with a professor, Collier said.
If chosen to participate in TLIP,
students will receive a $7000 sti-pend
for living expenses. Stipends
are sponsored by the Beaumont
Foundation. The foundation also
donates money to the general
scholarship fund at SFA.
Ellis helps facilitate living ar-rangements
and aids students in
finding roommates when they ar-rive
in Austin. He also assigns spe-
By Sara Zavorka
Staff Writer
Friday, Nov. 2 at 5 p.m. is the deadline for completed applica-tions
for the position of 2013-2014 Student Regent of SFA.
Applications will be accepted only at the Office of the Dean
of Student Affairs, or in the SFA Involvement Center, by mail or in
person. Only one student will be selected, if any, to serve a one-year
term. This opportunity exists for all public university systems across
the state, as well as a few independent public universities. The Board
of Regents members themselves are appointed by the governor and
their duties are to establish policies on campus, including tuition
and campus development. They oversee university management
and investments and hold responsibility to the university president.
The position of Student Regent is an honor, as he or she is hand-selected
by the governor of Texas, Gov. Rick Perry. They serve on the
Board of Regents as a non-voting member, representing the interest
of the students, their university, and the state of Texas. This student
is required to participate in Regent activities such as orientation
sessions by the Office of the Governor and the THECB. They must
attend a summer session Retreat with all of the other past and future
Student Regents from across the state, and are required to attend all
Board of Regents meetings conducted throughout the year.
The applications are collected and a committee of student govern-ment
members sends recommendations to the University president,
Dr. Baker Pattillo. He then will interview two to three applicants and
send those names to the Texas Governor’s office. Those candidates
who advance there will be vetted via a phone call from the office in
Student Activities Association
will be giving away the annual
Homecoming Burn Shirts be-ginning
at 10 a.m. on Monday,
October 15 in the BPSC Plaza. SAA
will pass out shirts for the remain-der
of the week from 10 a.m. until
2 p.m. until all shirts are given
away.
In order to receive a FREE SAA
Homecoming Burn Shirt, the
process is very simple. You have
to come to the SAA table in the
BPSC Plaza and trade another
University’s t-shirt for your FREE
Burn Shirt.
For the past nine years, SAA
has helped promote SFA school
spirit by collecting other univer-sity
T-shirts from students, faculty
and staff and replacing them with
a FREE SFA T-shirt. Half of the
shirts collected are placed inside
the homecoming bonfire and the
remaining shirts are donated to
nonprofit organizations.
For more information please
contact SAA at 468-1222.
SAA Burn Shirts free Monday to Friday
Five to serve
at Texas
legislature
TLIP, page 2 Student Regent, page 2
Global leadership changes and their potential impacts on the
Texas economy will be discussed during a conference titled “The
U.S. and Middle East: The Future Relationship” Oct. 18-19 at the
Magnolia Hotel in Houston.
The conference is hosted by SFA, the Center for International
Studies at the University of St. Thomas, the Egyptian Consulate
of Houston, and the Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest.
Dr. Brian Murphy, dean of SFA’s College of Liberal and Applied
Arts and one of the conference organizers, said the importance of
the Middle East to Texas and the United States is beyond dispute.
In addition to more than half of the known reserves of oil, the area
holds more than 30 percent of the known reserves of natural gas,
and Morocco alone has up to 80 percent of the known reserves of
phosphates.
“These resources make the region a strategic cog of economic
development for the world,” Murphy said.
Although the Middle East’s deep cultural and scientific contri-butions
have shaped knowledge for centuries, political relation-ships
within and among nations have frustrated the movement
toward regional harmony.
“Recent events, however, are changing the dynamics of how
the Middle East operates as a partner to the United States,”
Murphy said. “This is a historic moment where a new under-
Leadership, page 2
Applications due for Student Regent
Grant Korbel/Pine Log Photo
Student Regent Jourdan Dukes poses before the Piney Woods game with SFA President Dr. Baker Pattillo in the Alumni Association tent. Although the student regent
does not have a vote on the Board, his or her opinions reflect the student bodies wants and needs. Applications for the new student regent are available now.
‘The U.S. and Middle East:
The Future Relationship’