Counseling Center to hold workshop

The Counseling Center will hold a Test Anxiety/Stress Management Workshop from 2 to 4 p.m., Feb. 1 in Keeny Hall, Room 325 B.

Topics for the workshop will include: defining stress and its symptoms, devising a personal stress reduction plan, discussing stress management techniques, procrastination investigation, as well as stress relieving games.

The workshop is free of charge to all students.

Drop-ins are welcome, or contact the Counseling Center in advance for more details or to set up an individual session with a counselor.

For more information, contact Karen Colvin, academic support coordinator, at 217-2488, or e-mail at kcolvin@latech.edu.

 

School of Art  to collect eyeglasses

The School of Art’s yearly public service project is collecting used prescription eyeglasses until the end of the quarter.

The eyeglasses will be donated to the Lions Lighthouse for the Blind.

Anyone is welcome to drop off their used eyeglasses.

Collection buckets are located in every dean’s office during office hours.

A collection bucket is also available in Room 113 in the Visual Arts Center.

Lions Lighthouse for the Blind will sort, catalogue and distribute the eyeglasses to those in need around the world.

For more information, contact Jonathan Donehoo, the director of the School of Art, at 257-3909 or by e-mail at jdonehoo@latech.edu.

 

Enterprise Center features art exhibit

First-year students of the Master of Fine Arts Program will exhibit their artwork through March 9, at the Enterprise Center, located at 509 W. Alabama Ave.

There are five MFA students participating in the exhibit, Andy Bloxham, Ruston; Joshua Chambers, Broken Arrow, Okla.; Ann Gassen, Luling; Aaron Talley, Minden; and Kathleen Tumey, Monroe.

The exhibit features a range of media, including original photography, drawings, paintings, designs and mixed media.

Admission is free to the public.

For more information, contact Marie Bukowski, an associate professor of art and graduate coordinator, at 257-3624 or by e-mail at bukowski@latech.edu.

 

Tech band to host

concert in Howard

Tech will host the 2007 Ark-La-Tex band conference which begins noon Feb. 2 and ends at 2 p.m. Feb. 4 in Howard Auditorium, Center for Performing Arts and the Band Building.

The Ark-La-Tex band conference is a chance for area high school musicians to come to Tech’s campus and perform in an honor band.

The conference will begin its activities with a performance by the Tech Jazz Ensemble at 5:30 p.m., Friday in Howard Auditorium.

A concert at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 3 will feature the Tech Symphonic Wind Ensemble.

The Ark-La-Tex Honor Wind Ensemble and Honor Concert Band will perform at 2 p.m. Feb. 4, which will conclude the conference.

The public is welcome to all the concerts, and admission is free to all concerts.

For more information, contact Jim Robken, director of university bands, at band@latech.edu or 257-4233.

 

BCM auctions beards and pies

Fifteen male students from the Baptist Collegiate Ministry at Tech will participate in this year’s “Beard Auction,” at 8:15 p.m. Jan. 30, at the BCM , located at 419 W. Arizona Ave.

Volunteers will auction off their beards, goatees and mustaches in exchange for contributions to the BCM’s summer missions fund.

The rights to cut, trim or shave participating students’ beards are auctioned off individually to the highest bidder or group of bidders in each round.

No style is off-limits to the shearers, and the conditions the bearded men have to adhere to state they must model the look for at least 24 hours after the auction.

The women of the BCM will donate pies for “Pie Auction,” which will start at 8:15 p.m. Feb. 13, at the BCM.

The highest bidders at “Pie Auction” will own the right to either eat the pie or press it in the face of the one who donated the pie.

The winning bid amounts from both auctions will be added in full toward the BCM’s summer missions goal of $18,500.

For more information, contact Emily Blackwell, assistant director of the BCM, at 255-1982.

 

GSA to hold weekly meetings

The Gay-Straight Alliance holds weekly meetings at 6 p.m. every Tuesday night on the second floor of the Student Center. 

GSA is a student organization designed for the open discussion of issues facing college students of all sexual orientations and ways to handle them.

Guest speakers of different backgrounds and ages address the group. Alliance members can also participate in various outings to arouse students’ social awareness of issues.  

All students are invited to attend.

For more information, contact Amanda Carley, vice president of the Gay-Straight Alliance and junior mathematics major, at acc018@latech.edu.

 

Ark-La-Miss gives annual symposium

    The fourth annual Ark-La-MissWildlife Management Symposium will begin at 8 p.m., Feb. 3 in the Student Center.

     Registration will be from 7:30 to 8:15 a.m. and will then be followed by a number of wildlife and duck experts, ranging from accomplished waterfowl biologist to federal and state officials. 

  For more information, visit www.latech.edu/ans/wildlifeconservation.

  Or contact James Dickson,  coordinator of the wildlife program and a professor of forestry, at 257-4020 or jdickson@rans@

latech.edu.