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today.
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The Crime Log
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SFA
photographer
wins award
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The importance
of a business
internship
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SFA Bowling
team places
third at
Nationals
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Opinions
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Columns
Tinesha Mix
weighs college
debt
Piero Pretto
describes
America’s
backward
eating habits
Entertainment
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The upcoming SFA Regents
Lecture by Dr. Jimmie Yeiser, direc-tor
of the Forest Resources Institute
and holder of the T.L.L. Temple
Chair in the Arthur Temple College
of Forestry and Agriculture, will
focus on Texas’ invasive plant and
animal species and their impact on
ecosystems.
Yeiser, who earned the Regents
Professor designation from SFA in
2011-12, will deliver this year’s ad-dress
at 5:30 p.m. Monday in Regents
Suites A and B of the Baker Pattillo
Student Center on the SFA campus.
Refreshments will be served, and
there is no admission charge.
He defines an invasive species
as any species that is non-native
or alien to the ecosystem under
consideration and whose introduc-tion
causes or is likely to cause eco-nomic
or environmental harm or
harm to human health. The lecture
will focus on identifying the inva-sive
species of Texas, how these
species spread, why we should care
about invasive species and what
invasive species activity is occur-ring
in our region.
“An invasive species
reproduces, grows and
spreads rapidly, estab-lishing
and persisting
over large areas,” Yeiser
said. “Species that be-come
invasive succeed
due to favorable envi-ronmental
conditions
and lack of natural
predators, competi-tors
and diseases that
normally regulate their
populations. “
He explained that invasive spe-cies
negatively impact ecosystems
and are expensive to manage.
“In fact, invasive species are a
significant threat to almost half of
the native U.S. species currently
listed as federally endangered,” he
said. “It is very expensive to prevent,
monitor and control the spread of
invasives, not to mention the dam-age
to crops, fisheries, forests and
other resources. Invasives cost the
U.S. $137 billion annually. Some of
the most harmful individual species
cost in excess of $100 mil-lion
annually.”
Yeiser is recognized
regionally, nationally and
internationally as a leader
in product development
for woody and herbaceous
plant control in southern
forests.
He currently teaches
intensive silviculture and
chemical management
of pasture, fence row and
forest pests, both at the
senior and graduate levels.
His research emphasis is herbicidal
management of forest vegetation.
Yeiser, a professor of forestry,
joined the SFA faculty in 1999,
having worked previously at the
University of Arkansas at Monticello
and the Arkansas Agricultural
Experiment Station. He has held the
T.L.L. Temple Chair for 13 years and
is director of the university’s Forest
Resources Institute.
He received the 2006 Faculty
Excellence and Achievement in
Research award from the SFASU
Foundation. In 2007, he was
named a fellow of the Society of
American Foresters, and in 2008,
he was honored with the Research,
Development and Innovation
Award from the Texas Forestry
Association. He currently serves
as chairman of the Texas Society of
American Foresters and is on the
Board of Directors for the Texas
Forestry Association.
He helped develop all the
major products produced by BASF,
Dow AgroSciences, DuPont and
Monsanto used today in south-ern
pine management, including
Roundup.
He earned a Bachelor of Science
in forestry and a Master of Science
in agriculture, both from the
University of Kentucky, and a Ph.D.
in tree improvement from Texas
A&M University. During his time
at SFA, Yeiser has published 178 ar-ticles,
given 186 presentations and
acquired more than $4 million in
grants.
For more information, call (936)
468-2605.
SFA forestry professor to deliver Regents Lecture
By Katelynn Marcum
STAFF WRITER
Derek Sholl will perform
Thursday for a Salute the
Troops benefit concert at a
local restaurant.
The benefit concert will
begin at 7 p.m. Thursday at
The Barn Bar and Grill on
North Street.
“The concert is not only to
welcome our SFA student vet-erans,”
John Fontenot, VRC
coordinator, said, “but also to
show veterans in the commu-nity
they are cherished, loved
and supported by the town of
Nacogdoches.”
The new SFA Veterans
Resource Center is sponsor-ing
the benefit concert to give
back to veterans in the com-munity
and to raise money to
expand VRC services.
Sholl is a former profession-al
baseball player who turned
to country music after receiv-ing
a string of injuries on the
field, according to his website
dereksholl.com. He is a strong
United Service Organization
Inc. (USO) supporter and par-ticipates
in the Country for
our Country program. This
program provides funding to
military families in East Texas
for services outside their mili-tary
benefits.
Tickets are available at out-housetickets.
com and Baskins
for $10 in advance. They will
be $15 at the door. All cover
proceeds and 20 percent of
food sales will benefit the VRC.
There will be a raffle and an
auction at the benefit concert.
Prizes will include a custom-ized
Budweiser and American
flag Igloo cooler, a chance to
fire the ROTC cannon at a
football game in the fall and
four free rounds of golf at
Pineywoods Country Club.
The VRC had a soft opening
March 30. They hope to have
a grand opening and ribbon
cutting in the fall.
The VRC provides services
to veterans such as making
appointments, tutoring, ca-reer
counseling, mental health
services and networking op-portunities.
“We want this to be a place
where veterans can come and
relax,” Fontenot said of the
VRC lounge. “Our ultimate
goal is to create a veteran
friendly campus and create a
culture between veterans, stu-dents
and the community.”
Donations for the VRC will
be accepted at the event. For
more information email John
Fontenot, VRC coordinator at
sfaveterans@sfasu.edu.
kmarcum@thepinelog.com
BY LYDIA ELSETH
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A group of SFA human
rights student activists
held a peaceful demonstra-tion
Tuesday to protest the
holding of a detainee at the
military detention camp at
Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
The Amnesty International
organization at SFA put on
the demonstration at the
Sesquicentennial Plaza for
Guantanamo Bay detainee
Shaker Aamer, according to
Michael “Luka” Mutinda, a se-nior
biology major from Kenya
and president of the organiza-tion.
Mutinda said Aamer
has been detained at
Guantanamo Bay for 10
years without charge. He
said the organization’s pur-pose
for the demonstration
was to push for the U.S. to
either charge Aamer with a
crime and try him fairly or
to release him to the U.K.,
where his wife and children
live.
The idea behind this
demonstration, Mutinda
said, was to get students to
rally against human rights
violations like those Aamer
has had to endure.
Mutinda said he be-lieves
Americans would not
like other countries to de-tain
U.S. citizens without
charge. Americans would
have a different attitude if
its citizens were in the same
situation, he said.
Organization members
wore orange prison jump
suits while silently holding
signs that said things like
“The America I believe in
would give a fair trial.”
Thegroupalsocollectedpe-titions
for Aamer, Mutinda said.
He said petitions help in cases
like this one, but there is not a
Peaceful protest supports Gitmo detainees
LYDIA ELSETH/THE PINE LOG
A student sits holding a sign
that calls for stopping torture
by the United States.
Benefit concert this
week to support VRC
Spring flowers grow anywhere
JENNIFER ROGERS/THE PINE LOG
This flower has been growing out of a crack next to the Theatre Building. If
you have any spring photos you would like to see in The Pine Log. Please Send
them to pinelog@sfasu.edu
As part of its monthly independent
film series, the SFA School of Art will
present a free, one-night screening of
“Renaissance of Mata Ortiz” at 7 p.m.
Friday, May 4, at The Cole Art Center
@ The Old Opera House in downtown
Nacogdoches.
The 74-minute documentary traces
the efforts of one self-taught artist and
an American anthropologist through
the eventual resurgence of pottery mak-ing
by an entire village in Chihuahua,
Mexico. Directed by Scott Peterson,
the film received the Director’s Choice
Award for Best Arts Film at the Sedona
International Film Festival.
The screening is sponsored in part by
the SFA Department of Social and
Cultural Analysis, SFA Friends of the
Visual Arts and Nacogdoches
SFA to screen Mata
Ortiz pottery film
COURTESY PHOTO
Dr. Jimmie Yeiser
LYDIA ELSETH/THE PINE LOG
Students from Amnesty International were seen in the middle of campus next to Surfin’ Steve
protesting the U.S. treatment of prisoners in Gitmo.
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