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THE SFA WAY — The Principle of Caring Lumberjacks think of the needs of others and seek to improve the quality of life of those around them • They are compassionate, empathic and kind • They respond
with humility to those they have helped and freely express gratitude to those who help them • Lumberjacks prepare themselves to become leaders in their communities and workplaces • They dedicate themselves to excellence in their chosen fi eld of study and to using what they learn in the service of others.
By: Mandy BowlingASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Bryson Myles and Chase Wier have gone from teammates in the same dugout to being oppo-nents on the field. The former
Lumberjacks were both selected in June’s MLB Draft.
Grand Prairie na-tive Myles came to SFA after playing at
Weatherford Junior College where he recorded
five home runs, 30 RBIs and was second in nation with 53 stolen bases. Those numbers propelled him to all-conference and all-region honors. In addi-tion to his other achievements, Myles was listed 27th among outfielders entering MLB Draft by BaseballDraftReport.com.
Myles left SFA last year, just shy of earning his kinesiology
degree.“I was planning on coming
back this fall, but I have to go to Arizona for instructional league for a month,” Myles said. “I will be back next fall to hopefully finish school and get my degree.”
After a successful time at SFA, Myles left for the draft with many awards. He earned first-team All-Southland Conference, SLC Offensive Player of the Year and SLC Player of the Year and was named to several All-American teams. Myles was the second Lumberjack ever to be named on the American Baseball Coaches
Association All-American team. The SLC Player of the Year led the coun-try with 53 stolen bases.
With SFA on hold, Myles worked his way into a sixth-round selection by the Cleveland Indians and has started his professional career as a member of the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, the Indians’ short-sea-son Class A club in the New York-Penn League.
“The main thing I am looking forward to as well as making it my ultimate goal is to make it to the big league level and being successful there.” Myles said. “That’s why you go into the draft—to make it to the big leagues and prove yourself.”
This summer was a great start to playing on that level. Myles made the all-star team and got to play for-mer teammate Chase Wier.
According to Myles, he and Wier kept in contact all summer and met on the field in Boston for two days this summer. After tweaking his hamstring up and missing 22 games, Myles bounced back to prove that he was healthy and ready to go.
Making it to the big leagues is not the only thing he is looking forward to. According to Myles, there is a quality group of SFA players who have a good shot at being drafted this year, and he can’t wait to see what happens.
“This is the opportunity of a life-time, and I want to live that life with professional baseball and make the right progress at the rate the organi-zation wants me to,” Myles said.
Myles was not the only Lumberjack to show off his baseball talents and represent SFA on a pro-fessional level.
Nacogdoches native Wier was the 21st-round pick of the Florida Marlins and has been an out-
standing asset for the short-season Jamestown Jammers.
As a pitcher he has only allowed runs in two of his 14 relief appearances and currently holds a 3-1 record. He al-lowed just two runs i n his first 21.0 innings o f professional work, and ha s struck out 20 batters in 21.1 innings of work, while walking only nine.
Wier was not always the great pitcher he is today. As a child he played many sports, including baseball, which he started at the age of 6. He was an outfielder and never saw the mound.
“I didn’t start pitching until my junior year at SFA,” Wier said. “I was always the guy in the outfield.”
He was coming off a breakout ju-nior season, his first on the mound, in which he posted a 3-1 record in 21 appearances.
Along with his former teammate, Myles, Wier had a great start to his professional career this summer when made the all-star team.
“It was great seeing Myles on the field again,” Wier said. “We hung out when I saw him in New York when our teams played each other for a few days.”
Wier left SFA with only 18 hours left in fi-nance.
“I planned on taking classes this fall, but it didn’t work out because of mini-camp in Florida,” he said.
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By Ericka PittsCONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Office of Student Affairs Programs organized a sequence of events over the weekend to allow faculty, staff and students to remember the tragic events on 9/11 and to honor those who continue to fight for our freedom.
The events began with “Letters and Photos for the Troops” on Thursday, Sept. 8 and Friday, Sept. 9. The SFA community was encouraged to write a letter to a sol-dier overseas that would accompany a picture of them holding a sign labeled “SFA supports the troops.” The letters and pictures will be included in a care package filled with different items that show each of the troops just how much SFA cares.
Participating in this event was Criminal justice ju-nior Brandon Taylor. “My dad’s a troop, and that really touched me emotionally,” Taylor said. “I hope one day people will write to me because I’ll be a troop overseas.”
Overseeing the events was Jamie Bouldin, assis-tant director for leadership and service. “The Office of Student Affairs prepared for these events for several weeks,” Bouldin said. “I am pleased by the outcome.” She recalls being a freshman in college when 9/11 hap-pened and describes it as “such a defining moment.” “What happened changed everything,” Bouldin remem-bers. “It’s important to remember what happened 10 years ago, celebrate freedom and remember people who helped.
The second event was the “Memorial Flag Placment” on Friday, Sept. 9. Faculty and staff, student organiza-tions and volunteers from the Nacogdoches community joined in the Free Speech Area next to the Student Center to place flags throughout the trees. In total, 3,000 flags were placed to symbolize the number of people who lost their lives on 9/11 10 years ago. Posters were also placed around the sidewalks that provided statistics about the service men and women who lost their lives in attempts to save others.
Among the volunteers was accounting senior Melanie Beckenbach, who is also a member of Student Activities Association (SAA). She was born in New York and said her dad knew people who died on that day. She de-scribes her dedication to the memorial events by saying, “If it happened to me, I would want people to remember.”
Saturday, Sept. 10, marked another day in the memo-rial activities with “Free Ribbons” given out before the football game at Homer Bryce Stadium. Patriotic rib-bons were passed out to all game attendees as they came through the gate to take their seats. As everybody began to settle in their spots in the stadium, ribbons could be seen worn on shirts, hats, bags, and even shoes. It was clear that the community had not forgotten all the lives, militant and non-militant, that were lost; it was clear they would never forget.
Monday at noon in the plaza of the Student Center, a memorial service was held to conclude the weekend’s events. The service included a moment of silence and a remarks from Lt. Col. Todd M. Reichart, chair of military science. He told of a security guard whose policies and diligence resulted in hundreds of lives being saved but who lost his own life when he went back to rescue others.
For the second consecutive year, SFA is ranked in the first tier among the best regional public and private uni-versities in the western United States, according to the 2012 edition of “Best Colleges” by U.S. News & World Report.
The rankings, which include more than 1,600 schools nationwide, are available at www.usnews.com/colleges.
During the past two decades, the U.S. News college rankings, which group schools based on categories cre-ated by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has grown to be a comprehensive research tool for students and parents considering higher education op-portunities.
“While rankings should never be the primary consid-eration for those choosing a college, the first-tier ranking
by U.S. News & World Report certainly validates our belief that the quality, personalized education offered by SFA makes us an excellent choice for higher education,” said SFA President Dr. Baker Pattillo.
“Best Colleges” provides a thorough examination of how accredited four-year schools compare on more than a dozen indicators of excellence.
Among them are peer assessment, graduation and reten-tion rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, and alumni giving.
The western United States grouping includes schools in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
SFA ranked in first tier of western regional universities for 2nd year
10 years later, community paystribute to the fallen
Monday afternoon two SFA students were arrested for orginized theft of retail. Roger Gundo and Ikechukwu Nlemchi were arrested by UPD after both suspects left Barnes and Nobles Bookstore with two textbooks without paying for them located in the Student Center.
UPD responded to a call that reported that books were stolen from the book-store. Reports indeicate that Nlemchi walked out of the SFA bookstore and then was followed by Gundo and then exchanged books.
Nlemchi was later arrested at Varsity Bookstore trying to sell the books he had taken from Barnes and Nobles. Gundolater turned himslef in later that day.
Bryson Myles and Chase Wier have gone from teammates in the same dugout to being oppo-nents on the field. The former
Lumberjacks were both selected in June’s MLB Draft.
tive Myles came to SFA after playing at
Weatherford Junior College where he recorded
five home runs, 30 RBIs and was second in nation with 53 stolen bases. Those numbers propelled him to all-conference and all-region honors. In addi-tion to his other achievements, Myles was listed 27th among outfielders entering MLB Draft by BaseballDraftReport.com.
Myles left SFA last year, just shy of earning his kinesiology
degree.“I was planning on coming
back this fall, but I have to go to Arizona for instructional league for a month,” Myles said. “I will be back next fall to hopefully finish school and get my degree.”
After a successful time at SFA, Myles left for the draft with many awards. He earned first-team All-Southland Conference, SLC Offensive Player of the Year and SLC Player of the Year and was named to several All-American teams. Myles was the second Lumberjack ever to be named on
Chase Wier, #37 from Nacogdoches was drafted by the Florida Marlins.
As a pitcher he has only allowed runs in two of his 14 relief appearances and currently holds a 3-1 record. He al-lowed just two runs i n his first 21.0 innings o f professional work, and ha s struck out 20 batters in 21.1 innings of work, while walking only nine.
Wier was not always the great pitcher he is today. As a child he played many sports, including baseball, which he started at the age of 6. He was an outfielder and never saw the mound.
“I didn’t start pitching until my junior year at SFA,” Wier said. “I was always the guy in the outfield.”
He was coming off a breakout ju-nior season, his first on the mound, in which he posted a 3-1 record in 21
Along with his former teammate, Myles, Wier had a great start to his professional career this summer when made the all-star team.
“It was great seeing Myles on the field again,” Wier said. “We hung out when I saw him in New York when our teams played each other for a
Wier left SFA with only 18 hours left in fi-
Bryson Myles, #32 from Irving, Texas was drafted by the Cleveland Indians
Two SFA students arrested on theft charges
Bid day welcome new recruits
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Panhellenic Rush Week ended with the houses extending out bid to their new potential members on Sunday during their Bid Day.
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By Wendi KunkelCONTRIBUTING WRITER
These days it pays to study eco-nomics, literally. Over the course of the upcoming school year, students are invited to join a different kind of study group—one where the course material is free and the students can earn money for showing up.
Dr. Ryan Phelps will be teaching an economics reading group open to all students interested. And the advan-tages extend well beyond introducing students to the world of economics, which is currently one of the highest paid fields of study offered at SFA.
“The goal of the group is to expose students to economic content and to fulfill economic curiosity,” Phelps said.
Two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded, and two $40 door prizes will be given out at each meeting. “The Wisdom of Crowds” is the book that will be the focus of the reading group.
Phelps, who has a Ph.D. in econom-ics and teaches several courses for the economics and finance department, believes this group will help freshman students make the transition from high school to college.
“This group will be run as a very open forum, students will be encour-aged to discuss their thoughts sur-rounding the content,” Phelps said.
He believes the type of interaction that will take place will be empower-ing to the students, “particularly with no grade at stake. I think that the group will be a confidence builder for freshman,” Phelps said.
Though students do not have to be economics or finance majors, an in-terest in economics or applied math is a plus. The group is only admitting 20 students this year and preference will be given to freshman and sophomore non-economics majors. Students in-terested in group decision making, politics, applied math, philosophy, sociology, efficiency, economics, psy-chology, finance, management and marketing will find the group and its material interesting, Phelps said.
The first unofficial group meeting will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, in the SFA theater for a screening of the film “Freakonomics.”
For more information, contact Phelps at [email protected] or call him at 936-468-1501.
Economics reading group pays off big
By Samantha OgdenCONTRIBUTING WRITER
This past Sunday 210 girls were welcomed into the open arms of their sisters at SFA Bid Day 2011.
Bid Day is an annu-al event that occurs each Fall Semester. According to Beverly Farmer, director of student activities, SFA Bid Day is the day where Potential New Members (PNM) come together after a three-day process and find out what sorority chooses them for membership.
According to the SFA Panhellenic website, girls must have a minimum of 12 hours at SFA and cannot be on academic probation.
In the recruitment pro-cess girls spend three days going to events and func-tions so that they can get to know the girls in local so-rorities. It is recommended the girls ask questions to see what requirements they fit into for which sisterhood.
Greek Life is a big part of some SFA student’s college experience, and many girls find comfort in sisterhood during their first semester away from home.
Bid Day is a big deal for the girls wanting to be a part of something bigger than themselves. From the moment they find out what sorority they’re in to the moment they run into their sisters’ open arms, SFA Bid Day is an important part of the college experience.
Sororities welcome new members
By Jacqulyn SubarCONTRIBUTING WRITER
A recent lecture sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, national history honorfraternity, made many students aware of just how much they
do not know about East Texas. The lecture titled “Militia, Masculinity,
and Inclusiveness in East Texas 1887-1903” and presented by Dr. Tom McKinney, a visit-ing professor with the Department of History,
uncovered the past of the Stone Fort Rifles, a seemingly small militia group was a part of the Texas Volunteer Guard after the Civil War.
McKinney, who started the project back in the 1990’s when he was a graduate student at SFA, has not only delved into a topic rarely spoken on but a topic that up until now had never been studied.
From woman mascot Hiddie Hardman to Captain Harry Cooper, a northerner
who represented Nacogdoches directly fol-lowing the end of the Civil War, McKinney leaves no stone unturned. President of Phi Alpha Theta and senior Mary Welch informed the audience that, “Dr. McKinney’s lecture is just one of many opportunities and events sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta this year.”
This presentation by McKinney is only the first in a number of historical lectures to take place this coming semester.
If you are a history major and are interest-ed in becoming a member in Phi Alpha Theta please contact President Mary Welch for more information at [email protected] .
East Texas is more than what you can see
As for now, Wier is at home in Nacogdoches waiting for mini-camp to begin in Florida, where he will be for 10 days. Before he left for New York, he got engaged and is looking forward to the future with his fiancée and his future in profes-sional baseball.
“This whole experience is great,” Wier said. “That’s the only thing I can say. Bryson and I got drafted this year not even getting to finish the whole season. I have a lot ahead of me, and I can’t wait.”
Weir and Myles leave SFA as two of the top
players at their positions in program history. They join a growing number of former Jacks bat-tling their way through the minors for a chance of making to big leagues.
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To someone who has a dream of becom-ing a professional athlete, the only frame of mind they have is making it to the “big time.” There’s nothing wrong with having big dreams and goals and doing whatever it takes to reach them. But another factor that needs to be considered is one’s education.
Is being drafted to a professional team more important that finishing a degree?
I see how important an education is
today and how so many people need one to get somewhere in life. In this day and age, without any type of education, you can’t re-ally do much.
Let’s say that you are the starting quar-terback or the star pitcher for the university you attend, and you have an opportunity to be drafted. You have maybe 22 credit hours left before you get a degree that you have been working so hard for, but you also have a chance of a lifetime waiting for you at the tips of your fingers.
Would you throw away all of your hard work that you put in toward getting your degree, or would you wait and finish school and see if that opportunity still waits?
If anything happened to you, heaven for-bid—an injury, or you didn’t make it as far in the pro system as you though—you would have your degree to fall back on. I
believe that getting an education is more important because of that “heaven forbid” possibility.
On the other hand, what if you did choose to go into the draft, get picked and not fin-ish school? Do you think you would go back to school? A small percentage of general athletes who didn’t make it as far as they hoped, don’t go back to school like they said or thought they would.
Trust me, I see how you would want to bite the bullet when it’s shot at you.
But here is the truth —I hate to break it to some of you athletes, but some of you are not going to go professional. That doesn’t mean you aren’t a great athlete, so don’t think I am saying that. What I am saying is to think wisely before you decided to choose sports over education.
Being a former college tennis player, I
know how important and rare it is for some-one to get an offer to go professional. Even before my injury, I knew that my chances of being a professional tennis player were slim to none, so I realized getting an educa-tion was important and was something I needed.
Just to be said, I see both sides to this issue. But for the most part, I think that get-ting your education is more important, es-pecially in today’s time. I know that sports is a big part of people’s lives and for some it’s what they rely on, but knowledge is power and getting a degree is with you for your en-tire life, where a sport can only last so long.
Mandy is a senior public relations major from Frisco and the assistant sports editor of The Pine Log
EDITOR MARK RHOUDES
MANAGING EDITORANDREYA STEPHENSON
OPINION EDITORSTEPHENIE BALLARD
SPORTS EDITORSTEPHANIE SLABAUGH
ADVERTISING MANAGER CYNTHIA ORTEGA
Sometimes I feel like a crazy artist trapped inside the
body of a sand volleyball player. When people see a tall blonde, athleticism, un-warranted popularity and stupidity seem to be instantly associated with that woman. Little do they know, my spare time is spent designing graphics on my computer, writing in coffee houses and taking yoga classes.
Slowly but surely, I seem to be embracing my true inner soul of a hippie.
I’m not entirely a vegetarian, and I still shave, but I do strive for peace and harmony in my life, and I think others should too.
The traffic in Nac lately is messing up my Zen. Even though I only have one class this semester, I still find going to campus to be a stressful experience. I miss the days when I could walk from my dorm. I did, however, walk to campus from The Grove apartment complex last week. My main motivation for making the journey was a new, pink water bottle (equipped with handgrips and a built-in ice cube) I had purchased from Walmart the previous weekend. Regardless of my reason, I knew this walk would be some-thing positive I could do for myself.
I have lived at The Grove for two years, but I have only
made this walk one or two times before. (It was exactly a year ago that the transmission on my ’02 Mazda went out, and desperate times called for desperate measures.) This time, I was experiencing the walk to campus as a choice.
M.E. McWilliams, the director of the AARC, talks about choices. She says life is all about them. So, I made this choice to take charge of my morning and not let traffic get me down.
Unfortunately, the City of Nacogdoches did not seem to be on the same self-sustainable page as me. There were no sidewalks, or large enough paths for me to feel comfortable walking on, and the experience turned out to be stressful.
I did my research and found out that Nacogdoches is aware of this issue. The white lines you see on either end of the main roads are Texas state standard for bikers—not walkers/runners. According to city planner Larissa Philpot, sidewalks are “definitely a priority.”
Like everything else, installing sidewalks is a money issue. If Nacogdoches wants to change anything, it has to use grant money provided by higher government, and the city doesn’t always get to choose where the funds go.
But why are so many communities built incorrectly in the first place? I mean Nac may be an exception, consid-ering it is the oldest town in Texas, but why can land be purchased so easily and turned into whatever people want?
It creates communities with giant ecological footprints. Nacogdoches did have a front-door-service recycling pro-gram, but it was abolished due to lack of participation.
People need to live in healthy, sustainable communities for three main reasons:
First, walking to campus regularly would cut down on cost of living. On any given day, I may drive back and forth six times. It’s not that it’s a long drive—it’s the traffic. It’s
searching for a parking spot for god-knows-how-long some-times. Driving, even in a small town, eats up gas, which eats up money.
Second, thinking about the same matter, less-selfishly this time, not driving would also improve my ecological footprint, which is how much damage one does to the envi-ronment. If others started to follow, the decrease in damage would be dramatic.
Lastly, there is the issue of health. I read a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson the other day that said, “The first wealth is health.” Many people limit their perception of health to physical. I watched a documentary on Netfilx that talked about stress and how dangerous it is. Driving is one of the main stressors that put the human body over its limit. Exercise helps emotional and spiritual well-being. It’s a di-rect correlation: the more people who exercise by not driv-ing every day, the happier the community.
On a positive note, The Healthy Nacogdoches program has made great improvements to the Nacogdoches Trails, and through a grant provided sidewalks leading up to Carpenter Elementary School. University programs such as Outdoor Pursuits, administered by Campus Recreation, are constantly working to be one with the community.
I’m not trying to take a stand against Nacogdoches. I love the city that has adopted me in my early adulthood.
I am however, thinking very hard about the importance of living in a sustainable community and what I can do to help get it there.
Shout out to Dr. T’s SFA 101 class, ya’ll are awesome!
Stephanie is a senior public relations major and sports edi-tor of The Pine Log
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Axes up to the chance of rain on Friday and Saturday.
Axes up to the new local cartoonist drawing The Pine Log cartoon, for the first time in almost a year
Axes up to the memorial events held on campus to commemorate the events of September 11 and the thou-sands who gave their lives there.
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the pine logentertainmentBy Elizabeth Parks
Contributing Writer On Tuesday, the Student Activities
Association hosted a singing bee at the BPSC Starbucks. The game was based off the popular show currently seen on Country Music Television.
Students who signed up were called up to participate three at a time. They went one by one, listening to parts of popular songs until the music stopped and were prompted to sing or say the next verse.
In round one, if the contestant got the lyrics wrong, they were immediately eliminated, but if two of the three contes-tants got their song right, they were pitted against each other in a tie breaker in which the first contestant to buzz in and get the lyrics correct moved on.
In round two the semifinalists went in pairs. The first to buzz in and get the next verse correct went on until there was a winner.
Many students were aware of the event because of posters and flyers posted around the BPSC.
“We saw the sign downstairs in the stu-
dent center, and it sounded like fun,” said Tailor Harris, freshmen. Other students who were just getting coffee saw the event and decided to stay, like sophomore Lecey Lee.
“It was interesting and amusing, and I like to listen to music,” Lee said.
SAA also opened up the movie conces-sion stand, and sold popcorn, soda and candy. Starbucks was open during the event as well.
SAA had a variety of music from today’s biggest stars, from Beyonce, Kesha and Cee Lo Green, to old favorites like Michael Jackson, Nsync and Backstreet Boys. The audience couldn’t help but clap and sing along to their favorites.
Ultimately Bradley Wilderness, junior, walked away the winner.
“I planned on winning since I know a lot about music, and my career is to go into singing,” Wilderness said.
Wilderness won a $150 shopping spree, which he plans to spend on groceries. After the winner was declared, the stage was open for anyone who wanted to play the game for fun that hadn’t already gotten a chance to participate.
Students win money in SAA-sponsored singing bee
Tickets are now available to “A Bounty of Voices,” a fund-raising dinner mu-sicale being presented by the SFA School of Music and Friends of Music at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, in the Grand Ballroom of the Baker Pattillo Student Center. Proceeds will ben-efit the SFA A Cappella Choir’s May tour to Austria and the Czech Republic.
Members of the A Cappella Choir will provide the evening’s musical en-tertainment, singing songs such as “Falling in Love with Love,” “Summertime,” “The Hills Are Alive” and “You’ll
Never Walk Alone” in solo, duet and small ensemble settings.
Basic seating, which cov-ers the cost of the meal, is $35 per individual. Those patrons wishing to make tax-deductible donations towards the choir’s tour can purchase donor tickets at $50, $75 and $100 levels.
“As with many of our other fund-raisers, patrons can also make arrange-ments for groups of eight to sit together at one table,” said Diane Flynn, manager of the Fine Arts Box Office. “Anyone interested in that option should call the Box
Office.”While in Europe for 11
days, the 52-member choir will present at least six con-certs in Salzburg, Vienna and Prague. Cost for each student is approximately $3,700.
“We appreciate the wonderful talent of the A Cappella Choir and its di-rector, Tim King,” said Carol Willis, member of the SFA Friends of Music and the event’s coordinator. “And we are happy to be a part of sharing that talent with the Nacogdoches communi-ty now and eventually with audiences in Europe.”
The School of Music raises funds for A Cappella Choir tour of Austria and the Czech Republic
Baritone Scott LaGraff, SFA associate professor of voice, and pianist Andrew Hudson of Baylor University, will present “Liederabend: An Evening of German Song” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, in Cole Concert Hall.
The recital will feature some of the “great pieces from the German song (or ‘Lieder’) repertoire,” explained LaGraff.
Included on the program is Franz Schubert’s “Erlkönig (The Erl-King),” a “tour-de-force for both performers be-cause it is one of the most challenging songs for the pianist and requires the singer to portray four different charac-ters,” explained LaGraff.
“Hugo Wolf’s ‘Der Feuerreiter (The Fire-Rider),’ is another powerful and challenging ballad we’ll be performing,” LaGraff continued. “It tells the story of a firefighter whose obsession leads to his own
demise.”Theprogram a lso includes
RobertSchumann’s “Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love).”“Lush and beautiful, the music
takes us on a journey from new love to love lost, through grief to acceptance,”
LaGraff said. LaGraff, who joined the SFA faculty in
2004, is a veteran of the operatic, concert and recital stage. He has appeared with Tri-Cities
Opera in Binghamtom, N.Y.; Opera East Texas; and the Syracuse, Tulsa, Pensacola, Westchester Hudson and Ithaca opera companies.
His concert engagements include solo appearances with the Baton Rouge Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, Kingwod Chorale, Canterbury Choral Society, Ocean City Pops, Binghamton Pops, Syracuse Oratorio Society, and at Carnegie Hall with MidAmerica Productions.
Hudson, who holds degrees in piano performance from the North Carolina
School of the Arts, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the University of Texas at Austin, has performed with singers from around the world, includ-ing alumni of the Bayreuth, Leipzig, Metropolitan, New York City and Nice Operas, and the National Opera of Prague.
LaGraff and Hudson have been col-laborating since 2000, presenting recitals throughout the Midwest and South. In 2009 they released a recording of American song, “Songs by Stephen Lias, Michael Patterson and Lee Hoiby,” on the Centaur Records label.
The recital is a joint presentation of the SFA College of Fine Arts and School of Music and is a part of the 2011-2012 Cole Performing Arts Series. Cole Concert Hall is located in the Wright Music Building, 2210 Alumni Drive.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and $2 for students. For tickets or more information, please go to www.finearts.sfasu.edu or call (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS.
Professors get together to present ‘Liderabend: Evening of German Song’
CourteSy PhotoBaritone Scott LaGraff, SFA associate professor of voice, and pianist Andrew hudson of Baylor university.
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SFA Ladyjack tennis player, Alina Shazhko, became the first player in program history to receive a preseason national ranking, as well as the first player to be invited to the All-American Championship tournament.
“I was little disappointed when I didn’t get the award last year, but I am happy that all my hard work has finally paid off,” Shazhko said.
According to head coach Patrick Sullivan, it is a huge honor for both the
team and Alina to be the first Jack to ever be invited to play in the All-American Championship tournamentShazhko enters the season ranked #113 in singles and is the only Southland Conference player to receive a national ranking or receive an invitation to the All-America Championships.
Shazhko helped guide the Jacks to a program-best 20-5 mark as a junior. She finished the year with a 28-7 overall record, which included a 20-3 record during the spring.
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The SFA Women’s tennis team won their season opener this past weekend when they hosted the SFA Invitational. The women went 15-0 in singles play and 8-1 in doubles. The women return to the court on Sept. 23 when they travel to Natchitoches, La, to compete in the Northwestern State Fall Invitational.
Tennis
Track and FieldDess Meek was named SFA’s jump
coach Wednesday afternoon. Meek came to SFA from Sam Houston state where she was an outstanding ath-lete, earning multiple conference and national honors, and a determined student. She was a five-time All-Conference and a four-time team MVP. After her career at Baylor, Meek com-peted at Baylor for two years earning All-Big XII honors and named to the Academic All-Big XII team.
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In spring 2011, senior Bass Club members Ryan Watkins and Andrew Upshaw quali-fied to compete in the 2011 College B.A.S.S National Championship. The team rep-resented SFA against about 35 colleges and won the title. Watkins and Upshaw then had to participate in a “fish-off” to see who would go on to com-pete in the Bassmaster Classic this February in Shreveport.
“The classic is like the Super Bowl of bass fishing,” Upshaw said. “I’m ready for it to get here at this point. I’m living day by
day trying to get as much infor-mation on the river (Red River) as I can.”
Upshaw is now SFA alum-ni working as a national re-cruiter and project coordinator for United Labor Group out of Houston.
SFA Bass Club, along with 18 other club sports, is admin-istered through the Campus Recreation department. For more information about Sport Clubs, please visit the Student Rec Center or go online at www.sfasu.edu/campusrec.
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ALINA SHA ZHKO
Classification: SeniorMajor: BiochemistryHometown: Simferopol, UkraineFavorite Movie: Harry Potter movies and X-Men
Favorite Tennis Player: Roger FedererFavorite Food: Anything from the UkraineFuture Plans: Graduate in December of 2012 and
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