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Vol 120 | Issue 24 Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Publishing since 1913 Independent Student Newspaper of Sam Houston State University INDEX Raven’s Call to honor Dance Spectrum to showcase student, faculty, staff Like us on Facebook: dancer talent, pg. 4 Viewpoints ....... pg. 2 A&E ................... pg.4 lives, pg.3 “The Houstonian SHSU” News .................. pg. 3 Sports................. pg.6 Spirit teams win national titles, Debate team 4-Day Orange Pride earns three-peat succeeds at national Forecast ZACH BIRDSONG Sports Editor Information from Weather.com The Sam Houston State tournament University Spirit Programs had STEPHEN GREEN Tuesday, Apr. 17 a successful weekend after two Editor-In-Chief of the programs captured the National Championships this HI: 81 past weekend in Daytona Beach, The Sam Houston State University Speech and Debate LOW: 56 Florida. Both the Orange Pride team received several top honors dance team and the Coed Spirit while hosting the International Squads captured the National Public Debate Association national Championship. Sammy the championship tournament on Wed., Apr. 18 Bearkat placed fourth in the Lainie Frtiz | Orange Pride campus this past weekend. Mascot division and the All Girl The tournament was both the FOR THE WIN. The Orange Pride dance team and Coed Cheerleading team largest in the history of IPDA and, squad also finished fourth. won national titles at the national championship in Daytona Beach, Florida. HI: 83 by sheer number of rounds held, LOW: 57 For the Coed Sprit Squad, it was the first time in program the largest debate tournament of tears, soreness, and hard work we could beat. The cool thing was that any type held in the United States history that they competed in the put in all year definitely paid off.” we ended up with the highest score National Cheerleader Association this year. For Orange Pride, they secured of the entire NDA competition.” The tournament featured nearly competition. Rival Stephen F. their national championship The National Championship Austin had previously won the 300 competitors, coaches, and Thursday, Apr. 19 in a tight battle at the National for Orange Pride was the third judges representing 27 universities competition six years in a row. Dance Alliance (NDA). The team consecutive in program history. “Honestly I thought it was a and debating societies from nine HI: 84 competed against 11 different Because of that, Fritz admits that states. Over the course of the dream when it was announced teams in the Division-I Open, an her and every member on the that we had won,” Coed Spirit 2011-2012 academic year, IPDA LOW: 66 increase from last year. team, now share the same thought, had a total of 797 competitors member Kaitlin Williamson said. “I was so relieved when it “national championship or bust.” “I could not believe it. It was our representing 71 programs from 24 was announced that we won,” Even now that this year’s states and four countries. first time to ever go and it just felt sophomore Orange Pride member competition has just occurred, the so amazing to go there and show As a program, the team took 5th Friday, Apr. 20 Lainie Fritz said. “It was such a team has already begun to think place in the Founders Sweepstakes everyone what SHSU coed cheer tight race between us and Idaho about next year’s competition. is all about. counting the novice, varsity, and State in prelims that we knew “[National Championship or professional divisions and 4th HI: 78 “I’m even getting choked up finals was going to be a close call bust] has been our mindset all thinking about it now. The feeling place in the Overall Sweepstakes LOW: 55 deciding first and second place. along and I think that’s what got which included all divisions. is just indescribable. Competing “Our division grew this year us to where we are now,” Fritz said. on the bandshell in Daytona was In the team division, Tim Sears with teams switching to our “Next year is already in the works.” partnered with University of one of the most amazing feelings division and they were thinking I have ever felt. All of the sweat, the Cumberlands student Emily we were a smaller school they Kerber to be octafinalists, Fabiola Sanchez and Stacy Hood were quarterfinalists along with Steven Former Sloan coworkers reveal past Perry and Bob Trevino, and Steve Sears and Cody Stevens reached the final round, taking second place in a 2-1 decision. In the varsity division where stories, warns about future searches debaters competed individually, of the COFAMC dean search committee, charges. Tim Sears and Stephen Green STEPHEN GREEN were double octafinalists, Stevens Editor-In-Chief said their committee relied on the references The report, the candidates listed and the application they which was was a quarterfinalist, and Steve Sears was a semifinalist. Faculty members from a Florida university provided. obtained by the In the professional division, recently have come forward questioning “You can only hope that the interviews Houstonian, coach Jeremy Coffman went the search committees that hired a former throw up red flags,” he said. “We had two alleges Sloan undefeated, winning the final Sam Houston State University dean after her people sitting in on every call to make sure that physically round of the tournament on sudden resignation in February 2012 after only we had an objective process and to try and read a t t a c k e d stage at the awards banquet in six months on the job. between the lines.” Harris by front of a crowd of 300. This Two former coworkers from the University Muehsam said that the problem is that pushing her marked Coffman’s third national of Central Florida say search committees did references tend to speak more about the good into a printer debate championship, having not do a thorough job of looking into the past than the bad of the candidate. while Harris won the varsity championship of Roberta Sloan, Ph.D., former dean of the He said at the time of the search, Sloan was on the as an undergraduate and the College of Fine Arts and Mass Communication, was the most impressive and well received phone with team division season-long whom worked at the UCF from 2004 to 2006. candidate by faculty on campus. University photo. c a m p u s championship with coach Adam John Bell, now head of the division of “When the candidates come here, the faculty security. Roberta Sloan Key in 2010. performing arts at DeSales University in gets to vet them,” Muehsam said. “In this case it Harris’s “I would especially like to thank Pennsylvania, knew Sloan during her time at did not work out. However, it’s healthy to look statement alleges that she repeatedly asked our students,” Coffman said on UCF and served on that university’s search back at how we can adjust our procedures.” Sloan to leave her office, but Sloan wouldn’t stage before the round, “because committee that selected Sloan. Muehsam said there was no to see any comply. without them my coaching means “In conducting the search, we simply didn’t complaints from Sloan’s past and was surprised “I gave the dispatch her name and nothing.” dig deeply enough to get the full portrait of the she suddenly stepped down. description, she lunged at me and tried to hang The team also received chair’s prior employment identity,” Bell said. “I’m actually flabbergasted,” Muehsam said, up the phone,” Harris said in the report. “She numerous awards for its season- “ “We simply “so I can’t speak about that as much as a member pushed me into the wall to the left of my desk long performance. As a program, relied too of that college can. I’m not saying what’s being where I banged into the printer. She wrestled In conducting the search, the team took third place in heavily upon said did or did not happen though. [Sloan] and the phone from me and hung it up.” we simply didn’t dig deeply varsity, third place in Professional, the application I have had very limited contact since she’s been The statement then alleges that other faculty enough to get the full third place in the Founders Cup, materials that h e re .” members ran in to see what was happening as portrait of the chair’s prior and first place in team. In team “ the candidate One UCF faculty member who worked Sloan left the room. season-long, Trevino and Perry employment identity... proffered.” under Sloan and chose to remain anonymous, Sloan filed her own statement to the police were ranked fourth, Stevens and Bell said agreed with Bell that search committees have countering Harris’s allegations. Steve Sears were ranked third, and those actions proved to be a valuable lesson failed with looking into Sloan’s past. “[Harris’s] behavior was completely erratic Sanchez and Hood were ranked after Sloan left UCF upon accepting an offer “If they had scratched the surface at all, they and out of control,” Sloan said in the statement. second. from Temple University, which she held until would have seen it,” the faculty member said. “I quickly left the office and hurried to my In varsity season-long, Stevens being asked to step down from her position “The fact there was a lawsuit, that was public administrative assistant, Arlene Flores, and was ranked 10th, Perry was ranked as chair of the Department of Theatre in May record. There are people floating around asked her to call the police department to seventh, Steve Sears was ranked 2010 by interim dean Thomas Jacobson.