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The Crime Log
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SFA Best
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 PINE LOG
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By Andreya Stephenson
MANAGING EDITOR
At 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec.
8, there will be a fundraiser ben-efiting
the Saxophone Alliance at
SFA in Cole Concert Hall, located
in the Music Building.
Coming at the end of Dead Week,
the event offers a chance to take a
break from studying for finals and
enjoy the performances of students
from SFA’s Saxophone Studio.
The Saxophone Alliance at SFA
is a fairly new club on campus.
It began just last year. Currently,
only members of the Saxophone
Studio are involved, but it is open
to anyone with an interest in the
saxophone.
“Aside from being able to help
people be able to attend confer-ences
or anything else, it’s goal
is also to help bring in guest art-ists,
to help fund that,” said Dr.
Nathan Nabb, professor of saxo-phone,
“There’s a big educational
component because guest artists,
when they come in, always do
master classes. It’s about further-ing
saxophone education overall.”
The upcoming concert is an
event to raise funds for members
of the Saxophone Alliance to trav-el
to two conferences.
“It’s all in hopes of raising money
for saxophone trips to Arizona for
the North American Saxophone
Alliance Conference and the
World Saxophone Congress in St.
Andrews, Scotland,” Nabb said.
The North American Saxophone
Alliance, or NASA, and the World
Saxophone Congress are both
professional organizations for
saxophonists. At these confer-ences,
there will be lecture series,
master classes and performances
by students as well as profession-als.
At the NASA Conference, there
will also be a competition for sax-ophone
soloists and quartets.
Some SFA students have applied
to perform at the NASA confer-ence.
Nabb has applied to perform
at both conferences.
The Saxophone Alliance Benefit
Concert will have free admission,
but there will be a table set up for at-tendees
to donate money to help the
alliance travel to these conferences.
“We’ll be featuring the
Saxophone Studio in a number of
ways,” Nabb said. “There will be
duos, quartets, and the Saxophone
Choir will be playing as well.”
According to Nabb, approxi-mately
18 of the 24 studio members
are participating in the concert.
There are one duo and three quar-tets
that will be performing one
piece each. The Saxophone Choir
will be performing three pieces.
The Saxophone Choir is a stu-dent-
run ensemble of 14 saxo-phones
from soprano saxophone
to bass saxophone. There are sax-ophone
choirs at many universi-ties,
but to Nabb’s knowledge, this
is the first time SFA has had one.
They will be playing “The
Carnival of Venice,” by
Demersseman, arranged by
Nabb’s saxophone teacher, Fred
Hemke. This piece will be con-ducted
by SFA Director of Bands,
Fred J. Allen and will have Nabb
as a soloist. The Saxophone Choir
will also perform “Rhosymedre”
by Vaughan Williams, which was
originally written for the organ, is
arranged by Allen, and conducted
by Conducting Assistant Michelle
King. Jessica Stearns, saxophone
graduate student and president
of the Saxophone Alliance, will
conduct “Festive Overture” by
Shostakovich.
“It’s basically a really, really, re-ally
wide gamut of pieces between
the different styles of the quartet
and the duos and the ensemble.
Basically, a little bit of every-thing,”
Nabb said.
Saxophone Alliance raising money for conference trips
By Ariel Kirkland
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Today through Saturday, staff members
of KSAU 90.1 will be at Walmart accepting
donations and toys to help give local chil-dren
a better Christmas.
Beginning this morning, students are
collecting money in the parking lot of
the Nacogdoches Walmart store to help
the Nacogdoches County Child Welfare
Board raise funds for its 40th annual
Empty Stocking Fund project.
SFA students will be manning the tent
24 hours a day in the parking lot through 6
p.m. Saturday. Volunteers include members
of the KSAU radio staff as well as students
from other campus groups and classes.
The Empty Stocking Fund drive is held
the first three days of December each
year to increase community awareness of
child abuse and neglect and to promote
prevention programs. Toys and donations
are accepted the first three days for chil-dren
in need and that process is followed
by the distribution of the toys to the fami-lies
two weeks later.
KSAU has been partnering with County
Child Welfare since 1997, and DJs from the
radio station will be in a big, white tent
in the front of the Nacogdoches Walmart
parking lot accepting donations and toys.
Students will also be in front of Walmart
doors accepting donations as well.
KSAU adviser Sherry Williford, com-munication
instructor, is a member of
the Child Welfare Board and coordinates
KSAU efforts to help the organization.
She emphasized that volunteers are
always needed and welcome to hold buck-ets
and collect donations.
“We’re always looking for volunteers,”
Williford said. “We need a lot more to-night,
Friday night after 6 p.m. and all day
Saturday.”
Volunteers are able to get community
service for their participation in this fund
raiser. Volunteer can simply show up at
the tent to help, or they can call the SFA
Involvement Center at 468-6721 to sign
up for a shift. Questions can be directed
to their e-mail address at sfa volunteers@
gmail.com.
The Empty Stocking Fund is a national
mission to empower parents and guard-ians
of children living at or below the
poverty level in communities through-out
the country by providing them with
an opportunity to give their children
gifts at Christmas time. Last year, the
Nacogdoches project served more than
1,500 children, according to Williford.
Anyone who is not able to participate in
this event but who would still like to help
out in the distribution of the toys, can
contact Williford at 936-468-1278.
KSAU, the campus radio station, is
completely run by students with a fac-ulty
adviser and provides an alternative to
many music stations in the Nacogdoches
and Lufkin area.
Williford urged people to listen to KSAU
because it is different than other area sta-tions.
“Since we are a non-commercial sta-tion,
we are obligated to provide an alter-native
to the community,” she said. “For
example, there are a lot of country sta-tions
around here and because of that, we
will never play country because that is not
providing an alternative. Also, being non-commercial,
we are not worried about
reaching a certain audience to sell adver-tisements
and because of that, we can be
more eclectic to hopefully satisfy more
groups of people.”
KSAU gives back to community,
needs volunteers to help in effort
Defensive end Willie Jefferson highlights the
2011 All-Southland Conference teams that saw
22 Lumberjacks receive honors, including three
first-team selections, league officials announced
Tuesday afternoon. SFA also had four second-team
selections, and 14 honorable mention
honorees, while Jefferson was named 2011 SLC
Newcomer of the Year.
Receiver Cordell Roberson, offensive lineman
George Bias and Jefferson garnered first-team
recognition, while receiver Gralyn Crawford,
defensive end Malcolm Mattox and linebacker
Ryan Epperson were named to the second team.
Crawford also garnered second-team honors as a
return specialist.
A transfer from Baylor, Jefferson had a huge
impact for the Lumberjack defense. He led the
league with 16 sacks and recorded two of the
more memorable single-game performances in
school and conference history. Jefferson broke
the school record with 4.5 sacks in the win over
McNeese State. Jefferson closed out the season
with five sacks at Northwestern State to tie the
conference record.
Both Roberson and Bias repeated as first-team
selections. Roberson once again finished the
season among the nation’s elite receivers. He
finished second in the conference in receptions
(63) and receiving yards (794), while leading
the conference with nine TD catches. After not
catching a touchdown in the first four games
of the season, Roberson became a go-to guy for
sophomore quarterback Brady Attaway, haul-ing
in nine TD receptions in the final seven
games. Roberson enters his final season needing
only four touchdown receptions to become the
school’s all-time leader.
A four-year starter, Bias has anchored an of-fensive
line that led the nation in pass protection,
despite putting the ball in the air nearly 600 times
this season. Bias has protected the blind side
for the SFA quarterbacks who finished the year
ranked sixth in the nation in passing offense.
The school’s all-time receptions leader,
Crawford led the league and finished 12th in
the nation with 72 receptions (6.6 pg). He also
earned second-team honors as a return special-ist
averaging 23.7 yards per kick return and 13.5
yards per punt return. Crawford also returned a
kick for a touchdown during the season.
Sophomore Malcolm Mattox and junior Ryan
Epperson represented the SFA defense on the
second team. Mattox recorded nine sacks on
the season to place second in the league behind
Jefferson. The duo combined to help the Jacks
lead the nation in sacks.
After serving as a backup to All-American
Jabara Williams, Epperson took ownership of
his starting role in 2011. The Chandler native led
the SLC and finished among the nation’s leaders
with 113 tackles, including four for losses.
The Jacks also had 14 players named hon-orable
mention All-SLC. Quarterback Brady
Attaway, running backs Jeremy Barnes and Keith
Lawson and offensive linemen Austin Wright
and John Steel earned honorable mention honors
on offense, while defensive end Jacob Fincher,
linebackers Devin Ducote and Derrick Choice,
defensive backs Josh Aubrey, Jordan Aubrey, Ben
Wells and Caleb Nelson were named defensive
squad. Freshman kicker Jordan Wiggs also re-ceived
honorable mention honors.
Defensive end named SLC Newcomer of the Year
Garden of Hope,
helps offer words
of encouragement
JENNIFER ROGERS/THE PINE LOG
SFA students were able to make and display pinwheels
flowers that had written words of encouragement to help
promote suicide prevention awareness this week.
COURTESY PHOTO
The SFA Saxophone Choir will perform next week to help raise money for the
Saxophone Alliance.
Other Lumberjack football standouts recognized on all-conference teams for 2011
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