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Volume 94
Issue 9
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Monday, February 25, 2013
PINE LOG The
The Independent Voice of Stephen F. Austin State University
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SFA track
teams take
home Southland
Conference
indoor titles
By Katelynn Wiggins
Staff Writer
Representatives from SFA and the Nacogdoches com-munity
traveled to Austin Wednesday and Thursday for the
biennial Nacogdoches SFA Days. They had the opportunity
to meet with elected officials one-on-one and experience
all the Capitol has to offer.
A resolution, authored by State Rep. Travis Clardy, was
passed in the House (HR 94) “recognizing February 21,
2013, as Stephen F. Austin State University Day at the State
Capitol.”
“It is extremely important that we work with our rep-resentatives
and senators in regard to funding and spe-cial
projects,” Dr. Baker Pattillo, SFA president, said. “(At
Nacogdoches SFA Days) we show appreciation and thanks.
The more successful (our representatives and senators) are,
the more successful we are.”
The schedule of events integrated briefings with so-cial
events. Officials who spoke included Transportation
Commissioner Jeff Austin, Education Commissioner
Michael Williams, Fiscal Policy Advisor to the Lt. Governor
John Opperman, State Representative Travis Clardy and
State Senator Robert Nichols. Other events included a re-ception
hosted by Clardy and Nichols, a group photograph,
recognition in the House chamber and visits to the offices
of the representatives and senators.
“It is exciting to see how well regarded SFA is in Austin
and the priority our legislators have put on us,” David
Alders, newly appointed SFA regent, said.
During Clardy’s briefing, he recognized the Leadership
Nacogdoches group, as he himself went through the pro-gram
as a teenager. Leadership Nacogdoches, a program of
the Nacogdoches Chamber of Commerce, brought 33 class
members to the Capitol.
During Nichols’ briefing an audience member asked how
the senator thought the political wind was shifting on legal-izing
gambling, to which he replied, “I wouldn’t bet on it.”
“I could not be more proud of the attendance, participa-tion
and enthusiasm from all our friends from Nacogdoches
By Courtney Schmidt
Staff Writer
Fans of Lumberjack Baseball and players alike
will enjoy renovations at The Jacks’ home field,
Jaycees Field, beginning with the upcoming game
against Louisiana Tech at 3 p.m. on Wednesday,
Feb. 27.
With money donated by Joe Max and Jane
Green and another anonymous donor for the
baseball facility, the SFA athletics department
made it possible for the field to be renovated,
including new lights that will be used for night
games, a new solid aluminum outfield fence and
a 10-foot wide warning track that stretches from
right foul pole to left foul pole.
“We are so grateful to these special friends
of the baseball program who saw the need for
lights and what we could accomplish, and they
were willing to step up to the plate to help,”
Robert Hill, director of athletics, said in a press
release. “Their willingness to help shows how
far our baseball program has come.”
The lights will allow for teams to play night
games for the first time since 2006 when the pro-gram
was brought back. In the past, because of
the lack of lights at the field, the program has
had to suspend games due to darkness.
“The last night games ever played at Jacyees
Field were in 1995, the final year of the pro-gram,”
the press release stated.
The renovations, which started in early
January, will allow fans who usually cannot
make the day games because of work to come
wto night games after picking up the family and
grabbing a hot dog at the concession stand.
“These renovations give us an opportunity to
help with scheduling, recruitment and fan sup-
By Sara Zavorka
Staff Writer
Fraternities and sororities are stereotypical of the college
experience. Far beyond the stereotypes though, in reality, they
exist as places for both young men and women to get involved
on campus, to build bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood, and
allow the members to give their lives a little more meaning
through service activities and working toward nationally held
philanthropies. SFA can boast of a well-versed handful of Greek
life organizations, and this past year alone has much to show
for it.
The SFA Greek Life is composed of four main councils:
Interfraternity (IFC), Panhellenic (SFAPA), Multicultural Greek
(MGC), and National Pan-Hellenic (NPHC). IFC and SFAPA are
those which host a formal recruitment process via mutual se-lection,
whereas MGC and NPHC recruit new members on an
individual chapter basis via grabbing attention by posting flyers
and hosting interest meetings at which questions may be asked.
Hardy Meredith/Courtsey Public Afairs
The group from SFA and Nacogdoches posed in front of the Texas State Capital building during Nacogdoches SFA Days last week.
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Greek, page 2
Baseball, page 2
SFA’s baseball field to have brighter games
Hardy Meredith/Courtsey of Public Afairs
The Fredonia Players
of SFA’s School of Theatre
will present “The Yellow
Brick Road Show” at 8 p.m.
Tuesday through Thursday,
March 5 through 7, in the
Downstage Theatre in the
Griffith Fine Arts Building
on the SFA campus.
Formerly the Original
Cast, the Fredonia Players
invites the audience to join
them for a hilarious, be-hind-
the-scenes glimpse as
they attempt to put on an
old-fashioned radio produc-tion
of the “beloved classic
film that features a green
witch, ruby slippers and an
inconvenient cyclone,” ac-cording
to Jason Scott, the
company’s director.
While the company per-forms
‘live’ in the manner of
old-time radio,” Scott said,
“the chaos away from the
microphone threatens to
turn this production into a
yellow-bricked disaster.”
“The Yellow Brick Road
Show” is the company’s
“playful way” of perform-ing
a radio version of “The
Wizard of Oz,” Scott said.
The “Oz” story, adapted from
the classic 1939 film, will
be familiar to the audience
with songs like “Somewhere
Over the Rainbow” featured.
“But we’ve added a twist,
as the live performance of
the show is unexpectedly
beset by last-minute chang-es
and hilarious complica-tions,”
Scott said. “We think
audiences will love seeing
the familiar old story recre-
Fredonia, page 2
Fredonia
Players to
present
Wizard of Oz
SFA reps visit Austin for SFA Days
SFA Greeks raise the bar
Jennifer Rogers/Pine Log Photo