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PINE LOG The
The Independent Voice of Stephen F. Austin State University
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SFA’s Lumberjacks rout
Howard Payne 84-30 in
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By Emily Jensen
Staff Writer
On Saturday the Freshman Leadership
Academy hosted the first 5K Zombie Run
to help raise awareness about childhood
obesity.
The event had more than 100 runners
and between 60 and 70 zombies spread
throughout the entire course. The fast-est
runner was Cameron Courtney, who
finished with a time of 22 minutes, 11
seconds.
The proceeds of the event will be used
to put in a Frisbee golf course in a low-income
area for kids.
“I didn’t expect the level of difficulty of
the obstacles,” Estela Valles, freshman, said.
The course started at the Intramural
Fields, and runners had to go through
zombie hotspots and obstacles, such as
crawling in the mud and jumping over
hurdles.
At the beginning of the race, runners
were given three flags. If a runner still had
a flag at the end of the race, they survived
the zombie attacks and were entered in a
raffle. If the runner lost all of their flags,
they didn’t survive the apocalypse.
Derek Head, a zombie at the 5K, ter-rorized
runners and won the award for
stealing the most flags.
“I handed them a pile of the flags,”
Head said. “It was a lot of fun, but the
hardest part was not smiling. I was hav-ing
such a good time; I was trying to be
serious, but I just couldn’t do it.”
According to Dennis Hagans, the stu-dent
body president, theSchool of Theatre
did the make-up for the zombies.
“It was a great collaboration overall,
thanks to everyone,” Hagans said.
By Emily Jensen
Staff Writer
On Thursday students from the SFA School of Nursing met
with nursing students from UT-Tyler and participated in the
first collaborative disaster simulation.
These simulations help prepare students for real-life disaster situa-tions
and teach them how to take care of victims and how to evacuate
properly.
“You saw the (effects) of Hurricane Sandy,” Dr. Della Connor, as-sistant
professor in the nursing department, said. “We have to know
how to evacuate people and how to take care of the sick.”
On Thursday, the SFA students dressed as victims of a wildfire and
were driven to the UT-Tyler campus. Once there, the Tyler nursing
students treated them as actual victims of a fire.
The role of nurse and victim will switch off every semester. Victims
are dressed to look like the part, and in this past simulation, the SFA
students played the elderly or mentally ill.
In the past, the School of Nursing and School of Theatre teamed up
to practice how to help victims of disasters. The school has done sim-ulations
of hurricanes, chemical spills, fires and building explosions.
Dr. Jeni Chilton, a clinical instructor at the UT-Tyler School of
Nursing, collaborated with Connor to produce this simulation.
“We were both looking for ways that we could get the experience
that our community nursing students needed for a disaster simula-tion,
and we brainstormed this,” Connor said.
About 60 SFA nursing students participated in the disaster simu-lation.
The School of Nursing has around 460 students, and each
student will have to be involved in a simulation during their studies.
The Community Nursing course is the class involved in the simula-tion,
and the Community Nursing in Management course at UT-Tyler
is the corresponding class.
In the simulation that will take place in the spring, UT-Tyler stu-dents
will travel to the SFA campus. The SFA students will be the
nurses, and the Tyler students will play the victims.
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By Katelynn Wiggins
Staff Writer
The Twilight Ballroom in the SFA Student
Center has gotten a complete renovation.
Everything but the floor was replaced accord-ing
to Ralph La Rue, associate director of the
student center.
“We completed the renovations on time
and on budget,” La Rue said. It took 12 weeks
and roughly $400,000 to complete the project,
and La Rue said none of the money came from
tuition.
The new Twilight Ballroom is extremely
high tech. There is a new LED lighting system,
new speakers and projectors and screens built
into the ceiling that can all be controlled by
a remote touch pad. When the projectors and
screens are not in use, they will not be an aes-thetic
distraction to the guests.
The LED lighting has brightened the room
significantly.
“We demolished the room,” La Rue said.
Previously, there was a drop ceiling, dim lights
and dated paneled walls. Now the room is
equipped with a new, higher ceiling and new
walls with wainscoting (a decorating tech-nique
where the bottom half of the wall is pan-eled
with wood). The new ballroom has white
walls with dark-stained wainscoting.
“(The wainscoting) gave it a much classier,
solid and richer look,” La Rue said. In the
center of the room there is a circle in the ceil-ing.
The circle is lit by colored light. The color
can be changed and it has the ability to flash/
strobe. Also in the ceiling, hanging points
have been incorporated. This allows for easier
decoration of the space and protection of the
ceiling panels.
Another interesting feature is that the ball-room
now has an iPod dock that will play over
the speakers. This will make it much easier to
play music during any type of event. There are
also new chairs and tables.
“(The Twilight Ballroom) will be much
more functional for meetings and presenta-tions,”
La Rue said. “Also, when the University
is not using the building, it is available for
community use.”
Nick Stallworth, manager of guest services,
explained that many different events can be
held in the new Twilight Ballroom. These
events can include luncheons, seminars, con-ferences,
fashion shows, proms and even wed-ding
receptions.
The new Twilight Ballroom is available for
reservations now. For more information call
936-468-3400.
By Sara Zavorka
Contributing Writer
Campus Recreation held its
semi-annual job fair in the Rec
Center lobby and meeting room
Wednesday. The event was open
to energetic students desiring to
add to the close-knit team of em-ployees
already on staff at the
Rec Center.
Students interested in working
for The Rec were told to arrive
within the designated time slot,
dress in business-professional at-tire
and bring their resume. The
business-professional dress code
“helps to make a lasting first-impression,”
emphasized Nana
Awkaman, a senior and office as-sistant
at The Rec. After filling
out an application, students were
given an initial, screening inter-view
with the managers, who vol-unteer
their time for this event.
After their initial interview, ap-plicants
then wait for a callback
from a graduate assistant or
member of pro-staff, informing
the applicant if they received an
interview. If a positive callback
was received, a second interview
will occur, and finally, a decision
will be made.
The Campus Rec Job Fair has
been taking place since the open-ing
of the Rec Center five years
ago (Sept. 2007). This year, “75 to
100 applicants showed up within
the first hour, so it was a good
turnout,” said Richard Drew, a
senior and fitness manager, who
added that they expected a cou-ple
hundred throughout the day.
The Campus Recreation staff
“is one big family, where every-body
gets along together. It is a
good opportunity to better your-self
professionally, especially
upon graduation,” Drew said.
Open positions included out-of-
house pPromotions assistant;
wellness assistant; lifeguard; IMS
(Intramural Sports) game su-pervisor;
sport club supervisor;
water safety instructor; personal
trainer; office assistant; Group X
instructor; fitness assistant; ser-vice
assistant; and internship/
practicum.
The internship/practicum pro-gram
is a semester-long opportu-nity
to integrate experience from
the job into an undergraduate
education. The deadline to apply
for the internship/practicum for
the Spring is Wednesday, Nov. 14.
“We lose a lot of graduating
students at the end of the school
semesters, and so we try to pro-mote
Campus Rec the best we
can and portray it as a fun envi-ronment”
to both work out and
to work at, Katy Sharpe, senior
and sport club manager, said.
The next Campus Rec Job Fair
will take place Wednesday, April
17, hiring for the summer and
upcoming Fall Semester.
Zombie Run informs about childhood obesity Grant
Korbel/Pine
Log Photo
Students from
SFA’s School
of Theatre
pitched in at
FLA’s Zombie
Run to help
paint zombies’
faces. The
zombies were
scattered
throughout the
5K to pull flags
off runners’
belts.
Emily Jensen/Pine Log Photo
SFA and UT Tyler nursing students work together on the first collaborative disaster simulation.
The Rec
hosts job fair
for students
Disaster simulation
prepares future nurses
Twilight Ballroom
revamped with
more technology