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By Katelynn Marcum
STAFF WRITER
Students, faculty and families
swarmed the Pineywoods Native
Plant Center Saturday to celebrate
Earth Day and buy plants for their
homes from the SFA Spring Garden
Gala Plant Sale.
SFA Outdoor Pursuits sponsored
the Earth Day celebration. They in-vited
people to “join us in celebrat-ing
the Earth while discovering
inspiring ways to live simply and
sustainable.”
Many people were pulling red
wagons up and down Raguet Street
Saturday, some with plants over five
feet tall. The wagons were provided
to help transport plants to parking
at SFA Charter School a few blocks
away.
Chris Comer, assistant professor
of forestry, attended the plant sale
with his family.
“We like the chance to be togeth-er,”
Comer said. “The native plants
go in the garden, at home, and we
are supporting the arboretum.”
Plants were organized alphabeti-cally,
making it easier for customers
to find the plant they were looking
for. Booths were set up behind the
plant rows for people to pay cash or
with their cards.
SFA Steel Band performed as en-tertainment
for patrons of the plant
sale.
Informational booths, speakers,
live music, food and children’s ac-tivities
kept the crowd engaged at
the Earth Day celebration.
Some of the groups with booths
included Keep Nacogdoches
Beautiful, Nacogdoches Democratic
Party, Pineywoods Audubon
Society, Nacogdoches Farmers
Market and Pineywoods Bee
Keepers Association, to name a few.
“The queen bee is the largest
and has a lifespan of five to six
years,” said Dennis Brown, former
employee of the SFA physical plant
and member of the Pineywoods
Bee Keepers Association in Lufkin.
“Summer worker bees live about
two weeks in the summer.”
Brown was the attendant at the
Bee Keepers booth that featured an
observation hive full of worker bees
and one queen. The queen had a
white spot on her body to distin-guish
her and was twice the size of
the others.
Brown also said there is a perma-nent
observation hive on campus
that few people know about.
The Nacogdoches Farmer’s
Market represents 30 or more ven-dors
who have been selling locally
grown food for seven years. They
are open on West Main Street every
Saturday.
Morning Glory Yoga Studio
sponsored a children’s yoga activ-ity
at the celebration. On the front
lawn kids gathered in a semi-circle
around the instructor.
The children were excited to pick
a yoga mat of their favorite color to
sit on. They were given stuffed ani-mals,
called “focus buddies,” by the
instructor to help calm them down.
Almost everyone standing
around watching had a camera to
capture the cute reactions the kids
had to the “silly moves,” as one kid
referred to them, the instructor told
them to do.
Near the exit of the plant cen-ter,
the Ag Engineering Technology
Club had a booth set up selling SFA
logo products made from plate steel.
They had a black cut out of Texas
with SFA over it in a color of white,
purple or red.
“We made them in the shop with
a CNC plasma cutter,” John Elkins,
president of the club, said. He also
said the funds from this are going
toward the SFA Big Idea wind tur-bine.
They had cord bracelets for
sale, also.
Although it was a bit cooler
Saturday than it has been lately. The
weather cooperated, and everyone
was able to enjoy the plant sale and
Earth Day celebration.
Plant sale helps celebrate National Earth Day
By Sara Zavorka
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
On Wednesday, the SFA Rec Center hosted the
Rock Climbing Competition as part of its Spring
Intramural Events. It took place until 8 p.m. at
the Rec Center’s indoor, 34-foot-tall rock wall.
This wall, or “The Rock,” as people call it, is
complete with a “natural crack” on one side, and
a 13-foot bouldering cave on another, in addition
to three sport lead routes and 11 top rope climbs,
which means there is something for climbers of
every experience level to approach and exceed
their “highest” expectations.
Since the Recreation Center opened in
September of 2007, the only Intramural competi-tion
that has taken place was a year later in 2008.
This day was very basically an experimental event
as to determine whether it should be continued
in the future. The turn-out was reasonable with
about 10 participants climbing. The rules were
simple: Unlimited tries; If you fall, start over; and
each route is a certain amount of points, so the
climber with the most points and the least falls
by the end wins. The winners of each division win
a T-shirt. Almost annually, the Rock Wall portion
of the Rec Center hosts a Fall Competition, which
is statewide, in which climbers compete in three
separate divisions at what they love to do. Last
year, $1,200 in door prizes were given out among
nearly 80 participants total.
Despite this being a competition, the event
was basically just like any other day for these
climbers. Freshman Trevor Smith, (undecided
major) likes the wall as “it burns more calories
than running.”
Senior history major and Outdoor Pursuits
employee Cole Murray pointed out that the Rock
Wall is the best workout in the Rec Center. It
really “brings people together. It’s a whole com-munity
coming together for one common inter-est,”
he said.
The competition against each other, however,
is nothing compared to the challenges against
individuals themselves and their own endur-ances.
It is all about expressing your relationship
between the rocks.
Freshman nursing major Dylan Moore says
that “The Wall is just a place to get out your
frustrations—a place where you don’t have to
focus on anything but the task at hand.” Most of
the climbers feel similarly, that they do have a
purpose for climbing besides just to climb upon
their sweet refute. A lot of his moments of clarity
occur at least halfway up the route. Senior film/
Rock climbing competition hosted at Campus Rec
‘Springfest’ features music, food, mud
Buddy Franklin Band played at this year “Springfest” this weekend. One source
said, “I was surprised they were that good.”
Students played mud volleyball at Saturday’s Springfest, an annual event
that includes a crawfish boil and live music.
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Dr. George L. Hunt, SFA assistant professor of
accounting, is the recipient of the 2012 Teaching
Excellence Award for Service Learning.
Students in Hunt’s Accounting 343 course are
active in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
program sponsored by the Internal Revenue
Service. The program’s mission is to recruit and
train volunteers to provide assistance to lower
income taxpayers in filing federal income tax
returns.
SFA student members of Beta Alpha Psi, the
national accounting honor society, have partici-pated
in the VITA program for many years, pro-viding
tax assistance for citizens of Nacogdoches
and the surrounding area. Participating students
have the opportunity to apply the knowledge and
skills developed in class and gain confidence in
preparing tax returns while serving the com-munity.
Each year, one full-time SFA faculty member is
recognized for outstanding use and implemen-tation
of a service-learning component in class.
The award is presented in conjunction with the
annual Teaching Excellence Convocation, which
was held on campus Wednesday.
Hunt joined the faculty of the Nelson Rusche
College of Business in 2006 and teaches classes in
controls and internal auditing, income tax, prin-cipals
of management accounting, and account-ing
and information systems. He earned both
the Teaching Excellence and Service awards for
his college in 2010. Hunt recently was promoted
to the rank of associate professor and granted
tenure.
His memberships include the Texas Society
of Certified Public Accountants, Association
of Certified Fraud Examiners, Institute of
Internal Auditors, American Accounting
Association, American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants and Institute of Management
Accounts.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting
from Texas A&M University, a bachelor’s degree
in education and a master’s degree in account-ing
from Texas State University, and a doctorate
degree in accounting from Texas Tech University.
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Local area kids were given the chance to participate in Yoga