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Issue 11
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SFA Soccwer
wins 8th
straight
match
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Monday, October 17, 2011 PINE LOG The
The Independent Voice of Stephen F. Austin State University
Studying for
mid-terms
ahead of time
Inside
Record store
offers vintage
music, books
and magazine
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The Crime Log
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SFA Soccer,
Volleyball and
Cross Country
all come home
with wins.
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The Pine Log’s Sudoku
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Opinions
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Columns
James Jenkins
talks about
political
hypocrisy
Kayla Hass
discusses the
importance
of “blow off
“classes.
Entertainment
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Swinging Jacks
teaches students
to swing dance
By Tinesha Mix
CONTRUBUTING WRITER
The SFA NAACP chapter was awarded
the Chapter of the Year Award at the 75th
Texas NAACP conference this past week
at the Youfen College Banquet. SFA beat
out several other colleges to receive this
award. This is the first time in school his-tory
for SFA’s chapter to win the award.
In order for a chapter to receive the
award, they must submit an application.
After they send in the application, it is
looked at by the Texas Adviser, Erica King,
along with several others. The chapters
are graded on their leadership and pro-gramming,
activism in the community
and school, their service outreach and
their membership. To win, the school
must fulfill all of these aspects equally.
The SFA chapter hosts several events
each semester, which were all graded
before they received their award. This
semester, the NAACP hosted its first
event, the 2011-2012 Financial Planning
Workshop. The workshop was to help
students budget their money and how to
save as much as possible. Their next event
was “Man versus Woman.” This program was
used to help both men and women talk about cer-tain
issues they face with each other in relation-ships.
The program helped with several sexism
issues. Their most recent event was a star search.
Although this was a talent show, participants and
audience members were required to pay $1 and
donate a canned food item. All proceeds were
donated throughout the community.
SFA has the highest membership in the state
of Texas, with
SFA NAACP Chapter Wins Chapter of the Year Award
By Zoe Riemer
CONTRUBUTING WRITER
A backpack can be used for many things:
carrying textbooks or packing for a weekend
trip, but for motivational speaker Jimmy
Cabrara, a backpack is a term used for a way
to pack for success.
On Wednesday, Oct. 20, SFA’s Department
of Multicultural Affairs will hold an event
where Cabrara will be talking about the
tools needed to be successful in college and
in life. The event is free and open to all stu-dents
and the public. The event will be from
7 to 9 p.m. in at Regent’s Suite A, BPSC.
“I’m hoping to achieve some new insight
for students and the audience about them-selves,”
Director of Multicultural Affairs, Dr.
Terrance Frazier said, “and to be motivated
to say they can do more than what they are
already doing.”
This presentation is the culmination event
of Hispanic Heritage Month and is co-spon-sored
by the Organization of Multicultural
Affairs.
“This is not just something that just OMA is
hosting,” senior Jenifer Santos said. “Anyone
who wants to be successful in college can
attend this.”
Cabrera is a nationally known motiva-tional
speaker, who has been speaking for
over 19 years. His speeches and clips can be
found on YouTube, and he has written sev-eral
motivational books.
“I think he will be a great fit to get the stu-dents
at SFA and the community excited,”
Frazier said. “[He’s] one of those people who
just kind of gets some new insight, and we
don’t get to hear that many strong speakers
very often.”
Cabrera is going to talk about ways to mo-tivate
yourself and what you need to do to be
successful.
“I would [definitely] recommend first year
students to attend this,” Frazier said. “Or
anyone who feels they are struggling in col-lege.
This is a great way to just continue to
have that fire underneath us, especially for
first year students who don’t know what is
going on.”
Cabrara’s backpack metaphor has been an
inspiration for multitudes of people and now
SFA students have the opportunity to benefit
as well.
“I know if people come they will truly
enjoy his presentation,” Frazier said. “It’s not
just about if you are failing, or down in the
dumps. Even if you are feeling high, it just
gets you even higher.”
zriemer@thepinelog.com
Guest speaker talks about “backpacking for sucess”
By Kevin Perot
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Every Wednesday
in October the SFA
Student Recreation
Center is holding
classes for female
SFA students and fac-ulty
to become more
educated on lifestyle
changing habits.
The annual pro-gram,
called Women
on Weights, or WOW,
is currently underway.
The four-course
program teaches
women obtainable
goal setting, how to
use the equipment in
the gym, how to keep
a proper daily food
journal and how to get
the most out of time
spent exercising. The
different exercises
the program offers
allow women to get
full-body workouts
while aiming towards
a better understand-ing
of being healthy.
Exercises include
weight machines, free
weights, body weights
and bands.
Steve Dooling,
Campus Recreation
graduate assistant,
is involved with the
program. This is his
first year working at
SFA and with WOW,
however the program
is now in its third year.
“The University
(community) is most-ly
female,” Dooling
said, “yet the weight
room is mostly male-dominated.
We see
women using cardio
equipment and mats
for core work, but in
the future we’d like to
see them use some of
the weight machines.”
According to
Dooling, women are
affected by the “de-bunking
myth.”
“The myth is when
people they will put
on size if they lift
heave weights, which
isn’t true,” he said.
Debbie Norris, as-sistant
director of fit-ness,
wellness and
aquatics safety, is also
heavily involved in
the WOW program.
“One of the main
concerns we had when
we were building the
facility was that a lot
of the females weren’t
comfortable going to
certain areas of the
weight room,” Norris
said. “It became very
male-driven based
on the weight of the
equipment and the
culture around it.”
Norris also noted
that the University
is majority female.
Due to the percent-age
of women at SFA,
the recreation center
needs to be a place
where everyone feels
welcomed.
“Being a very
fema le -domina te
university, that was
something we wanted
to put on the forefront
of our minds. We feel
that 60 percent of the
student population
should feel comfort-able
going to any part
Piney Woods Fair carnival
brings the past to the present
CODY DEROUEN/THE PINE LOG
The Piney Woods Fair was in Nacogdohces this last weekend. The fair offered carnival rides,
games and competitions. The fair was in the Nacogdoches Expo Center.
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Campus Rec holding
classes for women
INE CODY DEROUEN/THE PINE LOG
Alexander Evans, President in the center, accepted Chapter of the Year for the state of Texas. Evans over all goals for
the year is to be Chapter of the Year for the nation.
NAACP CONTINUED ON PAGE 3