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Crosswalks are
meant to be
stopped at.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 PINE LOG The
The Independent Voice of Stephen F. Austin State University
SFA
Lumberjack
quarterbacks
start out the
same
Inside
Extremist and
terrorist lecture
tomorrow
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The Crime Log
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Former SFA
Basketball star has
success overseas
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Opinions
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Columns
Biancia
Patterson talks
about the truth
about fairy tale
relationships
Jennifer
Trammell talks
about lack of
school spirit
Entertainment
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Swinging Jacks
teaches students
to swing dance
By Erika A. Nichols
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Students at SFA tend to get excited about cold
weather during fall and winter, but what many
students do not think about is getting a flu vac-cination.
Dr. Hamp Miller, medical director of
health services, encourages students to prevent
themselves from contracting the flu by getting
a flu shot.
“Health Services ordered 1,200 flu shots for
this school year,” Miller said. “On Monday we
administered vaccines to 192 athletes.”
According to Miller, the vaccine is available
to students, staff and faculty; both active and
retired. The vaccine is administered at the uni-versity
clinic for $20 in the form of cash or check.
An appointment is not necessary for the flu
vaccination; students may walk-in, Monday
through Friday 8:30 to 11 a.m. and 1:30 to 4 p.m.,
all students need to bring is their student ID.
“People who are allergic to eggs and egg prod-ucts
or are overwhelmingly ill should not get a flu
vaccination,” Miller said.
“No flu virus has been reported this semester
so far, and none was reported over the summer”,
Miller said. “People don’t realize that a person
can contract the flu in the summer.”
“The reason college students should get the
flu shot is because they are always so close to-gether,”
he said.
According to Miller, “Getting the flu will pre-vent
you from attending class, social activities
and college life in general. If a person contracts
the flu, their friends will not want to be around
them because nobody wants to contract the flu.”
Many college students assume that alcohol
will kill the flu virus, “15 Jell-O-shots will not get
rid of the flu, however it may get rid of you,” he
said. “Alcohol does not kill the flu virus.”
Not only are college students prone to con-tracting
the flu, but people with a lower immune
system are more prone to everything; AIDS vic-tims,
diabetics, and any other kind of chronic
illness.
Many people are hesitant to getting the flu
vaccine, in fear that the vaccine will give them
the flu.
According to Miller, “A person cannot catch
the flu from the injected flu vaccine. The vaccine
gives the body a signal that the virus has been
in contact with it, so the body makes antibodies
against that virus, which prevents a person from
catching the flu.”
Miller suggested the best way to keep from
contracting the flu is to avoid exposing oneself
to those who have the virus. The flu can be
transferred from surface to person and person
to person.
“People that have the flu have to be careful
about spreading their respiratory material onto
places in public, such as countertops and door
knobs,” he said. “The flu is transferred very eas-ily
this way.”
According to Miller, “The onset symptoms
of the flu include a terrible cough, headache, a
fever between 101° and 103°. These symptoms
come up on you suddenly; they do not sneak up
on you.”
To distinguish a cold from the flu, a person
will have a runny nose and a sore throat, without
a fever. A cold usually lasts for a week while the
flu lasts for 10-14 days.
“The majority of people respond to the flu
without treatment after two weeks; however
there are some people who contract the flu and
end up with pneumonia,” Miller said.
“If a person gets the flu it is best to take
Ibuprofen or Tylenol, drink fluids and get lots of
rest. There is a tablet prescription a doctor can
prescribe to treat the flu, as done at the clinic.”
Flu shot helps students and staff stay healthy
By Samantha Ogden
STAFF WRITER
October is officially Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Women and
men of all shapes and sizes pull out their pink ribbons and celebrate
those who have survived and remember those who haven’t, and to teach
those who have yet to be diagnosed to be aware of symptoms.
At SFA the sisters of Zeta Tau Alpha are taking charge with “Pink Out”
month. The mission of “Pink Out” month is to encourage awareness of
breast cancer through a month of informative events, to raise funds for
breast cancer awareness and to recognize local breast cancer survivors
and those who have lost their battle with this disease.
The planned activities will include:
• Pink Out Your Office contest for a ll SFA campus offices began on
Monday, Oct. 3, and will be judged on Friday in the afternoon. All cam-pus
offices are encouraged to compete, not just for a prize, but to help
raise awareness. The winning office receives lunch for 10 from Raising
Canes.
• A candlelight v igil to honor the survivors, fighters and those who
have passed in the battle against breast cancer will be held on Monday,
Oct. 17, in front of the Austin Building. All students are encouraged to
attend.
• “Know Pink: What Every Woman Should Understand about Breast
Cancer” will be presented on at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18, in the Twilight
Ballroom. Admission is free, and women of all ages are encouraged to
attend and learn about the signs of breast cancer.
* There will be cotton candy and pink lemonade sales on Tuesday
and Wednesdays throughout October outside of the Student Center to
raise funds for Breast Cancer Awareness.
• T he J alapeno Tree w ill b e h osting a b reast c ancer b enefit n ight
on Tuesday, Oct. 25, from 5 p.m. until close. A portion of the
food sales from the evening will benefit the ZTA
Foundation.
• There will be a Yoplait yogurt-eating con-test
on Thursday, Nov. 3 at noon. Entering the
contest is free and the winner will receive a
$50 cash prize. To enter the contest, stop
by the ZTA tables on campus in October
or November or e-mail
sfazta@gmail.com.
• The ZTA’s will have a Pink Out t-shirt
distribution on campus be- tween 10
a.m. and
1 p.m. on Nov. 2-11. Pin- on pink ribbons
and recognition ribbons will a l s o be available at this
time.
• T he “ Pink O ut” f ootball g ame i s on Saturday, Nov.
12, at 6 p.m. at Homer Bryce Stadium. Lumberjack fans
are encouraged to wear their pink shirt to the game vs.
Southeastern Louisiana.
ZTA’s Pink Out 2011 is sponsored by the SFA Athletic
Department, Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital, Texas Home Health and
Commercial Bank of Texas. All local breast cancer survivors, campus
offices and community members are encouraged to contact ZTA at
sfazta@gmail.com for more information about participating in Pink Out
activities.
sogden@thepinelog.com
ZTA gears up for their annual ‘Pink Out’ events
By Whitney Williams
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
What is complexion? What are
stereotypes? Why is there still dis-crimination?
The members of ASO, African
Student Association, will answer
all these questions and many
others at their forum “The Skin
Complexity: Dark Skin vs. Light
Skin” from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday,
Oct. 19, in the BPSC Theatre.
“The forum will be a discus-sion
exposing the discrimination
and stereotypes among African-
American society that stem from
their African heritage,” Chikere
Ogbonnaya, geology senior and
student adviser for ASO, said.
“There will be a panel of students
and teachers, and the audience
will have the opportunity to state
their opinions and enlighten those
who my be ignorant to certain ste-reotypes
against lighter or darker
shades of the African-American
community.”
Ogbonnaya also said he was
completely happy with himself.
“I don’t really worry about being
darker,” he said. “One must be
confident whatever color they are,
the darker the skin, the deeper the
roots.”
Unlike Ogbonnaya, Nicole
Lowe, biochemistry junior, said,
“I have my days, sometimes I don’t
mind being darker, and some days
I can’t stand it. I get joked about
almost daily, to the point where I
could say I’m used to it, so it’s just
annoying—but I like my skin. It’s
smooth.”
Lowe expressed that in the past
she wanted to change her skin
color, but now she resides in com-fort.
“I love me,” she said smiling.
As in all spectrums, there are
many places to fall upon. Gabriel
Grady, kinesiology sophomore,
rests on the lighter end of the color
scale. Grady described himself as
“darker than most light-skinned
people” and “lighter than most
dark-skinned” people.
He then gave this example in
relevance to black society: “Say
you have two girls that are unat-tractive,
but one is dark and one
is light. Most people, me includ-ed,
would give the light-skinned
girl attention simply because her
skin makes her easier on the eyes,”
Grady said. “ If I was darker, I think
I would be less attractive—I mean,
I wouldn’t look the way I do now,
I’d be a totally different person.”
With a more neutral approach
to the subject, Sherrie Ridley, psy-chology
junior, said, I’ve never ex-perienced
racism (or) stereotypes,
nor have I been shown favorit-ism.
I’m happy with myself and
wouldn’t change at all. I’m differ-ent.”
Ridley shared that she is mixed
with Canadian, Native American,
black and many other races.
“I am mixed, ethnically, and
I identify more so with the black
community,” Ridley said. “But
none of that matters, personality
is what counts.”
“I feel this forum is necessary,”
Ambreishia Lewis, radio/TV se-nior,
said. “Racism and discrimi-nation
are ramped in the black
community.”
For more information about the
forum, contact African Student
Organization at asosfasu@yahoo.
com.
pinelog@sfasu.edu
ASO to host discrimination
and stereotypes forum
CHARLES KLECKAC/THE PINE LOG
Intramurals seasons have started
Campus Rec intramural seasons have began with flag football,
volleyball and soccer. There will be a dodgeball tourement
Thursday in the Campus Rec center.