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NOVEMBER 16, 2005
VOLUME 95, ISSUE 35
Student dragged by Texas State tram in accident on Aquarena
Thinking green Organizations on campus strive to make students globally aware The Environmental Service Committee and the National Association of Environmental Professionals teamed up this year to promote campus recycling and environmental awareness. “Recycling on Texas State campus is not completely organized yet, but the more awareness we raise with students the better it will be in the long run,” said Mary Waters, NAEP co-president. Tuesday was Texas Recycles Day, and this week is Geography Awareness Week. The NAEP and the ESC worked in conjunction in The Quad on Tuesday to get students involved in recycling while promoting student knowledge of geography. “Basically we’re trying to promote geographic literacy,” said Carissa Belsky, NAEP co-president. The organizations set up a booth at 10:30 a.m in The Quad and planned to stay as long as people would come by. Members of both groups handed out fliers about recycling both on and off campus, including information about the San Marcos curbside recycling and Green
A seven-months-pregnant student was transported to Brackenridge Hospital after being dragged approximately 15 to 20 feet alongside a TexasTram on Thursday morning. According to witness statements on the police report, the student was dragged after her arm was caught in the rear door while boarding the tram. The driver stopped the bus after hearing passengers say the student was caught in the door. Megan Dempster, pre-social work freshman, was being treated by medics next to the curb of Aquarena Springs Drive when San Marcos Police Department Officer Jason Scott arrived on the scene. Dempster, who is pregnant with her first child, suffered scrapes to her legs and was experiencing pain in her left knee or right hip area, said Tom Partin, EMS executive director. She was taken to the trauma center, but was later released. Dempster said other passengers behind her were also waiting to get on the bus through the
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By Leah Kirkwood News Reporter
Mitte Foundation creates new scholarship fund
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Taylor Powell, international studies junior and Environmental Service Fee Committee administrative assistant, talks to students about Texas Recycling Day. Recycling at Texas State continues to grow from a total of 144 tons of recycling in 1998 to 242 tons in 2004.
Minnesota attending the fair. “Texas State is the biggest producer of teachers in the state,” Croskey said. “We like to fit our teachers into Texas school districts and further serve the citizens of Texas.” While browsing the fair, students are encouraged to schedule interviews with school districts. The interviews will then be from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Croskey expects many students to be hired through the job fair although actual hiring is not done at
The application deadline for the Mitte Laureate Scholars Program is Dec. 1. The program will award an undergraduate student with scholarship funds up to $100,000 over the span of their four-year degree plan. The program was unveiled on Thursday in a press release by Texas State’s division of Media Relations and Publications. Cheryl Nolting, executive director of the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation, said the foundation hopes the program will provide students with the resources to grow academically, as well as to develop into community leaders. “It is envisioned that through this scholarship program, students will achieve a higher quality of life through a better understanding and appreciation of the many varied aspects of our society, as well as qualifications for succeeding in a professional field,” Nolting said. Christopher Frost, director of the Mitte Honors Program at Texas State, agreed with Nolting, saying that the program fosters a higher intellectual atmosphere on campus. “Texas State is already on the path to being a premier institution. The better the students we
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Teacher job fair opportunity for career advancement By Danea Johnson News Reporter Career Services and the College of Education have teamed up to allow Texas State undergraduates, graduates and alumni to meet with various school districts at the Fall Teacher Job Fair from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. today at Strahan Coliseum. LaTonya Croskey, Career Services adviser, expects a turnout of 600 student teachers and others from the community who have their teaching certificates.
“W
e like to fit our teachers into Texas school districts and further serve the citizens of Texas.”
— LaTonya Croskey Career Services adviser
It is not necessary for undergraduates to hold teaching certificates in order to attend the fair. Students do not have to be education majors to attend the fair because employers are looking for students with other majors as well Croskey said.
Author ends ‘Experience’ with courage-themed lecture By Brent Moore Special to The Star The first semester of the Common Experience came to a close on Monday the same way it began in September with a conversation with author Tim O’Brien. O’Brien’s book, If I Die In A Combat Zone, and the theme of courage was the main focus of this year’s Common Experience series. The conversation took place in the Alkek Teaching Theater and drew such a large crowd that students were forced to sit in the entranceway and listen to O’Brien over the speakers. He began the night by reading from one of his other acclaimed books, The Things They Carried. The passage
was O’Brien’s account of killing an enemy soldier with a grenade during Vietnam. “The reason I wanted to start with that little story was to put a focus on the ultimate reality of war for you here tonight, which, of course, is human death,” O’Brien said. “It’s easy, when we talk about war, to talk in abstractions, and of course that dead young man haunting my dreams all these years is anything but an abstraction.” O’Brien went on to discuss the power of stories and why he decided to be a storyteller. “I believe in the power of stories. I believe that after we are finished tonight with all your questions and all my answers, what you’re going to See LECTURE, page 3
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For instance, one school is seeking a speech pathologist with a speech disorder major and Texas A&M is looking for an athletic training major. There are 100 registered employers from Texas as well as a few from out of state such as Colorado and
Urban Hitchhiker aims to get commuters on route to destination By Jacqueline Davis News Reporter Forget sticking your thumb out on the side of the road — two recent college graduates have created a Web site where finding a ride is a simple mouse click away. Texas State alumna Alexis Patterson and Ithaca College alumnus Stephen Watters named the online service Urban Hitchhiker, providing commuters and those planning longer road trips a way to find drivers and riders in their area with similar destinations. People who need a ride
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or are available to give a ride first register online at www.urbanhitchhiker. com. Once a person is registered, they can search for people with a similar traveling route to carpool with them. This free service may be utilized nationwide, using maps to find the general location of other interested travelers. Urban Hitchhiker may be ideal for students with a long commute to the university who want to save money on gas and sustain less wear and tear on their vehicles.
Monty Marion/Star photo Johnny Marvin, communication studies junior, draws for a prize from marketing senior Ashley Bera for participating in The Amazing Maze, a promotion for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, held on Tuesday in The Quad.
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