PINEthe LOG Wednesday, September 27, 2017 The Independent Voice of Stephen F. Austin State University thepinelog.com Parking protests peak Student Government Association to host Banned parking forum for students to voice concerns Books Week International English Honor Society to hold banned books reading By Taylor Antwine Staff Writer Sigma Tau Delta, Phi Iota, an International English Honor Society, will be hosting an event celebrating Banned Books Week at 5 p.m. on Thursday in the Vera Dugas Liberal Arts North Building, Room 102. The English Honor Society plans to read from banned books, take a quiz and sell treats. All proceeds from the night will go toward supporting a classroom the group adopted from Port Arthur. Lauren Bush, vice president of Sigma Tau Delta, said Banned Books Week is not just about celebrating books and the freedom to read; it is also about giving back. “We want to do our part to help out with Hurricane Harvey Relief, and you attending will help us do that,” Photo by Hannah Russell/ The Pine Log Bush said. Student Government Association will host a parking forum for students who have complaints about SFA parking. Commuter and According to Bannedbooksweek.org, the Banned resident parking issues can be discussed at the forum where Cynthia Haile, the director of parking and traffic, will be present. Books Week Coalition is a national alliance of diverse organizations joined by a commitment to increase By Shannon Poe studying done, but I couldn’t because the majority of available All Permit awareness of the annual celebration of the freedom to Staff Writer of [parking]. People are always late to parking is taken.” read. They seek to engage various communities and class because of [parking].” Students often suggest many inspire participation in Banned Books Week through The Student Government Students take extra time to find a different solutions to the problems of education, advocacy and the creation of programming Association will hold a Parking Forum parking spot. finding a parking space on campus, about the problem of book censorship. The 2017 for students to discuss their concerns “Mostly every day [I struggle to find one of them including the Jack Track celebration will be held from Sept. 24 to Sept. 30. from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Thursday in parking] unless by chance I happen to shuttles. “I think that celebrating banned books is more the Baker Pattillo Student Center run into someone pulling out of their “One of the solutions I had is to or less synonymous with celebrating the freedom of movie theater, located on the second spot,” Upham said. put shuttle buses to the apartments… information. To keep someone from reading something floor. One suggestion made was to assign nearby,” Upham said. “That would on the grounds that there are ‘inappropriate’ aspects to Parking and Traffic eliminate half the problem.” the book is, at best, misguided, and at worst, dangerous,” officials and Dr. Adam Peck, “For students like me who work in the However, the Jack Track said Abbey Perschall, president of Sigma Tau Delta. student body president, shuttle busses can often be “Doing so cuts off the student from everything else will be in attendance along mornings, we don’t have the luxury of unreliable for students. that the book has to offer. I think that it’s important to with SGA, according to SGA coming to campus an hour early to get a “I have waited 35 minutes for open up a dialogue about why we as a society find these President Jessie Jenkins. a bus before,” Webb said. “I was topics uncomfortable, and as something that should spot. I don’t have classes until 12:30 p.m., be hidden. Reading banned books, and literature in “Cynthia Haile, the so by the time I need to be on campus, the late to an exam this past week director of parking and waiting for [the] Jack Track. I general, is a way to open yourself to differing ideas and traffic, will be answering majority of available All Permit parking is ended up running to the Human perspectives, rather than wasting away in an echo- student questions and taken.” Services building.” chamber.” concerns about parking,” —SFA student Kayla Webb Not only are commuters Jenkins said.“We are affected by the lack of parking, BOOKS, PAGE 3 asking students to tweet parking to certain buildings. but so are residents. their questions using the hashtag “Not very many professors move “The trouble finding parking, I #AskCynthia so we will be able to buildings, so if we assign faculty to think it’s [affecting both residents and answer questions more effectively at one spot (and a few that move a second commuters]. I’m hearing it now this the forum.” spot if it’s necessary) that would open year more than ever,” Upham said. “I Professor indicted The Parking Forum was created up a lot of parking,” said Kayla Webb, have friends that live on campus now in response to a petition started by junior special education major. that cannot find a spot.” for child porn SFA student Jared Upham, a junior Another suggestion made to Often times, residents get desperate marketing major, who got over 2,000 students is to leave earlier to find a for parking and park in All Permit By Joanna Armstrong computer examiner signatures in two weeks, according parking spot. parking. Design Editor and certified sexual to an email sent out by Jenkins. “I “For students like me who work in “If we can keep residents in resident assault nurses. The knew [parking] was a problem because the mornings, we don’t have the luxury parking—I see a lot of residents in An SFA professor was investigation revealed everybody talks about it,” Upham said. of coming to campus an hour early to All Permit.” Webb said. “They aren’t indicted by a Nacogdoches Stroup had downloaded “I drove around for 30 minutes get a spot,” Webb said. breaking the rules, but they have their grand jury Sept. 15 on pornographic looking for parking because I had a “I don’t have classes until 12:30 p.m., own assigned lots for a reason.” 14 counts of possession photographs of children test and wanted to get some extra so by the time I need to be on campus, of child pornography, a and had searched third-degree for images felony. with terms D r . d e s c r i b i n g M i c h a e l adolescent girls, S t r o u p , according to the Lumberjack Marching Band member dies professor of arrest affidavit. economics Released on By Nella Kopp help those in need. teary-eyed, even those who generation Lumberjack’s and finance $15,000 bond Contributing Writer “It’s easy to talk about admitted they had never college experience. Gibbs and former a day after his being a family when things met Gibbs. Fellow baritone loved everything about interim arrest, Stroup The SFA flag was flown go right,” Dr. David Campo, players were sitting closely music and SFA. department was suspended at half-mast as students director of the LMB, said. together where Gibbs often At the conclusion of the chair of the with pay but mourned the death of The LMB stood for inside meeting, the LMB sang Department Dr. Michael Stroup since has student Caleb Gibbs, who talks frequently rehearsal. the Alma Mater, and many of Economics worked for died in an automobile about their “Grief is not left following a group hug and Finance, the University accident Sept. 20. family-like weakness. We are encircling Campo. could be sentenced to two “on an off-campus Gibbs, 18, was a freshmen lifestyle, all here for a short Fred J. Allen, director of to 10 years in prison and alternative assignment,” music education major, celebrating time, and the best bands, said the Carthage fined up to $10,000 for according to Dr. Shirley member of the Lumberjack together after thing we can do for High School Band dedicated each count, according to Luna, executive director Marching Band and a performances, each other is to love its half-time performance, the Texas Penal Code. of university marketing member of the School of gathering each other, support Saturday at Gilmer High Stroup was arrested in communications. Stroup’s Music. He graduated from outside of each other and to School, to Gibbs by his office in the R.E. McGee current employment Carthage High School. rehearsals be there for each forming letters CG on the Building on campus status at SFA is being Many members of the and joining other,” Campo said. field. LMB members also in September 2015, evaluated in accordance LMB, faculty and staff joined together in “Let’s move forward played “Amazing Grace” at following an investigation Caleb Gibbs with University policies together Thursday afternoon hard times. and do everything the game to honor Gibbs. led by University Police and procedures, she said. in the Band Hall to remember This is the first we can as a family.” Once they arrive, the LMB Department and assisted and celebrate the life of death in the LMB for many Gibbs’ mother reportedly will wear memorial “CG” by the Texas Rangers, INDICTMENT, PAGE 3 Gibbs. Counseling Services years. said that the opportunity to ribbons for the remainder of a certified forensic members were present to Many in attendance were be in the LMB made the third- the season. @ThePineLog Pine Log Channel Volume 100 Next Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. Look for your The Pine Log Submit story ideas via web: copy every Wednesday morning in a Issue 5 newspaper rack near you.